Professional Scrum Product Owner
Vertical Technology
Type Certification-led
Sub-Category Scrum
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Hello there
You've considered embarking on an exciting journey
to strengthen your professional status and career
trajectory. The choice to obtain professional
certification and/or further credentials in the subject
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Rowena Morais
Programme Director
Welcome Note
Rowena Morais
Programme Director
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Course Information
Rowena Morais
Programme Director
[email protected] Course Overview
Two day course. Agile Product Owners must go beyond
writing User Stories or managing the Product Backlog.
Professional Product Owners must have a solid
understanding of what drives value.
They must be equipped with techniques to create, measure
and maintain value at the product and enterprise level. As
such, this course enables you to learn effective Agile and
Scrum techniques to manage Agile products and services.
You will learn to create and maximise value at the product
and enterprise level, while managing requirements in the
form of Product Backlog in Agile and Scrum projects.
Curriculum
Six Topics
Value driven development, The Scrum Framework, Agile
Product Management, Lean Planning, Managing
Requirements, Products and Releases and The Scrum Product
Owner.
Module 01 : Introduction to Scrum
Introduce the instructor, the class, complexity and Scrum.
Module 02 : Value Driven Development
Value drivers and strategies for measuring them.
Module 03 Product Management
Differences from traditional approaches, how the Product
Owner works in an Agile environment.
Module 04 Managing Requirements
User Stories, Ordering and organisation strategies, Product
Backlog grooming.
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Programme Director
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Course Information
Rowena Morais
Programme Director
[email protected] Module 05 Planning Releases
Release strategies, How to optimise the delivery
of value.
Module 06 Lean Planning
Identifying a release goal and requirements,
Backlog ordering, Estimation, Adjustment,
Baseline planning.
Module 07 Managing roducts
Understanding Total Cost of Ownership,
Balancing between optimising the value of a
release and maximising the value of a
product/system as an asset for the organisation.
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Exam Info
1.The Professional Scrum Product Owner
assessment measures knowledge of how to
deliver value with a software product using
Scrum. The assessment goes beyond core
Scrum and evaluates knowledge of value
drivers, stakeholder management, optimising
total cost of ownership and tools for maximising
ROI.
2. PSPO assessment (exam time limit 60 mins,
passing score 85% required to attain
Professional Scrum Product Owner 1
certification, format multiple choice, practice
test available at scrum.org and The Scrum Guide
provided as study materials.
3. Exam fees for PSPO 1 are included in the
registration fees quoted.
Accreditation
Certification by : Scrum.org
Scrum.org strives to provide all the tools and
resources needed by Scrum practitioners and
experts in agility to deliver value using scrum.
Scrum.org was created in 2009 by Ken
Schwaber, one of the founders of Scrum.
It hosts the Scrum Guide in 30 languages,
provides scrum assessments so that you can
evaluate yourself, hosts community forums and
webcasts and defines industry -leading scrum
training.
Supporting Info
Rowena Morais
Programme Director
[email protected] Audience
1. This course targets the crucial role of product
and business management. It's for the those
who decide what needs to be done in terms of
features, release schedules, costing, maximising
return on investment, analysing competition
and market place as well as those responsible
for the success of the product or service.
2. Typical audience include people with
backgrounds in product management, business
management, IT development, portfolio
management and programme management.
3. Target audience is largely Product Managers,
Programme Managers, Business Analysts,
Business Managers and IT Development
Managers.
Prerequisites
At present, Professional Scrum Product Owner
assessments are open only to those who have
taken a Professional Scrum Product Owner
course ie you are not able to take the
assessments without having first taken the
course.
Recommended
The Scrum Open assessment is available for free
to anyone who would like to test your
knowledge on Scrum. Use the Scrum Open
assessment to prepare to take the Professional
Scrum Developer assessment for certification.
Before attempting the assessment it is highly
recommended that you review the Scrum
Guide at Scrum.org.
Important Note
1. Scrum.org maintains a defined curriculum for
all their Scrum courses. While qualified
instructors bring their own individual
experiences and expertise to bear on the
course, all students learn the same core course
content.
2. This course is brought to you in partnership
with Accelright.
Training Grants
Applicable to courses in Malaysia only
Vertical Distinct Sdn Bhd is a PSMB
(Pembangunan Sumber Manusia Berhad)
Approved Training Provider and the courses
offered in Malaysia are HRDF (Human Resource
Development Fund) claimable.
For guidelines and details on how to submit
your application or claims to the HRDF, please
visit HRDF.
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Faculty
An Agile coach and Certified Professional Scrum Trainer,
Faisal Mahmood trains, mentors and coaches
organisations and teams through their Agile and/or
Scrum adoption journey.
Author of the book, Agile Adoption Mistakes You Must
Avoid, and several articles on Agile and Scrum, he has
coached and trained more than 2000 people from leading
companies including Barclays, JP Morgan, ING Director,
Telefonica O2 UK, Nokia, Bankwest, Shell, SITA, Elisa and
Itella Information (Finnish Postal Service).
Based in London, UK, Faisal provides Professional Scrum
Master Certification, Professional Product Owner
Certification and Professional Scrum Developer
Certification courses across the UK and 14 other
countries.
His expertise lies in Enterprise Agile Transformation, Agile
Coaching, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Emergent
Architecture and Continuous Integration.
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Faisal Mahmood
engineer at Concentra.
As a consultant, he was a project lead on over a dozen projects spanning the manufacturing, healthcare, oil & gas, internet, banking & finance, and education verticals. His experience included projects at Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies such as GE Medical Systems, BP Amoco, and William Blair. In addition to consulting, he has worked part-time as a corporate trainer and obtained certifications in Java (SCJP, SCJD) and Microsoft technologies (MCP+SiteBuilding). He has certifications in CIO, eCommerce, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence.
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Additional Information
Locations
Geographies covered :
Middle East | Asia Pacific | Africa
Complete and updated list of all cities and dates are available at
www.verticaldistinct.com
"Faisal is very smart, articulate and knowledgeable. He "gets" Agile
and can convert his technical and management experience into
effective guidance for those embarking on the Agile journey. I have
no hesitation in recommending him as an Agile coach and Trainer
but also as a great colleague".
Martin Smith, Agile Scrum Coach, O2 UK
"Faisal presents an interesting and informative course on Scrum. He
presents the material in a very professional manner making
allowances for the individual's personal needs and pace. His course
is supplemented by personal examples which assist with the
understanding of Scrum roles."
Peter Whitmore, Senior Consultant, Automation Consultants
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