Agile Product Ownership (ICAgile)

Acquire proven techniques and practices to define value in alignment with business and user needs, to engage stakeholders at broad levels, and to measure customer value at scale.

You’ll learn through presentations, discussion and practical hands-on exercises. Our ICAgile-certified trainers are practising Agile Product coaches and who work alongside some of Australia’s best-known organisations.

💖 Why learn with Organa?

Our courses always receive 4 or 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ stars. Why? Because our courses are designed and facilitated by veterans of the industry with real life stories from the trenches. We aren't trainers that have been taught how to deliver these courses, we're experienced industry practitioners from companys like Spotify, ANZ, Telstra and with experience in Government, for example the DTA. And finally... Our courses are hands-on, experiential, highly interactive and importantly... Fun! We are also big fans of and utilise the 'Training from the Back of the Room' framework for adult learning.

Furthermore, most Product Ownership courses focus almost entirely on product delivery, whereas we believe that product discovery techniques are equally important and as such, we spend a sizable amount of time teaching POs how to answer the question "what is the right thing to deliver?".

A real-life example from our course, facilitated by Brendan Marsh, ex-Spotify Agile Coach and Product Manager:

🤔Who is this for?

• Product Owners (and aspiring)
• Product Managers
• Business Analysts
• Project Managers
• Scrum Team Members
• Managers / Executives

🎓Learning Objectives

• Apply tools and techniques to understand, form and articulate a product vision
• Define, prioritise, deliver, and measure value at the team level
• Adopt the skills and behaviours to focus on outcomes over output
• Know when and how to use prototyping, customer interviews and other experiments to expose the emergent aspects of a solution
• Apply techniques short and medium-term incremental planning and delivery so that you can demonstrate progress while focusing on maximising value
• Collaboratively build a shared understanding of value, and make sure decisions get made.

📝Course Outline

The course runs for 2 days in-person or 4 half-days remotely. If there is another approach you'd like to take, we're also able to be flexible.

Introduction to systems thinking

Agile refresher

• Managing complexity
• Values and principles

Understanding value

• What is value
• Product Management as a craft
• Skills and behaviours for the Product Owner role

Who is this for (users and stakeholders)

• Start with the users
• Discovery interviews
• Capture and share widely
• Internal stakeholders

Finding and framing the right problems to solve

• Collaboration and communication
• Develop a shared understanding

Creating value with experimentation

• Hypotheses and assumptions 
• Prototype and run experiments
• Discover and manage risk

Long term planning

Roadmaps

Measures and metrics

Short term planning and delivery

• Product backlog
• Prioritisation techniques
• User stories, acceptance criteria and definition of done

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