AGI530: Agile Product Ownership (21 hrs)
The Agile Product Ownership course is an ICAgile-accredited training program that focuses on value-driven software delivery and the accompanying mindset necessary to succeed in an agile environment. Participants in this course will learn a variety of techniques that emphasize customer value, lightweight requirements, prioritization methods, progressive elaboration, product/project road mapping, story mapping, effective user stories and acceptance criteria.
The course is designed to teach participants the skills and knowledge necessary to become effective agile product owner in an agile environment. Throughout the course, participants will practice using these techniques to develop and manage product backlogs, prioritize features, and engage stakeholders.
- Product Ownership and Maximized Value
- Role Scope and Diversity
- Thinking Skills
- Behaviors
- Determining Value in the Initiative
- Communicating Value
- Understanding Stakeholders
- Analyze to Determine Value
- Exploring the Solution
- Managing Artifacts
- Enabling Valuable Delivery
Learning outcomes:
- Describe the concept of product ownership, show how it maximizes value and list many different aspects of value
- Discuss the Manifesto Values and Principles and their relationship to delivering business value
- Demonstrate collaborative, team-based decision-making approaches and experience/identify how they can be applied in the context of your own work
- Work in an iterative process with incomplete information
- Apply stakeholder analysis tools such as personas and empathy maps
- Explain the “the minimum amount of analysis necessary” in a change initiative in your own environment.
- Apply prioritization and ranking techniques
- Illustrate how different types of constraints can influence a change initiative
- Practice an Agile Risk Management approach
- Explain examples of different modeling techniques and provide guidelines on how they can be used on different types of initiatives
- Identify artifacts that will “live long” and ways to record and maintain them so they will be valuable in the future
- Produce a definition of “done” at different levels of detail for a change initiative
- Demonstrate the impact of overloading and how to maintain a sustainable pace
- Arrange and adapt a backlog based on feedback and changes, with a strong focus on knowing when to stop
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