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:

• Roman Pichler. Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love. Addison-Wesley. Not published yet. Students can read the online version or print at http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9780321684165
• Ken Schwaber. Scrum Guide. Scrum Alliance. 2009. http://www.scrumalliance.org/resource_download/598

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: Roman Pichler

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

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:

• Roman Pichler. Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love. Addison-Wesley. Not published yet. Students can read the online version or print at http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9780321684165
• Ken Schwaber. Scrum Guide. Scrum Alliance. 2009. http://www.scrumalliance.org/resource_download/598

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

REGISTER

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:

• Roman Pichler. Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love. Addison-Wesley. Not published yet. Students can read the online version or print at http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9780321684165
• Ken Schwaber. Scrum Guide. Scrum Alliance. 2009. http://www.scrumalliance.org/resource_download/598

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

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:

• Roman Pichler. Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love. Addison-Wesley. Ikke udgivet endnu. Kursister kan læse online udgaven eller printe på http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9780321684165
• Ken Schwaber. Scrum Guide. Scrum Alliance. 2009. http://www.scrumalliance.org/resource_download/598

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 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.

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

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