Key Takeaways
At the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Approach all aspects of the Product Owner role with skills and confidence
- Gather and write requirements using user stories
- Create an effective Product Backlog
- Estimate and plan projects/releases, and managing them to successful completion
Who Should Attend
This course is for IT and business professionals who will be serving in the role of Product Owner or Chief Product Owner in an Agile project including their senior management. This course is suitable for those with little or no prior knowledge of Agile or Scrum.
What to Bring
Participants must bring their internet-enabled computing device (laptops, tablet etc) with power charger to access and download course materials. No printed copies of course materials are issued.
If you are bringing a laptop, please see below for the tech specs:
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Minimum
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Recommended
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Computer and processor
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1.6 GHz or faster, 2-core Intel Core i3 or equivalent
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1.8 GHz, 2-core Intel Core i3 or equivalent
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Memory
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4 GB RAM
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8 GB RAM
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Hard Disk
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256 GB disk size
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Display
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1280 x 768 screen resolution (32-bit requires hardware acceleration for 4K and higher)
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Graphics
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Graphics hardware acceleration requires DirectX 9 or later, with WDDM 2.0 or higher for Windows 10 (or WDDM 1.3 or higher for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update).
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DirectX 10 graphics card for graphics hardware acceleration
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Others
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An internet connection – broadband wired or wireless
Speakers and a microphone – built-in or USB plug-in or wireless Bluetooth
A webcam or HD webcam - built-in or USB plug-in
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What Will Be Covered
- The Agile Manifesto
- The Scrum Framework
- The 5 Scrum Values (Commitment, Focus, Openness, Respect, and Courage)
- The 5 Scrum Events (Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective)
- The 4 Scrum Roles (Scrum Team, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Developers)
- The 3 Scrum Artifacts (Increment, Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog)
- The 3 Scrum Commitments (Product Goal, Sprint Goal, Definition of Done)
- Writing Agile requirements with User Stories
- Product Backlog Refinement
- Defining and estimating value: Linear and Fibonacci
- Techniques for prioritizing the Product Backlog: ROI / MoSCoW
- Agile project estimation, including Velocity and Relative estimation
- Techniques for relative estimation: Planning Poker
- Techniques for estimating velocity: Historical / Proxy Project / Simulated Sprint / Best-Case + Worst-Case
- Estimating fixed date and fixed scope projects
- Release models: All-at-once / release train / release every Sprint
- Minimum Viable Product
- Definition of Done and managing project risk
- Strategies for splitting Product Backlog Items: Workflow Steps / Business Value / Simple-Complex / Positive-Negative / Investigate-Implement
- Managing requirements change while still delivering on schedule and within budget
- Release Backlog and Release Burndown Chart
- 7 Strategies to responding to behind-schedule projects
Format
Lectures, exercises, open discussions and question and answer
Fees
SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) Funding 2024
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Full Course Fees |
Singapore Citizens & PRs aged 21 years and above
(70% funding support) |
Singapore Citizens aged 40 years and above
(90% funding support) |
Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS)
(90% funding support)
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| Full course fee |
S$1900 |
S$1900 |
S$1900 |
S$1900 |
| SSG Funding |
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S$1330 |
S$1330 |
S$1330 |
| Nett course fee |
S$1900 |
S$570 |
S$570 |
S$570 |
| 9% GST on nett course fee |
S$171 |
S$51.30 |
S$51.30 |
S$51.30 |
| Additional Funding if eligible under various schemes |
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S$380 |
S$380 |
| Total nett course fee payable, including GST |
S$2071 |
S$621.30 |
S$241.30 |
S$241.30 |
Note:
1. SSG Funding is available to qualified individuals, subject to meeting the attendance requirement and passing of assessment.
2. All self-sponsored Singaporeans aged 25 and above can use their SkillsFuture Credit to pay for course fees. For more information about SkillsFuture Credit, click here.
3. SME fees are applicable only to participants who are sponsored by small and medium enterprises.
4. SSG Funding is valid up to 30 Sep 2024.
Certificate
Certificate of Completion
Participants must be assessed competent in all assessments for group assessments and/or individual assessments where applicable. Participants will also receive the CSPO Certificate from Scrum Alliance upon successful course completion.
Preparing for Your Course
NUS-ISS Course Registration Terms and Conditions
Find out more.
NUS-ISS and Learner’s Commitment and Responsibilities
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WIFI Access
WIFI access will be made available to participants.
Venue
NUS-ISS
25 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Singapore 119615
Click HERE for directions to NUS-ISS
In the event of a change of venue, participants are advised to refer to the acceptance email sent one week prior to the commencement date.
Course Confirmation
All classes are subject to confirmation and NUS-ISS will send an acceptance email to participants one week prior to the commencement date. Confirmed registrants are to attend and complete all lectures, class exercises, workshops and assessments (where applicable). Additionally, all responses to feedbacks and surveys conducted by NUS-ISS and its partners must be submitted. All training and assessments will be delivered as described in the course webpage.
General Enquiry
Please feel free to write to ask-iss@nus.edu.sg if you have any enquiry or feedback.