Course Highlights
  • Gain an understanding of what the Product Owner role is, their responsibilities, and how they generate value for organizations
  • Learn the foundational concepts of Agile Scrum including Scrum artifacts, events, and best practices.
  • Shift from a Project Mindset to a Product Mindset, where the focus is on maximizing value
  • Learn how to bring a product to life, from vision to creation
Curriculum

7 Topics
Welcome to the Course
Introducing the Product Owner
Developing a Product Mindset
A Day as a Product Owner
Activity: Important Attributes of a Product Owner
Meet your Instructor & Important Links
Validate your understanding: Product Ownership

10 Topics
Introducing the Agile Scrum Round-Up
Overview of Agile
Introduction to the Scrum Framework
Explaining Scrum: Roles
Explaining Scrum: Events
Explaining Scrum: Artifacts
Non-Official Scrum
Putting it all Together
Updates to Scrum Standards
Validate your understanding: Agile

9 Topics
Product Owner Responsibilities
Product Owner Activities
Skills and Traits of an Effective Product Owner
ACTIVITY: Self-Reflect and Define Next Steps
Working with Stakeholders Overview
Working with the Development Team Overview
Working with the Scrum Master Overview
Critical Thinking: Creating a Shared Vision
Validate your Understanding: Product Owner Role

7 Topics
Identifying Stakeholders
Understanding Stakeholder Roles
Identifying Stakeholder Key Contacts
Engaging with Stakeholders
Interfacing with Internal Customers
ACTIVITY: ChooChoo Gallery
Validate your Understanding: Stakeholders

6 Topics
Value and its Delivery
Measuring Value
Setting Metrics as Goals
ACTIVITY: CHS Tech Scenario
ACTIVITY ANSWER: CHS Tech Scenario
Validate your Understanding: Value

9 Topics
The Product Backlog and its Items
Understanding User Stories
Other Product Backlog Items: Part I - Spikes and Technical Stories
Other Product Backlog Items: Part II - Defects and Internal Tasks
Estimating Product Backlog Items
Estimation Techniques and their uses of Velocity
Activity Setup: CHS Tech User Stories
CHS Tech User Stories - Activity Instructions & Answer Key
Validate your Understanding: The Product Backlog

5 Topics
Maintaining a Product Backlog
Prioritizing a Product Backlog
Prioritization Technique: MoSCoW
Prioritization Technique: Kano
Validate your Understanding: Backlog Maintenance

3 Topics
Final Activity Setup Step 1: Creating a Product Backlog
Final Activity Setup Step 2: Adding User Stories to your Product Backlog
FINAL ACTIVITY: Product Backlog Maintenance

3 Topics
A Day as a Product Owner - Part 1 Revisited
A Day as a Product Owner - Part 2
Bonus Lecture: So What's Next?

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