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Certified Scrum Product Owner Course

You are in charge of building a system, creating a new product release, or any other complex business project. Traditionally, you would hand this undertaking over to a trained project manager to run for you. You would then wait and hope for the best, since over 50% of all projects fail and those that succeed deliver products in which 65% of the functionality is rarely or never used.Scrum provides a way for you to directly and effectively manage the project yourself. Intuitive and lightweight, the Scrum process delivers completed increments of the product at rapid, regular intervals ... usually monthly.

Your primary tool for managing the project is called a Product Backlog, a list of features you want in the system or release, prioritized by value, cost, and risk. You use the Product Backlog to cause the most valuable functionality to be built first, and remove risk early in the project. As you watch the product take shape, increment by increment, you can restructure the Product Backlog to incorporate your insights or respond to changes in business conditions. You can also identify and cancel unsuccessful projects early, often within the first several months.The Certified Scrum Product Owner's course teaches you how to manage projects using Scrum. The one day class has a full agenda:

  • How Scrum works
  • How you manage the project
  • Planning the project
  • Planning iterations
  • Reporting progress, and replanning the release
  • Inspecting an increment of work
  • Building in quality
  • Minimizing risk and project failures
  • Adjusting to changes in business conditions
  • Maximizing project value

Sign up for this course at the Scrum store at www.controlchaos.com.