The Certified Scrum Product Owner Course introduces the concepts of agile product management using the Scrum methodology. This course is highly interactive. Students will learn tried & true methods for building, managing and prioritizing the Product Backlog and ways to build a product roadmap for release planning. Exercises in this class contain some of the most leading tools and techniques in product development. These are some of the best techniques on the planet for helping customers determine what they mean and ensuring you build what they mean, not what they ask for.

WHAT YOU GET:

• Post-class tips, tools and videos
• 2-Year membership with Scrum Alliance

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

• Agile values & principles –how to make them serve as your guide
• The Scrum framework – how all the pieces fit together, and what’s missing
• The Scrum roles: Product Owner, ScrumMaster, and Development team
• Responsibilities – and authority – of the Product Owner
• Several impactful ways to communicate your product vision
• Tools to succinctly make the business case for your Product
• Techniques to deeply understand your users and customers
• Validated learning: how to discover the features customers actually need
• Simple tools to build an effective Product Roadmap
• A variety of models for sequencing (prioritizing) features and projects
• Leveraging user stories for better feature definition (requirements)
• Patterns for splitting large features into small user stories
• Backlog refinement (grooming) techniques to optimize your backlog
• Long-range estimating & forecasting – the Lean-Agile way

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: 

This hands-on certification class is appropriate for both software and non-software professionals including:

This course is ideal for product managers, analysts, testers, and others who represent and are expected to understand the desires of users and customers on agile projects. You will leave with solid knowledge of how and why Scrum works and of your role on the project. Through practical, hands-on exercises and small-group discussion, you will leave prepared to guide a Scrum team to success.

AGENDA: 

Day 1

Scrum Overview

Team-based Scrum simulation designed to highlight key Agile and Scrum concepts including:

• Scrum roles
• User stories
• Story estimation
• Backlog refinement
• Backlog prioritization
• Sprint planning
• Sprint burndowns
• Collaboration and problem swarming
• Risk management strategies
• Velocity tracking and velocity-based planning.

Simulation Debrief

Scrum Game Debrief and Review of Fundamental Agile Concepts

Product Vision

Day 2

Empathy Mapping

Personas

Impact Mapping 

Roadmap Planning 

Release Planning (Fix Date and Fixed Scope Planning) 

User Story Mapping 

Writing User Stories

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: 

Miljan is a very passionate professional who truly enjoys helping others. As an Agile coach (CEC), trainer (CST), and mentor, he’s spent almost two decades helping teams succeed and organizations reinvent themselves. Miljan’s career has spanned both technology and business. He’s one of roughly 50 professionals in the world that holds both Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) and Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) designations from Scrum Alliance. He coaches organizations, teams, and individuals to collaboratively design systems that combine lean thinking and agile approaches to deliver maximum organizational effectiveness. Miljan is also a frequent speaker having participated in many international conferences and Agile events in Europe and the United States.

Testimonials: 

What the participants said about Miljan’s Course:

“This is one of the best courses I took. The topics were well organized and thought through. The entire setting was very interesting and engaging. As a participant, I just could not stand aside and not participate in the multiple discussions that the group had because of the way how the topics were discussed. Miljan was successfully facilitating the discussion and helping us understand those topics that the group had questions about. Because of the homework assignments most of the time I was engaged in the research and completing assignments which helped me understand and learn the topics better.”

“The way this class was delivered is excellent and different than all of my previous training from various trainers. Learned a lot from the discussion, articles, videos and to-dos. Miljan’s experience and global exposure helped a lot in delivering the content of this course in an effective way.”

“Thoroughly enjoyed class. Class material was insightful and content very well organized. Miljan brought very much to the table with regards to his experience, his mindset, and his enthusiasm. Best virtual/online course I have taken, and not just including those in the agile space.”

“Good class, lots of great material that can be leveraged as I go forward in my professional career. Miljan’s class is an open environment and fosters good discussions across participants.”