The Ultimate Product Owner Certification Training

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Welcome to The Ultimate Product Owner Certification Training!

If you're looking to develop an Agile mindset, master the Scrum framework, and ultimately become a certified Product Owner, you're in the right place.

Hi,

I am Vladimir from Bulgaria, and I will be leading you through the course. I work in an Agile team, and I am a Project Management Professional (PMP certified) with 5 Scrum certifications, including Product Owner levels 1 and 2.

I teach over 162,136 students and have received over 25,000 positive reviews.

Who Is This Course For?

This course is perfect for:

• Current and would-be Product Owners

• Scrum Masters and Agile Leaders

• Project and Product Managers

• Business Analysts and agile team members

By the end of it, you will feel confident in your Scrum Product Ownership knowledge. In addition, you will have a perfect understanding of the Scrum Framework and its rules, accountabilities (formerly known as roles), events, artifacts, and commitments.

How Is This Course Organized?

Here is just a glimpse of what you will learn inside:

Section 1 - Introduction To Agile Principles and Scrum Overview

• The difference between Adaptive and Predictive approaches to development

• What is Scrum (a high-level overview)?

• The 5 Scrum Values and what they mean in the real world

• The Agile manifesto and the 12 Agile principles

• The concepts of Iterative and Incremental Development

• Agile Planning vs Waterfall Planning

• The Agile Concept: Timeboxing Explained

Sections 2, 3, and 4 - The Scrum Framework

• The concepts of Cross-Functionality and Self-Management

• Characteristics of the three sets of accountabilities

  • The Scrum Master

  • The Developers

  • The Product Owner (with emphasis)

• The Sprint and its main purpose

• Sprint Planning and answering the three questions - why, what, and how

• Daily Scrum (a key inspect and adapt event for the Developers)

• Sprint Review and why feedback is critically important

• Sprint Retrospective (the driver of continuous improvement)

• The concept of Feedback Loops

• The Product Backlog (the single source of work undertaken by the Scrum Team)

• The Sprint Backlog (when does it emerge, who is accountable for it, what happens with the PBIs that are not complete)

• The Increment (the relationship between the Increment and the Product Backlog, who decides to release it, and in what condition it should be)

• The Definition Of Done (Who Crafts It And Why? Is It Mandatory? Can it change?)

• The Product Goal (the long-term objective for the Scrum Team)

• The Sprint Goal (the objective for the Sprint)

Section 5 - Mastering Product Ownership in Scrum

• The Product Vision and why it is important

• Value (Financial and Societal) - The Most Important Topic For Any Product Owner

• Evidence-Based Management (EBM) Guide And The 4 Key-Value Areas Explained

  • Current Value (CV)

  • Unrealized Value (UV)

  • Time-to-Market (T2M)

  • Ability to Innovate (A2I)

• The Difference Between Product and Project Management (Mental Shifts)

• The 3 Attributes Of A Product Backlog Item (PBI).

  • Description

  • Size

  • Order

• Product Backlog Refinement (How The Product Owner and The Developers Collaborate)

• The Concept Of Readiness and The Definition Of Ready

• Story Points (Effort-based Units To Estimate the Size Of the PBIs)

• Planning Poker (A Voting Technique That Eliminates The Psychological Bias Called Anchoring)

• Information Radiators

  • Burndown Charts

  • Burnup Charts

• The Cone Of Uncertainty (Beware When You Make Promises Regarding Project Completion)

• Technical Debt (Any Product Owner MUST Know If They Can Pay The Debt Back)

• Code Refactoring

• Continuous Integration

• Release Planning (What Should We Consider Before A Release?)

• Scaled Scrum Explained (What Scrum Believes In)

• Component Teams vs Feature Teams

• Types Of Contracts and Budgeting

Section 6 - Scrum Example (The Agile Company: Intelligent Web Solutions Helps a Chiropractic Clinic Build a Conversion-Focused Website)

• Introduction to the number 1 issue tracking tool used by Agile teams - JIRA

• How to create a Product Backlog

• How to create a Sprint Backlog

• How to write User Stories, How to assign tasks (Careful, the PO doesn't do it)

• How to write the Sprint Goal

• How to set the duration of a Sprint

• An example of high-priority process improvement and how the Scrum Master resolves impediments

• An example of the Definition of Done (plus updates)

• An example of Acceptance Criteria

• The difference between the Definition of Done and the Acceptance Criteria

Section 7 - Avoid Common Mistakes

• Top reasons why people fail the exam (and solutions)

• Recommended Resources (Free Practice Exams Included)

Section 8 - Agile Product Owner Practice Exams

• Let's set the stage with a simple quiz

• [Unofficial] Practice Exam 1

• [Unofficial] Practice Exam 2

• [Highly Recommended] You can take these exams multiple times as the questions and answers are randomized.

Section 9 - How Product Owners Deal With Difficult Situations

• Confronting PO Challenges: Explore eight distinct scenarios that demand strong Product Owner leadership and decision-making.

• Witness My Analysis: See how I dissect each complex situation, identifying key factors and potential courses of action with clear reasoning.

Section 10 - Essential Product Owner Strategic Skills In Action

• Defining Your Product's North Star: Uncover a comprehensive process for creating and articulating a powerful Product Vision Statement (Parts 1-3).

• Navigating the Stakeholder Landscape: Explore effective techniques for successful Stakeholder Management (Parts 1-2), building alignment and fostering collaboration.

• Validating Ideas with Experiments: Learn a framework for designing and executing impactful product experiments (Parts 1-2) to drive data-informed decisions.

Section 11 - Essential Product Owner Strategic Skills In Action

• The Product Owner's Guide to UX/UI: Explore the essential UX/UI principles (Parts 1-3) that enable Product Owners to make informed decisions about product design and usability.

• From Big Picture to Granular Detail: Understand how Epics and User Stories connect strategic goals to actionable development tasks, utilizing the "Three C's" for clarity.

• Ensuring Quality Requirements: Learn and apply the INVEST criteria to write effective User Stories and master the process of defining clear Bug Tasks.

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ATTRIBUTION AND USE FOR THE SCRUM GUIDE, NEXUS GUIDE, AND EVIDENCE-BASED MANAGEMENT GUIDE

This course uses screenshots from the Scrum Guide, Nexus Guide, and Evidence-Based Management Guide to point the attention of the student to important concepts, ideas, rules, and practices.

The authors of the Scrum Guide are Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland.

The Nexus Guide is developed and sustained by Ken Schwaber and Scrum dot org.

Evidence-Based Management was collaboratively developed by Scrum .org, the Professional Scrum Trainer Community, Ken Schwaber, and Christina Schwaber.

No changes have been made to the content of the Scrum Guide, Nexus Guide, and Evidence-Based Management Guide.

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