Certified Scrum Product Owner

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) - Beijing

Though each CSPO course varies depending on the instructor, all Certified Scrum Product Owner courses focus on Scrum from a product owner's perspective. Graduates will receive the CSPO designation. All CSPO course are taught by Certified Scrum Trainers.

This Certified Scrum Product Owner course is a 2-day intensive introduction to the Scrum framework detailing how Scrum and related agile practices are applied by Scrum teams to rapidly deliver potentially shippable products in frequent, time-boxed iterations.  The course uses a combination of lecture and experiential learning to instill a practical understanding of Scrum focusing on the activities the Product Owner including product visioning, backlog grooming, release planning, and recognizing early and continuous recognition of value. 

The course is delivered by 2 experienced agile consultants.  Vernon Stinebaker, the primary trainer and CST has over 20 years experience in the IT industry and currently holds a senior technical and managerial position in a NASDAQ listed software company.  Bill Li, the supporting trainer and Managing Principal of UPerform Consulting Group, has over 16 years of domestic and oversea IT experience and is the Chinese translator and co-translator of 3 Scrum books written by Ken Schwaber and Mike Cohn.  Both bring significant practical experience in agile and traditional project delivery including PMBOK based methodology and CMMI. This course is delivered in either Chinese or English depending on the profile of course participants.  Both trainers speak fluent Chinese and English. 

本课程是由2名有丰富经验的敏捷顾问传授，Vernon史文林，主培训师以及认证Scrum培训师，有超过20年的IT行业经验，目前在纳斯达克上市的软件公司任职技术和管理高管。Bill李国彪，作为副培训师和UPerform顾问机构顾问主管，拥有超过16年的海内外跨职能IT行业经验，他翻译或合作翻译了Ken的两本著作《Scrum敏捷项目管理》及《Scrum敏捷项目管理实战》，以及Mike的《用户故事与敏捷方法》。两位顾问带来深厚的敏捷实战和传统项目交付经验，包括PMBOK指南内的方法和CMMI方面的实践经历。本课程可以用中文或英文讲授，取决于学员的背景。两位顾问都能说流利的中文和英文。

About a week before coming to class you'll receive via email pre-requisite Scrum overview reading material. Additionally, as part of the two-day class each participant will receive the following:

• A copy of the course materials in electronic format 
• Planning poker cards
• A book: Chinese version of <User Stories Applied> by Mike Cohn
• Registration with the Scrum Alliance for the required on-line Certified ScrumMaster evaluation
• 2 year membership with the Scrum Alliance

课前大约一个星期，你会通过电子邮件收到Scrum概要的课前阅读材料。此外，作为为期两天的课的一部分，每个参与者都将获得：

• 电子版的教材资料
• 计划扑克牌
• 一本书：Mike Cohn的<用户故事与敏捷方法>中文版
• Scrum联盟注册以完成CSM所要求的在线自评估
• 2年的Scrum联盟会员资格

Participants can also claim 14 PDU's with the PMI.

参加者还可以向PMI索取14个PDU。

This course is organized by UPerform Consulting Group - China’s Leading provider of Scrum and Agile Training.

本课程由UPerform顾问机构组织 ―― 中国领先的Scrum和敏捷培训及咨询机构。

Introductions

Ice-Breaker Exercise: Traditional vs. Agile approaches to problem solving

Group Activity: #FAIL

Challenges with requirements

Defined vs. Empirical Approach to Project Management

Agile Defined

Agile Values

Agile Principles

Potentially Shippable Product

Survival Game

Scrum Background

Scrum Origins

Scrum Characteristics

Scrum Framework

Roles

Team

ScrumMaster

Product Owner

Product Owner Characteristics

PO/ScrumMaster responsibilities

The Chicken and the Pig

Artifacts

Product Backlog

3Cs

User Stories

Non-Functional Requirements

Sprint Backlog

Burndown Charts

Ceremonies

Sprint

Definition of Done

Horizontal vs. Vertical View

Sprint Planning

Daily Scrum 

3 Questions

Sprint Review

Sprint Retrospective

Scaling Scrum

Product Owner Scaling

Scrum Visualized

Project Constraints

Traditional vs. Agile

Agile Value Game

Class Project

Product Vision

Characteristics

Techniques

Common Mistakes

Exercise; Class Product Vision

Requirements

Ready

Capturing Requirements

User Stories

INVEST

User Stories and Use Cases

Why User Stories?

User Roles

Personas

User Story Techniques

Exercise: User Story Mini-workshop

Quality

Test Driven Work

Exercise: Quality Workshop

Utility of Requirements

Exercise: Story Clean-up

Prioritization Techniques

ROI

MoSCoW

Risk-Return

Simple Prioritization

100 Point Technique

Exercise: Appling 100 Point Technique to Class Stories

Agile Estimation

Relative Estimation

Wideband Estimation

Accuracy vs. Precision

Planning Poker

Exercise: Planning Poker

Planning

Release Planning

Planning Issues

Velocity

Exercise: Release Plan

Sprint Planning

Tasks

Exercise: Sprint Planning

Tracking

Exercise: Build It! (Scrum Simulation)

Review

Group Activity: #FAIL Revisited

Final Q&A

Graduation

This 2-day class is targeted to individuals practicing or looking to perform as Product Owners but is also applicible to anyone interested in learning how to improve the visioning, development, and early and continuous delivery and recognition of value from their product development and client facing business activities.