Certified Scrum Product Owner
Taking on the Scrum team’s Product Owner role can be a daunting prospect. The Scrum Product Owner role is crucial to the team, acting as the liaison between the development team and the wider customer community. The Product Owner can help maximize delivery capabilities, enhance the planning and scheduling process, improve project estimating and drive overall product success.
This two-day, highly interactive course investigates the Scrum framework in detail from theory and foundations to practical application and pitfalls, covering all the team roles, activities, and artifacts, but focusing specifically on the role of the Product Owner.
The course incorporates the latest ‘training from the back of the room’ learning techniques and avoids death by PowerPoint!
Zuzana Sochova
Zuzana Sochova has over 15 years of commercial experiences in IT, beginning as a software designer/engineer and moving up into project management, program management, and into executive management at a company provides SW services for international customers (USA, Germany, Austria, Great Britain, …) that operating in mission critical and life critical sectors – i.e. air traffic control management systems, extensive healthcare applications, and public safety systems. She started with Agile and Scrum back in 2005, where she was involved in implementing the Agile methods at Medtronic, USA. From that time, she was responsible for Agile transformation and implementation of Agile and Scrum to many companies and teams. She works as Agile coach, consultant and trainer for both large and small organizations. She is regular speaker at Agile international conferences. She is also a founder of the Agile Association (Agilni Asociace, agilniasociace.cz) Czech Republic, organizing the Agile Czech community and annual Agile Prague Conference (agileprague.com).
- Sprints, Increments and Releases
- The Scrum Roles: Product Owner, ScrumMaster, Development Team
- Teamwork and Impact on Traditional Roles
- Scrum with third party contractual relationships
- The Scrum Meetings
Product Vision and Roadmap
- Stakeholder engagement and management
- Product business model and market analysis
- Setting project scope and objectives
- Defining and communicating the Product Vision
Building and managing the Product Backlog
- Defining Product Backlog Items
- User Stories and other Requirements techniques
- Prioritising and ordering the Product Backlog
- Splitting and sizing Product Backlog Items
- Prioritisation including MoSCoW and Kano analysis
Progress Tracking
- The Definition of Done
- Understanding the Sprint Backlog
- The Daily Scrum Meeting
- Acceptance Criteria and Acceptance Testing
- The Sprint Review Meeting
- Burn Down Charts and Scrum Boards
- The Sprint Retrospective
Release Management
- Release Planning
- Estimating and Velocity
- Progress tracking and forecasting
Scaling the Product Owner role in Scrum
- Product Ownership with Multiple Scrum Teams
- Product Ownership with Distributed Scrum Teams
- Anyone who wants to be successful using Scrum
- Anyone involved in a Scrum Project across the full range of Scrum roles
- Those newly setting out on their Agile journey
- Those already using Agile or Scrum wishing to consolidate their knowledge or address questions that have arisen out of their experience
In terms of roles, the course is suitable for:
- Product Owners
- Product Managers
- Business Analysts
- Project Managers
- Agile Coaches
- ScrumMasters and Team Leaders
- Process Owners and Managers
- Functional / Departmental Managers
- Any other role that requires a deeper understanding of how the Product Owner role operates
Testimonials
The trainer was knowledgeable, handled all queries confidently and gave lot of good suggestions
Lot of activities and easy explanation of complex theories.
Overall a great course content and facilitator knowledge.
The trainer is fun and a fantastic story teller. Her stories and exercises helped us learn the concepts.
This training session was helpful. I was able to understand role of scrum master, product owner and dev team.