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Course Overview

NTUC LearningHub Course Code: IBFIT138

IBF Programme Code: P200827KBW

This is a two days course which introduces the students to maximizing the product value using Scrum. The workshop is designed to help them appreciate product discovery using Scrum. CSPOs decide what the team will create, ordering the work to ensure that the most valuable, impactful products reach customers at a regular cadence. This course will also prepare a learner to take the Certified Scrum Product Owner certification from the Scrum Alliance which is widely recognized throughout the world. This course is designed to help the product owners to learn how to maximize the value of the product.

Course Objectives

Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:

  • Understand Agile, its values, principles and various frameworks.
  • Understand how Agile helps to have Empirical process which in turn helps build customer centric products.
  • Understand about various contexts under which products are built.
  • Understand about different product contexts and Lean Startup for building products.
  • Understand about product management.
  • Understand core competencies about Product Owner.
  • Understand how to envision a product and create a backlog.
  • Understand how to form the hypothesis to test your assumptions.
  • Understand how to validate the hypothesis with users to build a customer centric product.
  • Understand the stakeholder management for better Return on Investment for the products built by the organizations.
  • Understand how to create product roadmap and manage product development using Scrum.

Pre-requisites

  • Knowledge, Skills & Experience
    • Prior experience or knowledge in project management, which can be achieved by attending:

IBFIT08 Project Management for All / IBFIT31 Certified Agile Professional

  • Hardware & Software

This course will be conducted as a Virtual Live Class (VLC) via Zoom platform. Participants must have a laptop or a desktop with “Zoom Client for Meetings” installed. This can be downloaded from https://zoom.us/download

Minimum Specs Recommended Specs
Processor / CPU 1.6 GHz or faster, 2-core Intel Core i3 or equivalent 1.8 GHz, 2-core Intel Core i3 or equivalent
Memory 4 GB RAM 8 GB RAM
Hard Disk 10 GB available storage space
Display 1280 x 768 screen resolution
Graphics 2GB Graphics Card
Others
  • Internet Connection: Wired or Wireless broadband (min 10 mbps)
  • Speakers and Microphone: built-in or USB plug-in or wireless Bluetooth
  • Webcam: built-in or USB plug-in

Course Outline

Pre-Course:

We want the students to make the most of the time they spend with our trainers and other students. Students will need to go through prepared learning materials on our Canvas Learning Management System to prepare for the workshop. By reading the online learning materials, participants will be able to:

  • Learn Agile Manifesto
  • Learn basic Scrum Framework
  • Go through Scrum Guide
  • Learn about the CSPO test process 

Course:

The course is designed to help you learn about building products while using Scrum. The focus would be on how a Product Owner discovers what to build and collaborate with development teams to build it. The whole course is split into 4 sprints focusing on the following topics:

Sprint 1: What is Product Management?

The goal of this sprint is to understand an overview about product fundamentals and product management.

  • Product Fundamentals
    • What is a Product?
    • Product Contexts
    • Product Development Cycle
    • Scrum and Lean Startup to deal with the complexity
  • Product Management Overview
    • Overview of Product Management
    • Skills required by product managers
    • Managing Stakeholders
    • Challenges in making decisions and decision matrix
    • A day of product manager
    • Product management career path

Sprint 2: Envisioning a product and creating a backlog

The goal of this Sprint is to learn about how to envision a product and generate ideas.

  • Product Strategy and Vision
    • Product Strategy overview
    • Crafting Product Vision
    • Communicating Product Vision
  • Ideation
    • Generating ideas using impact mapping
    • Prioritizing ideas
    • Designing experiments to validate ideas

Sprint 3: Capturing User Voice and validating Hypothesis

The goal of this sprint is to understand about identifying the hypothesis and validating it.

  • User Research
    • Various User Research techniques
    • How to choose a specific user research technique
    • Designing experiments to validate problems
    • Capturing user voice using experience map
    • Generating user stories from data collected during user research
  • Modeling Solution
    • Design Thinking Basics
    • Design Sprints
    • Prototyping
    • Validating solution approach

Sprint 4: Creating Product Roadmap and managing Product Development

The goal of this sprint is to learn about how to product planning, roadmaps and managing product development.

  • Product Planning and Roadmaps
    • Brainstorming ideas using six thinking hats
    • Splitting user stories
    • Business Value Estimation
    • Identifying MVP
  • Managing Product Development
    • Deciding development cadence
    • Running Sprints
    • Managing Risks
    • Tracking Progress
    • Managing changes

Certificate Obtained and Conferred by

  • Certificate of Completion from NTUC LearningHub 

Upon meeting 100% attendance and passing the assessment(s), participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from NTUC LearningHub.

  • External Certification

After completing this course with 100% attendance and upon passing the class assessment, candidates will receive a welcome email from Scrum Alliance® within 2 weeks from the date of course completion. The email will prompt you to accept the license agreement for your CSPO certification. After accepting the agreement, you will be able to download and print copies of your CSPO certification. The certification is governed and maintained by Scrum Alliance.

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