Description

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.

In this class you will learn:
1. Become an influential change agent
2. Map your value streams
3. Identifying high performance in teams and organizations
4.  Apply Agile project planning principles like user roles and personas
5.  Develop an Agile Backlog
6. Write acceptance criteria and use them for story decomposition
7.  Use various prioritization approaches and risk management approaches
8. Plan sprints using Poker Planning and Affinity Estimation
9.How to scale agile using Scrum of Scrums, SAFe and LeSS

Part 1: The Necessity for Change
Gain an overall understanding of why effective focus on dealing with change is
important.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Part 8: Acceptance Criteria and Prioritization
Writing 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.

Part 9: Estimation
How 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.

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

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

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

This course is ideal for:

• Product Owners
• Product Managers
• Team Leadership
• Project Managers