Product Owner Core Competencies
- Product Owner in different organizations
- Demonstrate progress on Goals to Stakeholders
- Gathering insights
- Product Owner Interaction with Scrum teams
- Product Ownership of Multiple teams
- Owning the Product backlog
- Collaborating with the Scrum team
Goal Setting and Planning
- Defining Value
- Product Visions and Product Goals
- Creating a Sprint Goal
- Product Planning and Release Planning
- Identifying small valuable increments
Understanding Customers and Users
- Product Discovery
- Segmenting Customers and users
- Conflicting customer needs
- Defining Product Outcomes
- Connecting developers to users
Validating Product Assumptions
- Validating Product Assumptions in Scrum
- Approaches to validate assumptions
Working the Product Backlog
- Outcome vs Output
- Maximizing outcomes
- Product Economics
- Describing and measuring value
- Creating Product Backlogs, Product Goals, and Product Backlog Items
- Refining a Product Backlog
Scrum Theory
- Empiricism and the three empirical pillars
- Benefits of an Iterative and Incremental approach
- The Scrum Framework
- Scrum Values
- Scrum alignment to the Agile Manifesto
Scrum Teams
- The responsibilities of the Scrum Team
- The responsibilities of the Product Owner, Developers, and Scrum Master
- Working with Stakeholders
- Working with multiple teams
Scrum events and activities
- Benefits of Timeboxing
- Purpose of a Sprint
- Define and perform Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective
- Product Backlog Refinement
Artifacts and commitments
- Purpose of the Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment
- The commitments of Product Goals, Sprint Goals, and Definition of Done
- Product Backlog emergence
- Attributes of a Product Backlog
- Sprint and Increment relationship
- Evolution of a Definition of Done