Agile Product Planning
May 12, 2010
In this one day course, David Hussman uses his experiences to teach chartering, product road mapping, pragmatic personas, story writing, story mapping and a host of other value mining tools. This course is for product owners, product managers or anyone looking to introduce leaner product planning tools. The course covers everything in the Certified Product Owner course and more. For anyone looking to experience, practice, and question agile product planning, this course provides a highly interactive style that is engaging, challenging and informative.
David has coached pragmatic adoption of agile methods for hundreds of companies around the world. He has been creating software for many years in a variety of domains: digital audio, digital biometrics, medical, financial, retail, and education to name a few. You can find out more about David here: http://openagile.ro/speakers/davidhussman/
Objectives (tools and techniques participants will learn)
- Use of agile techniques for creating product roadmaps
- Finding and building a product community
- Using chartering to start mining deep product value earlier
- The pragmatic use of product backlogs and the real product owner and visionaries
- Using personas to better understand buyers and user experiences
- The dual nature of user stories: product planning and iterative delivery
- Writing user stories and creating story maps
- Working with various types of agile planning
- Connecting developers to user stories through storytelling and other context adding tools
- Tracking value delivered and how various tools can help track when value is delivered
- Adding lean thinking to product planning
- Introducing automated acceptance testing as one more value mining tool
- Continuous improvements focused toward better product planning and story authoring
Audience (who will benefit)
While this course is focused toward product owners, product manager, the materials are accessible for anyone who is part of an agile community looking to improve their product planning tools and techniques.
Course Outline (what we will do)
The day starts with a short overview of agility and how it helps and sometimes hurts the delivery of competitive and valuable products. After discussing expectations for the class, the rest of the day covers the fundamentals of agile product planning including road mapping tools, creating and using product backlogs, personas and user stories and story maps.
The course is highly interactive, so the agenda will adapt to the needs of the participants.
Registration Details
- Dates: May 12, 2010; starting hour: 8:30 am (registration and welcome coffee)
- Location: Bucharest, Romania
- Price (early bird): 290 Euro by 21 April 2010
- Price (nominal): 350 Euro starting 22 April 2010
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- If you are an active member of Agile Romania community (www.agileworks.ro) please ask about the special price.
- You get a 10% discount if you participate at the OpenAgile Romania 2010 (www.openagile.ro) conference. The discount can increase if you participate in another class in May - please ask for details.
- Please ask about the special price for groups.
- Please note that VAT is added to the base price.
For registration fill in and sign the Registration Form (RO, EN ) and send it by email at office@mozaicworks.com.