Date: Friday, August 28, 2015
Time: 8:30AM - 1:30PM
Location: LaQuinta Inn Atlanta Perimeter Medical Center, 6260 Peachtree Dunwoody Road, Atlanta, GA 30328

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Description:

The product owner (PO) serves as the “voice of the customer” and is responsible for collaborating between the business and developers, prioritizing work, and ensuring that the product team delivers value to the business. The PO “drives” Agile project through the core skills of collaborating, prioritizing work, and managing risks to deliver value. He/she is influential in developing the long-term vision of the product, through the product roadmap, and establishing requirements through product backlog. The PO ensures that project risks are managed at release as well as sprint levels. He/she enters risk related activities in the backlog, prioritizes them and creates risk-adjusted backlog. The PO also supports the Scrum Master in developing sprint and release plans. Through all of these activities, product owner drives the Agile project to success.

Many agile team members and product owners do not fully understand this role, and as a result, some of the key activities may fall through the cracks. This workshop includes several hands-on individual and group activities, which will solidify the learning of the PO’s role in attendees’ minds 

Course objectives: 

After completing the course, attendees will be able to;

  • Develop a solid understanding of the product owner’s role.
  • Drive agile projects to a successful completion.
  • Play the role of a PO in a much more effective manner.
  • Direct the team to focus on high-value items.
  • Support ScrumMaster to implement agile process in the organization.
  • Manage and track risks for their Agile projects.

Who should attend:

This course is ideal for project/program managers, portfolio managers, PMO leaders, executives, project sponsors, change agents, project team members, business/systems analysts and other project stakeholders.

Instructor:  NK Shrivastava, PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-ACP, CSM

Instructor Bio. 

NK Shrivastava, MBA, PMP, RMP, ACP, CSM, is CEO of RefineM LLC and an experienced Project Management Consultant, Trainer, and Agile Coach. He is a highly accomplished, strategic, and business-savvy consultant with more than 25 years of experience in project management, risk management and process improvements. NK is an experienced instructor/trainer on project management topics and specializes in PMP exam preparation, project management fundamentals, risk management, earned value management and Agile.

Date: Friday, August 28, 2015

Time: 8:30AM - 1:30PM

Location: LaQuinta Inn Atlanta Perimeter Medical Center, 6260 Peachtree Dunwoody Road, Atlanta, GA 30328

RSVP: Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Registration Fee:

$ 179 --- PMI Atlanta Chapter Member (discount rate)
$ 269 --- Non-member (standard rate)

Please note that walk-ins on the same day as class are not allowed. Registration must be completed on-line in advance of RSVP date provided in course description. 

* If you have questions about this class please contact Angelique Dumas Edwards at minisemchair@pmiatlanta.org. If there is an urgent request, please phone (470) 315-1179, (voicemail only, but your call will be returned within 2 business days).