Self-Paced Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management Skills™ Course

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Manage and Maintain Your Product Backlog to Deliver Greater Value

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. 

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.

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. The cost of the course is $299 USD and includes one attempt at the PSPBM Skills Certification.

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 Course Outline

  • Preparing for the Course: This section provides instructions on how to get started including navigating the course and how to contact Scrum.org support if need.
  • PSPBM Skills™ Overview: This section provides an overview of the course including: learning objectives, learning outcomes, exercises and checkpoints.

In this module, you will be introduced to foundational knowledge about the Product Backlog. You will also learn about the Product Owner's accountability to the Product Backlog within the Scrum framework and how the Product Backlog supports empiricism.
  • Overview
  • The Product Backlog
  • The Product Goal and Product Backlog items
  • The Product Owner and the Product Backlog
  • The Product Backlog and Empiricism
  • Checkpoint

In this module, you will dive into how both the Product Goal and Product Backlog items must be transparent and how they are critical to creating and maintaining an effective Product Backlog.
  • Overview
  • Effective Product Goals
  • Effective Product Backlog Items
  • Product Backlog Item Attributes and Templates
  • Critiquing a Product Backlog
  • Checkpoint

In this module, you will explore different Product Backlog refinement techniques like sizing and splitting items to help you manage your Product Backlog.
  • Overview
  • Product Backlog Refinement
  • Splitting Product Backlog Items
  • Sizing Product Backlog Items
  • Product Backlog Ordering
  • Checkpoint

In this module we go further into the topic of creating transparency in the Product Backlog for effective collaboration between the Scrum Team and its stakeholders. Stakeholder collaboration can be challenging for many reasons, such as conflicting priorities, unclear expectations, and limited engagement.

  • Overview
  • Collaborating with Stakeholders
  • Engaging Stakeholders
  • Creating Transparency with the Product Backlog
  • Unmanageable Product Backlogs
  • Checkpoint

In this module, we introduce areas in Product Backlog management where you can experiment with AI to complement the techniques we have already covered in the course. This includes examples, sample prompts, tips, and things to avoid.
  • Overview
  • AI-Powered Product Backlog Management

  • Course Summary
  • End-of-Course Survey
  • Ways to learn more from Scrum.org
  • Certification Test Details
  • Complete Course to receive Certification Test Passcode