Duration
2 days
Overview
The Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) course is on how to maximize the value of software products and systems. Product Ownership in Scrum requires more than knowledge of how to write user stories or manage a Product Backlog. Professional Scrum Product Owner is a cutting-edge course for Product Owners, Agile product managers and anyone responsible for a software product’s success in turbulent markets.
The PSPO course addresses a significant skill gap in the software development industry that we have seen growing over the last few years. An effective Product Owner is one of the best predictors of product success, but many Product Owners seem to misunderstand the breadth of the role’s responsibilities in delivering a successful product. Maximizing Return on Investment (ROI), optimizing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), and capitalizing on product Agility are the things a Product Owner is intimately concerned with that the PSPO course focuses on.
Who should attend?
The Professional Scrum Product Owner course is for anyone involved in software development using the Scrum Framework. It is particularly beneficial for those people within an organization accountable for maximizing the value of work done by Development team, including Product Owner, Product Manager and Leadership Team.
Course Topics
The training focuses on the fundamentals that are essential for understanding and satisfying the role of the Product Owner in the context of product management and Scrum. The course not only provides greater understanding of the role itself, but also gives you a clearer idea of the principles of agile project management by the Product Owner.
You will learn:
- Scrum Framework
- Scrum Roles – Product Owner, Scrum Master and Development Team
- Agile Product Management
- Value-Driven Development
- Product Backlog Management
- Release Management
- Relevance of epics, user stories and acceptance criteria
- Setting and achieving strategic product goals
- Release strategies and planning with Scrum
- Estimating and prioritizing requirements
- Forecasting capability with Scrum
- Product development involving multiple teams
- Total cost of ownership
Teaching techniques
Complete hands-on workshop to deal with organizational challenges and implantation issues. Participants learn by doing and training facilitator focuses on individual and interaction than theory. Participants work in small teams to learn and play all the roles to understand importance of Scrum Team.
MORE INFORMATION
The 2-day Professional Scrum Product Owner course covers the principles and (empirical) process theory underpinning the Scrum Framework, and the role of the Product owner in it. This course is a combination of instruction and team-based exercises and teaches what is at the heart of the Scrum and Agile movement.
PSPO is the cutting-edge course for effective Product Owners and for anyone working as part of product management team toward maximizing value of work. The course includes advanced thinking for product ownership and behavioral shifts.
Scrum.org maintains the defined curriculum and materials taught by our 160+ Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs) to assure consistency and quality for students worldwide.
Module 1. Introduction
Introduce the instructor, the class, complexity and Scrum.
Module 2 Value Driven Development
The primary job of a product manager is to increase the value created by the product for which he or she is responsible. This section covers value drivers, and strategies for measuring them.
Module 3 Product Management
Agile product management is different from traditional approaches. This section explores those differences, as well as how the Product Owner works in an Agile environment to deliver a product.
Module 4 Managing Requirements
The Product Backlog is the fuel that feeds the development team, and managing it is one of the primary roles of the Scrum Product Owner. Here you will learn about User Stories, ordering and organization strategies, and Product Backlog grooming.
Module 5 Planning Releases
What does a good release look like? Why are releases done? What impact can a bad release have on you and your customer? This section explores release strategies and how to optimise the delivery of value with them.
Module 6 Lean Planning
A release is often the first step to realising value. What better way to learn how to plan a release than to do it? Here students cover the basics of identifying a release goal and requirements, backlog ordering, estimation, adjustment, and baseline planning.
Module 7 Managing Products
Understanding Total Cost of Ownership is fundamental to successfully managing a product. How do you balance between optimising the value of a release and maximising the value of the product or system as an asset for the organisation? How does that fit into your product roadmap, and why is your Development Team's "Definition of Done" so fundamental to everything that you do?
Prerequisites
Attendees will be able to make the most of the class if they:
- Have studied the Scrum Guide (required)
- Have taken the Scrum Open (free online assessment)
- Have taken the Professional Scrum Foundations course, or have experience on or exposure to a Scrum Team
- Possess a general understanding of requirements and requirements decomposition
- Have been on or closely involved with a project that builds or enhances a product
- Want to know more about how Scrum works, how to use it, and how to implement it in an organization
Included within the course costs
- Upon course completion, attendees have the opportunity to take an online assessment of their skills and earn their Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)
- To reinforce those concepts, if you attend this Scrum.org class and attempt the PSPO I certification assessment within 14 days but do not achieve a score of at least 85% you will be given a 2nd attempt at no cost.
- Official course Material from Scrum.org
- No Renewal Fee for certification
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.