Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management Skills

Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management SkillsTM is an interactive course designed to help Scrum practitioners improve their ability to manage all aspects of the Product Backlog and stakeholder communication.

Description

The Product Backlog is an emergent, ordered list of what is needed to improve the product. It is the single source of work undertaken by the Scrum Team. It changes constantly and requires a Product Owner to consider many options when adding to, deleting from, updating, and ordering it.

In this one-day* skills-building course, participants will learn techniques and methods to effectively manage a Product Backlog that clearly expresses the future vision of the product and brings transparency to what is most valuable for the Scrum Team to work on to delight stakeholders and customers. Students will get hands-on experience with refinement techniques such as decomposing and slicing Product Backlog items, while learning how simplicity can cure complicated and complex Product Backlogs.

Students will be able to connect the Product Goals they are investing in to the work being done to ensure that they are delivering value as well as how to understand and manage their relationships with the stakeholders involved.

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Course Learning Objectives

  • Apply practical techniques to create, refine, and order the Product Backlog

  • Identify and effectively communicate with stakeholders

  • Capture stakeholder’s needs on a Product Backlog

  • Find better ways to make the Product Backlog more transparent

  • Use empiricism as a competitive advantage