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Course descripton

One-day Scrum Product Owner course is a workshop at an intermediate level, designed for currently practicing Product Owners, Scrum Masters who support a Product Owner, Agile Business Owners, and others who want an in-depth understanding of the role of the Product Owner in different contexts and scenarios. The training will equip you with different techniques for successful product ownership. You will understand how to leverage Scrum to optimize value creation and customer satisfaction. You will be able stock the product backlog, write and map user stories and refine the requirements.
We will also review a lightweight process for planning in Scrum, starting from the backlog creation and finishing with tracking, reporting and feedback. You will learn an easily repeatable framework for creating realistic release plans, release tracking, delivering the value to customer and preventing the teams from becoming a black box.

This course is based on Scrum Alliance Certified Product Owner training guidelines.

Recommended follow-up courses: Successful Agile Retrospectives, Kanban System Design (KMP I), Kanban Management Professional (KMP II), Scrum Master Foundations, Project Estimation and Monte Carlo Forecasting, and Agile Metrics and Monte Carlo Forecasting.

Note that the course participants are expected to be familiar with the basic concepts of Agile and Lean. Therefore it's recommended (but not required) to attend at least one of following trainings/workshops prior attending this course: Agile and Lean workshop for managers, Introduction to Agile and Lean, or Team Kanban Practitioner (TKP).

You can find free Agile and Scrum books and guides here: Scrum guide.

Product Owner workshop calendar
Product Owner workshop costs
399 Early bird
499 Regular (excl. VAT)
Product Owner workshop location On request

Learning objectives

At the end of the class the participants will:

  • Realize the fundamentals of the Product Owner role in Scrum and how to work with stakeholders and (multiple) development teams
  • Be able to formulate the purpose, vision, mission, strategy, and tactics of the product
  • Be able to create the product roadmap
  • Be able to create a customer research and product discovery environment to generate new ideas for products and features
  • Be able to work with the Product Backlog: define value, create, refine, map and prioritize the User Stories
  • Know the formal approaches to the Product Backlog management
  • Comprehend different estimation levels in Scrum, the accuracy and precision of estimates
  • Grasp the concept of Velocity and how the Product Owner can help the team to improve it
  • Learn different Agile release levels, be able to create a realistic release plan, and track it
  • Understand the concepts of technical debt and sustained development pace
  • Recognize the Product Owner role during Scrum ceremonies
  • Understand what the team commitment means and why the sprints are time boxed and protected

Target audience

  • Anyone interested in implementing Agile and Lean way of working in their organization
  • Development and team managers
  • Project, program, portfolio and delivery managers
  • Business analysts
  • Development team members
  • Product managers
  • Change managers and anyone in charge for process improvement and optimization
  • Agile Coaches and Practitioners (Scrum, XP, DSDM, AgilePM, etc.)

Certification information

Participants will receive:

  • Printed course materials
  • 8 PDUs and 8 SEUs
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Training facilitator

Lean Kanban Eindhoven cursus trainer

Serhiy Tkachenko

Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT)
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Certified Scrum Professional (CSP-SM)
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

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Serhiy is a hands-on lean Agile transformation trainer and coach with a strong track record in driving and achieving sustained positive changes in the global companies as Philips, TomTom and Intel.

During his professional life Serhiy was holding numerous engineering and management positions and gained broad experience in Lean and Agile transformations, change management, strategy definition and execution, building and managing high-performance multidisciplinary distributed teams, definition and engineering of high scale new software and hardware products, outsourcing to Asia and Eastern Europe, supplier relationship management and intellectual property creation.

Serhiy holds MBA degree from the Nyenrode Business University, The Netherlands, Master degree "cum laude" in Applied Mathematics from the Lviv State University, Ukraine and a number of professional certifications: Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT), Kanban Management Professional (KMP), Team Kanban Practitioner (TKP) from the Lean Kanban University, Lean 6 Sigma Green Belt, Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute, Certified SCRUM Master (CSM) and Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) from Scrum Alliance, PRINCE2 Foundation from the APM Group. Serhiy is an author or co-author of 19 published patents.

Serhiy fluently speaks English, Dutch, Polish, Ukrainian and Russian languages and has basic knowledge of German and French languages.

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