Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management Skills Self-Paced Course

The Product Backlog is an emergent, ordered list of what is needed to improve the product. It is the single source of work undertaken by the Scrum Team. It changes constantly and requires a Product Owner to consider many options when adding to, deleting from, updating, and ordering it.

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The self-paced Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management Skills™ interactive course is designed to help Scrum practitioners improve their ability to manage the Product Backlog. Throughout the course, students develop and improve their methods for managing a Product Backlog to better determine and make transparent what is most valuable to stakeholders and priorities for the product that the Scrum Team is working on.

This course is a helpful resource to prepare for the Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management Skills certification test and includes a free attempt at the certification.

Course Overview

In this self-paced online course which will take approximately 5 hours to complete, participants will learn techniques and methods to effectively manage a Product Backlog that clearly expresses the Product Goal and brings transparency to what is most valuable for the Scrum Team to work on to delight stakeholders and customers. Students will get hands-on experience with refinement techniques such as decomposing and slicing Product Backlog items, while learning how simplicity can cure complicated and complex Product Backlogs.

Students will be able to connect the Product Goals they are investing in to the work being done to ensure that they are delivering value as well as how to understand and manage their relationships with the stakeholders involved.

Course Learning Outcomes

• Implement practical techniques to create, refine, and order the Product Backlog
• Explain techniques to effectively communicate with stakeholders
• Interpret stakeholder needs
• Capture stakeholder needs as Product Backlog items
• Discuss better ways to make the Product Backlog more transparent
• Describe empiricism as a competitive advantage
• Identify how to use AI to assist Product Backlog management

Who Should Attend this Course?

This course is appropriate for students who are currently working as a Product Owner and are looking for practical ways to manage their Stakeholders and Product Backlog. The course also caters to a range of roles involved in agile development and product management. The Product Backlog Management course is for:

• Professionals interested in learning essential Product Owner practices
• Product Owners looking to better understand their customers and stakeholders
• Scrum Masters wishing to be an effective coach to Product Owners will also find valuable insights in this course
• Product Managers and Business Analysts looking to improve their Product Backlog management skills
• Anyone working on refining, describing or communicating Product Backlog items

Professional Scrum Certification

All participants completing the Self-Paced Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management Skills course will receive a passcode to attempt the Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management Skills Certification once they complete the course.

Take the Course

This course is delivered fully online at your own pace.  You can take it over a period of days, weeks or months, whatever suits your availability and needs will take approximately 5 hours to complete. After completing the course, students will receive a downloadable recognition of course completion certificate. The course includes one attempt at the PSPBM Skills Certification.