Agile Product Ownership Training
Course Summary
Product Ownership is a team sport. It is also a crucial and complex activity—easy in principle, hard in practice. The role of a Product Owner is an important part of any product development approach, irrespective of the approach being taken. As a Product Owner, one requires clarity of vision, alignment with organizational strategy, understanding of the development process, and the ability to communicate with a wide variety of stakeholders across all levels, both inside and outside the organization.
Agile Product Ownership Skills You'll Gain
Intro to Agile basics
The ins and outs of sprint planning
Properly bounding a product
Building a Backlog
Grooming a Backlog
Key activities of a Product Owner
Intro to Requirements Modeling Language (RML)
All about User stories
Creating Acceptance Criteria
Delivering Incrementally
How We Teach the Principles of Agile Product Ownership
This 2-day course teaches tools and techniques that enable attendees to become effective product owners who will be equipped to guide product development and lead product ownership teams. The content focuses on roles in the value management team, and how they collaborate to identify the most important aspects and features of a product. Generally, the Product Owner will provide guidance for technical team members who build the working product.
Who Would Benefit From Agile Product Ownership Training
Anyone who is involved with defining and delivering projects can benefit from this product ownership course. These skills aren’t just useful for product managers and business analysts! Engineers, business and marketing managers, and quality assurance professionals can apply these principles to their project work as well. Many of our classes are attended by professionals in the following roles:
- Business Analyst
- Product Owner
- Associate Product Manager
- Project Manager
- Program Manager
- Project Coordinator
- Quality Assurance Engineer
- Software Engineer
- Subject Matter Expert
- Process Improvement Manager
- Business Architect
Frequently asked questions
We offer our agile product ownership course both as an in-person 2-day seminar and online instructor-led class. No matter how the class is delivered, we use hands-on activities and student collaboration and discussion to really explore the material and get the most from the class time.
We offer private agile product ownership training classes for your organization’s unique training needs. Because our trainers are also practicing consultants, we often try to schedule classes 6 weeks out. If your needs require more urgent training, please give us a call to discuss.
Our classes and hands-on activities are designed to be readily applicable to people in different kinds of organizations, industries, and roles. But if you need something more customized, let’s talk and figure out what you need and how we can best help.
We are currently not certified PMI or IIBA training partners, but our agile product ownership class DOES count towards your PDU/CDU requirements. Once the training has been completed, we’ll provide you with the information you need to apply them.
Because our classes are intended to be interactive, we do not offer a self-paced online option at this time. All of our classes are led by professional consultants with years of experience defining and managing products for a variety of clients.
All of our trainers are senior consultants who actively work on client projects. They bring their real-world experiences and stories to the classroom to make our classes even more relevant and exciting!