Certified Scrum Product Owner Training teaches you, the product owner, how to use the product backlog as a tool for success. As you watch the product take shape, iteration after iteration, you can restructure the Product Backlog to incorporate your insights or respond to changes in business conditions. You can also identify and cancel unsuccessful projects early, often within the first several months. The Certified Scrum Product Owner; course equips you with what you need to achieve success with Scrum.
Intuitive and lightweight, the Scrum process delivers completed increments of the product at rapid, regular intervals, usually from every two weeks to a month. Rather than the traditional system of turning a project over to a project manager while you then wait and hope for the best, Scrum offers an effective alternative, made even more attractive when considering the statistics of traditional product approaches in which over 50% of all projects fail and those that succeed deliver products in which 64% of the functionality is rarely or never used. Let us help you avoid becoming one of these statistics.
You will Learn
- Practical, project–proven practices
- How to write user stories for the product backlog
- Proven techniques for prioritizing the product backlog
- How to predict the delivery date of a project (or the features that will be complete by a given date) using velocity
- Tips for managing the key variables influencing project success
- Tips and tricks from the instructors fifteen years of using Scrum in a wide variety of environments
Who Should Attend a Certified Scrum Product Owner Training?
This course is ideal for product managers, analysts, testers, and others who represent and are expected to understand the desires of users and customers on agile projects. You will leave with solid knowledge of how and why Scrum works and of your role on the project. Through practical, hands–on exercises and small–group discussion you will leave prepared to guide a Scrum team to success.
Certification
Following successful completion of the course, each participant will be designated a Certified Scrum Product Owner™. This certification includes a one–year membership in the Scrum Alliance, where additional member?only material and information are available.
PMPs: This course counts for 15 Professional Development Units.
About the Instructor
Learn Scrum directly from Mike Cohn, one of the most well–respected Certified Scrum Trainers. Mike Cohn is the author of User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, Agile Estimating and Planning, and Succeeding with Agile. Mike has previously been a technology executive in companies of various sizes, from startup to Fortune 40. A frequent magazine contributor and conference speaker and a founding member of both the Agile Alliance and the Scrum Alliance.
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