Advanced Certified Product Owner (A-CSPO)

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Course Overview

In this in-depth two-day interactive course, participants will enhance their product owner skills for the implementation of Scrum by learning strategies and tactics to improve the adoption, engagement, and value of Scrum within their company or organization. Distinguish yourself in the global marketplace and show advanced value to your organization as a highly trained Agile professional. The course is designed and taught by Certified Scrum Trainer partners with extensive knowledge of the principles and values of Scrum.

This course will earn you 16 PDUs | 16 CDUs

Course Objectives

    • Manage multiple business initiatives from competing stakeholders
    • Prioritize the order and express Product Backlog items
    • Build a clear product vision that ensures your product remains focused on the features your customers and end users will use
    • Effectively communicate with various stakeholder groups to achieve alignment
    • Define and validate business value

Course Outline

Product Owner Role

  • Anti-patterns
  • PO skills, qualities, and attributes
  • PO in the real world
  • Agile Analysts
  • Understanding Stakeholders & Personas

PO Facilitation

  • Divergent vs convergent thinking
  • Listing techniques
  • Coming to consensus
  • Defining key terms
  • Complete agile planning

Working with Teams

  • 7 deadly sins of technical debt
  • The agile umbrella
  • Technical practices
  • PO with multiple teams
  • Feat vs component teams
  • Managing dependencies

Agility Understood Extreme Programming

  • Extreme Programming
  • Dynamic Systems Development Method
  • Feature Driven Development
  • Lean & Kanban

Importance of limiting WIP

  • Project & roadmap level WIP
  • Team WIP limits and Little’s Law
  • Individual WIP & Kanban Boards

Scaling Agile

  • Scaled Agile Framework
  • Large Scale Scrum
  • Scrum at Scale
  • Enterprise Scrum
  • Disciplined Agile Delivery

Developing Practical Product Strategies

  • The art of the agile press release
  • Business model, value proposition canvas
  • Lean canvas
  • Story Points and Estimation
  • Roadmapping and rapid release planning

Customer Research and Product Discovery

  • Product discovery techniques
  • User story mapping
  • Cognitive bias
  • Assumptions vs hypothesis
  • Outcome over output
  • Defining value

Course closure

  • Advanced backlog creation
  • Advanced product backlog refinement
  • Personal and professional development

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Class Dates & Times

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This is a 2-day class

Price: $995.00

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