Taught by Agile Alliance Founder Member

Taught by Agile Alliance Founder Member

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.

Whether you are new to Agile principles and have an idea of what Scrum is, or have already spent time involved with teams talking about or implementing Scrum, taking on the Scrum team’s Product Owner role can be a daunting prospect.  The role of the Scrum Product Owner is crucial to the overall Scrum Team, acting as the liaison between the development team and the wider customer community. An effective Product Owner will work collaboratively with stakeholders to define the overall product vision and is responsible for communicating that vision to the team and motivating the team to deliver a high quality product.  The Product Owner is responsible for creating and maintaining the Product Backlog and is a key contributor to the Sprint Planning and Review Meetings.  The Product Owner can help maximise delivery capabilities, enhance the planning and scheduling process, improve project estimation and drive overall product success.

If you’ve not undertaken Scrum Training with a formally Certified Scrum Trainer then you may be missing key knowledge and skills that will enable you to make the most of the opportunities afforded by effective implementation of Scrum principles and practices.

This two-day, interactive course investigates the Scrum framework in detail from theory and foundations to practical application and pitfalls, covering all the team roles, activities, and artifacts but focuses specifically on the role played by the Product Owner.  You will learn about activities such as managing stakeholders, vision definition, ROI management, Product Backlog definition and grooming, creating effective stories, defining acceptance criteria for stories and defining “done” with the rest of the Scrum Team.

What Will You Learn?
The two-day Certified Scrum Product Owner course will give you a sound understanding of Scrum principles and practices in order that you can:

• Participate actively as a Scrum Team member generally
• Function effectively as the Product Owner for the Scrum Team specifically
• Deliver a successful Scrum project
• Explain and sell Agile and the Scrum framework to other key stakeholders
• Collaborate effectively with key stakeholders and customers
• Create and maintain the Product Backlog
• Fulfil your essential role in Sprint Planning and Sprint Review meetings
• Participate in Daily Scrum Meetings and Sprint Retrospectives
• Understand and use the full range of Scrum Artifacts (Sprint Backlog, Burndown Charts etc.)
• Understand how to operate Scrum with fixed price contracts and third party supplier relationships
• Help your team or organisation to transition to a more Lean and Agile way of working using Scrum
• Understand how to combine the use of Scrum with other Lean and Agile approaches such as Kanban, eXtreme Programming and AgilePM

About your Trainer:
Your course instructor is David Hicks. As a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer, you can read about David in more detail here. David has been doing Agile consulting, training and coaching in a whole range of different contexts for nearly 20 years, using the full range of Agile approaches including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP, DSDM, Agile Project Management and the Open/Agile Unified Process. He became a Founder Member of the Agile Alliance in 2002 and is a regular speaker on the Agile conference circuit. David holds a wide range of Agile qualifications including the following:

• Certified Scrum Trainer
• Lean-Kanban University Certified Kanban Trainer
• Certified Lean IT Trainer
• Certified SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) Program Consultant
• Certified APMG Agile Project Management Trainer
• Certified DSDM Agile Trainer
• Certified PMI Agile Certified Practitioner

Today, in addition to having trained in excess of 1,200 Certified ScrumMasters (both via public and in-house training courses), a large part of his role is to provide Agile consulting and coaching services to clients large and small across a range of industry segments. This means that the training he delivers is based on extensive experience of Agile in the real world.

About agil8:

Agil8 is led by David Hicks, pioneer of Agile since the 1990s, Agile Alliance Founder and one of the world’s most qualified and experienced Agile practitioners. David has been responsible for the training and certification of over 5,000 people in Agile. 

The agil8 team provides fully accredited Agile training and consulting services in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Scrum, Kanban and Agile Project Management with a focus on complex and challenging environments.  What sets us apart is our experience, pragmatic approach and ability to mix and match differing Agile techniques to a particular set of client or project/programme requirements.  

We are the only company in the world accredited and certified in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum, Kanban and AgilePM/DSDM. Our consulting expertise enables us to support companies with a requirement to scale agile across large and distributed teams. 

Certification Process
In order to receive your Scrum Product Owner Certification (CSPO), you will need to attend the 2 day course (your attendance will be registered each day). Following attendance on the course, your name will be registered with the Scrum Alliance. You will be then be sent an automated confirmation from the Scrum Alliance which confirms your certification.  Two years' membership to the Scrum Alliance are is included in the course cost.

Comments by attendees of David's previous courses:

• "Altogether, a very informative, educational and enjoyable course. Thanks!" 
• "Very useful and enjoyable course backed up with Dave Hicks' extensive practical experience in Scrum" 
• "Very enjoyable and informative" 
• "I found the style refreshingly honest and devoid of "religious fervour" - as always, the practical war stories were the most informative and helpful part. Also appreciated the reference to other methods (DSDM etc) and parts of their thinking which may be useful" 
• "Excellent trainer! Our interest in the course was maintained throughout the course. Practical views from the trainer. Excellent overall!"
• "Dave presented the course material in an extremely interesting and motivating manner"
• "I was happily surprised that the majority of the course covered a generic agile approach coupled with a substantial amount of dealing with change management, in addtion to core Scrum!"
• "Very enjoyable course and Dave was an excellent trainer"
• "Excellent course, really understood Scrum well and in the context of the overall Agile approaches and processes"
• "Extremely good presentation of ideas and concepts"
• "Excellent all round understanding of Scrum and the ScrumMaster role gained from attendance on this course"
• "A very well presented course, much of the content from which I will utilise with my company"
• "Very useful, met my objectives of how to personalise Scrum elements for my organisation"
• "Excellent course, a real eye opener. The trainer opened my eyes to a better way of doing things. Great real world examples"
• "Excllent course for me, spot on!"
• "Really enjoyed the course and have taken a lot from it, especially with regards to estimating, planning and the concept of velocity. I would highly recommend Dave as a trainer"
• "Enjoyable and practical. Suitable for wide range of audiences"
• "Trainer was brilliant - very knowledgeable and I learned lots from him"
• "I thought this course was outstanding. I had 2 years’ experience but learned a lot"
• "Course was great; lecture inspiring; charismatic"
• "Very thorough and advantaged hugely by trainer's hands-on experience"
• "The instructor's knowledge of real world scenarios and applying Scrum was excellent. I'd recommend him for further courses of study"
• "Very good course content; right balance between learning 'core' Scrum theory vs. comparison of Scrum with broader/other Agile methods and 'traditional' project/programme management"
• "Excellent course, which helped to provide knowledge of Scrum, but also specific challenges. Good pace, committed and enthusiastic trainer with ability to tailor/manage course as required"
• "David was an excellent course trainer, was very approachable and delivered the content in an easy to understand format. I would recommend this course to those who wish to embrace Agile and Scrum"
• "A well-presented course with a successful combination of presentations and interactive work"
• "Dave is an excellent trainer. I really appreciated covering scaling Agile to an enterprise level"
• "Dave's real life experiences helps to temper peurile versus pragmatic implementation"

Dates:	20-21 Aug 2014
Location:	London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Language:	English
Venue:	MWB - Business Exchange One Kingdom Street Paddington Central London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland W2 6BD http://www.agil8.com/contact/directions.html
Price:	£995 + VAT
Discounts:	Discounted seats available. Contact Public Training Bookings for more information.
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You can expect the following topics to be covered during the course:

• Scrum Framework Overview
  • Sprints, Increments and Releases
  • The Scrum Roles: Product Owner, ScrumMaster, Development Team
  • Teamwork and Impact on Traditional Roles
  • Scrum with third party contractual relationships
  • The Scrum Meetings
• Product Vision and Roadmap
  • Stakeholder engagement and management
  • Product business model and market analysis
  • Setting project scope and objectives
  • Defining and communicating the Product Vision
• Building and managing the Product Backlog
  • Defining Product Backlog Items
  • User Stories and other Requirements techniques
  • Prioritising and ordering the Product Backlog
  • Splitting and sizing Product Backlog Items
  • Prioritisation including MoSCoW and Kano analysis
• Progress Tracking
  • The Definition of Done
  • Understanding the Sprint Backlog
  • The Daily Scrum Meeting
  • Acceptance Criteria and Acceptance Testing
  • The Sprint Review Meeting
  • Burn Down Charts and Scrum Boards
  • The Sprint Retrospective
• Release Management
  • Release Planning
  • Estimating and Velocity
  • Progress tracking and forecasting
• Scaling the Product Owner role in Scrum
  • Product Ownership with Multiple Scrum Teams
  • Product ownership with Distributed Scrum Teams

In addition, given the instructor's substantial experience and knowledge about the full range of Agile methods available, you will also benefit from the opportunity to gain a high level understanding of alternative and complementary Agile methods including Kanban, Lean, XP, DSDM and Agile Project Management and how they fit with Scrum.

• Anyone who wants to be successful using Scrum
• Those newly setting out on their Agile journey
• Those who have gained previous experience but now want to consolidate their knowledge or address questions that have arisen based on their experience
• Those with the following roles within their organisation:
  • Product Owners
  • Product Managers
  • Business Analysts
  • Project Managers
  • Agile Coaches
  • ScrumMasters and Team Leaders
  • Process Owners and Managers
  • Functional / Departmental Managers
  • Any other role that requires a deeper understanding of how the Product Owner role operates