ProductOwnerTraining
PMI
Certified Scrum Trainer

Certified Scrum Product Owner Training teaches you, the product owner, how to use the product backlog as a tool for success. As you watch the product take shape, iteration after iteration, 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 Certified Scrum Product Owner; course equips you with what you need to achieve success with Scrum.

Intuitive and lightweight, the Scrum process delivers completed increments of the product at rapid, regular intervals, usually from every two weeks to a month. Rather than the traditional system of turning a project over to a project manager while you then wait and hope for the best, Scrum offers an effective alternative, made even more attractive when considering the statistics of traditional product approaches in which over 50% of all projects fail and those that succeed deliver products in which 64% of the functionality is rarely or never used.

Let us help you avoid becoming one of these statistics.

Upcoming Public Training Classes

Date Location Taught By Price  
Sep 15-16, 2010 Silicon Valley Mike Cohn Price: $1300 Sold Out
Sep 20-21, 2010 Oslo Mike Cohn Price: NOK 13900 Register
Dec 15-16, 2010 Oslo Mike Cohn Price: NOK 13900 Register
Mar 10-11, 2011 London Mike Cohn Price: £1400 + VAT Register

Certified Scrum Product Owner Training Participants Will Learn

  • Practical, project-proven practices
  • How to write user stories for the product backlog
  • Proven techniques for prioritizing the product backlog
  • How to predict the delivery date of a project (or the features that will be complete by a given date) using velocity
  • Tips for managing the key variables influencing project success
  • Tips and tricks from the instructor's fifteen years of using Scrum in a wide variety of environments

Brochure

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Who Should Attend a Certified Scrum Product Owner Training?

This course is ideal for product managers, analysts, testers, and others who represent and are expected to understand the desires of users and customers on agile projects. You will leave with solid knowledge of how and why Scrum works and of your role on the project. Through practical, hands-on exercises and small-group discussion you will leave prepared to guide a Scrum team to success.

PMPs: This course counts for 15 Professional Development Units (PDUs).

Onsite Availability of the Certified Scrum Product Owner class

Don’t see a date and location you like? Want to train a team or department without the hassle of travel? This class is available for onsite delivery. Contact Mike Cohn at 1-888-61-Agile (24453) or by e-mail at mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com.

About Your Trainer—Mike Cohn

Mike Cohn

Mike Cohn is a popular and highly-respected who is in demand for Scrum and agile training throughout the world. He is the author of three very popular agile books; writes an popular blog; has written articles for many magazines, journals, and websites; was a co-founder of both the Agile Alliance and the Scrum Alliance.

Mike has been actively involved on Scrum projects since 1995… and not just as a consultant. At four different companies, Mike was VP of Development where agile was a fundamental part of the company's success. Mike has the hands on experience to make his training and coaching relevant to the real world; agile is more than a theory to him. And his teaching style includes hands-on experiences for all participants.

Mike has more than fifteen years of experience with Scrum, working in domains from financial services to bioinformatics to video game development—with companies ranging in size from 1 to 400,000. To get a first-hand look at how Mike relates to an audience, check out this video of Mike presenting at Google.

But please don’t take our word for it! Find out what past participants have thought of the training they’ve attended. Check out our What They’re Saying About Us page.

Training is a significant investment of time and money. Do your research when choosing someone to guide you along your agile path. Mountain Goat Software and founder Mike Cohn have the hands on experience, public record, and recommendations you need to determine whether this training is right for you.

Testimonials

“Your Certified Scrum Project Owner seminar was excellent and you were simply brilliant. Especially how you managed to tell us a little story every time we needed things to be put into context. Thank you so much.”
—Soffía Þórðardóttir, TM Software

“This is the best training class that I’ve ever attended, where the trainer not only has the best materials but had a ton of experience to back it up. ”
—Bal Mahale, Workscape

“Good class, wish I could send everyone.”
—Jason Noracle, Fidelity Investments

“Great class! Very helpful and informative. Many thanks!”
—Elizabeth Rashes, McKinsey & Comany

“The class gave me some great tactics and ideas that I can directly implement on current practices.”
—Ryan McKeon, Gestalt, LLC

“Loved it! Took so much back with me for my Monday planning meeting!”
JoAnn Vanasco, InfoTech

“Great session - verified the direction we're going - lots of extremely helpful hints and processes!”
Joe Ryan, VeriSign

“Mike was fantastic, full of energy and passion. I can see why colleagues all want to go to Mike's courses.”
Kay Patel, dunnhumby