Certified Scrum Product Owner
Date: from 02/02/2009 to 03/02/2009
Location: Helsinki, Park Hotel Käpylä
Instructors: Gabrielle Benefield
Price: 1500 € + VAT
This hands-on, interactive two-day course will teach you:
- How to be an effective Product Owner
- Write User-Stories (Agile requirements)
- How to manage an Agile product throughout the Software Development Life Cycle
- Agile Release planning and Tracking
Upon successful completion of this course, each participant will be enrolled as a Certified Product Owner, which includes a one-year Scrum Alliance membership, where additional ScrumMaster and Product Owner material and information is available.
Attendees will be served lunch, morning and afternoon tea and receive a bound copy of the training materials.
Audience
Product Owners, managers or anyone interested in Agile planning and estimating techniques.
Recommended reading
No prior knowledge of Scrum or Agile methods is required although some prior reading is recommended. A good getting started guide can be found at http://www.scrumprimer.com
Class Agenda
Scrum 101 refresher
- Scrum cycle, roles, planning cycle
Kickoff
- Research inputs
- Product Vision
- Exercise: Create a one-pager
- Customer insights; personals, field studies
- Brainstorming and affinity mapping
Gathering requirements – inputs
- Exercise: Ideas brainstorm
- Stakeholder & user interviews
- Rapid scenarios
- Scenario exercise
Prioritizing
- Kano analysis
- Exercise: Release strategy
- Relative weighting
Writing requirements
- Product backlog building
- Exercise: User story writing
Estimating
- Story points and Ideal days
- Exercise: Planning poker estimation
Tracking
- Sprint and release burndown charts
Release Planning
- Incremental release plans
- Velocity
- Timeboxed and Scopeboxed releases
- Exercise: Simulated Scrum game
Optional modules:
- Reporting
- Scaling Scrum
- Testing
- Agile Design
- Budgets and forecasts
- Agile contracts
About the Instructor
Gabrielle Benefield is a Certified Scrum Trainer offering courses in the United States, Europe, Australia and New Zealand through Kanjeo. Gabrielle was Senior Director of Agile Development at Yahoo! leading Yahoo!’s large-scale corporate adoption of Scrum, which now encompasses more than 200 teams projects and over 1500 employees in the US, India, Europe, and Asia. She is co-author of The Scrum Primer (http://www.scrumprimer.com).
Gabrielle holds a Masters of Digital Design from the University of Western Sydney, Australia and has over 16 years building enterprise software and web products at global companies. Gabrielle is a regular conference speaker presenting papers and talks on Enterprise Agile and Agile User Experience and Design.
Gabrielle provides training to a number of companies around the world and is currently based in London.