Advanced Product Owner

This course provides an in-depth understanding of the role and responsibilities of the Product Owner, and guidelines to help you become successful as a Product Owner.  Participants learn how to create, prioritize and manage a product backlog, and how to plan projects using Product Roadmaps and Release Plans.  The course is approximately 50% lecture / discussion and 50% hands-on exercises.

This course is intended for those who want an in depth understanding of the Product Owner role and the responsibilities of a Product Owner.  It is recommended for Product Owners, Members of a Scrum Team, Resource Managers, Developers, Quality Assurance Engineers and Managers, Project Managers and Product Managers.

Scrum Fundamentals

Upon completing this course, participants will have an understanding of

• The role of the Product Owner
• Planning in Scrum
  • Product Planning with Roadmaps
  • Release Planning
  • Sprint Planning
• The responsibilities of a Product Owner
• The Product Backlog
  • Prioritizing techniques
  • Developing acceptance criteria
  • Definition of “Done” and “Ready”

1. Overview of Agile and Scrum
   1. When to use Scrum
   2. Agile Manifesto
   3. Agile principles
   4. Overview of Scrum
   5. Scrum Artifacts and Ceremonies
2. Scrum Roles and Responsibilities
   1. Product Owner
   2. ScrumMaster
   3. Development Team
   4. Other roles (not defined by Scrum)
3. Requirements
   1. User Stories
   2. User Stories vs. Use Cases vs. Requirements Documents
   3. Quality Requirements: INVEST
4. Product Backlog and Grooming
   1. Prioritizing the backlog
   2. DEEP
   3. The 3 C’s of backlog grooming
   4. Acceptance Criteria
   5. Estimation
5. Planning in Agile
   1. Types of Planning
   2. The Planning Onion
6. The Product Road Map and Release Planning
   1. Releasing by Feature Set
   2. Releasing by Calendar
7. Velocity, Estimation and Sprint Planning
   1. Story points
   2. Relative vs. absolute estimation
   3. Velocity
   4. Planning Poker
   5. Planning a sprint
8. Inspect and Adapt
   1. The product
   2. The process
   3. The daily work
9. Scaling Scrum / Scaling the Product Owner
   1. Scrum of Scrums
   2. Scaling the Product Owner
   3. Scaling the Product Backlog
   4. Scaled Agile Framework
10. Putting it all together – the Agile Game