Taught by Dr. Charles (Chuck) Suscheck

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Maximize the value of your organization's products 

Being a professional Product Owner encompasses more than writing requirements or managing a Product Backlog. Product Owners need to have a concrete understanding of all product management aspects that drives value from their products, not just Scrum. 

Through a combination of instruction and exercises, we teach the reasons and basis for Agile, the Scrum framework's intention, and ways to enable your Scrum team to make the bes product they can. 

In general, Product Owners face two major challenges:

• The misinterpretation that the Product Owner is a requirements generator.  
• The misinterpretation that Scrum is a delivery method that is mainly for IT people, teams and departments.

Common myths debunked during class:

• The Product Owner is the only one who creates the requirements.
• PBIs are in the form of user stories.
• A Product Owner is only required to communicate requirements; therefore, the position is something that can be done ‘part-time’ (“I have my day job” myth).
• Only the Product Owner may touch the product backlog.
• The Product Owner accepts or rejects work done by the Scrum team.
• The main purpose of Agile is to deliver the same thing as a traditional approach but faster and cheaper.

The overall goal of this course to equip the student to apply the vision, value, and validation pattern to get the best product for their customer. It is a deep and holistic introduction to Product Ownership as an Agile product manager who uses Scrum to deliver customer satisfaction.

Who should attend?

The course assumes some experience in product delivery (product management or Product Ownership).  It also assumes basic familiarity with Scrum.  If you are new to Scrum, you should read the Scrum Guide (www.scrumguides.org).  This course is perfectly appropriate for non-IT professionals who are looking to apply Scrum in their context.

Certification

After completing a Professional Scrum Product Owner course, students receive credentials to take the Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) assessment and earn the industry-recognized PSPO I Certification.  Students take the assessment on their own after class.