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.
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
- Fruit in the morning, sandwiches mid-morning, a lunch buffet, an afternoon snack, and drinks
- 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
What Will You 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
Who Should Attend?
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.
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.
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