Scrum has the Product Owner role.  In eXtreme Programming (XP) it's called the Customer role.  Regardless of the job title, ineffective product management is one of the leading causes of agile project failure.  Now is the time to get serious about having this role reach its full potential!

Too many agile teams settle for mediocrity. They work on improving their software development process, but then waste their improvement by delivering low-value features. In other words, they've become faster to market, but without the right product this simply causes faster customer dissatisfaction.  Too many product people (product managers,  business analysts and other product facing roles) don't know how to proactively help their teams build great software that is delivered on time, on budget, with the proper feature set and with high quality.

In this intense, hands-on 2-day course, agile veterans Bob Hartman and Richard Lawrence train you in the skills and practices you need to identify high-value features and ensure that they're built right.  Learn to deliver the highest value in the least amount of time and get all of the benefits of agile!

Topics include...

• Understanding Agile: Process and Driving Principles
• Ensuring the Right Things Gets Built: Testing and Acceptance
• Specifying What to Build: User Stories
• Deciding What to Build First: Prioritization
• Defining Customer Value: Minimum Marketable/Releasable Features
• Project Acceptance: Building a Product Vision and Business Case
• Product Management 101: Useful Tips, Tricks and Techniques
• Pulling it All Together: Project Simulation

You will leave the course knowing how to:

• Deal with the team outside of just planning meetings, demonstrations and retrospectives.
• Break down requirements into usable stories - even when the team is unable to help.
• Deliver value in stages rather than all at once.
• Write acceptance criteria to ensure the right features are being developed.
• Create a project business case and vision.
• Perform basic product management functions in an agile way.
• Effectively interact with customers, community, stakeholders, managers, and the team.
• Make a convincing business case for using agile for more projects.
• Continuously improve.

If you are a product manager, product owner, business analyst or in any other product facing role in an agile or soon-to-be agile environment then you need this course!

Are you ready to get serious about creating great products?  If so, register today!

For more information email bob.hartman@agileforall.com

Logistics: The course runs 8:30am to 5:00pm each day. Parking at the PPA Event Center is free.  Registration fee includes continental breakfast, lunch and snacks each day. If you have special dietary needs please mention this during the registration process.