Every two to four weeks a Scrum team selects features to develop from the top of a list of features called the product backlog. The backlog is prioritized by a person called the product owner in Scrum. The product owner determines the order of features developed on the basis of their value to the customer, cost and risk and uses powerful agile planning tools to guide a product towards a targeted release date, scope or budget.

Point your Scrum teams in the right direction as an effective Product Owner.
You’ve invested time and money training your IT/Development staff to use Scrum to make products right way. Now learn how to make sure they are making the right product the right way. Learn the tools and skills to become an effective product owner from a trainer with 25 years of product development experience and over seven years of Scrum experience.

Details

Building a product with a new process can be a daunting prospect. Being asked to serve as the team’ s Product Owner can be downright intimidating.

This 2-day course teaches you the requires knowledge to become an effective product owner and guide the emergence of the product your customers need in the most direct way possible. It employs hands-on exercises as well as interactive instruction to give you the best possible foundation for succeeding in the Product Owner role.

You will Learn

•How to launch a Scrum project
•The role and responsibilities of the Product Owner
•How to establish and support a vision for your product with the entire team
•Create and maintain a good product backlog
•How to plan, estimate and track releases
•How to help teams plan, execute and review sprints
•Better business value engineering
•How to use the empirical tools of Scrum to manage scope, budget or schedule constraints
•How to work with agile teams and stakeholders
•How to use other tools such as:

Muscow analysis and Kano planning
Planning poker
Collaborative Innovation Games ®

About the Instructor

Carlton Nettleton, is an Agile software development coach, consultant and thought-leader in San Diego County.  He provides advice, mentoring and training to teams and programs looking to better software quality, improve productivity, build great teams and apply Lean Thinking to software projects.  He has over ten years of experience with software development as a contributor, facilitator and leader.  He is a Certified Scrum Trainer and has been practicing Scrum since 2005.