The Role of the Product Owner in its many forms:
The
theory of the role doesn't always
match the
reality of your authority and constraints. Additionally,
there are related roles like Product Marketing Manager, Product Owner and Business Analyst
that cover many of the same areas. Learn
how to make the most of your position based upon the type of
business you’re in, the products or services that you helm, the other roles in the organization, the life-cycle in which those products exist,
your organization’s maturity and more.
Advanced stakeholder and customer engagement:
Product Owners hear a lot about
“saying no” an appropriate thought given
that much of their job boils down to scope management with perspective, but this is
much
easier said than done. Work through a variety of real-world situations that veer
from the ideal and learn how you can work most effectively with stakeholders and customers in you unique context.
Launching new Scrum teams and projects:
Learn how to rapidly but
thoughtfully kick off a new team or new engagement, considering how to properly align roles, create a basis for appropriate collaboration between the team and stakeholders, and communicate a compelling vision along with practical means to measure progress against it.
Scaling to larger projects:
Explore
how and when to apply multiple teams against a common goal with a coherent backlog, intelligent
dependency management and proper synchronization… without falling into a host of common traps.
Designing and communicating product strategy:
Practice crafting and comparing business
models,
creating targeted
experiments, and
prioritizing opportunities by value, cost of delay (time value) and economic impact.
Advanced backlog and release management:
Delve into a variety of techniques for
prioritizing the backlog in tricky situations, creating long-term
road-maps without sacrificing
adaptability, optimizing
release strategies and demonstrating return on investment for agile efforts.