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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 and want to get better at using your product 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.”

The course focusses on product backlog techniques to create a new product or new features using Scrum and Kanban. The attendees will learn which information should be contained in the backlog, how the information is best captured and displayed, how and when the product backlog should be groomed, and who should be involved in the grooming.

This training course is also available for onsite delivery.


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Agenda

The Product Backlog and its Qualities

User Stories, Constraints, Sketches, and Interaction Diagrams

The Product Canvas

  • Product Canvas vs the product backlog
  • Working with the Product Canvas sections
  • Describing the target users and customers as personas
  • Capturing the desired user experience and sketching the product features
  • Connecting the Product Canvas, the sprint backlog, and the Kanban board

Grooming

Complex Products and Multiple Teams

  • Working with complex products
  • Dealing with several teams working with the same backlog/canvas
  • Using the backlog/canvas 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.