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Certified Scrum Product Owner®

Taught by: Kiran Thakkar

Advance your career with high-value product management skills. CSPO® delves into the scrum framework, agile principles, and relentless focus on delivering customer value. Scrum Alliance-certified trainers have exceptional qualifications, including extensive product management experience. A two-year Scrum Alliance professional membership is included with your successful completion of this course.

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04 - 06 December, 2024 |

13:00 EST |

5 hrs/day

$999

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About the trainer

Kiran Thakkar

DailyAgile

[email protected]

1.610.564.7659 or 1.800.758.2445 (AGILE)

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Location

Online

Course

Virtual/Live Class

This hands-on activity based CSPO® certification course is taught by a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) with over 28 years global IT industry experience. Learn more about your trainer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirant1. Please contact us at: [email protected], for additional discounts such as: 'unemployed', Active military / Served in Military, group discount, underserved members.

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This 2-day course highlights how strong Product Ownership is key to a successful agile transformation. Not only will the course enable you to understand the product owner role in depth, it will also enable you to learn the practices necessary to succeed as a product owner.

In this course we will explain how particular agile or Scrum roles typically manifest themselves in enterprise environments. The course is an interactive workshop filled with lots of exercises whose goal is to demonstrate the difference between traditional and agile approaches to product management and software development. We will also discuss real-world organizational changes such as managing large or multiple teams, release planning and tracking progress through the right metrics.

Participants can also claim up to 14-16 PDU's or Contact Hours with the PMI. These PDUs can also apply towards your 21 contact hour requirement for your Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) status.

"Kiran delivered an excellent training class, it was very engaging, really practical with well thought out breakout group sessions. His knowledge of real world Scrum projects was very helpful, and his experience produced great answers to the hard questions brought up in class. It was a pleasure having him as a CST and after having experienced his vast knowledge on Scrum methodologies, I would recommend him and his services any time." - IT CIO

Kiran Thakkar's experience is hard to match: he played an instrumental role in one of the largest agile/scrum implementations in the world at Siemens Medical Solutions with over 40 teams 500 members. His combination of business and agile experience brings superior insight and understanding to every class.

Details

Your course fees includes 2-year membership in ScrumAlliance®, certification, and any applicable exam fees.

You must attend entire workshop to earn SEUs and PDUs. All students earn:

- Scrum Education Units (SEUs)

- Project Management Institute (PMI®) members earn PDUs

Free enrollment in ScrumAlliance® authorized AgilePA Users Group

Refund Policy> see DailyAgile website for details: http://dailyagile.com/refund-policy

Agenda

Day 1:

Agile and Scrum Introduction
Overview on various Agile Methods
Why Agile? Team activity
Origins of Scrum and Understanding Scrum
Basic Scrum Engine, Agile Manifesto
Sprints Team activity
Four Meetings
Three Roles
Scrum Artifacts, non-scrum artifacts
Scrum and Compliance
Non-Scrum Roles Team activity
Various scrum team structure - Discussion on DevOps, globaly distributed scrum team
How do architecture, DBA, and other supporting roles fits in Scrum?
Enterprise Agile scenarios - 10, 20, 30, 40, .... 120+ scrum teams
Scrum Values
Scrum Phases
Scrum Simulation - Non-IT Case Study - Multiple Team activities and role play
Sprint planning meeting
Daily standup meeting
Burndown charts and project reporting
Sprint review and retrospective
The Product Owner (PO) Role – different scenarios
< >PO Responsibilities and AccountabilityPO Role During LifecycleRequirements and the Product Backlog (On a case study)Five levels of planning
What is a Product? Product Vs Project
Broad Product vs Narrow product view
Product Vision – Why, What, and template with exercise
Hands on activity - Create Product Vision Box
Product Vision Box Demo
Team activity - Building a high level Product Backlog
Team activity - Define a Product Roadmap
User Roles and Personas
Exercise: Identify and Define User Roles

Day 2:

Q&A, Refresher from Day 1
Agile Transformation Team activity
Agile Portfolio and Release Planning
Product Backlog Refinement (a.k.a grooming) (on a case study)
- Story slicing
- Further refine your stories (Theme, Epic, Stories)
- Hands on activity on case study
Prioritization (on a case study)
- Drivers
  - Value Assessment
  - Risk-Based Prioritization
  - Exercise: Risk-Value Prioritization
  - Kano Analysis
  - Theme Screening
  - Relative Weighting
  - Exercise: Backlog Prioritization
- Prioritization – Modifiers
  - Various dependencies
- Cost
- Writing User Stories template
- Acceptance Criteria
- User Story writing Workshops
  - Exercise: User Story Writing
- Definition of Done, Definition of readiness
- Story Aggregation and Decomposition
- Non-Functional Requirements
- Spikes and Special Stories
Estimation (on a case study)
- Approaches to Estimation
- Story Points vs. Ideal Days
- Sizing
- Exercise: Analogous Sizing Exercises
- Planning Poker
- Exercise: Estimating with planning poker
Metrics That Matters to you
- Sprint Burn-Down
- Release Burn-Down
- Defect Trend
- Test metrics
Additional Advance Topics
- Scaling Scrum at an enterprise level
- Scrum in globally distributed teams – managing offshore teams
- Sidebar – Q&A
- Course evaluation
Closing activities

Who should attend

This class is focused more on the role of business user, liaisons, and product owners. It is appropriate for anyone considering the following area:

Product Management
Product Marketing
Architects
Business Analysts
Functional Analysts
Line of business sponsors for development projects
Customers
Project Managers
Cross-functional Developers
Any other stakeholder included in the value stream feeding features or requirements to the development organization.

Reviews

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Rob Shaw did a bang-up job presenting all of this info in a clear manner. Loved the frequent small-group breakouts, as we were able to put the concepts into action right away.

CSPO will help me think from PO perspective, how to do better Sprint Planning and how to write near perfect user stories.

CSPO Trainer Kiran was excellent, all 3 days of course were very well organized with practical examples and case studies for the groups to complete. I highly recommend this course and certification.

Very informative course for professionals. Instructor is very engaging.

CSPO course

CSPO was a great learning experience.

Kiran is an extremely knowledgeable and engaging instructor that made the course a pleasure to attend over 2 days. I am familiar with Agile and Scrum but I learned many new ways to apply the concepts in my daily work going forward. I highly recommend this course!

The course was not large which made for a collaborative group very quickly. This made the course more effective in sharing knowledge and experiences with all the individuals. The course places more importance to real life examples and the facilitator was very open to listen to our real work environment rather than text book material. Very engaging - kudos Kiran!

The CSPO course was outstanding. It provided a comprehensive understanding of Scrum and the role of a Product Owner. The curriculum was well-structured, with a perfect balance of theory and practical exercises. The real-world examples helped to contextualise the concepts, making them easy to grasp and apply. The interactive sessions and group activities facilitated engaging learning and collaboration. The course materials were clear, well-organised, and highly informative. Overall, the CSPO course has equipped me with the knowledge and confidence needed to effectively fulfil the Product Owner role. Highly recommend this course to anyone looking to deepen their Agile expertise.

The course was meticulously designed, balancing theoretical knowledge with practical application, which made the learning process both engaging and highly effective. One of the highlights of the training was the interactive nature of the sessions. The trainer encouraged active participation and facilitated group discussions that were both thought-provoking and valuable.

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