Our two-day Certified Scrum Product Owner training course provides a comprehensive and in-depth training in Scrum theory and practice, taught by a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer.
Our in-person classes are designed to be highly interactive and engaging, combining live discussion with a creative use of interactive online collaborative technologies, videos, small-group discussions, interactive quizzes, mini-case-studies and lots of time for question-and-answer.
The course includes coverage of the following topics:
- The Agile Manifesto
- The Scrum Framework
- The 5 Scrum Values (Commitment, Focus, Openness, Respect, and Courage)
- The 5 Scrum Events (Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective)
- The 4 Scrum Roles (Scrum Team, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Developers)
- The 3 Scrum Artifacts (Increment, Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog)
- The 3 Scrum Commitments (Product Goal, Sprint Goal, Definition of Done)
- Writing Agile requirements with User Stories
- Product Backlog Refinement
- Defining and estimating value: Linear and Fibonacci
- Techniques for prioritizing the Product Backlog: ROI / MoSCoW
- Agile project estimation, including Velocity and Relative estimation
- Techniques for relative estimation: Planning Poker
- Techniques for estimating velocity: Historical / Proxy Project / Simulated Sprint / Best-Case + Worst-Case
- Estimating fixed date and fixed scope projects
- Release models: All-at-once / release train / release every Sprint
- Minimum Viable Product
- Definition of Done and managing project risk
- Strategies for splitting Product Backlog Items: Workflow Steps / Business Value / Simple-Complex / Positive-Negative / Investigate-Implement
- Managing requirements change while still delivering on schedule and within budget
- Release Backlog and Release Burndown Chart
- 7 Strategies to responding to behind-schedule projects
Attendees who are PMI® PMP®'s are eligible for 16 PDU's. ("PMI", "PMP", and "PMI Agile Certified Practitioner" are registered marks of Project Management Institute, Inc.)
