Product Owner Academy
Advanced Guide to Product Owner’s Role in Agile Environment
Functions, Tools, and Techniques
PURPOSE
We define a product owner as the role that is responsible for maximizing return on investment in products or services for customers and company. As the main focus of a business is to create and capture value through the products or services it offers, the Product Owner function is key to driving success.
This program is aimed to equip individuals who work as POs or support any of the POs functions with thorough understanding of the responsibilities and essential tools and techniques for fulfilling those.
TARGET AUDIENCE
- ProductOwners
- Product Managers
- Agile facilitators
- ScrumMasters
- Team leaders
FORMAT
Every week we meet for an intensive 3-hour online training session where we focus on a specific topic. The sessions are designed to maximize practical learning by combining several elements:
- Case studies from reality
- Role plays
- Discussion on cases from participants
- Group exercises
- Supporting input from the trainers
- Personal follow-up plans
Online sessions give you the flexibility to join from anywhere.
The group contains 6-15 people.
PROGRAM OUTLINE
Module 1: The Product Owner’s Role
- PO functions, activities, and skillset
- Product Manager or ProductOwner?
- Organizational aspects
Module 2: Product Discovery and Vision
- Creating product vision
- Product Discovery
- Validating ideas and collecting feedback
- Product Roadmap
Module 3: Creating the Product Backlog
- Writing user stories
- Handling technical aspects
- Handling usability
- Slicing user stories
Module 4:Prioritization
- Understanding value, taking investment decisions
- Agile prioritization
- Measuring progress
Module 5:Agile Planning
- Release planning
- Estimating user stories
- Sprint planning
- Monitoring project scope
Module 6: Stakeholder Management
- Stakeholder mapping
- Working with customers
- Communication aspects
Module 7: Continuous Innovation and Support
- Product Evolution
- Handling Maintenance
- Sunsetting a Product
TOOLBOX
- Scrum, Kanban, XP
- Product Vision Board
- GO Roadmap
- Opportunity backlog
- Product discovery sprints
- Empathy map
- Value proposition canvas
- Lo-fi prototyping
- A/B testing
- User experience mapping
- Usability testing
- User stories
- Spikes
- Kano model
- Relative weighing
- User story mapping
- MVP
- Stakeholder map
- 4-quadrant communication model
SCHEDULE
| Module | Online Sessions |
|---|---|
| 1. The Product Owner’s Role | 10:00 – 13:00 EET |
| 2. Product Discovery and Vision | 10:00 – 13:00 EET |
| 3. Creating the Product Backlog | 10:00 – 13:00 EET |
| 4. Prioritization | 10:00 – 13:00 EET |
| 5. Agile Planning | 10:00 – 13:00 EET |
| 6. Stakeholder Management | 10:00 – 13:00 EET |
| 7. Continuous Innovation and Support | 10:00 – 13:00 EET |
Are you looking for a custom training for your team? Contact us at office@leanify.com.