Course Description

This course will teach the new product owner how to envision a product and drive out good requirements that can be prioritized to reduce project risk and maximize return on investment. The course will start from the beginning of a business need and derive the project and backlog of work starting from scratch. This course will teach you how to envision a product and drive out good requirements that can be prioritized to reduce project risk and maximize return on investment. The course will start from the beginning of a business need and derive the project vision, roadmap, release plan, and sprint-ready requirements in the form of user stories. Vertical slicing, prioritization, estimation and right-sizing requirements will be thoroughly practiced through a series of exercises.  Common pitfalls and techniques to avoid those pitfalls will be thoroughly explored with multiple hands-on exercises. The objective of this class is to train you to be effective and maximize ROI for an agile Scrum project.

Learning Objectives:

• The learner will understand the reasons behind Scrum ceremonies, removing common misunderstandings of the Scrum framework.

• The learner will be able to apply multiple techniques to develop backlogs and requirements that encourage an emergent approach to product development.

• The learner will understand the role of the Scrum Master in enabling self-organizing, cross functional, high-performance teams and be able to see signs of ineffective teams.

• The learner will understand the basis for techniques to address difficulties in working with non-agile groups and encourage more emergence within these groups.

• The learner will understand the implications of scaling and the mechanisms to coordinate and track scrum in the large.

• The learner will differentiate between direct metrics of customer value versus indirect metrics of customer value.