Certified Scrum Product Owner

A clear, shared vision is crucial for successful Scrum and Agile teams. We'll walk through techniques to help unify your team, stakeholders, and customers around the right vision for your product or service.

Roadmaps are an important link between Product Vision and the Product Backlog. Unfortunately, many roadmaps are not much more than a slide with dates and bullet pointed features, which doesn't provide any context. Learn how to use the Prune the Product Tree, an Innovation Game®, to collaborate with customers to build a real roadmap.

Learn the simple rules associated with a Product Backlog as well as a set of key practices for using a Product Backlog to develop consensus among the stakeholders on what will be delivered. Other topics we cover include:

• • Writing User Stories
  • Acceptance Criteria
  • Vertically Slicing User Stories
  • Product Backlog Refinement

The core of the Product Owner's job is to order and prioritize among the many great things we could do and help the Development Team focus only on what is most important. Many traditional prioritization techniques are too slow for most Scrum Teams, so many Product Owners order the Product Backlog solely on intuition or by responding to the currently squeaky wheel. Learn a prioritization framework that helps you visualize the relative importance of your customer segments, internal & external stakeholders, corporate strategy, and maintain clean code.

Believe it or not, we've heard many times the misinformed statement: "We're Agile, so we don't really plan." Not only is this inconsistent with the Agile Manifesto, it is usually just bad business. In our experience, the best Scrum teams create a plan and expect it to change as work begins!

• Learn the nuts and bolts of managing stakeholder expectations with an Agile release plan
• Learn how and when it makes sense to update the release plan

 the Product Owner role doesn't end once the Product Backlog is ready for Sprint Planning. Your team will be most effective if you are available during the Sprint to provide feedback at key points.

• Learn how the Product Owner works with Development Teams during the Sprint
• Explore best practices in balancing time among the Development Team, stakeholders, and customers

Throughout the workshop, you'll use an AI-powered visual workflow to apply each concept above to a real product. Customer insights, competitive analysis, and regulatory constraints feed into a multi-step workflow that generates artifacts at each stage. You'll review, challenge, and iterate on PRDs, prototypes, technical requirements, and stakeholder decks, practicing the full product ownership cycle with AI handling the production work so you can focus on the product decisions.