Agile Product Owner

1) Agile Product Owner Role: Foundations

Learn what it takes to be the product owner on an agile project team. This course clarifies the role of the product owner and looks at the mindset, techniques, and competencies critical to being successful in the job. Angela Wick defines the typical collaborators, the product roadmap and minimum viable product, and your touch points in the agile workflow, including planning, prototyping, user research, sprints, and backlog refinement. Plus, learn about the average day in the life of a product owner and get clarity on common myths: that planning, a clear scope, and documentation get in the way of agile development.

Objectives
Identify the goals of a product owner on an agile team.
Explore the essentials of an agile roadmap.
Examine the elements of an agile planning overview.
Identify key agile product owner competencies.
Recognize the fundamentals of the experimenting and prototyping phase of agile planning.
Discover common myths of agile product ownership.

2) Agile Product Owner Role: Techniques

If your agile projects result in the efficient creation of products that your customers adore, it’s likely due to the first-rate product owner on your team. If this isn’t the case—or if you just want to brush up on what this critical role entails—this course can help. Explore the responsibilities of the product owner, and learn some practical techniques that you can implement throughout the agile workflow. Discover how to use personas, story maps, and user stories to figure out what customers really need. Learn how to work with your team to create an agile product roadmap, and learn more about the role of the product owner in agile meetings.

Objectives
Identify the fundamentals of release planning.
Recognize the steps involved in product backlog refinement.
Define personas.
Explore the components of story maps.
Break down the elements of acceptance criteria.
Examine forced ranking prioritization in the backlog.
Explore the parts of a sprint planning meeting.