Thanks to our partnership with Platinum Edge, PMI Westchester Chapter members can attend this live on-line Certified Scrum Product Owner training by Steve Ostermiller, a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), with a $100 discount!

This 16-hour course - 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Monday, 26 Jun 2023 through Thursday, 29 Jun 2023 - trains you in agile principles and the foundations of Scrum, with an emphasis on the product owner role, including product discovery, validating assumptions and prioritization decisions a product owner has to make in the real world every day. The course is sixteen hours of highly-interactive learning experience, with examples and exercises that truly enable understanding of Scrum, by one of the few consulting firms solely focused on agile transformation for over twenty years.

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This Certified Scrum Product Owner course provides an overview of the product owner’s role within a Scrum team, within an organization, working with customers, users and stakeholders throughout product discovery in order to maximize business value.

Scrum supports responsible product development that:

• Adapts to volatile business needs and ongoing refinement of business solutions
• Ensures closer adherence to customers’ real-world needs through streamlined planning and close ongoing collaboration
• Supports faster deployment of production-grade solutions so your organization can gain market advantage and business value
• Reduces project risk through rapid iterations of development that inform opportunity assessments
• Drives efficient and effective production

SEMINAR OBJECTIVES

This course assumes basic understanding of agile development principles and practices. Attending Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) or Agile Essentials prior to this course is welcome, but not necessary.

Topics included:

• Overview of agile principles and scrum roles, artifacts, and events
• Establishing business cases, product strategy, and product goals
• Identifying opportunities based on feasibility, usability, and value
• Understanding customers and users through journey and empathy maps, as well as personas
• How to effectively interview customers to define needs
• Applying the scientific method to product discovery and testing assumptions
• Visualizing product roadmaps to assess collaboration needs and identify dependencies and gaps
• Managing and prioritizing product backlogs to deliver better ROI
• Mapping user experiences
• Creating purpose-driven user stories that enable shared understanding
• Responding to challenges in scrum transitions
• Prepare for CSPO registration