Agile Product Owner

The Product Owner is the most important of all agile product development roles. The role often varies by company. In some companies, the product owner has the overall responsibility for the product and supervising its development, while in other enterprises the product owner works closely with other roles, so that the product can be built such that it delivers as much value as possible to customers and product users.

The product owner role is, therefore, a very responsible and challenging one, and being successful in it requires a solid understanding of the business, the product being developed, and the product users. In addition, the agile product owner should understand the core ideas of agile development, and in addition, be comfortable in using agile development methods. The Scrum Master can serve in their role part-time. The role of an agile product owner is varying and requires from the one responsible active commitment and very close cooperation with all the necessary stakeholders.

Prior understanding of agile development and the Scrum method is required from participants. As a good general level recap participants are asked to visit the Scrum Primer site, a site that offers a good overview of the Scrum process.

This course provides a good capability to carry out the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Product Owner Level I (PSPO I) Certificate. Further information about the certificate and carrying it out can be found here.

After the course

• You understand the basic principles of Lean and agile development
• Understand the key roles and responsibilities of an agile product owner
• You know how to prepare healthy, prioritized backlogs, as well as high-quality User Stories

Agenda

• Basic principles of Lean and agile development
• Product Owner role, and what is expected of the role to be successful
• Scrum and Kanban methods for developing the product owner’s point of view
• Backlogs, their content and what constitutes a healthy backlog
• User Stories and what is important in them
• Prioritization, different prioritization methods
• The topics are opened with practical examples

For whom

This course is aimed at both new, and existing product owners and product managers.

Language

This training will be held in Finnish / English.