Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

You Will Learn

• Explain the Fundamental accountabilities of a Product Owner
• Maximize the value of a product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team
• Work with stakeholders to provide transparency towards Product Goals and understand the value of Scrum
• Understand customers and users, working to connect them directly to Developers
• Create and maintain the Product Backlog whilst developing and communicating the Product Goal
• Understand your Product Owner responsibilities within the Scrum Inspect and Adapt Events
• Understand how to offer greater transparency with the use of a clear vision, key artifacts, and commitments
• Describe the relationship between outcome and output.

Audience/PreRequisites

Technical professionals associated with the specification, design, development and testing of products will benefit from this two-day program. Some of the professionals this will benefit include:

• Product Owners
• Product Managers
• Business Analysts
• Functional/Operational Managers/Directors
• Project Sponsors
• IT Leadership (Managers/Directors/VPs/CIOs/CTO)
• Anyone interested in learning the benefits of Scrum for Product Management

This class is suitable for those who are responsible for setting product direction on a Scrum project. While current Certified ScrumMasters are welcome to attend, this class should not be considered as a next step after taking the CSM Class, but instead should be viewed as an alternative to the CSM Class.

Outline

Part 1: Product Owner Core Competencies

• Product Owner in different organizations
• Demonstrate progress on Goals to Stakeholders
• Gathering insights
• Product Owner Interaction with Scrum teams
• Product Ownership of Multiple teams
• Owning the Product backlog 
• Collaborating with the Scrum team

Part 2: Goal Setting and Planning

•  Defining Value
• Product Visions and Product Goals
• Creating a Sprint Goal
• Product Planning and Release Planning
• Identifying small valuable increments

Part 3: Understanding Customers and Users

• Product Discovery
• Segmenting Customers and users
• Conflicting customer needs
• Defining Product Outcomes
• Connecting developers to users

Part 4: Validating Product Assumptions

• Validating Product Assumptions in Scrum
• Approaches to validate assumptions

Part 5: Working the Product Backlog

• Outcome vs Output
• Maximizing outcomes
• Product Economics
• Describing and measuring value
• Creating Product Backlogs, Product Goals, and Product Backlog Items
• Refining a Product Backlog

Part 6: Scrum Theory

• Empiricism and the three empirical pillars
• Benefits of an Iterative and Incremental approach
• The Scrum Framework
• Scrum Values
• Scrum alignment to the Agile Manifesto

Part 7: Scrum Teams 

• The responsibilities of the Scrum Team
• The responsibilities of the Product Owner, Developers, and Scrum Master
• Working with Stakeholders
• Working with multiple teams

Part 8: Scrum events and activities

• Benefits of Timeboxing
• Purpose of a Sprint
• Define and perform Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective
• Product Backlog Refinement

Part 9: Artifacts and commitments 

• Purpose of the Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment
• The commitments of Product Goals, Sprint Goals, and Definition of Done
• Product Backlog emergence
• Attributes of a Product Backlog
• Sprint and Increment relationship
• Evolution of a Definition of Done