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About the course:

Scrum is a simple but powerful agile management framework. Key to its success is the role of the Product Owner: The Product Owner steers and guides the Scrum project, bridges the gap between end customers, business and development/IT and is responsible for the return on investment (ROI).

This two-day interactive course equips you with all you need to know about being an effective product owner.

Attending this course will enable you to understand the product owner role in depth and learn the practices necessary to succeed as a product owner. This includes the product owner duties, the role’s authority, and its interaction with the other Scrum roles and stakeholders such as customers, users, sales, marketing, and management. You wlll understand how product planning, product discovery and product definition work in Scrum including taking advantage of early customer feedback and emergent requirements. The course also teaches you how to turn a product vision into a successful product including forecasting the project progress, grooming the product backlog, and effectively collaborating with the ScrumMaster and team in the sprint meetings.

This interactive course teaches practical techniques through instructions and hands-on exercises.

Audience

Product managers, product marketers, business analysts, requirements engineers, project managers and ScrumMasters who would like to deepen their understanding of the Product Owner role and related practices.

Prerequisites

Participants should be familiar with the basics of product management. Participants are required to read the following books prior to class:

Contents

Introduction

  • Agile values and Scrum origins
  • Scrum flow
  • Empirical management
  • Definition of done

Scrum Roles

  • Product owner, team and ScrumMaster: authority, responsibility and collaboration
  • Product owner team and hierarchies
  • Desirable qualities of the product owner
  • A day in the life of the product owner
  • Common product owner mistakes

Visioning and The Product Vision

  • The product vision
  • Benefits of the product vision
  • The vision in action
  • Desirable qualities
  • The minimal marketable product
  • Simplicity and Ockham’s Razor
  • The vision and the product roadmap
  • Techniques for creating a powerful vision

The Product Backlog

  • Product discovery and requirements in Scrum
  • Product backlog characteristics
  • Product backlog structure and form
  • Grooming the product backlog
  • Identifying and describing items: user stories on the product backlog
  • Prioritising the product backlog
  • Getting the backlog ready for sprint planning
  • Progressively decomposing and refining items
  • Collaborative grooming workshops
  • Non-functional requirements on the product backlog

Release Management

  • The project levers and the cone of uncertainty
  • Software quality
  • Timeboxed releases
  • Early and frequent releases
  • Quarterly cycles
  • Estimating product backlog items with story points and planning poker
  • Choosing the right sprint length
  • Determining velocity
  • Working with the release burndown chart and bar
  • Creating the release plan
  • Tracking and reporting the project progress

Sprints

  • Sprint characteristics
  • Formulating powerful sprint goals
  • Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective

Large and Distributed Scrum Projects (optional)

  • Brook’s Law
  • Organic growth and Conway’s Law
  • Team set-up
  • Multi-team planning and coordination
  • Shared norms and assets
  • Dispersed teams
  • Distributed Scrum project tips

Transitions (optional)

  • Becoming a great product owner
  • Developing great product owners
  • Making Scrum product ownership stick

After the course the student will receive a link to Scrum Alliance, where he can creat a profile as a Certified Product Owner and print a certificate.

Teacher: Gabrielle Benefield

Language: English

Location: Trifork A/S, Margrethepladsen 4, 8000 Århus C

Duration: 2 days, both days from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Price: DKR 12.500 ex. Vat, including course materials and meals

REGISTER



REGISTER

About the course:

Scrum is a simple but powerful agile management framework. Key to its success is the role of the Product Owner: The Product Owner steers and guides the Scrum project, bridges the gap between end customers, business and development/IT and is responsible for the return on investment (ROI).

This two-day interactive course equips you with all you need to know about being an effective product owner.

Attending this course will enable you to understand the product owner role in depth and learn the practices necessary to succeed as a product owner. This includes the product owner duties, the role’s authority, and its interaction with the other Scrum roles and stakeholders such as customers, users, sales, marketing, and management. You wlll understand how product planning, product discovery and product definition work in Scrum including taking advantage of early customer feedback and emergent requirements. The course also teaches you how to turn a product vision into a successful product including forecasting the project progress, grooming the product backlog, and effectively collaborating with the ScrumMaster and team in the sprint meetings.

This interactive course teaches practical techniques through instructions and hands-on exercises.

Audience

Product managers, product marketers, business analysts, requirements engineers, project managers and ScrumMasters who would like to deepen their understanding of the Product Owner role and related practices.

Prerequisites

Participants should be familiar with the basics of product management. Participants are required to read the following books prior to class:

Contents

Introduction

  • Agile values and Scrum origins
  • Scrum flow
  • Empirical management
  • Definition of done

Scrum Roles

  • Product owner, team and ScrumMaster: authority, responsibility and collaboration
  • Product owner team and hierarchies
  • Desirable qualities of the product owner
  • A day in the life of the product owner
  • Common product owner mistakes

Visioning and The Product Vision

  • The product vision
  • Benefits of the product vision
  • The vision in action
  • Desirable qualities
  • The minimal marketable product
  • Simplicity and Ockham’s Razor
  • The vision and the product roadmap
  • Techniques for creating a powerful vision

The Product Backlog

  • Product discovery and requirements in Scrum
  • Product backlog characteristics
  • Product backlog structure and form
  • Grooming the product backlog
  • Identifying and describing items: user stories on the product backlog
  • Prioritising the product backlog
  • Getting the backlog ready for sprint planning
  • Progressively decomposing and refining items
  • Collaborative grooming workshops
  • Non-functional requirements on the product backlog

Release Management

  • The project levers and the cone of uncertainty
  • Software quality
  • Timeboxed releases
  • Early and frequent releases
  • Quarterly cycles
  • Estimating product backlog items with story points and planning poker
  • Choosing the right sprint length
  • Determining velocity
  • Working with the release burndown chart and bar
  • Creating the release plan
  • Tracking and reporting the project progress

Sprints

  • Sprint characteristics
  • Formulating powerful sprint goals
  • Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective

Large and Distributed Scrum Projects (optional)

  • Brook’s Law
  • Organic growth and Conway’s Law
  • Team set-up
  • Multi-team planning and coordination
  • Shared norms and assets
  • Dispersed teams
  • Distributed Scrum project tips

Transitions (optional)

  • Becoming a great product owner
  • Developing great product owners
  • Making Scrum product ownership stick

After the course the student will receive a link to Scrum Alliance, where he can creat a profile as a Certified Product Owner and print a certificate.

Teachers: Jens Østergaard & Stig Efsen

Language: Danish

Location: Trifork A/S, Spotorno Alle 4, 2630 Taastrup (Copenhagen)

Duration: 2 days, both days from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Price: DKR 13.500 ex. Vat, including course materials and meals

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Course details

Certified Scrum Product Owner
Date Location Instructor Language Registration
June 15.-16. 2010 Aarhus Roman Pichler English Register
Sep. 9.-10. 2010 Copenhagen Jens Østergaard & Stig Efsen Danish Register
Oct. 7.-8. 2010 Aarhus Gabrielle Benefield English Register


Kursusbeskrivelse

Certificeret  Scrum Product Owner
Dato Sted Instruktør Sprog Tilmelding
Jun. 15.-16. 2010 Aarhus Roman Pichler Engelsk Tilmelding
Sep. 9.-10. 2010 København Jens Østergaard & Stig Efsen Dansk Tilmelding
Oct. 7.-8. 2010 Aarhus Gabrielle Benefield Engelsk Tilmelding


Kursusbeskrivelse

Certificeret ScrumMaster
Dato Sted Instruktør Sprog Tilmelding
Sep. 13.-14. 2010 København Jens Østergaard Engelsk Tilmelding
Sep. 16.-17. 2010 Zürich Jeff Sutherland Engelsk Tilmelding
Oct. 7.-8. 2010 Århus Jeff Sutherland Engelsk Tilmelding
Oct. 7.-8. 2010 Århus Jens Østergaard Dansk Tilmelding
Nov. 11.-12. 2010 Zürich Jeff Sutherland Engelsk Tilmelding
Dec. 6.-7. 2010 København Jeff Sutherland & Jens Østergaard Engelsk Tilmelding


Certified ScrumMaster

Date Location Instructor Language Registration
Sep. 13.-14.2010 Copenhagen Jens Østergaard English Register
Sep. 16.-17.2010 Zürich Jeff Sutherland English Register
Oct. 7.-8.2010 Aarhus Jeff Sutherland English Register
Oct. 7.-8.2010 Aarhus Jens  Østergaard Danish Register
No. 11.-12.2010 Zürich Jeff Sutherland English Register
Dec. 6.-7.2010 Copenhagen Jeff Sutherland & Jens Østergaard English Register


Scrum is a simple but powerful agile management framework. Key to its success is the role of the Product Owner: The Product Owner steers and guides the Scrum project, bridges the gap between end customers, business and development/IT and is responsible for the return on investment (ROI).

Scrum Product Owner calendar

This two-day interactive course equips you with all you need to know about being an effective product owner.

Attending this course will enable you to understand the product owner role in depth and learn the practices necessary to succeed as a product owner. This includes the product owner duties, the role’s authority, and its interaction with the other Scrum roles and stakeholders such as customers, users, sales, marketing, and management. You wlll understand how product planning, product discovery and product definition work in Scrum including taking advantage of early customer feedback and emergent requirements. The course also teaches you how to turn a product vision into a successful product including forecasting the project progress, grooming the product backlog, and effectively collaborating with the ScrumMaster and team in the sprint meetings.

This interactive course teaches practical techniques through instructions and hands-on exercises.

Audience

Product managers, product marketers, business analysts, requirements engineers, project managers and ScrumMasters who would like to deepen their understanding of the Product Owner role and related practices.

Prerequisites

Participants should be familiar with the basics of product management. Participants are required to read the following books prior to class:

Contents

Introduction

  • Agile values and Scrum origins
  • Scrum flow
  • Empirical management
  • Definition of done

Scrum Roles

  • Product owner, team and ScrumMaster: authority, responsibility and collaboration
  • Product owner team and hierarchies
  • Desirable qualities of the product owner
  • A day in the life of the product owner
  • Common product owner mistakes

Visioning and The Product Vision

  • The product vision
  • Benefits of the product vision
  • The vision in action
  • Desirable qualities
  • The minimal marketable product
  • Simplicity and Ockham’s Razor
  • The vision and the product roadmap
  • Techniques for creating a powerful vision

The Product Backlog

  • Product discovery and requirements in Scrum
  • Product backlog characteristics
  • Product backlog structure and form
  • Grooming the product backlog
  • Identifying and describing items: user stories on the product backlog
  • Prioritising the product backlog
  • Getting the backlog ready for sprint planning
  • Progressively decomposing and refining items
  • Collaborative grooming workshops
  • Non-functional requirements on the product backlog

Release Management

  • The project levers and the cone of uncertainty
  • Software quality
  • Timeboxed releases
  • Early and frequent releases
  • Quarterly cycles
  • Estimating product backlog items with story points and planning poker
  • Choosing the right sprint length
  • Determining velocity
  • Working with the release burndown chart and bar
  • Creating the release plan
  • Tracking and reporting the project progress

Sprints

  • Sprint characteristics
  • Formulating powerful sprint goals
  • Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective

Large and Distributed Scrum Projects (optional)

  • Brook’s Law
  • Organic growth and Conway’s Law
  • Team set-up
  • Multi-team planning and coordination
  • Shared norms and assets
  • Dispersed teams
  • Distributed Scrum project tips

Transitions (optional)

  • Becoming a great product owner
  • Developing great product owners
  • Making Scrum product ownership stick

After the course the student will receive a link to Scrum Alliance, where he can creat a profile as a Certified Product Owner and print a certificate.

Duration: 2 days, both days from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Price: DKR 12.500 ex. Vat, including course materials and meals

Scrum Product Owner calendar



English version

Dette to-dages kursus udstyrer dig med alt du behøver at vide om det at være en effektiv Product Owner. Efter at have fulgt dette kursus, vil du forstå, hvordan du kan udnytte Scrum til at optimere værdiskabelse og kundetilfredshed. Du vil forstå rollen som Product Owner med dens autoritet og ansvar, og dens samspil med de øvrige Scrum roller. Du vil være i stand til at skabe et produktvision, samt befolke og sortere i  product backloggen, prioritere backloggen, og systematisk forfine krav. Du vil også kunne skabe en realistisk release og holde styr på projektets fremskridt og forstå, hvordan du effektivt kan samarbejde med ScrumMasteren og teamet i sprint møderne.

Aktuelle Scrum Product Owner kurser

Mål med kurset
Hver deltager uddannes til at påtage sig ansvaret som Certified Scrum Product Owner.

Målgruppe
Produkt managers, produkt marketingfolk, forretningsanalytikere, projektledere og ScrumMasters som ønsker at uddybe deres forståelse af Product Ownerens rolle og relaterede metoder.

Forudsætninger
Deltagere skal være bekendt med de grundlæggende principper for produkt management. Deltagerne skal læse følgende bøger før kurset:

Indhold:

Indledning

  • Agile Værdier
  • Scrum Flow
  • Definition af Done
  • Empirisk Management

Scrum Roller

  • Product Owner og Product Owner Karakteristika
  • En Product Owners dag
  • Product Owner hierarkier og Teams
  • Teamet
  • ScrumMasterens rolle

Produkvision

  • Produktvision
  • Fordelene ved at have en produktvision
  • Visionen i praksis
  • Ønskværdige egenskaber
  • Teknikker til at skabe en stærk vision

Produkt Backlog

  • Krav i Scrum
  • Product Backlog karakteristika
  • Product Backlog struktur og form
  • At befolke Backloggen
  • At sortere i Backloggen
  • At prioritere Backloggen
  • At gøre Backloggen klar til Sprint Planning
  • Dekomponering af kravene
  • Forfinelse af kravene
  • Samarbejde om kravene
  • User Stories på Product Backloggen
  • Ikke-funktionelle krav

Release Management

  • Sustainable Pace
  • Estimering af Product Backlog Items med Story Points og Planning Poker
  • Valg af korrekt sprintlængde
  • Fastlæggelse af hastigheden
  • Oprettelse af release plan
  • Tracking og rapportering af projektforløb

Oversigt over Sprints

  • Sprint Workflow og karakteristika
  • Formulering af stærke Sprintmål
  • Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review og Retrospective
  • Forstå Sprint fremgangen

Store og distribuerede Scrum projekter (valgfrit)

  • Brook’s Law
  • Organisk vækst og Conway’s Law
  • Master Product Backlog og Product Owner Team
  • Team Set-up
  • Multi-team planlægning og koordinering
  • Fælles normer
  • Spredte teams
  • Tips til distribuerede Scrum Projekter

Transitioner (valgfrit)

  • At blive en god Product Owner
  • At udføre Scrum Stick og udvikling af gode Product Owners

Efter kurset vil kursisten modtage et link til Scrum Alliance, hvor han kan oprette sig som Certificeret Product Owner og udskrive et certifikat.

Varighed: 2 dage, begge dage fra kl. 9.00 – 17.00-

Pris: DKR 12.500 ekskl. moms (DKR 13.500 ved 2 undervisere), inkl. kursusmateriale og forplejning. NB! Al kursusmateriale er på engelsk.

Aktuelle Scrum Product Owner kurser


Roman Pichler

Roman_Pichler_CroppedRoman is an independent consultant and Scrum expert. He is a Certified Scrum Trainer and the author of the bestselling Scrum book in Germany. His new book Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love is due to be published in early 2010. Product ownership and agile product management form a focal point of his work.

Roman has more than eight years experience in helping companies transition to agile. He has guided Scrum roll-outs in several companies, and has over five years experience in teaching and coaching Scrum product owners and ScrumMasters. Roman is the founder of the London Scrum User Group, and a regular speaker at international conferences.



Scrum is a simple but powerful agile management framework. Key to its success is the role of the Product Owner: The Product Owner steers and guides the Scrum project, bridges the gap between end customers, business and development/IT and is responsible for the return on investment (ROI). The Product Owner combines the traditional project manager and the product manager roles in one person.This two-day interactive course equips you with all you need to know about being an effective Product Owner. At the end of the class, you will understand how you can leverage Scrum to optimise value creation and customer satisfaction. You will be able to create a realistic release plan, stock the product backlog, write user stories, and systematically refine requirements. Additionally, you will know how you can increase productivity, level the workload, and steer the project proactively..ObjectivesEach participant is trained to assume the responsibilities of a Product Owner and to apply Scrum to optimize customer satisfaction and value creation. Audience

Product managers, innovation managers, marketing and sales staff, business analysts, project managers and ScrumMasters who would like to deepen their understanding of the Product Owner role and the related practices.

Prerequisites

Participants should be familiar with the basics of project and requirements management. It is desirable that the participants have already received some initial training or are experienced in applying Scrum. Participants are required to read one of the following books and watch the following video prior to class:

  • Mike Cohn. User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development. Addison Wesley. 2004
  • Roman Pichler. Scrum – Agiles Projektmanagement richtig einsetzen. dpunkt. 2007
  • Ken Schwaber. Scrum et al. Video

Contents

Introduction

  • Agile Values, Scrum Benefits and Origins
  • Scrum and Change
  • Companies Using Scrum

Scrum Process and Roles

  • Scrum Flow
  • Scrum Roles: Product Owner, Team, ScrumMaster
  • Product Owner Characteristics
  • A Day in the Life of the Product Owner
  • The Product Owner as the Voice of the Customer and Value Stream Manager

Requirements Management

  • Understanding the Customer
  • The Product Vision
  • The Product Backlog
  • Determining the Release Scope
  • Stocking the Product Backlog
  • Prioritizing the Product Backlog
  • Refining the Product Backlog
  • User Stories on the Product Backlog

Release Management

  • Sustainable Pace
  • The Project Levers
  • Defining and Communicating Project Success
  • Release Management Strategies
  • Estimating Product Backlog Items Using Story Points and Planning Poker
  • Choosing the Sprint Length and Determining Velocity
  • Creating the Release Plan
  • Tracking the Project Progress

Sprint Management

  • Sprint Workflow and Characteristics
  • Formulating Powerful Sprint Goals
  • Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective
  • Understanding the Sprint Progress

Portfolio Management

  • The Planning Onion
  • Why Portfolio Management Matters
  • Levelling the Demand
  • Portfolio Management Steps
  • The Portfolio Bubble Chart

Large and Distributed Scrum Projects

  • Brook’s Law
  • Organic Growth and Conway’s Law
  • Master Product Backlog and the Product Owner Team
  • Team Set-up
  • Multi-team Planning and Coordination
  • Shared Norms and Assets
  • Distributed Scrum Project Tips

About the Trainer

Roman Pichler works as an independent consultant, trainer and coach. He helps organisations to embrace Lean and Scrum. He has trained and coached Product Owners for more than four years. He is the author of the book “Scrum – Agiles Projektmanagement erfolgreich einsetzen” (dpunkt 2007) which covers Product Owner issues in detail. You may buy it at Amazon. Read Romans lates article ‘Creating product Owner Succes’ at InfoQ.

Roman’s clients value his rich and diverse experience in Scrum ranging from embedded to enterprise Scrum projects and from helping start-ups as well as large global companies to embrace Scrum. Roman teaches in English and German.

Teacher: Roman Pichler

Language: English.

Date: February 3.-4. 2010

Location: Trifork A/S, Margrethe Pladsen 4, 8000 Århus C.

Duration: 2 days. Both days from 9:00 – 17:00.

Price: 12.500 ex. Vat, incl. course materials and meals.

Registration: Register eller tlf. 8732 8787


Product Owner

Product Ownerer den person, som har ansvaret for det produkt/den software, der skal udvikles. Product Owner er ansvarlig for at optimere processen og for at tilfredsstille sine interessenter.

Karakteristika:

  • Én person, der repræsenterer alle interessenter
  • Definerer features og scope og ejer Product backlog
  • Beslutter indhold og dato for release
  • Sætter retning ved at prioritere Product backlog med henblik på at maksimere forretningsværdi.
  • Kan påvirkes af interessenter, men er den eneste person der kan prioritere.
  • Et sæt af krav driver udvikling og fjerner tvivl der let opstår ved flere chefer, forskellige mål og meninger.
  • Rapporterer til kundens organisation og til ledelsen
  • Accepterer eller forkaster arbejdsresultater

Det er muligt at blive certificeret som Product Owner. Se de aktuelle kurser her.

Kontakt vores kursusafdeling for yderligere  information.

Tlf.:+45 8732 8782.  Mail: training@trifork.com


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