Agile Product Owner COMP 2836

Upon successful compleltion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Define and perform the role of an Agile Business Analyst (BA) Product Owner on any Agile IT team.
• Identify the appropriate Agile approaches, key principles, practices and terminology required for the elicitation of requirements for the business solution.
• Generate an Agile Business Start-up.
• Plan and document a product for the start-up using Agile techniques.
• Create a light-weight Business Case requesting project funding.
• Create a light-weight Agile Project Charter to set the vision, mission, goals, and objectives for the product.
• Apply the Agile process of progressive elaboration to iteratively and incrementally define requirements on throughout an Agile project.
• Write user stories using the User Story Mapping technique, and then decompose them to their appropriate levels of detail during an iteration. and model the derived user stories with simple lightweight graphical methods.
• Practice how to use techniques to effectively engage the entire team during the requirements elicitation process.
• Lead the Scrum Review meeting.
• Apply aspects of the Agile BA process working with a geographically dispersed team.
• Manage customer expectations and continued collaboration.
• Ensure that Agile projects and products provide the defined business value.
• Facilitate and maintain the discipline required for each of the 6 key Scrum ceremonies.
• Describe the difference between Project Leadership and Project Management, with a focus on Servant-Leadership.
• Apply servant-leadership techniques to address the complexity of creating and then maintaining a high performing Scrum team.
• Modify the process to address weak points through the facilitation of continual iteration retrospectives and knowledge gained from prior iterations.
• Scale Scrum to large, multi-continent projects with team sizes in the hundreds.

Effective as of Winter 2023