Product Owner Fundamentals

The Product Owner is the most important role in Agile Scrum. They are responsible for understanding the needs of the business and working with the Developers to define a product vision and strategy. Learn about Product Owner Fundamentals so you can become an MVP too!

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Learn the foundational knowledge and essential skills you need to become a valuable member of your Scrum team as a Product Owner (PO).

We’ll prepare you for this crucial role by teaching you the core concepts and mindset of the PO, as well as the responsibilities, activities, skills, and best practices of successful Product Owners.

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Learn the foundational knowledge and essential skills you need to become a valuable member of your Scrum team as a Product Owner (PO).

We’ll prepare you for this crucial role by teaching you the core concepts and mindset of the PO, as well as the responsibilities, activities, skills, and best practices of successful Product Owners.

Learn more about the course and your instructors below!

What you’ll learn in this course:

  • An overview of the Product Owner role and how to get into the mindset of one.
  • A review of Agile Scrum to bring you up to speed with the Scrum components.
  • How to work with Stakeholders successfully by understanding their needs and building critical relationships. 
  • Generating Value that you can deliver upon and measure.
  • Working and refining the Product Backlog and how to manage it effectively and efficiently. 
  • Reviewing a day as a Product Owner and addressing what’s next. 

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Awesome Perks

We’ve included some pretty insightful and useful resources with this course, including: 

  • High-quality video lectures that simplify complex terminology and processes so you can understand and absorb them wherever you are and whenever you want. 
  • Quizzes and activities that give you practical experience, strengthen, and validate your comprehension of the concepts and lessons.
  • Downloadable Resources that you can keep and reference beyond the classroom, in your job. 
  • Our 30-Minute Agile Scrum Round-Up to get you caught up on Scrum and its core elements, regardless of your past Agile Scrum experience.

The Extras

  • Money-Back Guarantee
    If you’re not happy with the course, contact us in the first 30 days and we’ll give you your money back.
  • Lifetime Access
    Enrollment grants you unlimited access to your course and any activities, resources, handouts, and quizzes for life.
  • 1-on-1 Support
    Unlimited 1-on-1 support directly from your instructor for any questions you might have.

Jeremy Aschenbrenner,
Chief Instructor

Meet Your Instructor

Hi, I’m Jeremy Aschenbrenner!
Many know me better as The BA Guide.

After gaining a decade of valuable experience in business analysis and consistently delivering successful projects that drive value for organizations, I decided to follow my passion for teaching others. This led me to establish The BA Guide, a platform dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations by sharing my expertise.
Learn more about me here

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Customer Appreciation

"I really enjoyed this course! It confirmed much of my prior Agile Scrum knowledge, but I learned new things too. I appreciated the exercises and real world examples."
Kaley J. -
"Excellent content! This has been a great resource for achieving Product Owner excellence. Great job putting this course together!"
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"I'm a product owner currently and it is now good to understand what my responsibilities actually are. I also understand what techniques and tools can be used."
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Course Curriculum

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Product Owner Fundamentals

Welcome to the Course

  1. Welcome to the Course
  2. Introducing the Product Owner
  3. Developing a Product Mindset
  4. A Day as a Product Owner
  5. ACTIVITY: The Important Attributes of a Product Owner
  6. Meet your Instructor - Jeremy Aschenbrenner
  7. Validate your understanding: Product Ownership

The 30-Minute Agile Scrum Round-Up

  1. Introducing the Agile Scrum Round-Up
  2. Overview of Agile
  3. Introduction to the Scrum Framework
  4. Explaining Scrum: Roles
  5. Explaining Scrum: Events
  6. Explaining Scrum: Artifacts
  7. Non-Official Scrum
  8. Putting it all Together
  9. Updates to Scrum Standards
  10. Validate your understanding: Agile

The Role of the Product Owner

  1. Product Owner Responsibilities
  2. Product Owner Activities
  3. Skills and Traits of an Effective Product Owner
  4. ACTIVITY: Self-Reflect and Define Next Steps
  5. Working with Stakeholders Overview
  6. Working with the Development Team Overview
  7. Working with the Scrum Master Overview
  8. Critical Thinking: Creating a Shared Vision
  9. Validate your Understanding: Product Owner Role

Working with Stakeholders

  1. Identifying Stakeholders
  2. Understanding Stakeholder Roles
  3. Identifying Stakeholder Key Contacts
  4. Engaging with Stakeholders
  5. Interfacing with Internal Customers
  6. ACTIVITY: ChooChoo Gallery
  7. Validate your Understanding: Stakeholders

Generating Value

  1. Value and its Delivery
  2. Measuring Value
  3. Setting Metrics as Goals
  4. ACTIVITY: CHS Tech Scenario
  5. ACTIVITY ANSWER: CHS Tech Scenario
  6. Validate your Understanding: Value

The Product Backlog Defined

  1. The Product Backlog and its Items
  2. Understanding User Stories
  3. Other Product Backlog Items: Part I - Spikes and Technical Stories
  4. Other Product Backlog Items: Part II - Defects and Internal Tasks
  5. Estimating Product Backlog Items
  6. Estimation Techniques and their uses of Velocity
  7. Activity Setup: CHS Tech User Stories
  8. ACTIVITY: CHS Tech User Stories
  9. Validate your Understanding: The Product Backlog

Product Backlog Refinement and Prioritization

  1. Maintaining a Product Backlog
  2. Prioritizing a Product Backlog
  3. Prioritization Technique: MoSCoW
  4. Prioritization Technique: Kano
  5. Validate your Understanding: Backlog Maintenance

Final Activity: CHS Tech Product Owner - Clientbase

  1. Final Activity Setup Step 1: Creating a Product Backlog
  2. Final Activity Setup Step 2: Adding User Stories to your Product Backlog
  3. FINAL ACTIVITY: Product Owner Scenarios

Wrapping Things Up

  1. A Day as a Product Owner - Part 1 Revisited
  2. A Day as a Product Owner - Part 2
  3. Well done! What's Next?

Product Owner Fundamentals Course

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