
Duration
3 weeksWeekly study
1 hour
Product Management Certification with Agile Product Owner and Scrum
This course has been certified by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to continuing professional development principles. Find out more.
Discover how Agile products create lasting value
Explore how Agile thinking helps teams respond to change, prioritise customer needs, and deliver meaningful outcomes. As you progress, you’ll connect strategic product decisions with practical delivery approaches used by successful Scrum teams.
Build the foundations of Agile product leadership
Begin by exploring the principles that underpin Agile and Scrum before examining the Product Owner’s role in guiding product direction. You’ll then connect strategic thinking with practical planning through product visions and roadmaps.
Turn strategy into action with Scrum delivery practices
Dive into the core events and activities that keep product development moving forward. By exploring planning, collaboration, review, and reflection, you’ll gain a clearer understanding of how Scrum supports high-quality delivery.
Lead product success through effective Product Ownership
Step into the day-to-day realities of Product Ownership and explore how successful Product Owners balance priorities, collaborate with stakeholders, and guide decision-making. You’ll also uncover practical approaches for creating products that deliver meaningful value.
Syllabus
Week 1
Mastering Agile Product Ownership
Introduction to the Course
This activity provides a comprehensive overview of Agile and Scrum, including learning objectives for Product Owners and practical certification tips for the Scrum Team, Scrum Master, and overall Scrum theory.
Agile Product Owner Basics
This activity covers Product Owner basics and defines the role. It details the difference between traditional Product Management and Agile, explains how POs differ from traditional managers, and shares certification tips.
Agile Product Owner Principles
this activity outlines Product Owner principles. It covers 10 Agile and 5 Scrum principles for product ownership, while also offering essential certification tips focused on Scrum values.
Creating a Vision and Roadmap
this activity outlines objectives for creating a vision and roadmap. It demonstrates how to build a Product Vision (Vision Board), construct a Product Roadmap, and details how a roadmap assists you in building projects
Week 2
Mastering Scrum Essentials
Crafting the Product Backlog
This activity covers Product Backlog essentials, including creation, objectives, refinement, and prioritization. It also features bonus content on user stories, acceptance criteria, and helpful certification tips for Sprints.
Sprint Planning
This activity Covers Sprint planning learning objectives, meetings, and certification tips for the Sprint backlog. Bonus sections explain planning artifacts alongside the Why (Sprint Goal), What, and How of Sprint planning phases.
The Daily Scrum
This activity explains the Daily Scrum and its learning objectives, while also providing valuable certification tips for developers and the Daily Scrum itself.
The Sprint Review and Retrospective Meetings
This activity covers the learning objectives, definitions, and certification tips for both the Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings, along with specific certification tips for the Increment.
Week 3
Product Owner Excellence
The Product Owner Day To Day
This activity outlines the learning objectives for a Product Owner's day-to-day, demonstrates a typical day in their life, and explains their daily success principles.
27 Tips To Create A High Value Product
This activity covers the learning objectives and effectiveness tips for creating a high-value product. It comprehensively details each of the 27 specific tips, spanning from the first tip all the way through to the twenty-seventh.
Final Words and Certification
This activity outlines the learning objectives for final words and certification, while also discussing the conclusion of the course and the next steps ahead.
Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Learn the difference between a traditional and Agile Product Manager
- Look at the role of a Scrum Product Owner/Agile Product Manager
- Learn how to manage any product using Agile Scrum techniques
- Learn how to use Scrum (a popular Agile framework) to create any product
- Learn the 4 Scrum events used to deliver efficient, high-quality products
- Understand user stories and how they help you to gather requirements more effectively
Who is the course for?
This course is ideal for product managers, product owners, Scrum Master (for coaching), Software developers, business owners, support teams, and Quality Assurance (QA) testers.
Who developed the course?
Packt
Practical Tech Learning, Built for Where the Industry Is Heading
For over 20 years, Packt has helped technologists at every stage turn complex topics into real, usable skills. We’re a global technology learning publisher with a library of more than 9,000 hands-on tutorials, and we’re adding to it constantly.
What's included?
This is a premium course. These courses are designed for professionals from specific industries looking to learn with a smaller group of like-minded individuals.
- Unlimited access to this course
- Includes any articles, videos, peer reviews and quizzes
- Certificate of Achievement to prove your success when you're eligible
- Download and print your Certificate of Achievement anytime
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- Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
- Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
- Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores
Join a global classroom
- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
- Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
- Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others
Map your progress
- As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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