Onsite

“Just wanted to tell you how much I LOVED the class. It was perfect! I think Angela is absolutely amazing. I love the way she teaches and the information was everything I needed. She taught me too much. Even stuff I thought I was experienced with she added new information.”  ICP-APO Class Participant

“Agile Analysts at our company are raving about Angela’s approach to the ICP-APO, saying they wish they had taken the course years ago. This could become our ‘go to’ course to send folks early in their career as a bootcamp for Agile Business Analysis and coaching Product Owners.”   BA-Practice Lead

Not only will you have your IC-Agile ICP-APO Certification at the end of this engaging course, you will also know what mindset and tools to use as an agile product owner. We take a complex case study from product vision and big picture planning through to the details of user stories.  Get hands-on experience performing and practicing techniques such as product visioning, road mapping, backlog refinement, story mapping, prioritization and release planning. This course is methodology agnostic and truly focuses on the skills, mindset and techniques to be a successful product owner.

• Describe the roles and responsibilities involved in product ownership
• Discover how POs and BAs work together in Product Ownership
• Identify how to use several techniques to help identify which products should be built to maximize business value – tools such as product visioning, road mapping, release planning and many others!
• Illustrate how to build a product roadmap and link that to business outcomes
• Use personas, user story maps, user stories, acceptance criteria, and story splitting to speed up feedback loops and keep the customer/user at the center of the team’s work.
• Explain what a well-formed and healthy backlog is
• Perform and practice techniques such as user stories, acceptance criteria, story mapping, prioritization and backlog grooming to build a release plan
• Elaborate stories for development on a just-in-time basis while ensuring the design principles and architectural guidelines are adhered to
• Practice the role through a case study from vision to detailed acceptance criteria

Duration

 Live Online Format Details:

• This online LIVE session style course is not a plain webinar!
• Everyone on Zoom (Video on)!
• Active chat, annotation, and small group breakouts engage students in practicing content
• Everyone expected to be fully engaged in the class on video, chat, small groups, and all activities with the other classmates required to qualify to receive certification

Session 1 – Duration 4 Hours

Welcome/Introductions

• Introductions
• Getting up to speed on the virtual classroom environment
• Agenda
• Logistics
• IC-Agile Certification Context

Product Ownership & Agile

• The Agile Manifesto &Values in relationship to Product Ownership & Analysis
• Complexity & Change 
• What is Product Ownership?
• A Product Mindset

Developing A Product Vision

• Case Study Introduction
• Developing a Product Vision (practice)
• Defining Outcomes and Measurements Aligned to the Product Vision (practice)
• What is Value?
• How the Product Vision and Outcomes drive the rest of the team’s work

Session 2 – Duration 4 Hours

Warm up and re-connect

A Healthy Backlog

• What is a healthy Backlog?
• Using a Backlog Board
• Managing Levels of Detail in the Backlog
• 5 Levels of Agile Planning

Developing A Product Roadmap & Release Plan

• Developing a Product Roadmap (practice)
• Developing a Release Plan (practice)
• Align the Roadmap and Release Plan to the metrics (practice)
• Backlog Refinement at the Roadmap and Release Level

User Stories

• Introduce a User Story Map
• Personas (practice)
• User Stories (practice writing them)

Session 3 – Duration 4 Hours

Warm up and re-connect

User Stories (Cont…)

• Acceptance Criteria (practice)
• Effective Story Splitting (practice)
• User Story Mapping (practice)
• Bringing the Detail Back to the Vision and Metrics

Managing The Backlog

• Managing the Backlog
• Analyzing the Backlog
• What to Document?

Course Wrap Up

• Agile PO Behaviors Game
• Your Next Steps
• Completing Your Certification