Agile Product Management Boot Camp
Agile Product Management Boot Camp
A 2-day immersion into the world of the Agile Product Manager (sometimes called Product Champion or Product Owner). This course is designed to give participants an in-depth understanding of their role and its responsibilities. The course is designed for the beginning to intermediate level Agile Product Manager. Attendees learn about the importance of prioritization and various methods for prioritizing product backlogs. They also learn the basics of how agile works and the responsibilities of their role through a series of exercises immersing them in a simulated agile project utilizing various skills and techniques they have been taught during the course.
Level:
Basic to intermediate
Length:
2 days
Intended Audience:
Anyone that will be taking on the critical role of Product Champion, Product Owner, Customer Representative or similar product or customer facing roles in an agile environment.
Pre-requisites:
None, but general reading about agile processes may be helpful.
Learning objectives:
- Know how to deal with the team outside of just planning meetings, demonstrations and retrospectives.
- Be able to break down requirements into usable stories – even when the team is unable to help.
- Understand how to deliver value in stages rather than all at once.
- Define acceptance criteria to ensure the right features are being developed.
- Know how to create a project business case and vision.
- Understand and be able to perform basic product management functions in an agile way.
- Know how to effectively interact with customers, community, stakeholders, managers, and the team.
- Be able to make a convincing business case for using agile for more projects.
- Understand how to continuously improve.
Description:
Scrum has the Product Owner role. In eXtreme Programming (XP) it’s called the Customer role. Regardless of the job title, ineffective product management is one of the leading causes of agile project failure. Now is the time to get serious about having this role reach its full potential!
Too many agile teams settle for mediocrity. They work on improving their software development process, but then waste their improvement by delivering low-value features. In other words, they’ve become faster to market, but without the right product this simply causes faster customer dissatisfaction. Too many product people (product managers, business analysts and other product facing roles) don’t know how to proactively help their teams build great software that is delivered on time, on budget, with the proper feature set and with high quality.
This intense 2-day boot camp has been built specifically to allow product managers, business analysts and others that traditionally deal with requirements to gain experience in a safe environment. The role of Product Champion (Product Owner in Scrum) is a key role because failure in this role often leads to project failure. The boot camp is designed to give insight into the world of being a Product Champion/Product Owner versus the stereotype of a product manager or business analyst. While many functions are the same, there are some key differences which are exposed and explored throughout the course.
The boot camp gives practical knowledge and skills to the attendees. It also creates friendships and support networks which can be utilized in the future. Learning from each other encourages each person to pay attention to the entire workshop. This results in increased learning as well as helping each attendee understand how they can best help their own teams be successful.