Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) training Brisbane July 3, 2011

About the Course

The Product Owner role is critical to maximising Return on Investment from agile projects and is one of the most challenging and rewarding agile roles. Many Product Owners come from business areas of the organisation and have limited familiarity with elements of software development, project management and agile methods that are critical to success in the Product Owner role. For these reasons, it is vitally important that Product Owners gain a solid understanding of their role and responsibilities as well as the knowledge, skills and tools to work effectively with Scrum teams.

Audience

This course is most suitable for Product Owners and staff assisting with requirements and their priority (e.g. Business Analysts and Subject Matter Experts), solution architecture (e.g. Solution Architects and Tech Leads), planning and coaching (e.g. ScrumMasters and Agile Coaches).

Trainers

This course is taught by two highly experience Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer, Simon Bennett and Rowan Bunning.

Simon Bennett has over 20 years real-world experience in software and hardware development, and Chair of the Product Owner Panel at the Munich Scrum Gathering. From 2008 through 2010 Simon was also the Product Owner for the Scrum for Team System TFS process template.

Simon has considerable experience in organisational agile adoption, large scale Scrum and using Scrum in an offshore environment, as well as successfully blending Scrum with other methods including UCD. Over the last 12 years have been focused on using Agile frameworks and methods including Scrum, XP, Crystal & Kanban. His wealth of experience and passion for Product Ownership brings a unique depth and flavour to the course, as students will learn from real world case studies rather than only theory and simulations.

Course Outline

Part A: Scrum Framework
Story: "As a Product Owner, I want to understand the Scrum framework so that I can work in harmony with it."
Agility
Introducing Scrum
Timeboxing
The Empirical Journey
Team and ScrumMaster
Product Owner Role
Defining "Done"
Undone Work Debt

Part B: Activities and Interaction
Story: "As a Product Owner, I want to known when and how I should interact with other participants so that I can keep on top of my day-to-day work."
Product Backlog
Constraint Stories
Sprint Planning
Sprinting
Sprint Review
Scrum Values

Part C: Shaping the Product
Story: "As a Product Owner, I want to shape my product in an agile way to help ensure that we build the right thing."
Envisioning
User Roles
User Stories
Story Mapping
Prioritisation
Part D: Release Management
Story: "As a Product Owner, I want to manage releases using agile techniques to help me maximise Return on Investment."
Release Planning
Grooming the Product Backlog
Agile Release Management
Next Steps

Pricing

An early bird price of $1595 inc. GST is available if you register by Friday 10th June.

$1700 inc. GST from 11th June onwards.

A discount of $100 per person is available when 3 or more participants from the same organisation are registered as a group.

This price per seat includes 2 full days of training, full catering (morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea), printed handouts and 2 years membership with the Scrum Alliance.

Recommended Reading

Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love by Roman Pichler, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2010.

Official Website: http://scrumalliance.org/courses/20110124-certified-scrum-product-owner