Agile Product Owner (Online)
Product Owners are responsible for ensuring that Scrum teams are delivering value to the organization and becoming intimately familiar with the needs and priorities of customers and stakeholders. This fully online, two-week program will give you the skills you need to become an effective Product Owner by guiding teams and prioritizing work to meet customer and stakeholder needs.
During four modules delivered over two weeks, participants will learn the key responsibilities and models of effective Product Owners while earning their Agile Product Owner Credential. Each module consists of self-study pre-work and exercises, two live two-hour, instructor-led, interactive learning sessions, and post-session skill application and reflection exercises.
This program is a requirement for the Agile Project Management Track in the Master’s Certificate in Project Management.
Who Should Attend
Individuals and teams, software developers, new product developers and managers, process improvement individuals, product managers, product sponsors
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Continuing Education Units
This course provides 1.2 Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
How You Will Benefit
- Identify the key responsibilities of a product owner
- Identify how the product owner’s key relationships support the role’s responsibilities and contributions to the Scrum team and project
- Recognize effective and ineffective product owner performance in Scrum environments
- Earn Product Owner Credential
SHRM Preferred Provider
The Center for Professional and Executive Development is a Preferred Provider with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
| Module 1 – Introduction to the Product Owner role in Scrum |
| Module 2 – Responsibilities of the Product Owner |
| Module 3 – Product Owner Relationships |
| Module 4 – Impact of Product Owner Performance |
Shawn Belling
Shawn Belling is a globally experienced technology executive and project management speaker and instructor based in Madison, WI. Shawn has held executive and management roles in higher education, software, consulting, bio-pharma, manufacturing, and regulatory compliance sectors.
Shawn is the Chief Information Officer at Madison College, and is adjunct faculty at UW– Madison and UW-Platteville, as well as the University of Southern California.
In addition to over 27 years of technology and project leadership experience, Shawn teaches, speaks and consults for businesses, universities and professional organizations on various project management topics and practices.
Shawn is certified by PMI as a Project Management Professional and Agile Certified Practitioner and is also a Certified Scrum Professional and Certified Scrum at Scale Practitioner.
Shawn earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater and earned a Master of Science in Project Management from UW – Platteville. Shawn earned a certificate in Organizational Change Leadership from UW-Platteville and is pursuing an EdD in Leadership at the University of the Cumberlands.
Live Learning Sessions
October 26 – November 16, 2020
Mondays
6 - 7:30 p.m. CDT
October 25 – November 15, 2020
Mondays
6 - 7:30 p.m. CDT