
Discover the fundamentals of Agile and Scrum, define the product owner's role, and apply tips to create products, build roadmaps, manage backlogs, and collaborate with Scrum teams.
Agile is an umbrella term for methods and frameworks that deliver projects on time through incremental delivery, collaboration, and responding to change.
Explore the differences between traditional waterfall product development and Agile Scrum, contrasting sequential, plan-driven processes with iterative delivery and early testing for higher value.
The product owner represents business and customers, owning the product vision and backlog. They prioritize features, define acceptance criteria, and ensure value delivery through stakeholder communication with the dev team.
Take a day in the life of a product owner by coordinating daily stand ups, prioritizing backlog by value, and engaging stakeholders on budgets, releases, testing, retrospectives, and road mapping.
Take ownership as the product owner to optimize the backlog and deliver maximum value with clear, visible items understood by stakeholders, empowered teams, active user participation, and regular testing.
Be as available as possible for the team, offer multiple contact options, attend scrum meetings, and balance availability with not babysitting to help them help themselves and deliver a product.
Know your product inside out and understand market to guide a development team with updated feedback. Do background research, meet users and stakeholders, and update user stories in the backlog.
Be empowered to empower your team by guiding the prioritization of stories and making final product decisions, while collaborating with the development team and avoiding commands.
Practice humility as a product owner by valuing team suggestions and avoiding superiority. Remove blockers by prioritizing business resources and fostering cooperative, collaborative work for agile success.
Be prepared to earn the team’s trust by owning product specifications and features, keep an accessible backlog, capture requirements on blank cards, and review acceptance criteria in sprint reviews.
Engage end users and empower the development team to decide in timeboxed sprints, with lightweight requirements, small releasable increments, continuous testing, Pareto-driven backlog, and stakeholder collaboration.
Explore five Scrum principles for product ownership, including empirical process control with transparency, inspection, adaptation, self-organization, collaboration, value-based prioritization, the 80/20 principle, and timeboxing of sprint events.
Guide the product owner to translate stakeholder needs into a clear product vision and roadmap within the scrum framework for a world-class sports website.
Three reasons to TAKE THIS COURSE right now!
The unique reasons for taking this course are:
Complete, Concise, Confident Overview of Agile Product Management principles - You will be confident that you have a complete overview of Agile Product Management principles as the founders intended it, because I only teach accurately based on the Agile Manifesto and Agile Principles.
Gain confidence in Agile Product Management basics - I teach you the basics to gain confidence then without going into a class room or spending 1000s of Dollars.
You get answers to frequently asked questions about Agile Product Management!
Includes Narration from Randal Schaffer
What is an Agile Product Manager / Scrum Product Owner ?
An Agile Product Manager uses Agile principles to work with teams and deliver products in small increments. This gives the business early return on investment and the ability to adapt to a changing market. In Scrum teams the role is carried out by the Scrum Product Owner.
Agile is a mindset and an umbrella term for a set of related methods and frameworks that help us to deliver projects on time and more efficiently. Scrum is the most popular Agile framework. Based on my experience, it is the number one framework used to deliver projects on time!
Who should take is course?
Whether you are a traditional product manager, agile product manager, scrum master coaching product owners, product owner, developer, business stakeholder or simply someone who wants to understand what makes agile product management tick, this is the place to start.
What will I learn?
In this class you will learn:
Concise overview of Agile Product Management - A basic overview of the exact mindset and principles used by a Scrum Product Owner to deliver a project using agile scrum along with the difference between an agile product manager and a traditional product manager.
What are the pre-requisites?
This course is video based with no supporting document necessary. I go through key gotchas based on the Scrum Guide and Agile Project Management principles created by the founders of Agile.
How is the course structured?
How is the course structured?
Each section features an overview of a particular aspect of Agile Project Management for a Scrum Product Owner and popular agile principles for managing requirements with a Product Backlog.
Inspired by God, the Bible, my mother and the founders of Agile Scrum