1 - Product Owner Core Competencies

• Analyze the importance of Product Ownership.

• Reflect on the mindset and actions of a successful Product Owner.

• Discuss at least three possible impacts to their stakeholder relationships

   and/or product that could result if their Scrum Team adopted the latest definition of

   Scrum.

• Demonstrate at least three techniques to interact with stakeholders over multiple

   sprints.

• Describe two examples when the Product Owner should not act as the facilitator

   for the stakeholders.

• Demonstrate at least three facilitative listening techniques.

• Demonstrate the use of at least two alternatives to open discussion.

• Describe at least three ways to facilitate a final decision with stakeholders.

• Explain why the Product Owner should be cautious about accumulating technical

   debt.

• List at least three development practices that could help their Scrum Team

  deliver a high-quality Increment and reduce technical debt each Sprint.

• Recognize at least two approaches to scaling Scrum.

• Identify at least two techniques for visualizing, managing, or reducing

   dependencies.

• Describe at least three benefits and drawbacks of feature teams and component

  teams.

2 - Advanced Goal Setting and Planning

• Discuss a real-world example of how product strategy is operationalized and

  evolves over time in an agile organization.

• Practice at least two approaches to identify purpose or define strategy.

• Create a product plan or forecast with stakeholders.

• Practice at least one technique to visualize and communicate product strategy,

   product ideas, features, and/or assumptions.

3 - Empathizing with Customers and Users

• Use one technique to connect developers directly to customers and users.

• Practice at least two techniques of product discovery.

4 - Advanced Product Assumption Validation

• List two cognitive biases that may impact the Product Owner’s capability to

  effectively deliver business value.

• Appraise how effectively a Sprint Review was used to inspect and adapt

  based on the Sprint Goal and Increment(s) that were completed during the

  sprint.

• Experiment with at least one approach to incorporate validating assumptions

  into the scrum framework.

• Develop at least two hypotheses for a target customer.

• Create a plan to test at least one hypothesis.

5 - Product Backlog Management

• Use at least two techniques to model value and at least two techniques to

  measure value.

• Apply at least three techniques to order a Product Backlog to support a

  product goal.

• Describe how the Product Owner can ensure that enough Product Backlog items

   are “ready” for the upcoming Sprint.

• Integrate feedback from at least three sources to generate and refine Product

  Backlog items.

• Experiment with at least two ways to improve their Product Backlog refinement.

1. 2 Year membership with Scrum Alliance 

2. Experinced and accredited trainers

3. Access to course material 

4. Certification