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 no longer than 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 Certified Scrum Product Owner® course equips you with what you need to achieve success with Scrum.
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.
PMPs: This course counts for 15 Professional Development Units (PDUs).
What You Get
- High quality training from an industry expert
- Recognition by the Scrum Alliance as a Certified Scrum Product Owner®
- A hot lunch buffet and afternoon biscuits
- A one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, a $50 value
- A printed and bound copy of the course materials
- Planning Poker® cards for use in estimating with your team
About your Instructor - Mike Cohn
Learn Scrum and Agile Processes directly from Mike Cohn, one of the industry's most well-respected Certified Scrum Trainers. Mike Cohn is the author of User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, Agile Estimating and Planning, and Succeeding with Agile. Mike is a highly popular and in-demand Scrum and agile trainer across the globe. He is also a co-founder and former board member of the Scrum Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated specifically to Scrum, and a co-founder of the non-profit Agile Alliance, home of the Agile Manifesto.
All Mountain Goat Software's agile estimating and planning training and consultations are conducted by Mike Cohn himself. To get a sense of Mike's style, watch this sample of Mike's presentation at Google, or read feedback from others on What They're Saying About Us.Also, take a look at our client list.
For more information about Mountain Goat Software, Mike Cohn, and why to choose us for your agile estimating and planning training, please visit Why Mountain Goat? or view a complete list of our public agile and Scrum courses.
2011 London courses are held at the Holborn Bars.
2012 London courses are held at the Grand Connaught Rooms.
What People Are Saying About This Course
“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 Kristín 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
