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This course is designed specifically to help Product Owners clearly understand their role on an agile team and how they can effectively and efficiently work with the team to create, organize, and maintain a product backlog. This course is a 50/50 ratio of lecture to labs. Over this 2 day course, students will apply what they learn by first creating a product vision and roadmap. They will then spend a significant amount of time learning how to write effective user stories that can then be estimated and prioritized to aid in release planning. Students will then learn how to prepare for an iteration planning meeting by creating acceptance criteria for prioritized user stories.

Near the end of the 2nd day, students will learn how to track and communicate project progress using velocity metrics and release burn-downs.

Topics Included
• Proper care and feeding of a Product Backlog
• How to identify and write well formed User Stories
• How to assist in the estimation process
• Techniques used to prioritize a backlog
• The importance of communicating requirements as tests
• Strategies for bridging the Business to Technology gap
• How to allocate your time to keep fast iteration cycles running smoothly
• How to generate metrics that are meaningful and align with Agile fundamentals

Course Details
Prerequisites: Agile Foundations
Audience: Product owners, Product managers, Business analysist
Duration: 2 Days
Lab to Lecture Ratio: 50/50

Course Outline
Day 1 Summary
• Agile Review
• Agile Planning Concepts
• Self-Managed Teams
• Agile Roles
• Vision Planning
• Agile User Stories
• Roadmap Planning
• Estimating User Stories
• Prioritizing the Backlog

Day 2 Summary
• Release Planning
• Acceptance Criteria
• Iteration Planning
• Planning for Uncertainty
• Grooming the Backlog
• Tracking and Reporting
• Sprint Retrospectives and Demo Day
• Applying Lean Thinking
• Agile Smells
• Agile Leadership