Certified Scrum Product Owner Workshop

  • Gain a deep understanding of the Product Owner mindset and how to create great products by applying  short learning loops.
  • Apply a discovery based mindset, where you discover what to build instead of assuming you know the best thing to build.
  • Learn how the Product Owner role fits with Product Management, Project Management, sponsor, the Scrum Team, and other stakeholders.
  • Get practical takeaways that can help your team and organization immediately after training.
 
A common assumption has been that products are best developed only after deep research, to completely understand the problem space,  and thus create an optimal solution. That approach may have been appropriate in some scenarios, but are less applicable in the new, post pandemic world. The best products are not known in advance, they are discovered over time. 
 
As a Product Owner you lead the process of continual discovery where software is designed, built, and tested in small slices, and released to the market frequently, to feed a continual learning loop. Plans are continually modified based on learning, and delivering to specification is no longer considered a success, instead, success is measured by achieving  positive business outcomes.  
 
This course covers the use of Scrum, the most popular agile framework, to drive rapid learning loops to create an agile product development approach. 
 
The session includes several hours of hands-on work where you exercise the theory and turn it into practice.  After the virtual session, leave ready to advance your product, your company and your career.
 
Upon completion of the course, students will understand Product Owner necessities including:
  • Roles: Working with the Scrum Team, Scrum Master, Product Management and other stakeholders
  • Ceremonies: How to execute Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, and Sprint Reviews
  • Artifacts: How to maintain a Product Backlog and build the ideal product
  • Continual Discovery: How to go through continual learning loops to inspect your product and the vision for the product, based on evidence and data
 
Who Should Attend
The Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO) is a base level course, so there are no pre-requirements to attend. Typical attendees include Business Stakeholders, Program Managers, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Developers, Quality Analysts, Product Managers, and those wanting to improve the way that new ideas are transformed into great products.
 
Pre and Post Work
The course comes with both pre and post work to help you get maximum course benefit. The pre and post work includes videos, reading material and quizzes.
 
Interactivity
The course is highly interactive with frequent break-out rooms, small group discussion, and several hours of team based exercises.
 
About the Scrum Alliance®
Since 2001, the Scrum Alliance has supported the agile movement as the only member-driven nonprofit certifying body in the agile space. The Scrum Alliance was founded and funded by community for the community to nurture the agile movement by providing education, advocacy, research, community and connection.

 

Course Outline
Start
What is agile
Why  use agile
When to use agile
 
Scrum Framework
Refinement and the  Product Backlog
Sprint Planning and the  Sprint Backlog
Daily Scrum, Boards and Burndowns
Work and getting to Done
Sprint Review
Sprint Retrospective
 
Vision and Alignment
Vision statement
Functional decomposition
High concept statements
Measuring to outcomes (not outputs)
Lean Business Model Canvas
Various visioning tools
 
Hands on Exercise Session 1
Brainstorm product ideas
Create product teams
Apply various tools from the Vision and Alignment section to create a draft vision
 
Agile Requirements & Specs
Product backlog items
Epics, features, stories and user stories
Testable specifications
Verification and validation
 

 

Hands on Exercise Session 2
Continue visioning
Begin creating stories and acceptance criteria using tools from Agile Requirements and Specs sections
 
Prioritization
 
Story Slicing 
 
Hands on Exercise Session 3
Re-evaluate vision
Prioritize and slice stories using tools from the prioritization and story slicing sections
Continue creating stories and acceptance criteria for high priority items
Create test cases for high priority items using tools from the agile requirements and specs section
 
Product Owner and the agile team
Scrum Team
Day in the life of a Product Owner
Product Owner and Product Manager
Attributes of a great Product Owner
 
Invalidate and Pivot
 
Hands on Exercise Session 4
Create tests against business outcome
Re-evaluate work from prior breakout sessions
 
Close the Class

 

Class Daily Schedule
Sign-In/Registration 7:30 - 8:30 a.m.
Morning Session 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Lunch 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Afternoon Session 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Times represent the typical daily schedule. Please confirm your schedule at registration.
 
Training Course Fee Includes
• Scrum Alliance: Two years Scrum Alliance membership
• Course notebook
• Letter of completion