in Oslo, Norway

in Oslo, Norway

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.

This two day course—taught by author and popular Scrum and agile trainer Mike Cohn—teaches you how to use the Scrum product backlog as a tool for success and equip you with what you need to achieve success with Scrum.

Course Description

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.

Following successful completion of the course, each participant will be designated a Certified Scrum Product Owner. This certification includes a two-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, where additional member-only material and information are available.

This course earns you 16 SEUs (Category B) within the Scrum Alliance. This course also earns you 15 PDUs (Category A) within the PMI. SEUs and PDUs can be used toward CSP, PMP, PMI-ACP and other certifications.

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 instructor's fifteen years of using Scrum in a wide variety of environments

What You Get

• High quality training from an industry expert
• Recognition by the Scrum Alliance as a Certified Scrum Product Owner
• Fruit in the morning, sandwiches mid-morning, a lunch buffet, an afternoon snack, and drinks
• A two-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, a $100 value
• A 4 GB USB drive containing a PDF of the course materials, relevant articles by Mike Cohn and others, sample chapters from Mike's books, and other information
• A printed and bound copy of the course materials
• Planning Poker® cards for use in estimating with your team

About the Instructor

Mike Cohn is the author of User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, Agile Estimating and Planning, and Succeeding with Agile. Mike has fifteen years of experience with Scrum and over 25 years of experience in the software industry. He has previously been a technology executive in companies of various sizes, from startup to Fortune 40. A frequent magazine contributor and conference speaker, Mike is a founding member of both the Agile Alliance and the Scrum Alliance.

Scrum Educational Units (SEUs) and Professional Development Units (PDUs)

This course earns you 16 SEUs (Category B) within the Scrum Alliance. This course also earns you 15 PDUs (Category A) within the PMI. SEUs and PDUs can be used toward CSP, PMP, PMI-ACP and other certifications.

 

Dates:	4-5 Jun 2014
Location:	Oslo, Norway
Language:	English
Venue:	Felix Conference Center Bryggetorget 3 Oslo, Norway http://www.felixkonferanse.no
Price:	NOK 14 900
Discounts:	Discounted seats available. Contact Mike Cohn for more information.
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• Expectations of the product owner
• Scrum overview
  • What it is
  • How would your life change with Scrum?
  • The Scrum skeleton
  • Scrum roles
• Stocking the product backlog
  • Failure of upfront thinking
  • Emergent requirements
  • User stories on the product backlog
  • Augmenting the user stories
  • User roles
  • INVEST in your backlog
• Day one retrospective
• Prioritizing the product backlog
  • The right size for prioritizing
  • Kano analysis
  • Theme screening
  • Theme scoring
  • Relative weighting
  • Priority poker
• Responsibilities
  • Project responsibilities
  • Developing the core
• Release management
  • Estimating
  • Accuracy and precision
  • Velocity
  • The release planning meeting
  • Fixed date planning
  • Fixed scope planning

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.