Course Taxonomy: Product Management

SAFe® AI-Empowered Product Owner/Product Manager (SAFe POPM)

Posted on October 17, 2020 by -

  • Lesson 1: Exploring Product Roles and Responsibilities
    • Introducing SAFe for product roles
    • The Lean-Agile mindset
    • Value streams
    • Responsibilities of product roles
  • Lesson 2: Preparing for PI Planning
    • PI Planning
    • The solution vision
    • Solution and PI roadmaps
    • Customer-centric features
    • ART backlog and Kanban
  • Lesson 3: Leading PI Planning
    • Communicate the vision
    • Establish PI objectives
    • Manage dependencies
    • Manage risks
  • Lesson 4: Executing Iterations
    • Stories and story maps
    • Iteration planning
    • The team Kanban and team sync
    • Backlog refinement
    • Iteration review and iteration retrospective
    • Continuous delivery pipeline
  • Lesson 5: Executing the PI
    • Aligning delivery with sync events
    • The system demo
    • The innovation and planning iteration
    • Inspect and adapt
  • Lesson 6: AI for Product Roles
    • An overview of AI
    • Responsible AI
    • Building an AI-augmented workforce

The Power of the Product Owner

Posted on October 17, 2020 by -

Part 1: Product Journey – Where are we going?

1.From project to product

2.The concept of “product ownership”

3.Product roadmaps – Who? What? Why

  • Balancing competing interests
  • Charting a course for “Product Agility”

Part 2: The Role of the Product Owner

1.Before agile… after agile…

2.How do you build great PO’s?

  • Technical skills
  • Soft skills
  • Flavors of PO’s

3.The order taker dilemma

4.Building balanced PO teams

5.Working with other players on the product team

Part 3: Blending Product Discovery and Delivery

1.Roadmap -> Backlog -> Work Item

2.Early discovery – When? Why? How?

  • Release cadence
  • From concept to journeys

3.Discovery/Delivery cadence

  • What? Why? How?
  • Sprint cadence
  • From journeys to stories and tests
  • “How big?” to “Too big?”

4.Want more from your team? Build a better backlog

  • Tactics
  • Incremental investment, measuring impact, and adjusting

5.How much involvement is too much or too little?

Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner® (A-CSPO®)

Posted on October 17, 2020 by -

Part 1: Product Owner Core Competencies

  • The importance of the product ownership
  • The mindset and Actions of a Product Owner
  • Interacting with Stakeholders
  • Product Owners as facilitators
  • Facilitation techniques
  • Facilitation of conversations with Stakeholders
  • Understanding the risk of technical debt
  • Understanding the importance of development practices
  • Recognize approaches to scaling scrum
  • Visualizing and reducing dependencies
  • Benefits of Feature Teams

Part 2: Advanced Goal setting and planning

  • Operationalizing Product Strategy
  • Approaches to define product strategy
  • Product Planning
  • Visualizing and communication Strategy, ideas, and features

Part 3: Empathizing with Customers and Users

  • Connecting Developers with Customers
  • Customer product discovery techniques

Part 4: Advanced Product Assumption Validation

  • Recognize cognitive biases
  • Improving your Sprint Review
  • Defining Hypotheses
  • Planning how to test hypotheses
  • Validating assumptions in Scrum

Part 5: Product Backlog Management

  • Techniques for measuring value
  • Techniques for ordering Product Backlogs
  • Getting enough Product Backlog items ready
  • Improving Product Backlog Refinement