Duration
3 days
Overview
The Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) with Design Thinking course focuses on maximizing the value of software products and systems. Product Ownership in Scrum requires more than knowledge of writing user stories or managing a Product Backlog. During the 3 days of training, participants learn how to empathize with personas, draft problem statements and validate assumptions. Professional Scrum Product Owner is an advanced 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. A useful Product Owner is one of the best predictors of product success. Still, 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.
Course objective
- Have a clear understanding of the mechanics of Scrum
- Design Thinking to develop use case
- Know how the Product Owner fits into Scrum
- Successfully work with Scrum Teams and stakeholders
- Effectively increase business agility
Who needs this program?
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 Developers, including the Product Owner, Product Manager, and Leadership Team.
Prerequisites
There is no prerequisite, but attendees will be able to make the most of the class if they:
- Have taken the Scrum Open (free online assessment)
- 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
Course Topics
The training focuses on the fundamentals of product ownership that are essential for understanding and satisfying the Product Owner's role in product management and Scrum. The course provides a greater understanding of the role and gives you a clearer idea of agile project management principles by the Product Owner.
You will learn:
- Scrum Principles and Empiricism
- The Scrum Framework
- Writing the Problem Statement
- Understanding Stakeholders and Users
- Personas, Empathy Maps
- Importance of Design and What is Design Thinking
- Scrum Roles and Accountability
- Agile Product Management
- Value-Driven Development
- Product Backlog Management
- Release Management and Forecasting
- Epic, User Story, and Acceptance Criteria
- Setting and achieving strategic product goals
- Release strategies and planning with Scrum
- Estimating and prioritizing requirements
- Product development involving multiple teams
- The total cost of ownership for a Product
Teaching techniques
The Professional Scrum Product Owner course with Agilemania is a hands-on workshop to deal with organizational challenges and implantation issues. Participants learn by doing, and the training facilitator focuses on individual interaction than theory. Participants work in small teams to learn and play all the roles to understand the Scrum Team's importance.
MORE INFORMATION
The 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.
PDU Credits
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.