Certified Scrum Product Owner April 2010

Submitted by lvonk on di, 2009-12-15 10:27

Op 8 en 9 April organiseren we een officiële Certified Scrum Product Owner training. De training wordt gegeven door Michael Franken.


De locatie van de training is Hotel de Witte Bergen (aan de A1/A27).

De training kost 1495,= euro ex. BTW, inclusief materiaal, registratie als Certified Product Owner bij de Scrum Alliance, fris, koffie, thee, en lunch.

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Details of the training

This hands-on, interactive two-day course will teach you:

  • How to be an effective Product Owner
  • Write User-Stories (Agile requirements)
  • How to manage an Agile product throughout the Software Development Life Cycle
  • Agile Release planning and Tracking

Upon successful completion of this course, each participant will be enrolled as a Certified Product Owner, which includes a one-year Scrum Alliance membership, where additional ScrumMaster and Product Owner material and information is available.
Attendees will be served lunch, morning and afternoon team and receive a bound copy of the training materials.

Audience
Product Owners, managers or anyone interested in Agile planning and estimating techniques.

Recommended reading
No prior knowledge of Scrum or Agile methods is required although someprior reading is recommended. A good getting started guide can be foundat http://www.scrumprimer.com

Detailed Agenda
Scrum 101 refresher

  • Scrum cycle, roles, planning cycle

Kickoff

  • Research inputs
  • Product Vision
  • Exercise: Create a one-pager
  • Customer insights; personals, field studies
  • Brainstorming and affinity mapping

Gathering requirements - inputs

  • Exercise: Ideas brainstorm
  • Stakeholder & user interviews
  • Rapid scenarios
  • Scenario exercise

Prioritizing

  • Kano analysis
  • Exercise: Release strategy
  • Relative weighting

Writing requirements

  • Product backlog building
  • Exercise: User story writing

Estimating

  • Story points and Ideal days
  • Exercise: Planning poker estimation

Tracking

  • Sprint and release burndown charts

Release Planning

  • Incremental release plans
  • Velocity
  • Timeboxed and Scopeboxed releases
  • Exercise: Simulated Scrum game

Optional modules:

  • Reporting
  • Scaling Scrum
  • Testing
  • Agile Design
  • Budgets and forecasts
  • Agile contracts

About the Trainers

Michael Franken is Certified Scrum Trainer and experienced Software Engineer. He coaches management and development teams on Agile practices and principles.

Michael has successfully introduced SCRUM in many places in the Netherlands and has worked with Jeff Sutherland, Gabrielle Benefield, Henrik Kniberg and Tobias Mayer, and continues to do so.

Jeff Sutherland very strongly recommends Michael:

"Several years ago Michael asked me to help [...] implement Scrum in the Netherlands and India. Since then we have worked together and the teams he originated are now some of the best in the world with papers published at Agile 2008 and accepted for Agile 2009. A couple of years ago, Michael started his own company, Zilverline, and asked me to train with him in the Amsterdam area. We have done several courses together and I can enthusiastically say that Michael is one of the best trainers I have worked with."

Michael is an experienced Enterprise architect that continually aims to combine productivity and quality. He combines technical skills with business sense and entrepreneurship.

Lars Vonk is a Certified Scrum Practitioner, ScrumMaster and Product Owner, Agile Coach and a Senior Developer specialized in Java and Agile development.

Lars is an experienced ScrumMaster, coached several companies in implementing Scrum and served as ScrumMaster on many teams. Besides coaching he is an expert in Software development and Java in particular. He help teams improving in delivering high quality software, by introducing proper Agile coding practices. Lars has spoken and still speaks on several (inter)national conferences.