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This Agile for Product Owners training course will provide the knowledge to understand and apply the principles of agile. At the end of the course, participants will be able to effectively plan, prioritize, and manage a product roadmap to deliver business value, understand the role of the Product Owner and the development team within an iterative process, and gain the skills necessary to become an agile leader to drive your organization to the next level. This course qualifies for 14 PDHs/CDUs for all IIBA® certifications. This course will contribute 14 PMI® PDUs towards your chosen certification. July 21-23, 2025; 12:00 - 4:30 PM EDT | Virtual training class | This course is sponsored by Bluegrass IIBA Chapter This course is delivered by Cprime LearningPart 1: The Necessity for ChangeGain an overall understanding of why effective focus on dealing with change is important.

VUCA: Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity
Leading Change – Your role as a change agent
The Cynefin Model of Complexity – Urgency for change
Deming's 14 Points
Agile and Waterfall comparison

Part 2: Mindset and ManifestoLearn why mindset change is needed and how the Agile Manifesto is the shift needed.

How an Agile transformation starts with a mindset change
Explaining the Agile Values
The 3 focus areas represented by the Agile Principles

Part 3: Agile FrameworksWhere Lean and Kanban fit in the Agile spectrum which leads to the Scrum framework and XP practices.

Principles of Lean and the 8 wastes of software development
Mapping your Value Stream
Key ideas in Kanban

Part 4: Team ConceptsIdentifying high performance in teams and different kinds of organizational teams, including distributed ones.

What are the characteristics of high performance?
Five kinds of organizational teams
Distributed teams and challenges with distribution

Part 5: Scrum and Its RolesLearn where Scrum came from and the key roles on a Scrum team.

Agile/Scrum history and the essence of Scrum
The Scrum framework
The Stakeholder/Customer
Scrum Master’s key responsibilities
The Development team’s responsibilities
The role of QA
The Management role
What is a Product Owner and the PO Role/Challenges?
Agile Leadership

Part 6: Agile Project PlanningUnderstanding the Agile planning approach, key ways to convey project vision, and the use of user roles and personas.

The Levels of Agile Planning
Elevator Pitches, Project Charters, Themes, and Roadmaps
User Roles and Personas

Part 7: Agile Backlog and StoriesUnderstanding the use of stories and approaches to defining story maps and story splitting.

Critical documentation concepts
Product and Sprint Backlogs
User Stories and Story Patterns
Epics and their breakdown
Story “Smells”
Story Mapping and Splitting

Part 8: Acceptance Criteria and PrioritizationWriting good acceptance criteria and using them for story decomposition. Understanding technical stories and technical debt in support of Development teams. Using various prioritization approaches and risk management approaches.

Why Acceptance Criteria are important and writing them.
Technical Stories and Technical Debt
Prioritization approaches and Cost of Delay considerations
Why projects go beyond their reasonable end
Risk Management techniques

Part 9: EstimationHow traditional estimation can go wrong and the relative estimation approach used in Agile, including estimation approaches such as Poker Planning and Affinity Estimation. How story estimation can lead to release planning.

What are the challenges with traditional estimation?
Agile’s relative estimation approach
Poker Planning
Affinity Estimation
Agile Release Planning

Part 10: Sprint ExecutionThe Product Owner roles in Sprint Planning, Daily Meetings, Sprint Reviews, and the Sprint Retrospective.

Sprint planning and story refinement
Sprint execution: the daily meeting and XP practices
Basic Sprint metrics tools
Metrics implementation advice
Sprint Review for product improvement and evolution
Sprint Retrospective for team/process improvement and evolution

Part 11: Agile Scaling MethodsA look at three key scaling approaches: Scrum of Scrums, SAFe, and LeSS.

Basic Scrum scaling with Scrum of Scrums
Comprehensive scaling using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Large Scale Scrum as a scaling approach

Professionals who may benefit include:

Product Owners
Business Analysts
Product Managers
Team Leadership
Project Managers
Professionals interested in the Product Owner role on Agile teams

In this class you will learn how to:

Become an influential change agent
Map your value streams
Identifying high performance in teams and organizations
Apply Agile project planning principles like user roles and personas
Develop an Agile Backlog
Write acceptance criteria and use them for story decomposition
Use various prioritization approaches and risk management approaches
Plan sprints using Poker Planning and Affinity Estimation
How to scale agile using Scrum of Scrums, SAFe and LeSS

Certification:This course qualifies for 14 PDHs/CDUs for all IIBA® certifications. This course will contribute 14 PMI® PDUs towards your chosen certification.Sessions:Monday, July 21, 2025; 12:00 PM - 4:30 PM EDTTuesday, July 22, 2025; 12:00 PM - 4:30 PM EDTWednesday, July 23, 2025; 12:00 PM - 4:30 PM EDT

Guest Regular RegistrationEarly Bird, Member and Group (four or more) discounts available, click Register to see available discounts.IIBA and Bluegrass Members login to register at the Member price.Registration will close July 20, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. EDT.

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Agile for Product Owners Course