The Product Owner Profession: Unleashing the Power of Scrum

Overview

Product Owners are a key driving force behind successful Agile teams, ensuring the product vision aligns with business goals and delivers maximum value. This course gives you the ideal introduction to starting your Product Owner journey. During the course, you'll learn about the roles and responsibilities of an Agile Product Owner in Scrum teams, comparing them to other traditional product roles, for example, product manager. You'll explore the skills, competencies, and knowledge requirements for a successful project owner. You'll examine the end-to-end Scrum framework and understand the key stakeholders with which Product Owners collaborate to achieve success. Plus, you'll look at how to create and communicate a compelling product vision that aligns with organizational goals and provides direction for the development team. Through the course, you'll gain hands-on experience in labs and projects, investigating product strategy and value. Plus, you'll explore the employment opportunities for a Product Owner so you can envision your career path. You will also hear from experts who will share their insights and tips that will help in your Product Owner journey. If you're looking to take your first step toward becoming a Product Owner, ENROLL TODAY and start building your path to future success.

Syllabus

The Role of the Product Owner

In this module, you’ll learn the core responsibilities of Agile Product Owners. You’ll explore how they align business strategy with development, lead key agile meetings, and prioritize tasks for value delivery. Additionally, you’ll cover essential skills like Agile principles, project management, effective use of tools, and the interpersonal skills needed to collaborate with stakeholders and drive continuous improvement.

Opportunities for Agile Product Owners

In this module, you will examine all aspects of the Product Owner role within the Agile framework. You will review the current expectations for the essential skills required and the roles that a Product Owner should perform to succeed in their career. You will also learn how to develop the skill set of a Product Owner. This module also helps you discover employment opportunities for a Product Owner, including the salary outlook through expert opinions. You will explore the career paths of a Product Owner.

Guided Project, Final Assessment, and Course Wrap-up

This module includes a final project for the participants to practice the role of Product Owner, where you will apply your end-to-end Product Owner capabilities on a real-life scenario. You will learn to define a product goal and then demonstrate how you would communicate with the various players in the Agile process, including other Scrum team roles, business stakeholders, and product users. Guided by experts, you will discover what it takes to work as a Product Owner through their experiences and tips. This module will help you assess your knowledge through the final quiz.