Certified Scrum Product Owner

with Mike Cohn

This two-day workshop is targeted to product owners in organizations using Scrum or product managers looking for a better way to organize software development.

Certified Scrum Product Owner
Two-Day Workshop
You are in charge of building a system, creating a new product release, or any other complex business project. Traditionally, you would hand this undertaking over to a trained project manager to run for you. You would then wait and hope for the best, since over 50% of all projects fail and those that succeed deliver products in which 65% of the functionality is rarely or never used.

Scrum provides a way for you to directly and effectively manage the project yourself. Intuitive and lightweight, the Scrum process delivers completed increments of the product at rapid, regular intervals, usually monthly.

Your primary tool for managing the project is called a Product Backlog, a list of features you want in the system or release, prioritized by value, cost, and risk. You use the Product Backlog to cause the most valuable functionality to be built first, and remove risk early in the project. As you watch the product take shape, increment by increment, you can restructure the Product Backlog to incorporate your insights or respond to changes in business conditions. You can also identify and cancel unsuccessful projects early, often within the first several months. The Scrum Product Owner's course teaches you how to manage projects using Scrum. After the course you will be a Certified Product Owner.

Participants Will Learn

• How Scrum works
• How you manage the project
• Planning the project
• Planning iterations
• Reporting progress, and replanning the release
• Inspecting an increment of work
• Building in quality
• Minimizing risk and project failures
• Adjusting to changes in business conditions
• Maximizing project value

Target audience
The workshop is targeted to product managers, product owners or Scrum Masters in organisations working with the Scrum process. You will learn about the responsibilties of the Product Owner role and learn about how to work with the development team. The workshop in very interactive, with many exercises and group discussions.

Venue
Nordic Sea Hotell, Vasaplan 4, 101 37 Stockholm, map>>

Citerus can help arrange accommodation at the location for participants; please contact info@citerus.se for more information.

Mike Cohn
Mike Cohn is the author of Agile Estimation and Planning (Prentice Hall PTR 2005) and User Stories Applied For Agile Software Development (Addison-Wesley Professional 2004) as well as several programming books. With more than twenty years of experience, Mike has been a technology executive in companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 40s, is a founding member of the Agile Alliance and ran his first Scrum project in 1995. http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com

Citerus
Citerus is Sweden´s premier consulting firm in agile software development. We offer a full range of services related to improving how software is created and maintained, including training, coaching, management and expert technology consulting. Please visit http://www.citerus.se for more information on how we can assist in increasing your software development success rate.