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Product Owner Workshop

The Value Cycle Secret

The Product Owner Challenge

Are you a Product Owner?

 

Congratulations, you have been handed the toughest job in all of Agile. How would your life change if you had a proven process to quickly create a good Agile backlog in only 3 hours?  And a great Agile backlog in only 3 days? A process that reliably and repeatedly helps you:

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  • Deliver great products

  • Wow users

  • Inspire your team

  • Make executives happy
     

This is what we teach in our Agile Product Owner workhop. We call our approach "The Value Cycle", and it is magic. Your life as a product owner will change for the better forever once you've mastered this process!

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​​For twenty-five years we have been running Agile teams and building great backlogs. We know the signs of a backlog problem: 
 

  • User stories running over from Sprint to Sprint

  • Sprints with nothing to demonstrate

  • Late and over budget projects

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The job of managing an Agile backlog is complex. Sometimes it is not even clear where to begin. This workshop provides detailed direction on how to start and how to deliver.

What You Receive

  • Product Owner Training Classbook

  • 24 PDUs or SEUs

What You Learn

This three-day immersion class is jam packed with great material you learn in hands-on activities. You will not be bored.

 

Participants learn nine different powerful tools for creating great Agile backlogs, including:

Day 1

  • Visioning (90 min)

    • Introduction to the Value Cycle

    • The Problem with Problems

    • Future Visioning

    • Visioning Exercise

    • Vision Ceremony

 

  • Business Modelling (180 min)

    • Interviews, Observations, and Models

    • Territory, Map, Words

    • Closed Ended Questions

    • Open and Clean Questions

    • Clean Language

    • Listening

    • Lazy Jedi Questions

    • Building Models from Clean Questions

    • Alternative Diagrams

    • Tradeoffs

    • Stop Collecting Requirements

    • Business Modelling Exercise

    • Investigating Space with Models

    • Models with People

    • Modelling Activity

    • Benefits of Models

    • Positive Questions

    • Quiet Observations

 

  • IDEO Deep Dive Revisited (60 min)
     

  • Value Stream Mapping (60 min)

    • Understanding Where We Are

    • Mapping the Value Stream

    • Value Steam Maps in Context

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Day 2

  • Driver (60 min)

    • The Product Owner Role
       

  • Personas (90 min)

    • Predicting the Future

    • The Candle Dipping Exercise

    • Your Personas Exercise
       

  • Persona Mapping (30 min)

    • The Center

    • Tradeoffs
       

  • Story Mapping (60 min)

    • Activities

    • Stories

    • Release Plan
       

  • Solution Anthropology and Asset Stewardship (60 min)

    • Solution Anthropology Team

    • Development Team

    • Dual Track Scrum

    • Asset Stewardship Team
       

  • User Stories (60 min) 

    • Common Format

    • Purpose in Communication

    • INVEST Protocol

    • Detecting Bad Stories

    • A Dramatically Better Way

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Day 3

  • Paper Prototyping (60 min)

    • Wireframes

    • Prototyping Sequence

    • Getting Feedback

    • Things to Capture in Prototypes
       

  • Cognitive Walkthrough Ceremony (60 min)

    • Silent Observation

    • The User Goal

    • Clean Questions

    • How Many Early Mockups? 

    • Who to Test… When?
       

  • Acceptance Criteria (45 min)

    • Show Me

    • Happy Paths and Alternatives

    • Clarify With Scenarios

    • Robot Framework and Other Tools

 

  • Pointing Ceremony (30 min)

    • Early Estimating

    • Bootstrapping Estimating Value and Effort

    • The Wisdom of Crowds
       

  • Splitting Stories (60 min)

    • Splitting Story Goals

    • Slicing Options

    • CRUD

    • Merging Stories
       

  • Backlog Prioritization Ceremony (30 min) 

    • Priority and Order

    • Rinse and Repeat

    • Output of Ceremony
       

  • Sprint Planning and Monitoring Ceremony (60 min)

    • Iteration and Sprint Planning

    • Tasks and Estimates

    • Stories are Dynamic 

    • Monitoring

 

Participants practice using a revolutionary new inquiry story template for writing user stories. This template makes it almost impossible to write a bad user story.
 

​In addition, participants practice ceremonies for ideation, user selection, work prioritization, and user feedback. As a result, they leave with an extensive tool set for creating great Agile backlogs​.

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Event Structure

  • 3-Day Live Workshop

Prerequisites​

  • Agile Foundations Workshop is strongly recommended

Who Should Attend 

Product Owners needing to move quickly, direct their teams, and rapidly deliver value will love this class. This training event is for you if ANY of the following are true:

 

  • You are eager to learn an easier way to create a great Agile backlog
     

  • Your boss told you to"Be our Product Owner"and you need to know what that means and how to do it
     

  • Are you already a Product Owner but the team isn't delivering what you actually need, and you don't know why

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If any of these ring true for you then your really want to attend our next Agile Product Owner Training Event.

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Agile Product Owner Training

Creating Products That Rock

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