Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Training in Bangalore by Satisha Venkataramaiah on Mar-11-12-2020

The workshop is designed to help the participants get started as a Product Owner. The participants will form into small groups of 4-6 people, pick up a product idea to work on and work like a product team exploring the Product idea as a startup would do. You will experience the life of a Product Owner through simulations of interaction with Users, Buyers, Sponsors and Development Team

Pre-workshop Preparation

We want you to make most of the time you spend with our trainers and other participants. Learning maximizes with the perspective of others. So we expect you to go through online articles and videos to prepare for the workshop. The online material includes:

• Learn Agile Manifesto 
• Learn basic Scrum Framework
• Go through Scrum Guide
• Learn the basics of Product Management

Learning During Workshop

We will be learning the Product Ownership using Scrum. The whole course is split into 4 Sprints with each Sprint trying to Answer the following four questions:

1. Why are we building Products?
2. What are we building?
3. How much do we build?
4. How do we build?

We will pick up a sample Product and apply Discovery techniques to learn Product Discovery and run the workshop using Scrum to learn Scrum.

Sprint 1: Who is a Product Owner?

Value Hypothesis

• What is a Product?
• What is a Complex domain of Product?
• What is Cost of Delay and how to reduce it?
• What is Cost of Production and how to reduce it?

Who is a Product Owner?

• What are the skills required for a Product Owner?
• How does PO role map to other roles?
• What are the responsibilities of the PO?
• How does PO role evolve over a period of time and what are the different patterns to have a PO role?

Sprint 2: Why and What are we building?

Product Envisioning

• Why do we need Vision? -  Learn the consequences of developing a Product without vision
• How to develop Product Vision?
• Developing a Product Video?
• Elevator Pitch to Shark Tank
• News Paper Advertisement
• Designing Product Brochure etc.
• Review examples of good Product Vision.

Product Chartering

• How to identify all the users of the Product?
• Identify the user activities that Product will support.
• Identify the product features that help the end users to perform the activities willingly.
• Develop impact stories for the Product.
• Learn to develop Product Canvas.

User Research

• Learn why User Research is important and how it pays off
• Learn different ways of conducting User Research and apply on a class project
• Observe users at their native place
• Conduct interviews and surveys
• Lean Startup approach
• Learn and develop User Experience Map for the class Project
• Learn and Develop User Personas for the class Project.
• Learn to develop User Stories out of User Experience Map

Sprint 3: How much do we build?

Story Mapping

• Learn and translate user voice from User Research into Product Features
• Learn why Splitting features into smaller deliverables are a necessity.
• Learn various splitting techniques
• Learn to prioritize the features based on user needs
• Kano Model
• Importance vs satisfaction
• MUSCOW Technique
• Create a hypothesis to conduct Value Hypothesis
• Identify MVP and decide what kind of MVP to go with

Sprint 4: Managing Product Backlog

Story Pampering

• Learn and identify functional dependencies
• Learn different techniques for identifying Business Value for Product Features and practice them on class Project
• User Voting
• A factor of Acquisition and Retention
• Business Value Estimation Game
• Learn to prioritize Product Features based on Business Value
• Value vs Cost
• Cost of Delay
• Learn to identify different types of Stakeholders and how to engage them
• Learn various refinement techniques to help the development team understand what needs to be built