TP2977
Product Owner Essentials Training
The Agile for Product Owners Essentials class is a full-immersion course intended for product owners, requirements analysts and business SMEs to learn in a collaborative environment the nuts and bolts of creating, managing and refining an Agile backlog. After doing a deep dive into the Product Owner role and responsibilities, participants will engage in learning prioritization techniques, breaking down epics, writing good stories and acceptance criteria.
Course Details
Duration
2 days
Prerequisites
No prior knowledge is presumed.
Skills Gained
- Express the value of the Product Owner role and why it is critical to an Agile team
- Describe the responsibilities of the Product Owner role
- Leverage techniques for gathering proactive input from stakeholders outside of the Agile team
- Develop a shared understanding of vision, goals, and objectives amongst Agile team members
- Articulate the needs of users in the form of User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
- Apply multiple approaches for elaborating details about User Stories
- Distinguish between prioritization and ordering within the Product Backlog
- Represent the team’s forecast and progress using information radiators that manage stakeholder expectations
- Express continued opportunities for improvement, based on insights gained during class
Course Outline
- Agile Overview: Agile Values, Principles & Practices + Forming Agile Teams
- Business Readiness: Value Streams & Preparing for an Agile Initiative
- The Product Owner Role: Characteristics & Responsibilities of Product Owners
- Shared Understanding: Techniques for Ensuring Alignment of the Agile Team
- Product Backlogs: Creating High-Quality User Stories
- Acceptance Criteria: Conditions of Satisfaction, Other Backlog Item Types
- Prioritization & Estimation: Determine Business Value, Relative Sizing, Release Plans.
- Backlog Refinement: Definition of Ready, Story Review, BDD
- Stakeholder Engagement: Stakeholder Analysis, Importance of Cadence
- Incremental Improvement: Sprint Planning, Review, Demo & Retrospective
- Scope & Expectations Management: Release Plan Management, Information Radiators)
- Course Recap & Wrap-Up: Agile Review, Pitfalls & Barriers, Next Steps Retrospective
