Effective Product Owner
Be the Product Owner for Successful Agile Teams
Guide your team from vision to delivery with practical techniques and AI-enhanced exercises.
- Create an inspiring vision and turn it into actionable goals.
- Master backlog refinement and prioritization.
- Build stronger relationships with stakeholders and your Scrum team.
What You'll Be Able to Do
Use story mapping and story-writing workshops to build and prioritize your product backlog.
Uncover users' and stakeholders' true needs
Create delivery plans that balance near- and long-term goals.
Why Take Effective Product Owner?
This course equips you to balance vision with detail, prioritize for value, and build delivery plans stakeholders trust. With a customizable agenda, you’ll focus on the skills important to your role including story writing, backlog refinement, and stakeholder engagement.
The agenda for the Effective Product Owner course is a customizable version of our Certified Scrum Product Owner course. You will work with your instructor to select the content that best meets your needs.
Upcoming Public Training
Course Includes:
Course Outline
Scrum Overview
- Agile
- Scrum
The Product Owner
- What Is a Product Owner?
- Characteristics
- Responsibilities
- Product Owners in Different Contexts
- Quarterly Activities
- Involvement over Time
- Asking for Clarifications, Not Changes
- Dealing with Difficult Situations
- Business Analysts & Product Managers
- Scaling the Product Owner Role
Visioning
- Specifying the Problem, Not the Solution
- Creating a Concise Vision
- Five Techniques for Communicating Vision
Customers and Users
- Validating Assumptions
- User Roles
- User Role Modeling
- Personas
- Roles vs. Personas
- Decorated Roles & Extreme Characters
The Product Backlog
- What Is a Product Backlog?
- Progressive Elaboration
- Product Backlog Refinement
- User Stories
- Adding Detail to User Stories
- Job Stories
- Technical Stories
- Themes & Epics
- Splitting Stories with the SPIDR Approach
- Who Contributes Items?
- Story Writing Workshop
- Story Mapping
Prioritizing
- Key Concepts in Prioritization
- Factors in Prioritization
- Formal Approaches
- What Different Stakeholders Value
- Collaborative Prioritization Techniques
Planning
- Accuracy and Precision
- Velocity
- Using a Velocity Range
- Fixed-Date Plans
- Fixed-Scope Plans
Developers
- Responsibilities
- Component and Feature Teams
The Scrum Master
- Responsibilities
- Description of Role
Our Instructor
Mountain Goat has handpicked instructors that share our training values. These are people with deep experience, who are leading teams with agile today and can give you real-world answers about what does and doesn’t work.
Mike Cohn
With 20+ years of agile training experience, Mike has honed a talent for explaining agile concepts with clear illustrations and real-life examples. Participants enjoy his passion for teaching the agile methodologies in a relatable and digestible way.
Read more...Mike is CEO of Mountain Goat Software, and one of the industry’s most well-respected Certified Scrum Trainers. He is the author of User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, Agile Estimating and Planning, and Succeeding with Agile. He is a co-founder and former board member of the Scrum Alliance, and a co-founder of the non-profit Agile Alliance, home of the Agile Manifesto.
Scrum Certifications include: CSM, CST, CSPO, A-CSM, CSP-SM, CSP-PO
Got a Question?
What happens when you contact us?
- We’ll get back to you in within a day.
- Answer your training questions and discuss any custom needs.
- Recommend the best agile training path for your teams and goals.
- Want to talk to someone? Schedule a call.