Class

Description

Course Description

This hands-on, interactive two-day course will teach you:

• How to be an effective Product Owner
• Write User-Stories (Agile requirements)
• How to manage an Agile product throughout the Software Development Life Cycle
• Agile Release planning and Tracking

Upon successful completion of this course, each participant will be enrolled as a Certified Product Owner, which includes a one-year Scrum Alliance membership, where additional ScrumMaster and Product Owner material and information is available.
Attendees will be served lunch, morning and afternoon tea and receive a bound copy of the training materials.

Audience

Product Owners, managers or anyone interested in Agile planning and estimating techniques.
Recommended reading

Some prior knowledge of Scrum or Agile methods is required through reading or practice is recommended. Please read the Scrum Primer first found at: http://www.scrumprimer.com

Class Agenda

Scrum 101 refresher

• Scrum cycle, roles, planning cycle

Kickoff

• Research inputs
• Product Vision
• Exercise: Create a one-pager
• Customer insights; personals, field studies
• Brainstorming and affinity mapping

Gathering requirements – inputs

• Exercise: Ideas brainstorm
• Stakeholder & user interviews
• Rapid scenarios
• Scenario exercise

Prioritizing

• Kano analysis
• Exercise: Release strategy
• Relative weighting

Writing requirements

• Product backlog building
• Exercise: User story writing

Estimating

• Story points and Ideal days
• Exercise: Planning poker estimation

Tracking

• Sprint and release burndown charts

Release Planning

• Incremental release plans
• Velocity
• Timeboxed and Scopeboxed releases
• Exercise: Simulated Scrum game

Optional modules:

• Reporting
• Scaling Scrum
• Testing
• Agile Design
• Budgets and forecasts
• Agile contracts

About the Instructor

Gabrielle Benefield is a Certified Scrum Trainer offering courses in the United States, Europe, Australia and New Zealand through Kanjeo. Gabrielle was Senior Director of Agile Development at Yahoo! leading Yahoo!’s large-scale corporate adoption of Scrum, which now encompasses more than 200 teams projects and over 1500 employees in the US, India, Europe, and Asia. She is co-author of The Scrum Primer (www.scrumprimer.com).

Gabrielle holds a Masters of Digital Design from the University of Western Sydney, Australia and has over 16 years building enterprise software and web products at global companies. Gabrielle is a regular conference speaker presenting papers and talks on Enterprise Agile and Agile User Experience and Design.

Gabrielle provides training to a number of companies around the world and is currently based in London.

Michael Franken is an Agile Management Consultant, Trainer and Coach, as well as an Enterprise Architect. He runs his own firm Zilverline (www.zilverline.com).

Michael is an experienced Enterprise Java architect that continually aims to combine productivity and quality. He combines technical skills with business sense and entrepreneurship. He is a great evangelist of Agile principles and practices, and has successfully introduced SCRUM in many places in the Netherlands (in cooperation with Jeff Sutherland). He’s been (and still continues to) promoting lightweight development and the Spring Framework in particular.