Scrum Product Owner Training Course

2 days.

This hands-on, interactive two-day course will teach you:

• How to be an effective Product Owner
  • Duties, Rights, Privileges
  • Promoting self-organizing teams
• Write User-Stories (Agile requirements)
  • Knowing your stakeholders
  • Planning for quality
  • Story points
  • Business value
• How to manage an Agile product throughout the Software Development Life Cycle
  • Creating and prioritizing the Product Backlog
  • Sizing and Estimation
  • Effective team communication
• Agile Release Planning and Tracking
  • Monitoring progress and forecasting
  • Reporting
  • Scaling

Product owners, managers, or anyone interested in Agile planning and estimating techniques.

Prior knowledge of Scrum and Agile methods is required. You should have attended the Certified ScrumMaster class and/or have actively worked on a Scrum team and have a good understanding of the basics. At a minimum attendees should read the Scrum Primer.

Upon successful completion of this course, each participant will be enrolled as a Certified Product Owner, which includes a one-year Scrum Alliance membership, where additional ScrumMaster and Product Owner material and information is available.

About Your Instructors

Jeff Sutherland started the first Scrum at Easel Corporation in 1993 and worked with Scrum Co-Creator Ken Schwaber, to formalize the Scrum development process at OOPSLA’95. In the same year, Sutherland provided Kent Beck background information on the creation of Scrum to help him create eXtreme Programming. XP engineering practices then evolved along with SCRUM and the two leading Agile development processes work well together. Scrum and XP are the most widely used Agile processes worldwide and their creators are authors of the Agile Manifesto.
Jeff is CEO of Scrum, Inc. and Senior Advisor to OpenView Investment Partners.

Jens Østergaard has spent more than 20 years as a developer, DBA, team manager, project manager and ScrumMaster, developing software primarily in financial services organizations. Østergaard was the world’s first certified CSM/Practitioner, and has led a number of highly successful Scrum projects. Østergaard has a Bachelor of Science in Systems Analysis from Linköping University, Sweden.

Gabrielle Benefield has been very successful at organizational change, specializing in enterprise level transformation leading large teams at CollabNet, IBM and currently for Yahoo! She leads the Agile rollout at Yahoo! with over 100 teams using Agile methods worldwide. She is a certified Scrum Trainer, Scrum Master and Practitioner, and holds an MA in Digital Media.

Bass Vodde is an experienced coach in agile methods and especially Scrum. He's also a certified Scrum master trainer. Next to Scrum, he trains and coaches teams in TDD, retrospective and agile planning. Bas is the author of the Scaling Agile and Lean Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum and of "Practices for Large-Scale Agile and Lean Development", both together with Craig Larman.

Jim ("Cope") Coplien is the father of Organizational Patterns, is one of the founders of the Software Pattern discipline, a pioneer in practical object-oriented design in the early 1990s and is a widely consulted authority, author, and trainer in the areas of software design and organizational improvements.

*To learn which instructor will be teaching your class, please select the desired class date.

Agile Meetup Group Organized by Marakana

Marakana team organizes and runs the San Francisco Agile Meetup - an interactive group of Android developers. In our monthly meetings, we discuss Agile & Scrum landscape from both technology and business angles. We often have great presentations by industry experts and group discussions. If you are in San Francisco Bay Area, we encourage you to join the group and meet other Agile progressionals.