Course Content
This course will run over 2 afternoons
What you will learn
Part 1:
- What is a Product
- Inception – Creating a new product
- 4 stances of a Product Owner
- Story Mapping
- Functional decomposition
- Putting Value at the heart of product
Part 2:
- Product – Epic – Feature- Story etc..
- 17 types of MVP and which to use when
- Creating a release plan
- Understanding and prioritising backlogs
- Value and Lean Product canvases
- Estimation techniques
Delivery will be via a combination of slides, talks, interactive exercises and 3rd party videos.
Who is this course Suitable for?
Current and Future Product Owners. Business Analysts and Project Managers about to move into an Agile world or considering a switch to Agile working.
Why should you book this course?
This course combines comprehensive coverage of the Agile Mindset, behaviours and ways of working. With the insights and experience gained over 30 years of working with Agile in the real world. This results in providing every participant with a solid foundation and mental models from which they can build True Agility.
Understanding and implementing the concepts of Product Ownership is one the key foundations of Agile. This course covers everything from what a Product is and is not. The different stances that a Product Owner needs to fulfil. The many ways of creating and organizing a backlog and how to prioritise these items to deliver maximum benefit. We also cover product discover and monitoring. The skills and models taught on this course will take you beyond the basics gained during a Product owner certification Course and give you the real skills you need to succeed.
Anyone who is working in an Agile organisation who feels that they are not currently getting the promised benefits and are wondering why.
What you will need
Online – access to computer with decent stable broadband connection. Access to web camera and audio device. All session will be delivered over Zoom. Additional software such as Mural or Whiteboard will use web cloud-based services for which links will be provided.
Trainer Bio
Mark Gray
Mark has been working with Agile on real world projects for over 30 years. He was involved in the early stages of the definition and discussions that resulted in one of the first Agile frameworks. Working for a Global IT consultancy for 22 years Mark was exposed to a wide range of industries and cultures. During this time Mark advised the UK Cabinet office, where he collaborated on the first ever E-commerce strategy. Mark was fundamental in successfully introducing and demonstrating the advantages of Agile to many organisations.
Mark regularly publishes articles on Agile use and misuse on the Medium platform and often presents at conferences and meetups. Mark is currently working with IBM on the global Agile transformation of BP.
Mark prides himself on taking organisations beyond the adoption of frameworks and allowing them to realise the full benefits of True Agility.
Unless it is giving you a real business advantage it’s not True Agility.
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