ICAgile Certified Product Ownership (ICP-APO) (Online) (Live Online)

Are you ready to step-up to Agile Product Ownership and embark on a transformative journey? Join us for a hands-on experience where you learn how to embrace your customers, gain buy-in from stakeholders, make value-based decisions, and measure for successful outcomes!Achieving the Agile Product Ownership certification validates knowledge to understand customer needs and effectively deliver valuable products and services through key agile practices such as adaptive prioritization and planning. You will learn how to align backlogs to the product goal, create product roadmaps, and write user stories to maximize the customer experience.Our certification courses are designed to fit into your schedule with options for 3.5 hours, 5 hours, or 8 hours of learning each day.Our Agile Product Ownership (ICP-APO) course is an industry-recognized credential from ICAgile.Our Agile Product Ownership (ICP-APO) certification class contains a good balance of theory and practice. You work through real-world problems, starting with the customer, and working through the product delivery life cycle. You will obtain practical skills and fill your toolbox with accelerators for immediate impact!Customer-Side Roles – who are the customersUnderstanding the Customer – market research, user personas, empathy mapsWorking Backwards – a 5-Stage Amazon approach (listen, define, invent, refine, test & iterate)Customer Analysis “Lean Canvas” for problem statement, solution proposed, key metrics, and customer segmentationFeedback – techniques for collecting feedbackStakeholder Power-Interest Grid – from the book, Making Strategy, by Colin Eden and Fran AckermannStakeholder Canvas’ – collaboration techniques for understanding your stakeholders better (by Lavaneesh Gautam, www.edgeagility.com)Defining Agile Product Ownership – product management vs. product ownershipProduct Ownership – detailed understanding, voice of the customerValue – what is value, customer value, factors impacting valueInvolving Your Customers – desire to be involved, and customer relationshipBuilding Trust with Stakeholders and Agile Teams – all about improving relationshipsFacilitation – how to be an effective facilitatorFacilitation Techniques – new techniques to facilitate any working session with role-playPersonal Action Plan – a canvas template for improving your product ownership skills and behaviorsProduct Delivery Life Cycle – six stages involved in delivery a productProduct Vision – creating a product vision for a real-world problemProduct Identification – identifying a product that supports the product vision that solves a real-world problemProduct Goal – from product vision to a visible single, high level long term product objectiveProduct Planning – using features for planning, with feature user storiesDefinition of Done – a shared understanding for delivering quality product incrementsFeature Roadmap – determine what to build now, next, later, and much laterRelative Estimation – a sizing technique for predictability and sustainability, includes using the Scrum Adventures Toolbox app (available for free on Google Play or Apple App Store)Buy a Feature – an interactive game for making decisions with stakeholder buy-inValue-Based Decision Making – a matrix approach for aligning to organizational strategyProduct Planning – the “why”, “what”, and “how” to create a product plan for communicating progress with a shared understandingProduct Backlog – from the roadmap to getting ready for delivery, aligning with your Agile teamsAgile Iterations – building an iteration backlog for planning for now, next, later, and much laterLaunch and Land Products – getting the product to marketMeasuring Outcomes and Impact – a combination of quantitative and qualitative metrics to gain a more nuanced view of performanceCaDoMi™ Tools – a CaDoMi Agile Transformation Ecosystem enterprise application for measuring quantitative predictability and qualitative performanceAgile Business Delivery Value (“ABDV”) – a 3-pillar accelerator for measuring the value of what you have already chosen to build (“Bang for the Buck”)Continue-Pivot-Stop – knowing when to stop, with case studiesCertificationThis course satisfies ICAgile’s Agile Product Ownership (ICP-APO) certification requirements.At the end of this course, students will receive the ICAgile ICP-APO certification, students must be in attendance all schedule sessions with active participation.The course is part of the ICAgile Product Management Track, we recommended that you have fulfilled the ICAgile Agile Fundamentals (ICP) certification, or equivalent experience.