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Course Overview

The Advanced Product Owner class provides in-depth training in the complete set of skills Product Owners require to refine a high-level product concept into fine-grained and implementable product specifications.

Note: Starred (*) topics are only available in the two-day version of this class.

Learning Objectives

Attendees will learn how to create product visions, define user workflows, and decompose major features into the fine-grained specifications required for product development.

They will also learn how to do Release Planning and develop product roadmaps.

The class exercise to develop a release plan may use a standard example or a client’s actual product.

Curriculum & Topics

Product Owner Defined

Product Owner Responsibilities
Product Team

Product Vision

Five Cycles of Planning
Product Vision

User Story Lifecycle

From Features to Stories
User Scenarios
Roles and Personas
Flows and Business Process Diagrams

Story Mapping

Story Maps defined
Release Planning with Story Maps

Scaling to Large Requirements

Epics

Product Backlog

Product Backlog defined
Detail & Predictability vs. Time
Organization of a Product Backlog
Prioritization Techniques
Single-Team Release Planning

Scaling to Large Organizations

Product / Team Hierarchies
Cross-Team Planning
Dependency Mapping
Cross-Team Development and Coordination

Roadmap

Roadmaps defined
How to Create Roadmaps
Estimation for Roadmap
Architecture Planning

Release Planning

Releases defined
Release Planning Roles
Release Planning Meeting
Flow of Release Planning
Buffering
Hardening Sprints
Hybrid Projects

Advanced Topics in Story Writing*

Epics in depth
Techniques for Epic Decomposition

UX Design*

How UX Design is done in Scrum

Class Project*

Half-Day Exercise to Draft a Release Plan
Focus may be client’s product or standard example