Upcoming course: November 21, 22 - 9:00am - 4:30pm, Auckland

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Dive deep into exploring, assessing and testing ideas. Look into methods for validating assumptions and tools to explore and frame solutions. Learn how to create a product backlog, map user stories and define your releases. Cover ways of prioritising backlog items and delivering value to end users incrementally and continuously.
 

You’ll learn through hands-on exercises, practical activities, discussion and presentations—and as part of the workshop we’ll help you find ways to apply what you’re learning to your everyday work life.

Ignite your passion for Agile Product Ownership with accomplished trainers who are among the most experienced and well-respected Agile practitioners in NZ.

Course outline

Part One: Discovery - Understanding your ecosystem:

• Introduction to Product Ownership and the value exchange - understanding where value lies in product development
• How to approach and understand your ecosystem of users, customers and stakeholders.
• Understanding your stakeholder context, and learning how to develop stakeholder empathy

• Learn how to really know your customer and develop empathy in order to create valued solutions and products

  Tools & techniques: customer/stakeholder wheel, stakeholder mapping, discovery questions, ladder of evidence, discovery interviews, empathy mapping

Part Two: Discovery - Framing the opportunity: 

• Using tools and techniques to discover the problem 

• Framing the problem by understanding what it is, who it is for, how you will address it etc.

  Tools & techniques: Opportunity Tree Mapping, Jobs To Be Done framework, Working with constraints, Opportunity Canvas

Part Three: Assumptions and Learning: 

• Understand the assumptions you make and how they fit in your process 

• How to test assumptions and work with prototypes and experiments

  Tools & techniques: Assumption Mapping, Desirability / Feasibility / Viability framework, Hypothesis testing, Experiment cards

Part Four: Assumptions and Learning: 

• Understand the assumptions you make and how they fit in your process 

• How to test assumptions and work with prototypes and experiments

  Tools & techniques: Assumption Mapping, Desirability / Feasibility / Viability framework, Hypothesis testing, Experiment cards

ICAgile Professional Qualification

Nomad8’s ICAgile Product Ownership training course is accredited by the International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile). Successfully completing the course will give you an ‘ICAgile Product Ownership certification’.
 

Pre-requisites

This certification builds on the ICAgile Professionals (ICP) certification which you can get through our ICAgile Foundations course or through self-study.

While it’s a good idea to take the Foundations course first, you can take the courses in the order that suits you best.

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