Certified Scrum Product Owner | Agile Scrum Courses

Duration : 2 Days

Course description:

The Certified Scrum Product Owner® Certification from Scrum Alliance is a validation of your commitment to ongoing excellence in your Agile journey and makes you eligible to take on Product Owner responsibilities and lead successful projects. The Product Owner is the key member of the Scrum Team and shoulders the responsibility of leading the project strategically, collaborating with customers and team on a daily basis, and managing the business value. Our course prepares you for this comprehensive certification through in-depth lectures, extensive quiz sessions and practical lessons that will help you face on-the job challenges.

Our two-day Certified Scrum Product Owner training classes are delivered by Scrum Alliance Certified Trainers (CSTs) and combine classroom study, group discussions, and hands-on practice exercises. The program will provide you with a deep understanding of Scrum from the perspective of a Product Owner, enabling you to be an effective customer to the Scrum team and at the same time maximizing ROI.

What you will learn:

Enhance your skills as a Product owner

Lead Agile teams and motivate your team members

Facilitate smooth communication channels between stakeholders and team

Increase Scrum functionality

Create practical and efficient plans and schedules

Reduce risk by pre-planning

Improve ROI

Ensure maximum delivery

You will also get:

Scrum Alliance Certification

14-16 PDUs and SEUs

Prerequisites:

It is desired that participants have basic knowledge of Agile to attend this course. In order to appear for the certification, candidates must present the 2-day CSPO course certificate, which will be provided by our trainers on successful completion of the course.

Certification:

On successful completion of an in-person, two day (16 hour) CSPO course taught by a Certified Scrum Trainer (such as this course), you will receive a Certificate from Scrum Alliance designating you as Certified Scrum Product Owner. The certification includes a two-year membership in Scrum Alliance.

Course Contents

Scrum Basics

• Understand the Scrum Flow, the core components of the Scrum framework, and the Scrum vocabulary
• Understand the principles/legs of empirical process control
• Understand the work culture Scrum creates 

Roles & Responsibilities

• Understand the scope of the Product Owner, ScrumMaster and the team role in detail
• Understand why there is no project manager and no agile product manager

Product Vision

• Understand the importance of having the product vision as an overarching goal galvanizing the entire Scrum team
• Understand the desirable qualities of the vision and how it can be shaped
• Understand the importance of carrying out just enough prep work
• Understand the relationship between vision and product roadmap

Estimating

• Understand the different estimation levels in Scrum
• Understand that the accuracy of an estimate is more important than the precision of the estimate
• Understand that estimates of size and duration can be done separately
• Understand the impact of pressuring team members to provide low estimates
• Understand the difference between estimating and committing

Product Backlog

• Understand what the product backlog is, and what it is not
• Understand product backlog grooming

Prioritizing

• Understand the importance and benefits of prioritizing the product backlog
• Understand the implications of saying everything is mandatory
• Understand who should have input into prioritization decisions
• Understand that proper prioritization of a product backlog is based on multiple factors
• Understand and know how to apply formal approaches to prioritizing (i.e. beyond just ‘gut feel’ or intuition)
• Understand how much latitude to give a team in adjusting the sequence of work

Release Management

• Understand the goals and how tos of release planning
• Understand that planning is adaptive, iterative and collaborative
• Understand why quality is frozen and the concept of technical debt
• Understand why software should be released early and frequently
• Understand and measure velocity
• Understand release burndown charts
• Understand how a release plan can help predict the future.

Sprints

• Understand the product owners role in Scrum meetings, and how the Product Owner and Team collaborate
• Understand why sprints are timeboxed and protected
• Understand the concept of sustainable pace
• Understand team commitment