Advanced Business Product Owner

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Course Overview

Summary:

The Advanced Business Product Owner course provides the Lean principles and business practices required for the Business Product Owner to realize the highest business value (ROI) from technology investments. It covers portfolio and release management, managing demand with capacity to achieve faster realization of business value, and business planning and backlog management to drive development teams in producing incremental value.

Course Objectives:

The objectives for this course include:

Defining the role of the Business Product Owner and how it guides and drives development
Defining effective business value vision and focus
Defining, prioritizing, and planning business increments based on highest business value
Creating a focus in the development team towards delivering high value, high quality software in a sustainable manner
Addressing the challenges, approaches, and mind sets faced by the Business Product Owner

Target Audience:

Management

Planning/Estimation

Lean Implementation

Transitioning to Agile

Agile

Lean-Agile

Scrum

Primary Audience:

Business principals, sponsors, product managers, product owners, Business SMEs, stakeholders.

Learning Objectives:

The learning objectives for this course include:

Identify the roles and responsibilities of the Business and the Business Product Owner
Identify business value criteria for prioritization, decomposition, and sequencing
Define business value increments
Describe how to manage scope, time line, and delivery of value based on capacity of teams
Identify how to create a single prioritized list and manage active work-in-progress (WIP)
Demonstrate use of tools and techniques that provide visibility for portfolio management and oversight
Execute decision making using Lean thinking and Lean-Agile reporting in a timely manner.

Course Outline

Introduction
- Mindsets
- Challenges
- Discovery
- Projects vs. Products
Lean-Agile Overview
- What is Agility
- The context for Lean-Agile
- Speed of realizing value
- Roles and boundaries
Lean-Agile business practices
- Business value
- Value stream / queues
- Business prioritization
- Business planning
- Business readiness / staging
- Ready to pull
Reports for the BPO

Visual controls

Full Description

This course focuses on the Business responsibilities and practices needed to effectively prioritize and drive technology projects to achieve the highest business value (ROI) faster. The Business Product Owner is responsible for priority across the portfolio, department, and programs.

Topics covered include:

Business value decisioning: Value criteria, prioritization, sequencing and focusing teams
Business planning: Portfolio, project, release, and feature level
Predictability and forecasting
Business decomposition: Identifying appropriately sized business increments
Effectively managing demand with capacity based on life-cycle of profit
Business discovery, staging, and readiness for development
Business roles, responsibilities, and practices
Using visual controls and reports to make good business decisions

Course Description PDF:

Net Objectives Course Description Advanced Business Product Owner.pdf

Prerequisites

Required Prerequisites:

None.

Attendees should bring information on their current portfolio, current active book of work (BOW), and a sample product backlog, product vision statements, and features, if available. These will be used as part of the exercises throughout the course.