The Product Owner Role

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Course Code: SSBS119 Course Data Sheet Course Duration 1 days Start & End Time -

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In Scrum the Product Owner (PO) is defined as a critical role responsible for steering the overall Scrum project to maximize return on investment. It is concerned with bridging the gap between end-customers/stakeholders and the development team. This course builds on an understanding of Scrum from the Team Primer training or hands-on agile experience and focuses on additional Product Owner Responsibilities, practices and tools.

This course is designed to teach you how to:

  • Leverage Scrum to optimise value creation and customer satisfaction
  • Interact with customer/end user stakeholders to understand their needs and define an effective product backlog with prioritised user stories/requirements
  • Direct and work with the Scrum team in the creation of a realistic release plan
  • Steer the Scrum team by providing feedback and support for the evolving software system to maximise productivity and business value

This course will cover the following concepts:

Release Planning and Management

  • Working with customer stakeholders to build agreements
  • Release Management Strategies
  • Estimation
  • The need for estimation with incremental development
  • Estimation for user stories: story points
  • Exercise: planning poker for story points
  • Additional estimation options
  • Ideal days
  • Task estimation
  • Project velocity and sustainable development
  • Creating the Release Plan
  • Exercise: create a release plan
  • Tracking/reporting Project Progress and predicting delivery date/scope
  • Dealing with changes

Working with the Scrum team in Sprints

  • Formulating Sprint Goals
  • Supporting Sprint Planning
  • Daily standups, Sprint Demo/Review and Retrospectives
  • Exercise: Interpreting the Sprint Progress – taskboards and burndown charts

The Scrum Framework

  • Product owner role in the four Scrum meetings
  • Product Owner Characteristics and typical responsibilities

Requirements development in Scrum

  • Defining your stakeholders and understanding their needs
  • The Product Vision
  • Software Overproduction
  • From features to user stories – techniques for splitting requirements
  • The INVEST criteria for user stories
  • Creating and refining the Product Backlog
  • User stories and acceptance criteria with examples
  • Exercise: defining and refining user stories using a workshop approach
  • Prioritisation of user stories and other elements of the product backlog – techniques with exercises
  • Product and Release scope

Working with distributed teams

  • Multi-team Planning and Coordination

Pitfalls and how to avoid them

 

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