Course Objectives
At the end of 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
- Be able to speak, listen, read and write English at a proficiency level equivalent to the Employability Skills Workforce Skills Qualification (ES WSQ) Workplace Literacy (WPL) Level 6
- Well versed in Microsoft Office applications, especially Word
- Hardware & Software
This course will be conducted as a Virtual Live Class (VLC) via Zoom platform. Participants must own a zoom account and have a laptop or a desktop with “Zoom Client for Meetings” installed. This can be downloaded from https://zoom.us/download
System Requirement |
Must Have:
Please ensure that your computer or laptop meets the following requirements.
Good to Have:
Not Recommended: Using tablets is not recommended due to their smaller screen size, which could cause eye strain and discomfort over the course of the program's duration. |
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 Fundementals
- 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
- deation
- 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 at least 75% attendance and passing the assessment(s), participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from NTUC LearningHub.
- External Certification
After completing the course with 100% attendance achieved and upon passing the in-class assessment, students 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 your CSPO certification. The certification is governed and maintained by Scrum Alliance.
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More Information
- NTUC LearningHub
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