Course Summary
Running projects with Scrum needs a skilled Product Owner. As a Product Owner you are responsible for all business decisions needed to be taken. As of that you have to be sure you listen to other stakeholders and take different opinions into account, letting other decide from time to time. But in the the end you are it, the single wringable neck. In this class we teach you how to implement Scrum, how to be a Product Owner and how to deal with your customer and organization.
Duration
2 days.
Objectives
This unique Product Owner certification course teaches you the basics of running a project using Scrum. You’ll learn that You’re the Boss, and that you’re in command — yet your team is in control. You’ll learn the balance of power and governance between the Product Owner, the Team, and the ScrumMaster that make Scrum an effective framework for achieving business goals.
Because You’re the Boss, you build this course yourself from a product backlog that’s already been estimated by the team (the course instructor). You’ll learn right away the importance of choosing must-haves for the market, of honoring dependencies between Product Backlog Items (PBIs), and of getting the most value for your time — all in the first half hour! How it proceeds from there is your choice. Choose from topics in areas such as:
- Intro to Scrum
- The product backlog
- Product Owner Team
- The Process
- Business Concepts
- The Product Owner in the Organization
- … or create your own!
See the Outline below for more information.
We’ll also go in-depth to cover User Stories, traditional requirements, features, Use Cases, and issues, and their strengths and weaknesses as PBIs. We’ll take a broad, all-encompassing look at ROI, and look at Agile Contracts: change for free and money for nothing!
Audience
Instructors
Having more than 20 years of experience as developer, dba, team manager, project manager and ScrumMaster, primarily in financial organizations, he has worked with all aspects of software development. Jens has managed several Scrum projects, and became a fully qualified CSM Trainer, in Copenhagen, 2004. Apart from consulting and training, Jens gives popular presentations about Scrum, at conferences and for organizations.
Jens’ base is in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he is self-employed. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Systems Analysis at Linköping University, Sweden, and one year at graduate school, business department, in Madison, Wisconsin.
You can read more about Jens Østergaard at scrum.dk. More about Jens Ostergaard...
Additional Notes
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.
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.
Outline
The agenda will be chosen by the class from the following items (* = required for certification):
- Vendor management
- Scrum basics *
- Your product backlog
- The Product backlog *
- Requirements as product backlog items (depends on #4)
- Poker Planning * (is done as part if #10)
- Enabling Specifications *
- The Product Owner team
- Customer Engagement *
- Team Engagement *
- Process Improvement
- Sprint Planning *
- Release Planning * (depends on 12)
- Sprint Backlog & task board
- The Daily Scrum
- Burn-Down Charts (depends on 14)
- “Done” and technical debt
- Emergency procedure * (depends on #8, #10, #12, #14)
- Sprint Review *
- ROI and Risk Management
- Supplier Management (depends on #4)
- Agile Contracts (depends on #4)
- The MetaScrum (depends on #8, #10, #11, #13 and #26)
- Separation of Command and Control (depends on #17)
- Scaling Scrum
- Value Calculation (depends on #37)
- Boss /Worker game
- Spec /Developer game (depends on #4)
- ROI exercise (depends on #20)
- Overview of Product Backlog items (depends on #4)
- Examples of Product Backlog Items (alternative to #4)
- Feature-based Product Backlog Items (depends on #4)
- User Stories as Product Backlog Items (depends on #4)
- Use Cases as Product Backlog Items (urgently recommended; depends on #4)
Course Testimonials
Jim Coplien is an amazing instructor. He brought great energy and passion to the subject and he explained everything in a way that made it easy to understand. I was very impressed with his vast amount of experience and knowledge. I feel I have walked away from this course with a true understanding of how Agile and Scrum work. Thank you!
