Learn how to become a Product Owner and what tools you have to drive the development of the product. While the Scrum Alliance provides a list of core concepts that must be covered in the class, each instructor creates his or her own material, allowing courses to differ based on the strengths, interests, and experiences of the instructor.

This class will focus on Scrum from a Product Owner perspective and simultaneously to teaching we will work on a case, from idea to detailing a requirement ready for sprint planning.

As a Product Owner you are one member of a team, the Scrum Team. Members of a team work together to solve problems. In the team there are different kind of work, such as making business decisions, execute requirements, stay on course on how we work as a team. In Scrum there are no longer any roles but accountabilities. We have 3 different names for the team members in a Scrum Team. In short we can describe them as below

• Product Owner: Accountable for business decisions.
• Developer: Implement requirements
• Scrum Master: Ensures the team stays on course in organizing work.

Within the Scrum Team, members collaborate closely in an iterative process, to solve problems and deliver incremental value to the product, supporting continues improvement and alignment with the organization.

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You know you are doing the Heart of Scrum,

• if the team has a potentially shippable increment by the end of a sprint
• when the organization accepts that developing complex products is unpredictable
• if nobody allocates assignments and ensures they are done in time
• when the team iteratively delivers value, embracing transparency, inspection, and adaption.
• when a cross-functional team is given full authority over how to achieve a goal
• when everyone on the Scrum team is thinking as a team rather than individuals

6 quotes but who said what? Well, here are the 6 authors.

• Jens Østergaard
• Ken Schwaber
• chat.gpt
• Mike Cohn
• Arne Åhlander
• Jeff Sutherland

If you want to read about how the quotes came about and who said what, go to the Heart of Scrum website.

Apart from learning about Scrum we will address above quotes, and strategies for fulfilling each of the quotes. It is challenging and very few Scrum Teams can say they fulfill all quotes. See the full agenda in another tab.

Jens Ostergaard is recognized as one of the first Certified Scrum Trainers (CST) and has a wealth of experience in implementing Scrum across various organizations. He has worked closely with the founder of Scrum Jeff Sutherland for many years, and they have co-trained around 50 times. Learning from someone with Jens background offers insights not just into the theoretical aspects of Scrum, but also its practical applications in real-world scenarios. As Ken Schwaber once told Jens "The Devil is in the Details". Read more about Jens Scrum journey here.

(CSPO) Certified Scrum Product Owner Training