Recommended Courses for Product Owners - Acumen IT Training, Inc.

Recommended courses specifically designed for Product Owners

RECOMMENDED COURSES

PRODUCT OWNERS

As a product owner, you must juggle interactions with stakeholders, the Scrum team, and customers while ensuring the maximization of product value resulting from the Scrum Team’s efforts.

Additionally, the product owner holds the responsibility for proficiently managing the product portfolio, which can either be executed personally or delegated to others. This management entails:

Establishing and effectively communicating the product’s objectives.
Articulating the components of the product portfolio clearly.
Prioritizing items within the product portfolio.
Guaranteeing the transparency, visibility, and comprehensibility of the product portfolio.

To assist you in enhancing your effectiveness as a Product Owner and delivering increased value, we’ve curated a series of courses.

STARTER COURSES FOR PRODUCT OWNERS

In the Professional Scrum Application™ course, collaborate with fellow students in a team setting through a series of Sprints aimed at tackling intricate problems mirroring real-world challenges. By employing Scrum methodologies, participants learn to effectively address these challenges. As a Scrum Master, you not only grasp the essence of Scrum but also assume the role’s responsibilities, enabling your team to acquire new skills and navigate through common pitfalls and misconceptions encountered in Scrum implementation. This hands-on approach facilitates the development of an understanding of associated symptoms and strategies for rectifying them. This course presents an excellent opportunity to unite your entire Scrum Team for a collective learning journey.

The Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management Skills™ course is an interactive program crafted to assist Scrum practitioners in enhancing their management of the Product Backlog and communication with stakeholders. This one-day course focuses on improving skills in organizing a Product Backlog to reflect the product’s future vision clearly and to provide transparency regarding the team’s priorities. Participants will also learn about capturing essential attributes of Product Backlog items and utilizing various methods for prioritization.

IMPROVE THE SKILLS OF THE PRODUCT OWNERS

In the Professional Scrum Product Owner™ – Advanced course, the emphasis lies in assisting experienced Product Owners like yourself to enhance their capacity in crafting a vision, validating hypotheses, and ultimately amplifying stakeholder value. This course extends beyond the scope covered in the Scrum Professional Product Owner class, delving deeper into the multifaceted roles of a Professional Product Owner.

Participants are required to possess a minimum of one year of experience as a Product Owner along with a proficient understanding of Scrum to actively engage in and derive benefit from these exercises. While prior completion of the PSPO class is recommended, it is not obligatory.

The Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills™ course helps Scrum Masters cultivate a facilitative mindset, enhance their facilitation skills, and gain insight into choosing appropriate techniques for different situations to effectively tackle challenges, build consensus, and promote openness. It covers typical scenarios encountered in Scrum, offering instruction on employing diverse facilitation methods to enrich your repertoire of agile approaches. By the end of the course, participants will develop a tailored facilitation strategy to elevate their facilitation capabilities, enhancing interactions within Scrum Teams, stakeholders, and customers during discussions or Scrum events.

In the Professional Scrum™ with User Experience course, Scrum Masters are equipped to merge the specialized field of User Experience (UX) with their existing expertise in fostering self-managed, cross-functional teams. This enables them to assist developers in understanding customer needs, efficiently plan learning, discovery, and design tasks, while ensuring the completion of deliverables within each Sprint. Additionally, they will learn to integrate product discovery techniques seamlessly within Sprints and strike a balance between discovery and delivery efforts. Through this course, they’ll witness the integration of Scrum and UX methodologies, cultivating cross-functional teams capable of delivering heightened value and improved outcomes through a synergy of design and delivery practices.

SUPPORTING THE ORGANIZATION

In the Professional Agile Leadership Essentials™ course, Scrum Masters often join forces with fellow leaders to gain practical insights into how best to nurture, steer, and mentor their teams toward increased agility. Participants delve deeply into their leadership roles, learning how to foster conditions conducive to successful agile practices. Through a mix of instructional sessions and team-based exercises, attendees discover techniques to effectively train and empower their Scrum Teams for enhanced outcomes. Additionally, the workshop underscores the importance of leading organizational shifts in culture and behavior to fully embrace the advantages of an agile approach to product delivery.

In the Scaled Professional Scrum™ course, Scrum Masters refine their skill set to support teams in surmounting the hurdles of expanding Scrum beyond a single team, all while familiarizing themselves with the Nexus framework. Through collaborative exercises, participants engage in organizing and simulating product development projects at a larger scale using Nexus. The course, based on real-world scenarios, addresses common challenges encountered during scaling efforts and introduces over fifty practices to tackle them. These practices draw from both established Scrum methodologies and supplementary techniques aimed at enhancing effectiveness.

MEASUREMENT VALUE AND FLOW

In the Professional Scrum™ with Kanban course, experienced Scrum Masters and other practitioners of Scrum delve into refining their work methodologies by incorporating Kanban principles. Through a mix of theoretical concepts, case studies, and hands-on exercises, participants grasp the essence of streamlined workflow and gain practical insights to seamlessly integrate Kanban techniques into Scrum teams. By course completion, attendees will possess a deeper comprehension of effective Kanban utilization within the context of Professional Scrum.

In the Professional Agile Leadership™ – Evidence-Based Management™ course, Scrum Masters often team up with Product Owners, coaches, and consultants to explore how to steer teams towards continuous improvement in customer outcomes, organizational capabilities, and business results. Through practical exercises, participants learn about Evidence-Based Management (EBM) and how to apply its framework to establish clear goals and metrics. They also discover methods that promote an agile mindset by shifting the focus from measuring progress solely through team performance metrics to prioritizing customer-centric approaches that enhance customer outcomes.

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