Curriculum

1. Product Owner Core Competencies
Learning Objectives
Illustrate why Product Ownership is important for you and learn at least three techniques to interact with stakeholders over multiple Sprints. Learn why the Product Owner should be cautious about accumulating technical debt. Identify at least two techniques for visualizing, managing, or reducing dependencies.

Topics

• Examining the Product Owner Role
• Working with Stakeholders
• Working with the Development Team
• Product Ownership with Multiple Teams

2. Advanced Purpose and Strategy
Learning Objectives
Learn with a real-world example how product strategy is operationalized evolved over time in an Agile Organization. Create a product plan and practice at least one technique to visualize and communicate product strategy.

Topics

• Developing Practical Product Strategies
• Advanced Product Planning and Forecasting

3. Empathizing with Customers and Users
Learning Objectives
Learn the technique used to connect teams directly to customers and users and practice at least two techniques of product discovery.

Topics

• Customer Research
• Product Discovery

4. Advanced Product Assumption Validation
Learning Objectives
Learn how to compare at least two approaches to validating assumptions and experiment with at least one approach to incorporate validating assumptions into the Scrum framework. Develop at least two hypotheses for a target customer and create a plan to test at least one hypothesis.

Topics

• Effective Business Value Delivery
• Sprint Review
• Validate Assumptions
• Target Customer Hypothesis

5. Advanced Techniques for Working with the Product Backlog
Learning Objectives
Learn how to apply at least two techniques to organize and filter a Product Backlog to link to product goals or strategy and illustrate how the Product Owner can ensure that enough Product Backlog items are “ready” for the upcoming sprint. 

Topics

• Differentiating Outcome and Output
• Defining Value
• Ordering Items
• Advanced Product Backlog Refinement