Course Outline

-> Product Owner Core Competencies
         • Discuss organizational designs which affect how the accountabilities of the Product Owner are executed.
         • Technique to provide transparency to stakeholders on progress toward goals.
         • Technique to gather information or insights from stakeholders
         • How to overcome the challenges of being a Product Owner for multiple Scrum Teams
         • Describe how the Product Owner interacts with the other Scrum Team members during the Scrum events and throughout the Sprint.
         • Discuss why the Product Owner is a single person and neither a group nor a committee
         • How and why the Product Owner maintains authority over the Product Backlog while working collaboratively with Developers and stakeholders.

-> Goal Setting and Planning
         • Relationship between a product vision and a Product Goal.
         • Creation of a Product Goal.
         • Creating a Sprint Goal with a Scrum Team.
         • List the components of a product plan or forecast with stakeholders.
         • How to plan a product release.
         • Explain approaches to identify small, valuable, and usable Increments.

-> Understanding Customers and Users
         • How a Product Owner includes product discovery and validation in their work.
         • Approach for segmenting customers and users.
         • Technique to address conflicting customer (or user) needs.
         • How product discovery contributes to successful product outcomes.
         • List approaches to connect Developers directly to customers and users.

-> Validating Product Assumptions
         • How Scrum supports validating product assumptions.
         • Validate product assumptions by their cost and quality of learning.

-> Working with the Product Backlog
         • Relationship between outcome and output.
         • Actions the Product Owner could take to maximize outcomes and impact while minimizing outputs.
         • Define terms related to product economics.
         • Describe value from the perspective of different stakeholder groups.
         • Techniques to measure value.
         • Create a Product Backlog that supports the achievement of a Product Goal.
         • Create Product Backlog item that includes a description outcome and value.
         • Practice refining the Product Backlog.