Agile Product Planning

Years of experience teaching and coaching agile communities have taught us the importance and skills of product planning. In this 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.

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)

Day 1: 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.

Day 2: With the fundamentals of agile product planning in place, the course moves on into what it takes to keep a backlog strong and a product evolving over time as the tools and techniques for tracking product progress and backlog grooming. Also covered are some of the common struggles experienced as well as collection of solutions.

This course is offered as a one day or a two day course. Click here to view or download a more detailed outline for the course. We also provide one hour brown bag overviews as well as custom versions of the course (e.g. shortened one day version).

Provided Materials

• Digital copies of presentation materials, exercise, and a coaching handbook
• As a green company, DevJam only provides printed materials are available upon request

Registration

You can contact us to arrange on-site training.