Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO) (Houston, TX) by Evolve Agility

Evolve Agility’s CSPO Course is two day immersive learning experience that enables you to make a difference in the real world of work. Learning By Doing: Scrum is easy to understand, but hard to do. The Product Owner is the most challenging role in Scrum framework. Skills needed to leading product/project Scrum development teams, to balance end-user and stakeholder needs and to manage executive expectations cannot be learned in dry lecture based environment. This course is based on techniques from Accelerated Learning and in particular principles and concepts from Training from The Back of the Room. Our participants experience Scrum concepts and principles through case-studies, games, simulations, group discussions, and role-playing exercises. That means NO POWERPOINT! – Hands on, interactive, and fun! Know-Why, Know-What, Know-How: You will learn practices to effectively navigate real-world complexity, and use your deeper understanding to help others appreciate the philosophy behind Agile and Scrum. Our participants are confident in their learning and have real conversations with  their team, managers, and executives. You will gain actionable knowledge and skills that will distinguish you from   others who are only concerned with transcribing requirements. Are you ready? To grok Agile and start your journey into a completely new way of thinking and acting. This one-of-a-kind learning experience instills confidence through emphasis on skills development. You will uncover new pathways to constructively engage with teams and executives on difficult product management challenges. This includes application of Agile and Scrum outside of software development to engineering solutions and business functions. This course is suitable for both IT and non-IT participants. What participants say? “It was all positive.  Great training session – and excellent trainer.  Any questions were answered, not with a canned generic but with thoughtful reasoning that made it even clearer.” – Jerry Holden “Trainer did a great job integrating his expertise, experience, and real world literature / references. Dhaval did an amazing job bringing humor into the classroom and making the discussion tangible to the work we do.”– Arlyne Aranda Clark “The exercises in the class helped me understand the scrum framework very easily.  Dhaval Panchal is a great instructor; he is very experienced and guided us through the process and explained the concepts extremely well. I truly appreciated his teaching style and how he was able to make the subject interesting and hands on. Would definitely recommend him.” – Tija Bushnaq “I liked how interactive the session was and that we went through 3 iterations. The pictures and drawings supported  my learning modality.I liked how Dhaval showed us the agile way in his own example by adjusting his teaching technique mid-course to include more examples. I also liked how specific Dhaval was in answering questions, even if they were answered, “Yes and no.” With these types of questions, he gave us where the circumstances made sense, where they might, and if it was out of scope.” – Jennifer Hunt “Dhaval’s artwork was memorable – much more than the typical slideware.” – Jeff Hanson Course Objectives: Fully aligned with latest – 2018 learning objectives for CSPO course, this course covers: 1.    Scrum Fundamentals ⁃    Why Agile? ⁃    Iterative and Incremental ⁃    Empirical process control: Transparency, Inspect, Adapt ⁃    Scrum Framework: Values, principles, theory, anti-patterns and spirit of scrum examined in detail. ⁃    Scrum Roles and Responsibilities ⁃    Scrum Events and Artifacts 2.    Product Ownership in Detail ⁃    Interactions between ScrumMaster, Product Owner, and Development Team roles. ⁃    Responsibilities of Product Owner in sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, sprint retrospective, backlog refinement, and during sprint. ⁃    Working with Stakeholders. ⁃    Product Ownership with multiple teams. ⁃    Case-studies and role-playing scenarios to discover your personal strategy to positively influence organizational dysfunctions. 3.    Understanding Customer and Users ⁃    User role modeling and target market segment. ⁃    Empathy mapping ⁃    Collaboration techniques to engage users and customers through out product development process ⁃    User story mapping 4.    Product Purpose, strategy and testing assumptions ⁃    Collaborative techniques to engage stakeholders, users and the scrum development to develop shared vision. ⁃    Agile Roadmaps. ⁃    Product Alignment: Collaborative techniques to balance governing constraints for release level trade-offs. ⁃    Multi-level planning, Meta-scrum, and Scrum-of-scrums. ⁃    Managing portfolio of options, and aligning program outcomes. ⁃    Lean Startup basics – Validated learning cycle, MVP, A/B, MMF 5.    Product backlog management ⁃    Product backlog management: Collaborative prioritization techniques, Epics, Features, User-Stories. ⁃    Differentiating between Definition of Done and Acceptance criteria. ⁃    Effective techniques for splitting product backlog items. ⁃    Product backlog refinement (grooming) Invest in yourself: Certified Product Owner® course is your opportunity to learn skills that help you develop products that your users will love. Make it count, our goal is achieved when you graduate with confidence to make a positive difference in your world of work. Whether you are an experienced agile practitioner who wants a refresher or completely new to world of Agile, Evolve Agility’s learning program will prepare you with take-aways that you can immediately apply after your training class. PMP and PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Certifications Participants may claim 14 Project Management Institute (PMI) Professional Development Units (PDUs) which can be applied to Project Management Professional (PMP) and PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certifications. ScrumAlliance CSP (Certified Scrum Professional) credit This course also allows participants to claim 14 Scrum Education Units (SEUs) towards the Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) designation. FAQs Two (2) days before training you will receive a pre-course email re-confirming venue details, catering and parking options. You will also receive an email from the trainer outlining learning expectations.  How can I contact the organizer with any questions? Please email  What’s the refund policy? Cancellations more than 2 weeks before the course date receive a full refund. Cancellations within 2 weeks of the course date receive a 70% refund Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event? No, electronic copy is fine. Is my registration fee or ticket transferable? Yes, you can always transfer to a different date for the same course at no extra charge.