IBFIT38: CERTIFIED SCRUM PRODUCT OWNER (CSPO)-P200827KBW
CERTIFIED SCRUM PRODUCT OWNER (CSPO)-P200827KBW
Course Duration
Mode of Assessment
Students will be required to complete an online assessment during class
Who Should Attend
Product Owners, Business Analysts, Project Managers, Product Managers, Data Analysts, Individuals with project management knowledge and experience aiming to achieve globally recognised Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification from Scrum Alliance, Individuals who aspire to be Product Owners, Individuals who would like to understand Scrum methodology to pursue a role in product management
What's In It for Me
- Learn who is a Product Owner and their critical skills that a Product Owner should have.
- Uncover what are the issues that Organizations face in having Product Owner roles and patterns.
- Learn how to incrementally elicit requirements.
- Learn how to use various prioritization techniques to deliver incremental products.
- Learn how to test assumptions sooner to mitigate business risks.
Course Overview
NTUC LearningHub Course Code: IBFIT138
IBF Programme Code: P200827KBW
This is a two days course which introduces the students to maximizing the product value using Scrum. The workshop is designed to help them appreciate product discovery using Scrum. CSPOs decide what the team will create, ordering the work to ensure that the most valuable, impactful products reach customers at a regular cadence. This course will also prepare a learner to take the Certified Scrum Product Owner certification from the Scrum Alliance which is widely recognized throughout the world. This course is designed to help the product owners to learn how to maximize the value of the product.
Course Schedule
Next available schedule
Course Objectives
Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand Agile, its values, principles and various frameworks.
- Understand how Agile helps to have Empirical process which in turn helps build customer centric products.
- Understand about various contexts under which products are built.
- Understand about different product contexts and Lean Startup for building products.
- Understand about product management.
- Understand core competencies about Product Owner.
- Understand how to envision a product and create a backlog.
- Understand how to form the hypothesis to test your assumptions.
- Understand how to validate the hypothesis with users to build a customer centric product.
- Understand the stakeholder management for better Return on Investment for the products built by the organizations.
- Understand how to create product roadmap and manage product development using Scrum.
Pre-requisites
- Knowledge, Skills & Experience
- Prior experience or knowledge in project management, which can be achieved by attending:
NICF021 Project Management Fundamentals / IBFIT08 Project Management for All / IBFIT31 Certified Agile Professional
- Hardware & Software
This course will be conducted as a Virtual Live Class (VLC) via Zoom platform. Participants must have a laptop or a desktop with “Zoom Client for Meetings” installed. This can be downloaded from https://zoom.us/download
| Minimum Specs | Recommended Specs | |
| Processor / CPU | 1.6 GHz or faster, 2-core Intel Core i3 or equivalent | 1.8 GHz, 2-core Intel Core i3 or equivalent |
| Memory | 4 GB RAM | 8 GB RAM |
| Hard Disk | 10 GB available storage space | |
| Display | 1280 x 768 screen resolution | |
| Graphics | 2GB Graphics Card | |
| Others | · Internet Connection: Wired or Wireless broadband (min 10 mbps)
· Speakers and Microphone: built-in or USB plug-in or wireless Bluetooth · Webcam: built-in or USB plug-in |
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| Software | · Microsoft PowerPoint 2016
· Microsoft Word 2016 |
Course Outline
Pre-Course:
We want the students to make the most of the time they spend with our trainers and other students. Students will need to go through prepared learning materials on our Canvas Learning Management System to prepare for the workshop. By reading the online learning materials, participants will be able to:
- Learn Agile Manifesto
- Learn basic Scrum Framework
- Go through Scrum Guide
- Learn about the CSPO test process
Course:
The course is designed to help you learn about building products while using Scrum. The focus would be on how a Product Owner discovers what to build and collaborate with development teams to build it. The whole course is split into 4 sprints focusing on the following topics:
Sprint 1: What is Product Management?
The goal of this sprint is to understand an overview about product fundamentals and product management.
- Product Fundamentals
- What is a Product?
- Product Contexts
- Product Development Cycle
- Scrum and Lean Startup to deal with the complexity
- Product Management Overview
- Overview of Product Management
- Skills required by product managers
- Managing Stakeholders
- Challenges in making decisions and decision matrix
- A day of product manager
- Product management career path
Sprint 2: Envisioning a product and creating a backlog
The goal of this Sprint is to learn about how to envision a product and generate ideas.
- Product Strategy and Vision
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- Product Strategy overview
- Crafting Product Vision
- Communicating Product Vision
- Ideation
- Generating ideas using impact mapping
- Prioritizing ideas
- Designing experiments to validate ideas
Sprint 3: Capturing User Voice and validating Hypothesis
The goal of this sprint is to understand about identifying the hypothesis and validating it.
- User Research
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- Various User Research techniques
- How to choose a specific user research technique
- Designing experiments to validate problems
- Capturing user voice using experience map
- Generating user stories from data collected during user research
- Modeling Solution
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- Design Thinking Basics
- Design Sprints
- Prototyping
- Validating solution approach
Sprint 4: Creating Product Roadmap and managing Product Development
The goal of this sprint is to learn about how to product planning, roadmaps and managing product development.
- Product Planning and Roadmaps
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- Brainstorming ideas using six thinking hats
- Splitting user stories
- Business Value Estimation
- Identifying MVP
- Managing Product Development
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- Deciding development cadence
- Running Sprints
- Managing Risks
- Tracking Progress
- Managing changes
Certificate Obtained and Conferred by
- Certificate of Completion from NTUC LearningHub
Upon meeting 100% attendance and passing the assessment(s), participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from NTUC LearningHub.
- External Certification Exam
After completing this course with 100% attendance and upon passing the class assessment, candidates will receive a welcome email from Scrum Alliance® within 2 weeks from the date of course completion. The email will prompt you to accept the license agreement for your CSPO certification. After accepting the agreement, you will be able to download and print copies of your CSPO certification. The certification is governed and maintained by Scrum Alliance.
Additional Details
Medium of Instruction: English
Trainer: Trainee Ratio is 1:30
Mode of Delivery: Virtual Live Class (VLC) via Zoom
As this is a government subsidised programme, the entire training programme will be video recorded for audit purposes by the relevant funding agency. To ascertain their presence, Trainees / Participants are required to
- Turn on web camera to show real-time video, as opposed to using a profile picture / video (jpg/jpeg, gif or png image file) for the entirety of the training and assessment session.
- Ensure that their faces are fully visible (not just the forehead / eyebrows)
- Use their full name as per NRIC / Passport as their Screen Name on Zoom
Courseware: Learner’s Resources on Canvas Learning Management System
Professional Development Units (PDUs)
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will receive 14 PDUs. You may claim the PDUs on PMI’s portal with the following details:
- Provider ID: 3163
- Activity ID: IBFIT38
- Activity Name: Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
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*With effect from 3rd October 2022:
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Funding Eligibility Criteria
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Individual Sponsored Trainee |
Company Sponsored Trainee |
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Remarks
- Self-sponsored Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above can use their SkillsFuture Credit to offset course fee payable after funding
- Self-sponsored NTUC Members can enjoy up to 50% funding (capped at $250 per year) under Union Training Assistance Programme (UTAP)
Terms and conditions apply. NTUC LearningHub reserve the right to make changes or improvements to any of the products described in this document without prior notice.
Fees are subject to other LHUB miscellaneous fees
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