Certified Scrum Product Owner - Oslo

Date	Aug 20-21, 2008	Location	Oslo
Start time	9:00 AM	Taught by	Mike Cohn
End time	17:00 PM	Price	NOK 13 000

Other courses at this location in the same week
Effective User Stories for Agile Requirements, Aug 22

You are in charge of building a system, creating a new product release, or any other complex business project. Traditionally, you would hand this undertaking over to a trained project manager to run for you. You would then wait and hope for the best, since over 50% of all projects fail and those that succeed deliver products in which 65% of the functionality is rarely or never used.

Scrum provides a way for you to directly and effectively manage the project yourself. Intuitive and lightweight, the Scrum process delivers completed increments of the product at rapid, regular intervals, usually no longer than monthly.

Your primary tool for managing the project is called a Product Backlog, a list of features you want in the system or release, prioritized by value, cost, and risk. You use the Product Backlog to cause the most valuable functionality to be built first, and remove risk early in the project. As you watch the product take shape, increment by increment, you can restructure the Product Backlog to incorporate your insights or respond to changes in business conditions. You can also identify and cancel unsuccessful projects early, often within the first several months. The Certified Scrum Product Owner™ course equips you with what you need to achieve success with Scrum.

Following successful completion of the course, each participant will be designated a Certified Scrum Product Owner™. This certification includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, where additional member-only material and information are available.

Onsite Availability

Don’t see a date and location you like? Want to train a team or department without the hassle of travel? This course is available for onsite delivery. Contact Mike Cohn at (720) 890-6110 or by e-mail at mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com.

PMPs: This course counts for 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs).

You Will Learn

Practical, project-proven practices
How to write a usable product backlog
Proven techniques for prioritizing the product backlog
How to predict the delivery date of a project (or the features that will be complete by a given date) using velocity
Tips for managing the key variables influencing project success
How to successfully scale the product role on large, multi-continent projects with team sizes in the hundreds
Tips and tricks from the instructor's ten-plus years of using Scrum in a wide variety of environments

Download a PDF brochure with additional information.

Who Should Attend

This course is ideal for product managers, analysts, testers, and others who represent and are expected to understand the desires of users and customers on agile projects. You will leave with solid knowledge of how and why Scrum works and of your role on the project. Through practical, hands-on exercises and small-group discussion you will leave prepared to guide a Scrum team to success.

Oslo

Courses in Oslo are held in either the city itself or at the Fornebu offices of Mountain Goat Software's partner in Norway, ProgramUtvikling.

This course is also available onsite. For information Contact Mike Cohn