Description

This highly interactive course provides you with a fundamental understanding of Agile and Scrum, as well as the specific skills, behaviours, and mindset necessary to become a successful Certified Scrum Product Owner,® (CSPO). With this training, you will prioritise backlogs, effectively communicate with stakeholders, and use the Scrum framework to manage expectations and keep all parties informed.

Learning Objectives

• Become a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
• Follow Agile principles and the Scrum framework
• Build and prioritise your value-driven product backlog
• Breakdown epics and themes into actionable user stories
• Develop positive stakeholder relationships

Prerequisites

• The Scrum Guide will be emailed to students for pre-course reading.
• A Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) leads this course.
• In-person, on-time attendance, and full participation is required for the CST to recommend you to the Scrum Alliance for certification.

Course Outline

Introducing Agile Principles

• Defining Agile values and principles

• Contrasting Waterfall and Agile product development philosophies

• Confronting the challenges of adopting Agile

• Creating a cross-functional team

Defining the Scrum Framework

Embracing scrum

• Defining the core Scrum Framework

• Core Scrum team, artefacts and ceremonies

Adapting traditional business process to Scrum

• Applying core Scrum Values

• Leveraging checks and balances

• Scrum Ceremonies and Artefacts

Defining the core scrum artefacts

• Creating the Product Backlog

• Implementing the Sprint Backlog

• Defining the Definition of Done

• Developing potentially shippable product increment

The core scrum ceremonies

• Product Backlog

• Sprint Planning meeting

• Daily Scrum

• Demonstrating products in Sprint Reviews

• Participating in the Sprint Retrospective

Defining the Product Owner Role

Becoming accountable for product success

• Holding the product vision and strategy

• Integrating Agile and Waterfall Teams

• Estimating product scope and delivery

Communicating throughout the organisation

• Engaging Stakeholders, customers and end users in product development and delivery

• Developing positive and strong working relationships with Scrum teams

• Tracking, managing and communicating through the right Agile metrics

Building your Product Backlog

Creating a product vision

• Leveraging your customers and users

• Distinguishing between product vision and product strategy

• Articulating clear and measurable outcomes

• Validating and revising your product vision through research

• Constructing a cover story or vision box

Building and refining the Product Backlog

• Building the Product Backlog

• Continuously refining and ordering the Product Backlog

• Turning ideas into action

Prioritising the Product Backlog

• Ranking Product Backlog item priority at the release, product and project level

• Utilising MoSCoW and other prioritisation techniques

• Applying the Pareto principle to release planning

• Identifying high-priority items for sprint planning

Owning the Product Backlog

Developing the Product Backlog

• Evolving product requirements with stakeholder engagement

• Developing products with progressive elaboration

• Decomposing epics, features and stories

• Defining appropriate acceptance criteria

Refining the Product Backlog

• Sizing user stories, features and epics

• Estimating business value through relative measurement

• Continually refining and reordering your Product Backlog

Developing a Product Roadmap

Planning for long-term product success

• Comparing Agile product release strategies

• Adapting to changing requirements

• Focusing on continuous program, product/project improvement

Refining product delivery

• Comparing iterative and incremental delivery

• Releasing products with Minimal Marketable Features

• Facilitating frequent product release