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Product Owner Workshop

Product Owner Workshop Day 1
Kick Off
Facilitator Introduction
Prioritization Exercise (35)
Agile Scrum Foundations
The ideological relationship between Agile, Scrum and XP
Build your own Manifesto Exercise
Putting fundamental Agile, Scrum and XP values into practice
Morning Break
Scrum, an Aerial View
Iterative and Incremental development
Scrum adoption success and failure indicators
Empirical and predictive process controls
Scrum’s origin, direction, cycles and cadence
Talking the Talk
Scrum and agile terminology demystified
Lunch
Continuous Improvement Exercise
Walking the Walk
Before-during-after sprint activity cycle
That 5th meeting
User Stories
User story basics and format
Thin slicing stories
Acceptance criteria and format
Stories, requirements and use cases
Functional decomposition techniques
Afternoon Break
Agile estimation techniques
Estimation variance & Coping with uncertainty

Product Owner Workshop Day 2
Release planning in Scrum
Plan a release (exercise)
Discovery, inception and Sprint-0
Morning Break
Business Value Definition
Form a Prioritization Strategy
Employ Prioritization Tactics
Product Definition and Placement
Understanding Users with Personas Exercise
Selecting Personas to Target
User based Feature Prioritization
Product Placement Exercise
Lunch
Stakeholder Management
Time Management & Individual Stakeholder Engagement Strategy
Communication Strategies
Product Owner Patterns
Iconoclast, Technocrat, Pair and Crew Patterns
Scrum team and project layout
Afternoon Break
Metrics that Matter
Delivery vs. activity based tracking
Applicability of metrics vs. diagnostics
Burn-ups and Burn-downs
Commitment based planning vs. capacity based planning
Product Owner Anti-Patterns
Ghost, Shell, Captain Undone, Lone Arranger
Product Owner –Role and Best Practices
Dedicated? How many teams?
Common-Project Manager-Scrum Master
Pitfalls
Common challenges and educating scrum way of functionality delivery
Servant Leader quality