Certified Scrum Product Owner

Beginning with the history of agile development and moving through the disciplines promoted by Scrum, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of the Scrum framework and learn how the three roles in Scrum work together to build great products. After successfully completing this class (which means two full days of attendance) you will be eligible to take the ScrumAlliance's Certified Scrum Product Owner exam. Upon passing this exam, you will receive the Certified Scrum Product Owner mark. Read more about the ScrumAlliance's certifications: https://www.scrumalliance.org/get-certified

• Introduction to Agile & Scrum
• Scrum Core Elements
• Product Vision
• Understanding and defining business value
  • Key capabilities
  • Market opportunities and Rhythms
  • Personas
  • Users vs. customers
• Incremental delivery
  • Product Roadmapping
  • Creating a product backlog
  • Writing User Stories
    • INVEST, gherkin
  • Use cases, flow diagrams and other inputs

• Prioritizing the Product Backlog
• Release and Iteration Planning
  • Accepting the Product Increment
    • Definition of Done
    • End game
• Paying down technical debt
• Managing a product backlog and release plan
  • Burndown charts
  • Managing change
  • Working as a part of a Scrum team
  • Scrum reporting
  • What if I have multiple teams?
  • What about geographically distributed teams?
  • Other questions as brought forward by participants

This 2-day class is suitable for those practicing or looking to practice the art of the Product Owner/Manager, but is highly valuable for anyone involved in Scrum (Managers, Team Members, Product Managers, etc.). Many ScrumMasters attend to learn how better to support the business side of the equation. This course is also great for those who need a Scrum refresh!

No prior knowledge is required, but having some experience from working in teams or projects is beneficial.

Stacia Viscardi is an agile coach, Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), and organizational transformation expert who is devoted to creating energized and excited teams that delight their customers and inspire others. With humble beginnings in Port Arthur, Texas, Stacia was as a manufacturing project manager in the early 90s; she landed in the technology world in 1999 and never looked back. In 2003 she became the 67th Certified ScrumMaster (there are now over 350,000!), and founded AgileEvolution in 2006. She has helped companies like Cisco Systems, Martha Stewart Living, Primavera, DoubleClick, Google, Razorfish, MyPublisher, Washington Post and many others find their way to agility. Co-author of the Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility and author of The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook, Stacia has taught Agile in 17 countries and is active in the ScrumAlliance as a CST and trusted community advisor. When she is not doing Agile stuff, she is training for a dressage test. She also likes to play around with Python and Java.

A self-proclaimed process nerd, she loves helping teams and organizations discover the Scrum/XP/Lean mash-ups that enables focused, flexible and fast delivery of products.