Product Owner (PO) role-based training

The aim of the training is to familiarise participants with the Product Owner role within the Agile framework, while providing them with the skills required to pass the internationally recognised Product Owner exam.

Although the Scrum roles are equally important, the Product Owner, the "product owner", often stands out among them. To dispel misconceptions, the Product Owner is indeed a kind of primary knowledge holder of the product or service, but makes decisions based on maximizing customer value and the highest priorities.

He or she does not make these decisions in a milquetoast way, but rather acts as a servant leader, helping the team to focus their collective efforts on the elements that are most valuable to the customer. The Product Owner is the primary and main gateway to the customer. His/her role is to identify the latent needs of his/her customers, optimise the work invested and be aware of the most important work items of the day.

Being a Product Owner is not easy, with more and more complex challenges. A good Product Owner is also a water merchant, bridging the gap between the business and technical areas, assessing the real business value associated with each need, taking responsibility, making decisions almost by the minute, supporting the team, facilitating agile ceremonies and getting to the bottom of every customer issue, whether representing an end user outside the organisation or a customer on the side of an internal team.

The nature of the training is interactive and develops tangible case studies while participants reinforce and practice the theoretical foundations with the help of the trainer.

The product

• Value as seen by the customer or the organisation/company
• The product as a vehicle for customer value
• From vision to product development project: the place of the product in the organisational/company strategy

The product owner

• Why not a product manager, project manager or development manager?

The methodology

• Overview of Scrum
  • Ideology: agile manifesto and agile core values and their extension
  • Scrum definition and core values
  • The process
  • Roles
  • Events
  • Definition and Scrum Definition of Scrum
  • Other important methodologies

Questions and answers

The methodology (cont.)

• Using Scrum
  • How a sprint is done from a product owner's perspective

What is left out of the Scrum methodology

The successful product owner

• Skills and personality traits
• Preparation and development

The exam

• Preparation
• Typical areas

Useful tips

Questions and answers

Of course, you do not need to be a practicing Product Owner or a professional working in an Agile framework to enrol on the course, but it is important to have a good understanding of the basics to ensure the smooth progress of the group. Among other things, you will know the difference between Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog, and you are not unfamiliar with concepts such as Definition of Done or Velocity.

Intermediate level of English is recommended (for the course materials and the exam)