Overview of Agile for Product Owners

This is a course that addresses the business questions related to Agile such as: What is the business value of using Agile for me and why should I collaborate with IT this way? Who is the Product Owner and what does my new role entail? What are the expectations of me? What are User Stories and how do I write them? How can I be an effective Product Owner? What is the role of my Users and business SMEs? What are Acceptance Tests and how do I identify them? When do I and my users do acceptance testing? What techniques and real world best practices can I use to motivate and encourage the team? I haven’t played a ‘Leader’ role before, how do I prepare?. | VIEW SCHEDULE | REQUEST A QUOTE

What You’ll Learn

• A History on Waterfall Development
• So Why Agile? The Value Proposition
• Agile values and principles
• What is Scrum? Who are the Roles? What is the Process?
• Deep Dive into the Product Owner Role
• Expectations from You
• Time Management for the busy Product Owner!
• Your Expectations of the Team
• Business Users and SMEs
• Defining a Vision and Conditions of Satisfaction
• Building The Story Backlog
• Best Practices for Identifying and Writing Stories
• Writing Acceptance Tests
• How to do User Acceptance Testing
• Being a ‘Leader’ and Setting Goals
• Motivating High Performing Teams

Who should attend? Product Owners and Product Managers, Business Users and SMEs, IT and Business Managers, Executives and anyone else interested in understanding this business role.

Duration: 1 OR 2 Day versions available

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Why This Course?

• This course is designed with 60% workshops!
• You will learn real world best practices and case studies for how others
  played this role successfully on their projects!
• Prepares your business
  users and SMEs for their role and expectations.
• Learn from a real world practicing Agile Coach who will share stories and
  lessons learned!
• You will walk away with our valuable ‘Product Owner Cheat Sheet’
• You walk away with valuable course material, handouts, resources and cheat
  sheets that will support you on your projects.

10 Group Workshops Included!

• Workshop 1 - Learning Objectives
• Workshop 2 - Waterfall Characteristics
• Workshop 3 - Product Owner Expectations
• Workshop 4 - Team Expectations
• Workshop 5 - Traditional vs Agile Roles
• Workshop 6 - Setting a Vision and Conditions of Satisfaction
• Workshop 7 - Writing Stories and Acceptance Test cases
• Workshop 8 - Characteristics of a ‘Leader’
• Workshop 9 - Practice Giving Positive and Constructive Feedback
• Workshop 10 - Retrospective