The Certified Product Owner™ Certification focuses on the effectiveness paradigm. A good Product Owner ensures that we deliver those items that are most likely to increase company ROI, add value for the customer, and maximize learning. The continual learning from each release is used to adjust plans for future releases.

Product Managers, Product Owners, Business Analysts, Epic Owners, QA Leads, Tech Leads, Business Owners, and others with similar roles will benefit by attending.

After the session you will be registered with the Scrum Alliance as a Certified Product Owner. More importantly, you and the other attendees will have the conceptual basis on how to clarify the vision (the why), find the value slices (the what), prioritize on value (what’s next), and determine when stories, features and releases are complete (what’s done).

You will learn how to apply the Scrum framework to product development and how to create a dual-track readiness maturation process to prepare your team for release planning events.

You will gain a practical understanding of the roles, artifacts and ceremonies of Scrum and of SAFe, via hands on exercises, discussion and simulation.
You will gain a practical understanding of the roles, artifacts and ceremonies of Scrum, via hands on exercises, discussion, fun games, and immersion.

• Roles: RTE, Business Owner, Epic Owner, Product Manager, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Team Member
• Ceremonies: Backlog Refinement, Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective
• Artifacts: Product Backlog, Team Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Burndown Chart

You will learn how Scrum exists in a larger organizational context, and how it is similar to and different from, traditional waterfall projects. In addition to Scrum, we will review other influential Agile Frameworks and how they align.

• SAFe™: Scaling framework that provides additional roles, ceremonies and artifacts.
• Lean Startup™: An approach to mitigating business risks by getting to market quickly with a release that is also an experiment, learning from it, and adapting based on leanings.

Exercises, discussions, simulations, games, yes we really mean games, case studies, examples and fun, yes even jokes, are interwoven throughout the course to illustrate the principles being taught in an immersive, engaging manner so that you learn, while enjoying yourself.

• Continental breakfast, lunch, snack, and all day coffee/tea
• Certification as a Product Owner, with the Scrum Alliance, after successful class completion
• Two year membership in the Scrum Alliance
• High quality, color, printed manual
• Scrum Cheat Sheet, key concepts on one page
• Free follow up discussion with instructor if you need assistance
• 16 PDUs towards PMI continuing certification requirements

If you have time prior to the session, you can benefit by reviewing pre-reading material. Check out free material by clicking here.