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Roman Pichler – Pichler Consulting Limited

This interactive training course teaches practical techniques to master the product backlog. If you work as a product owner or team member in Scrum or Kanban and want to get better at using your backlog, then this course is for you.  “A great and very valuable tutorial,” says Stefan Borgs of Krauss-Maffei Wegmann. Antony Spilman, programme manager at Aveva agrees: ”An excellent, well structured course.”

This training course is also available for onsite delivery.

Scrum Product Backlog Training
Event Date City Venue Map
Mastering the Product Backlog18 May 2012London15HatfieldsMap
Mastering the Product Backlog26 Sep 2012CambridgeChurchill CollegeMap

Agenda

The Product Backlog and its Qualities

  • The product backlog and its desirable characteristics
  • Experimentation, user feedback, learning, and emergence
  • Product backlog do’s and don’ts

User Stories, Constraints, Sketches, and Models

  • Writing great user stories: epics, stories, and acceptance criteria
  • Describing operational qualities as constraints
  • Capturing user interface requirements as sketches
  • Creating lightweight models and integrating them into the backlog

The Product Backlog Board

  • Organising and visualising the product backlog effectively
  • Working with backlog areas: story, constraint, and model area
  • Capturing the desired user experience
  • Connecting the product backlog, the sprint backlog, and the Kanban board

Product Backlog Grooming

  • Analysing and integrating the user feedback
  • Deciding what to build next
  • Deriving user stories from epics and getting them “ready”
  • Creating the user interface design
  • Techniques for grooming the backlog collaboratively

Complex Products and Multiple Teams

  • Working with complex products
  • Dealing with several teams working with the same backlog
  • Using the backlog with virtual and distributed teams

Audience

Product managers and product owners, business analysts, requirements engineers as well as ScrumMasters, coaches, and team members who would like to deepen their understanding of the product backlog.

Prerequisites

Participants should have a working knowledge of Scrum or Kanban.


About Your Trainer — Roman Pichler

Roman is an expert on agile product management with an outstanding track record in teaching and coaching product owners. He is the author of Agile Product Management with Scrum, the guide to creating successful products. As the leading contributor to Scrum Alliance's Certified Scrum Product Owner curriculum, Roman knows exactly what product owners need.

Roman has ten years experience in helping companies transition to agile, and he has guided Scrum rollouts in several companies. Roman has worked with product owners and agile product managers for a decade, and he has seven years experience in teaching and coaching Scrum product owners. Roman is a regular speaker at international conferences. He speaks English and German.

For attendee feedback, please view the testimonials. Please contact us at via email at training@romanpichler.com or call us at +44 (0) 7949 203772 to discuss how you can benefit from the training.