The Product Owner Dojo is a three day intensive training to learn the art of being an agile product owner that goes far beyond learning Scrum. (However, this is also an official ScrumAlliance course, so the price includes the option for a CSPO certificate)

The goals of this training are:

• Experience the art of product ownership and what it takes to lead a team, develop great products over the long term and with purpose

• Launch great products, sustainable, flexible and fast - while having fun

• Grow a learning network of and for product owners

Take-a-ways:

• Deep understanding and experience of the unique leadership role of a Product Owner

• Hands-on practice with thinking tools to be applied right away after the course

• Moved and shaped a product vision

• Know how to take action on an organisational change concern

• You leave the course with a new network of diverse people to help you along the way

Day 1: Create the Space

• Systems and Complexity Thinking: decision making under extreme uncertainty

• Dealing with impediments by applying 5 Why, Causal Loop, A3 tools

• Servant Leadership

• Intrinsic Motivation

• The Scrum Framework

• Micro Scrum Exercise: Create an A3 towards solving a serious impediment to organizational agility

• Radical Management: Delighting your customer to achieve customer pull

• Design Thinking: Exploring user needs with an iterative approach starting with empathy with the user’s problem, interviewing techniques, storytelling, ideation, prototyping and testing for early feedback

Day 2: Explore the Space

• The Lean Startup: Learn how to iterate under conditions of extreme uncertainty

• Kanban or Scrum simulation exercise: value flow, self-organization and lean thinking

• The Role of the Product Owner

• MyMobileApp.com exercise: From vision to validated learning

• Pitch the Vision and get feedback

• Story Mapping

• Paper prototyping, modelling tools and lightweight usability testing

• Release Planning

• Fishbowl panel discussion and networking event with local agile community

Day 3: Product Launchpad

• Go for a ride, applying the concepts and tools learned to your real world problems

Logistics

• Prior to the course date, a co-creation link will be shared with the attendants so that the team can co-author the vision, so that this vision for the course is clearly understood.

• Prior to the course date, pre-work will be sent out, such as case-studies of failing companies. Preparation of the team members will ensure expedited learning.

• The trainers use a hands-on approach to ensure attendees stretch their comfort zone, challenging the members to apply these new concepts during the course.

Certified Scrum Product Owner Training

The course includes all elements of the Certified Scrum Product Owner training. The CSPO elements give you the information to understand how Scrum works, focusing mainly on functioning as the product owner and customer for a Scrum team. You will learn about activities such as managing stakeholders, calculate ROI, backlog grooming, creating effective user stories and acceptance criteria, defining Done, and the iterative cycle of Sprints. Scrum increases the emphasis on assessing and driving business value through close collaboration with the delivery team. The Scrum Product Owner establishes the interaction between the business and the delivery team that is so essential to increasing productivity within an Agile organization. Product Owners who assume this crucial role have the ability to guide the team and the process to gain the full benefit of Agile delivery.

After completing the course:

• You have the option to be registered with the Scrum Alliance as a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

• You have the option to apply for 21 PMP PDUs with the Project Management Institute, satisfying 21 of the required training hours for the new PMI-ACP (PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner)

Testimonials

“Getting a solid theoretical base and being able to apply the concepts directly leads to very good results”

Mar 2013, Philip Hufen, Product Owner, Wooga

“Not only the content of the #PoDoJo was a great thing to learn, but also the way you teached us the important things, the style you used to get us up to speed and keep us there. I love it! - Thanks!”

Mar 2013, Martin Dambold, Product Manager, Whatevermobile

“I love the unconventional approach!”

Mar 2013, Andreas Bartel, Product Owner, Whatevermobile

“Thanks for the great informative and inspiring workshop!”

Mar 2013, Meik Neuhaus, E-Post

"Hey, Stefan, for me as design thinker and project manager with a background in design and markting, your workshop was a great way to learn more about Scrum, Kanban, Lean-Start-Up and Management 3.0 in a very condensed way. I appreciated that you put all that mind stuff into the bigger context of agile without insisting on formal patterns, but to explore the common ground in all these topics. I took out a lot of energy and inspiration out of your polab session, and I will definitely try to apply my learnings into my daily work."

Aug 2012, Jens Otto Lange

"The workshop from Stefan Haas is an enabler for greater productivity in your company. Put it on your backlog!"

Aug 2012, Pascal Steingrube