Product Owner Bootcamp

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Product Owner Bootcamp Course Overview

This Product Owner Bootcamp course will provide you and your Agile team with the knowledge and skills needed to be an effective Product Owner, by approaching a system under development as a holistic product, rather than a series of disparate projects. This course will not only teach students about the role of a Product Owner, but also how that role infuses business priorities, goals, and vision into a development team.

Product Owner Bootcamp Course Audience

  • This course is for Product Owners who are either new to a team or are looking to learn empirical knowledge from an expert to take their Product Owner skills to the next level.
  • Its also forbProduct Owners who are looking to understand Don Reinertsen’s Product Development Flow concept and put that knowledge into practice
  • This Bootcamp is also suitable for Product Owners who are in charge of more than one product development team and looking to optimize their work.

What you will be able to do after this Product Owner Bootcamp

  • How to split stories to maximize value sooner
  • Develop skills to migrate from project development to product development
  • Use metrics to determine what items in the Product Backlog have the greatest value
  • Be an effective Product Owner

1 Day Course Outline

Agile Basics

  • Reasons for agile software development
  • Differences of agile projects
  • Differing views of software development

Agile Roles

  • The Scrum Master
  • The Team
  • The Product Owner
  • Contrast with the roles of Product Manager
  • Development Manager and Business Analyst

Inception

  • Scoping and planning with the assigned values from the stakeholders
  • Establishing and communicating the project vision

The Product Backlog

  • Building the product backlog
  • Lightweight techniques for capturing user stories

Product Backlog Prioritization

  • The 5 principles of prioritization
  • Handling changing priorities

Working Software

  • Defining “done” with acceptance criteria

Sprint Planning

  • Working and negotiating with the self-directed team
  • Keeping an eye on the finish line
  • Handling typical challenges

Sprint Execution

  • Grooming the product backlog
  • Maintaining visibility into progress
  • Anticipating challenges and addressing them

Changes to the Sprint Backlog

  • Adding functionality
  • Removing functionality
  • Terminating a sprint
  • Handling change requests within a sprint

The Demonstration and Retrospective

  • Accepting the work as “done”
  • Rejecting the work and supporting the team to address it

Closing a Sprint

  • Reporting progress to the customer

Closing a project

  • Identifying when the project is done
  • Ending a project before the backlog is complete

Product Owner Bootcamp Course logistics

  • 9AM – 5:0PM – one day
  • Virtual Lead Instructor using Zoom and e-learning tools
  • Only provided as a private offering
  • Price – $3,750 USD
  • 14 participants max.
  • This Product Owner Bootcamp course assumes participants have a basic understanding of agile.

Three steps to get started

  1. Fill out the form and we will contact you to schedule a 30 min preliminary trainingassessment to see if this course has what you need to be successful
  2. If it is a good fit, then book and attend the Product Owner Bootcamp with one of our Agile Coaches
  3. Let you and your fellow team members accelerate your Agile Product Owner journey.