Do you consider yourself a key stakeholder when it comes to delivering Agile projects? Do you find that you are often required to provide the vision of what needs to be created or built? If you are nodding yes, then you are fulfilling the role of Agile product owner. Agile sounds great, but you have questions about how it will work for you and your project team/ organization. There are technical and general issues that need to be addressed, and that is what this course was designed to do.

You will discuss the business value of using Agile and why you will have to collaborate with IT. The course also addresses who the product owner is, how to be effective in that role, and what that role entails as well as what the new expectations will be. You will learn what user stories are and how to write them. The course touches on the roles of the users and business SMEs as well as acceptance test, how to identify them, and when to use them.

This course provides you with real-world best practices and offers tips on how to use them to motivate your team. It is also an objective of this course to prepare you for your leader role in this Agile project process.

Course duration

3 days

Course outline

Overview of Agile

• Overview of Agile
• The Traditional Way
• The Agile Way
• With an Agile Approach…
• Waterfall vs. Agile
• The Agile Manifesto - 2001
• Agile Principles
• What is Agile?
• The Iterative Process
• Requirements: Incomplete and Otherwise
• Requirements Myth
• The Requirements Disconnect
• The Requirements Reality