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
What Will Be Covered
- Writing Agile requirements with user stories
- Techniques for estimating business value: Recursive HML/customer segment value grid
- Techniques for prioritising the product backlog: ROI/MoSCoW
- Agile project estimation, including velocity and relative estimation
- Techniques for relative estimation: Planning Poker/Recursive SML
- Techniques for estimating velocity: Historical/Prior Non-Agile Project-based/Theoretical Sprint / Best-Case+Worst-Case
- Estimating fixed date, fixed scope, fixed cost projects, and fixed/variable projects
- Estimating large/multi-team projects
- Agile contracts: contract structure and commitment validation
- Release models: All-at-once/release trains
- Minimum viable product
- Definition of Done and managing project risk
- Strategies for splitting product backlog items: Workflow steps/business value/data subset/simple-complex/happy-sad
- Managing requirements change while still delivering on schedule and within budget
- Release backlog and burndown chart: Single team/multi-team
- 7 strategies to responding to behind-schedule projects
Format
Lectures, exercises, open discussions and question and answer
Certificate
Certificate of Completion
Upon successful completion of this course, you will receive Certificate of Completion from ISS and CSPO Certificate from Scrum Alliance.
Preparing for Your Course
NUS-ISS Course Registration Terms and Conditions
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NUS-ISS and Learner’s Commitment and Responsibilities
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WIFI Access
WIFI access will be made available. User ID and password will be provided in the participant’s kit.
Venue
We are now located at 3 campuses as our main campus ISS @25 HMKT undergoes renovation. Click HERE for directions.
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 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 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 isstraining@nus.edu.sg or call 6516 2093 if you have any enquiry or feedback.