Course: Product Owner

• The product owner is one of the key accountabilities in Scrum

• yet is one of the most misunderstood and sometimes undervalued
• Scrum project roles. In this course, learn about the product owner,
• including their core responsibilities and stances, key
• relationships and collaboration skills for the role's performance,
• and how they build relationships with customers and stakeholders to
• deliver project value. Next, examine the collective product
• ownership of the product owner and the scrum team and effective
• scrum team structures. Finally, discover techniques for managing
• team collaboration and dependencies and fostering productive
• relationships with the scrum master and scrum team. Upon
• completion, you'll be able to recognize the core product owner
• competencies, including key responsibilities, effective team
• management techniques, and essential collaboration styles.

As a Scrum Product Owner, one of your most important responsibilities is ensuring the product in development fulfills your customer needs and expectations. It is impossible to do that without understanding your customer, communicating effectively with them throughout the entire development life cycle, and playing the role of translator between the customer and the Scrum team. In this course, you'll learn about activities in product discovery and needs validation. You'll discover how to identify your stakeholders and proven approaches for segmenting your customers. You'll also explore elements and techniques for product discovery. Next, you'll learn how to bridge the gap between the customer and the Scrum team with several techniques for connecting the two. Finally, you'll learn best practices for facilitative listening, effective engagement techniques, ways to prioritize and work through conflicting customer needs, and techniques for ultimately facilitating decisions as a product owner with your customers and stakeholders.

• Without a clear vision and plan of what you're supposed to be

• creating, it would be impossible to know if you're developing the
• right product for your customer. As a Product Owner, you have a
• responsibility to ensure that the product purpose and strategy are
• defined, so you can ensure the product is developed right. In this
• course, you'll learn about tools and techniques you can use to
• define requirements and create effective user stories to help
• articulate the product definition. You'll also explore the benefits
• of continuous improvement in Scrum development, which helps
• iteratively define your product purpose and strategy. Finally,
• you'll learn approaches for developing the product vision and best
• practices for communicating and operationalizing the product
• strategy.

• People make assumptions every day, and they all have biases. As

• a product owner in Scrum, it's critical that you're aware of
• assumptions and biases and act accordingly in how you develop a
• product. In this course, learn about the different types of product
• assumptions, the importance of validating them, and some common
• tools and techniques for doing so. Next, discover some common
• cognitive biases that may exist with you or the team so you can
• avoid them. Finally, examine product hypotheses, including what
• they are, the process for developing them, and ways you can use
• them to test product ideas. Upon completion, you'll be able to
• recognize best practices and techniques for validating product
• assumptions.

• As a product owner, your purpose is to ensure that the right

• product is developed for your customer, and that it's developed
• right. That would be impossible without a sound plan. In this
• course, you will discover the key benefits of a product plan and
• the five levels of planning in Scrum, from product vision to the
• daily standup. You will explore different types and key benefits of
• incremental delivery like top-down and bottom-up before examining
• the phases of the incremental delivery model. Finally, you will
• identify best practices for creating a product vision and planning
• a product release. Upon completion, you will be able to identify
• and implement best practices and techniques for planning products
• as a product owner.

• As a product owner, your job is to identify, communicate,

• measure, and deliver value to the customer with the products that
• you and the team develop. In this course, you'll learn about the
• product backlog, one of your key tools as a product owner,
• including how you can use it to define, maximize, and communicate
• value. Next, explore techniques you can use to both model and
• measure product value, and then focus on Kotler’s product levels.
• Finally, learn about key economic terms and concepts, how an
• effective product value proposition helps you communicate value to
• your stakeholders, and about the relationship between the product
• backlog and your product goal. Upon completion, you'll be able to
• recognize best practices and techniques for defining product value
• as a product owner.

• One of your most important tools for a product owner is the

• product backlog. Like many other areas of Scrum product
• development, this involves an iterative process rather than being a
• one-and-done task. In this course, learn best practices and
• techniques for managing and refining your product backlog, such as
• backlog ordering. Next, explore the key characteristics of
• effective user stories and how they play a role in a useful product
• backlogs. Finally, discover the value of backlog refinement, the
• importance of feedback in the process, and common approaches for
• providing feedback. Upon completion, you'll be able to recognize
• best practices and techniques for managing and refining the product
• backlog as a product owner.

Final Exam: Scrum Product Owner will test your knowledge and application of the topics presented throughout the Scrum Product Owner track of the Skillsoft Aspire Scrum Team Member to Scaled Agile Leader Journey.