Certified Scrum Product Owner Training

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 7-8, 2009	London	Mike Cohn	£1,400 + VAT
Sep 16-17, 2009	La Jolla	Mike Cohn and Ken Schwaber	$1100 through 8/18; $1300 thereafter
Oct 15-16, 2009	Oslo	Mike Cohn	NOK 13 000

Participants Will Learn

Agile Development 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
How to successfully scale the product role on large, multi-continent projects with team sizes in the hundreds
Tips and tricks from the instructor's ten-plus years of using Scrum in a wide variety of environments

Who Should Attend 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 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs).

About Your Trainer—Mike Cohn

Learn Scrum directly from Mike Cohn, one of the most well-respected Certified Scrum Trainers® . Mike is the author of User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development and Agile Estimating and Planning, two of the most-recommended books for product owners.

To get a sense of Mike’s style as a trainer, please watch a sample of Mike’s presentation at Google. You can also read comments from others who have attended his classes.

Don’t see a date and location you like? Want to train a team or department without the hassle of travel? This agile course is available for onsite delivery. Contact Mike Cohn at (720) 890-6110 or by e-mail at mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com.

Download a PDF brochure with additional information.

Following successful completion of the course, each participant will be designated a Certified Scrum Product Owner® . This certification includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, where additional member-only material and information are available.