in Richardson, TX

in Richardson, TX

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.

Register before June 30th to save $100!
Team and multiple course discounts are also available. See below.

Course Description

You are in charge of building a system, creating a new product release, or any other complex business project. Traditionally, you would hand this undertaking over to a trained project manager to run for you. You would then wait and hope for the best, since over 50% of all projects fail and those that succeed deliver products in which 65% of the functionality is rarely or never used.

Scrum provides a way for you to directly and effectively manage the project yourself. Intuitive and lightweight, the Scrum process delivers completed increments of the product at rapid, regular intervals, usually no longer than monthly.

Your primary tool for managing the project is called a Product Backlog, a list of features you want in the system or release, prioritized by value, cost, and risk. You use the Product Backlog to cause the most valuable functionality to be built first, and remove risk early in the project. As you watch the product take shape, increment by increment, 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.

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.

This course will be held at the DoubleTree Dallas-Richardson and will run from 8:30am - 4:30pm each day.

You Will Learn

• Practical, project-proven practices
• How to write a usable 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
• How to successfully scale the product role on large, multi-continent projects with team sizes in the hundreds
• 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®
• A breakfast buffet, a hot lunch buffet, an afternoon snack, and continuously replenished drinks
• 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 two-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, a $100 value
• A printed, color 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.

Guarantee

We are so confident that you will benefit from our training that we offer a 100% money back guarantee. If you aren’t satisfied with the training you received, contact us within thirty days to receive a full refund of the registration fee, no questions asked.

Refund Policy

You will receive a full refund if you cancel at least 14 calendar days before the first day of class. If you cancel within 14 calendar days, a 30% cancellation fee will be charged, and you will receive the remaining 70% as a credit toward a class to be taken within 18 months from the date of the canceled class. If you cancel within two business days from the start of a class, or if you do not attend the class, you will not be eligible for a refund or credit. All cancellation requests must be made via email to [email protected].

Onsite

Don’t see a date and location you like? Want to train a team or department without the hassle of travel? This course is available for onsite delivery. Contact Mike Cohn at 1-888-61-Agile (24453) or by e-mail at Contact Mike Cohn.

Brochure

Download a PDF brochure with additional information.

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:	30-31 Jul 2014
Location:	Richardson, TX, United States of America
Language:	English
Venue:	DoubleTree Dallas-Richardson 1981 North Central Expressway Richardson, TX, United States of America 75080 http://doubletree3.hilton.com/en/hotels/texas/doubletree-by-hilton-hotel-dallas-richardson-DALRHDT/index.html
Price:	$1300
Discounts:	Discounted seats available. Contact Mike Cohn for more information.
Notes:	Discounts Early Bird! $1200 (through 6/30) Regular     $1300 Team Discounts 3 or more: Save $50/person/day 10 or more: Save $100/person/day Multiple Course Discounts Save $50/day when you register for more than one course. Other Courses from Mike Cohn in Richardson This Week July 28-29 Certified ScrumMaster

• 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.