Course Overview
The course focuses on the four key areas:
Product Management/Ownership – creating clarity on the Agile Product Owner role and day to day accountabilities. Learn the leadership style to successfully work with agile teams.
Strategic Alignment – How create a shared vision that aligns with the overall business strategy. Learn how to clearly articulate your product goals and objectives using a range of modern tools and techniques.
Prioritisation – to how to design meaningful Product & Sprint Goals, how to ordering the Product Backlog, how to forecast and making meaningful trade-off decisions.
Value – Define what value is, how to measure it, how to view it through the eyes of the customer, and what value means to your business. Understand how to manage value at multiple levels from strategic to portfolio, down to feature. You will apply a number of modern practical tools, canvases and techniques that you can immediately apply at your workplace.
Product Ownership is such a vitally important part of agile. Agile ways of working can increase the speed of delivery, but without a clear Product Ownership, you can easily end up in the wrong place, faster. Through this course, you will gain the thinking, tools and techniques to become an effective product owner, capable of leading agile teams.
Who is it for?
This course is ideal for anyone involved in leading product development including:
- Product Owners & Managers
- Business Analysts
- Scrum Masters and agile coaches needing to develop a better understanding of Product Ownership
- Agile Project Managers
Prerequisites
To make the most of this course we recommend you have a sound working knowledge of agile. If you do not have this, we recommend you take our free Fundamentals of Agile course first.