Professional Scrum Product Owner

This is a complete revision and reorientation to the Product Owner course.
This course teaches the audience how to maximize the return on investment and minimize the total cost of ownership of its product and systems. It shows them how to do so employing iterative, incremental techniques. The Scrum framework is used, but the course focuses on how to be Agile, not Scrum itself.

Attendees receive a no charge voucher to take the Professional Scrum Product Owner assessment. If they achieve a score of greater than 85%, they will be certified as a Professional Scrum Product Owner.

Attendees will include program, product, and business managers responsible for creating and enhancing products and systems. Knowledge of iterative, incremental techniques is required, and knowledge of Scrum is useful.

Organizations want to be “agile.” They should be able to turn out new or enhanced products and systems as dictated by the marketplace, competition, and business pressures, on a dime. As the environment they operate within changes, they need to be flexible while adhering to their purpose. As they flex, they need to be both predictable and sound, while controlling risk.

This course teaches how to be an agile program, product or business manager in a complex environment. Traditional Scrum courses address the role of the Product Owner, the Product Backlog, Scrum artifacts, User Stories, and Planning Poker. This course starts significantly before that, at the formulation of releases. It then moves to tactics maximizing the flexibility and return on investment of multiple simultaneous releases. Finally, it addresses long-term product ownership and total cost of ownership.

If we built simple systems for single users, this could be a short course. However, managers are responsible for juggling many competing interests: commitments to customers and to the marketplace, while managing risk and change. Additionally they must organize and optimize the competing interests by systems architecture, persona, product functionality, and customer rollout plans. These responsibilities are very difficult in large, international organizations that develop and market interrelated products and product families. This course teaches techniques for fulfilling these responsibilities.

In the course, we address how to optimize the value of current systems. We learn how to progressively restructure requirements and work to become more agile. The goal will be releasing products as fast as needed and no faster than customers can absorb. The steps to reach this end point will be addressed in detail.

Agenda. This is a two-day course that is driven by exercises. Attendees should be able to start applying the techniques covered in this course when they go back to work.
The course consists of modules that build on each other. Each module ends with exercises and homework.
The modules are Introduction, Planning a Release, Product Management, Agile Product Management, Managing Requirements, Release Planning, Release Management, and Scaling.

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The training is in english