Professional Scrum Product Owner

Learning Objectives

• Understand uncertainty and complexity in software environments.
• Understand how an empirical approach controls risk and provides predictability in complex environments.
• Understand agility and Scrum’s place in the Agile discussion.
• Understand how each part of the Scrum framework ties back to the principles and theory while exposing lean wastes.
• Understand ways that agility can create a competitive advantage for a business.
• Demonstrate that a Product Owner is a strategic Agile product manager, not just a scribe
• Understand the meaning and importance of the Scrum values.
• Learn what Done means and why it is crucial to be transparent.
• Know how to use the Product Backlog to plan with agility.
• Understand how value metrics interact to provide a picture of product effectiveness.
• Learn the skills, traits, and behavior shifts required to be an effective Product Owner.

Who should attend?

The course assumes some experience in product delivery (product management or Product Ownership).  It also assumes basic familiarity with Scrum.  If you are new to Scrum, you should read the Scrum Guide.  This course is perfectly appropriate for non-IT professionals who are looking to apply Scrum in their context.

Topics

The PSPO course is a mix of lectures, case studies, and interactive exercises as you collaborate with other students.

• Agile Product Management
  • Why is agility important to your organization?
  • Moving from a project to a product mindset.
  • Empowering your Product Owner to really own the product.
  • Techniques for determining product strategy.
  • Creating a good product vision.
• Value-Driven Development
  • Defining, delivering, and measuring value.
  • Applying value metrics to products.
  • Measurement Strategies.
• Scrum Theory & Empiricism
  • The foundational reasons for an empirical approach.
  • What situations are best suited for Agile.
  • Keys to a more effective application of the Agile mindset.
• The Scrum Framework
  • How Scrum roles, artifacts, and events relate to the Product Owner.
  • Product Owner and the Sprint Goal.
  • When product Owners should be involved in the framework and when they should not. 
  • Strategies to grow in the Product Owner role.
• Product Backlog Management
  • Key characteristics of product backlogs.
  • Managing vision, value, and validation.
  • Tools for refining product backlogs.
  • Visualizing and planning upcoming Work.
  • Techniques for ordering product backlogs.
• Release Management
  • Release strategies for delivering more frequently.
  • Techniques for forecasting releases.
  • Data-driven, scope-driven, and resource-driven approaches to product releases.
  • Raising the visibility of the product delivery process.