On Dec 8-9, Jim York and Joe Little will
lead a Certified Scrum Product Owner course
in Charlotte, NC.
Jim York is an experienced Agile coach and
Scrum Trainer. He has worked with a
variety of great companies in helping that
become very productive with Agile and
Scrum.
Joe is an experienced Agile coach, with
in-depth practical experience in helping
teams become very productive with Scrum and
Agile. He co-teaches these courses with
Jeff Sutherland, who co-created Scrum.
Joe's blog is Agile & Business,
here .
Click below to register.
Course Location:
Hilton Executive Park Hotel
5700 Westpark Dr
Charlotte, NC 28217
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Contact:
Lisa Smith if you have questions.
More details and a link to register are
below.
Summary of the Course
Through a combination of immersive
team-based learning, exercises, and
real-world case studies, you will learn how
to:
- Plan, initiate and lead a Scrum
project
- Develop the initial Product Backlog
- Improve the identification of
Business Value
- Establish a shared vision for
the entire team
- Generate an agile release plan
utilizing user stories and story point
estimation
- Manage the Gap between customer
expectations and the Team's ability to
deliver
- Improve business value engineering
- Balance new features against
digging out of technical debt
- Refactor the Product Backlog
continuously
- Lead the Team and yet have the Team
remain self-managing
- Work with Stakeholders to make them
more effective
CSPO training provides an applied
understanding of the Scrum process and
helps participants begin to develop the
tools, insights, and skills required to
apply Scrum on their projects and across
their organizations.
Additional Information :
The course will run from 9am-5pm
each day. A continental breakfast, breaks
and lunch will be provided.
Following the course, each participant is
enrolled as a CSPO, which
includes a one-year membership in the Scrum
Alliance, where additional Scrum
materials and information are available.
Who Should Attend
The CSPO is for managers, analysts, product manager,
and someone interested in working on or with a
Scrum team, this course is suited for you.
You will leave with solid knowledge of how
and why Scrum works. Through practical,
hands-on exercises and small-group
discussion you will be prepared to plan
your first (or next) sprint immediately after this
class.
ScrumMasters need this course, because
they must coach Product Owners in these
skills.
PMPs: You can receive 16 Professional
Development Units (PDUs) for this course.
Course Material
Participants will receive course materials
(not books) at the course. The CSPO course
was formulated to train and certify Product
Owners and is used worldwide for Product
Owner training. In addition,
participants should obtain (at their own
expense) Agile Project Management with
Scrum, by Ken Schwaber, which is required
reading for the course. You may also wish
to obtain the primary Scrum book, Agile
Software Development with SCRUM by Schwaber
and Beedle, on which the course is based.
Of course, there will be updated material
and training exercises in the course which
you cannot get from books. The entire
syllabus will be made available upon
registering for the course so you can look
it over and bring it with you to the
sessions.
Registration and Fees
The course fee is $1,395. There is a
10% discount for groups of 3 or more.
Once you pay, you become registered. If
your firm needs an invoice, we can generate
those as well. You are not fully registered
until we receive payment. Please contact
Lisa Smith
for
details or with questions.
Refund policy
90% of the course fee will be
refunded for cancellations more that 7 days
in advance of the course. No refunds will
be provided for cancellations within a week
of the course.
