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The Agile Fundamentals – Part 3

Develop a Valuable Product and keep delivering

Keeping the customer involved and engaged ensures that the product being delivered is valued by the customer and will be used once deployed. What would make a product valuable, is that it is viable, with minimal defects, and meets the customer expectations. This is the overriding approach of the Manifesto, as stated in the First Principle. Scrum divides work into sprints, small packets of work that are delivered on a regular basis (generally every 2-4 weeks). By practising repeated and continuous delivery, the customer is engaged and involved in inspecting each new delivery. The confidence level in the product is also high, as it is delivered feature by feature and takes shape during the project, not hidden behind a locked door which is only opened when the product is finished.

Things Change

No matter how lean your product is, or how short the timeline to deliver, there will be changes along the route. These can be for a number of reasons, for instance, an external occurrence in the market which is a game-changer. Also, because of the momentum of the project, there may be imperfect understanding of some of the concepts at project start. As the project progresses, the project knowledge increases, and design glitches or omissions may become apparent, especially because many features were discarded to get to an MVP. An Agile project expects change and will accommodate them according to the framework used; for instance, in Scrum a change can only be applied between sprints.  The result of accommodating change is that the finished product will be aligned to customer needs and expectations at the time of delivery, and not those at the start of the project.

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Master of Agile – Scrum Product Owner With 59 Seconds Agile (Video Training Course)

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What is this course?

This ‘Master of Agile – Scrum Product Owner With 59 Seconds Agile (Video Training Course)’ provides an in-depth understanding of the Scrum Product Owner roles and responsibilities

You will explore the Agile Scrum project life-cycle, including how an Agile User Story is created, to how we know when it is ‘done’

This course is aimed at those with or without prior knowledge and experience of the Agile values and principles

During this course you will learn the tools needed to succeed as a Scrum Product Owner

What will you learn?

You will gain an in-depth understanding of the Scrum Product Owner roles and responsibilities, and you will be able to

  • Fully understand the role of the Scrum Product Owner
  • Understand the roles involved in an Agile project
  • Create an effective Product Backlog
  • Effectively participate in Scrum Meetings such as the Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review and Retrospective
  • Identify the roles involves in the Scrum Team

What topics are covered within this course?

You will cover the following topics during this course:

  1. An Introduction to Agile Project Management (Product Owner)
  2. The 12 Agile Principles (Product Owner)
  3. The Declaration of Interdependence (Product Owner)
  4. Introduction to Scrum (Product Owner)
  5. Scrum Project Roles (Product Owner)
  6. The Agile Project Life-cycle (Product Owner)
  7. Acceptance Criteria and the Prioritised Product Backlog (Product Owner)
  8. Epics and Personas (Product Owner)
  9. Sprint Planning (Product Owner)
  10. User Stories (Product Owner)
  11. The Daily Scrum (Product Owner)
  12. The Product Backlog (Product Owner)
  13. Scrum Charts (Product Owner)
  14. Review and Retrospective (Product Owner)
  15. Validating a Sprint (Product Owner)
  16. Releasing the Product (Product Owner)

Our Book Recommendations

We found these books great for finding out more information on Agile Scrum:

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