Ketterä tuoteomistajuus - Agile Product Ownership

The faster the world changes all around you, the more important it becomes to have the ability to react fast, but in organised manner, to those changes. When organisations internalise the principles and practices of agility, they can react faster to unexpected situations. During this two-day course, the participants will learn how to build the right thing by utilising vision and agile backlogs, how to build it right with iterative and continuous development and holistic solution design, and how lean and agile principles, methods and teams help to build it fast.

After the training, you are able to utilise variety of methods for building the right things. You will understand the different aspects of Agile Product Ownership and the importance of agile & lean development when building those things right. You know how effective agile teams and lean principles will support on building the things fast and what are the common pitfalls when utilising agility. You will also understand why it is so important to decrease batch sizes and increase flow and how correct metrics can support to improve them. You will gain concrete tools for managing backlogs and prioritising work as well as practical skills to validate customer data and succeed as Agile Product Owner in today's organisations.

Course topics:

• LESSON1: Introduction to Agile and Lean development
  • Introduction to Agile & Lean
  • Agile Pitfalls
  • Metrics
  • Agile Product Ownership
• LESSON2: Build the Right Thing
  • Vision and Roadmap
  • Product Backlog
  • Managing Backlog
• LESSON3: Build the Thing Right
  • Iterative and continuous development
  • Holistic Solution Design​
  • NFRs & User Stories
• LESSON4: Build the Thing Fast
  • Lean development principles​
  • Scrum, Kanban, DevOps​
  • Batch sizes & effective agile teams
• LESSON5: Wrap Up & Reflect

Lots of hands-on exercises will be done during the course. 

Who will benefit

The training is suitable for anybody who plays a central role in their organisation related to Agile product and project management. The Agile Product Ownership is especially suitable for Product Owners and Product Managers as well as Business Analysts other roles working with projects and products and are taking part of the change towards Lean-Agile organisations.

Although some basic knowledge from Agile, Lean or management of projects and products are considered beneficial, they are not compulsory. The training is suitable for personnel from private organisations as well as from public administration. 

About the trainers: 

All our trainers are experienced experts of Lean&Agile and they have gained excellent feedback from their training skills and content knowledge. Our trainers have gained years of practical experience from different projects and roles as well as from agile teams and organisations. We have trained hundreds of people and teams to agile methodology and the participants have felt they gained concrete benefits to their agile implementations. To know more about our trainers, check here.