Advanced Agile Product Ownership (Product Management)

What is the course like?

How can we bring products to market that customers love in a way that is more expedient and more efficient?

This is the role of the product manager. In this course you will learn how to oversee the product lifecycle and create and advance the product strategy – carefully balancing concerns between market conditions, business strategy, and tactical delivery. In doing so you’ll learn how to embrace the needs of all three to add value to your organisation, your stakeholders, and most importantly, your customer.  

Through this course, you will build an understanding of the product lifecycle and how to manage the product through its phases. You will learn how to bring the customer voice, competitive analysis, market trends and other knowledge into the organisation to drive better business decisions. You will gain new techniques for communicating your product vision and roadmap as well as a toolkit to deliver better products.

Certification & PDUs

ICAgile accredited course:  The ICAgile Certified Professional, Product Management is granted on the successful completion of this course.  This certification is part of the ICAgile Operating With Agility Track along with our Business Agility Accelerator, Agile Marketing and Agile in HR courses.

This course will contribute 14 PMI® Professional Development Units (PDUs) towards your chosen certification (7 technical hours and 7 strategic hours).

You'll learn

• Analyse a product across the adoption curve and the product lifecycle
• Describe how a product can be positioned to meet market, customer, and organisational needs
• Prepare a product strategy and describe how to validate the strategy
• Explain the value of an Outcome-oriented roadmap
• Build a low-fidelity prototype and get feedback on it
• Evaluate how team composition changes as the product changes, scales, and moves through the product lifecycle.

Great for

Product Managers, this may include roles such as Product Owners, Senior Product Owners, Director/VP of Product or Business Owner. Often, this role manages other product owners and helps them prioritise their backlogs towards a strategic vision of a whole product that responds to the needs of the customer. 

You'll need

This is an advanced agile course. To get the most out of this course you will need to have completed formal agile training and have some experience in agile delivery. It is recommended that you complete one of the following courses: Agile Fundamentals, Business Agility Foundations, Agile Product Ownership, Enterprise Product Ownership.

About the instructor

Shane Hastie is an experienced agile thought leader, coach, and author with over 35 years of experience in business analysis, product development, and organizational change. In the late 90s, he discovered agile ways of working and applied some of its techniques with the teams he was leading, resulting in better quality products and customer satisfaction. He developed some of the early courses on agile at SoftEd and became the Director of Agile Learning Programs at the International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile), where he helped to establish a high standard for agile learning and certifications. 

Shane's passion for agile and desire to give back to the community led him to co-chair the Agile Coaching Ethics initiative, lead the Culture and Methods editorial team for InfoQ.com, and host their weekly podcast. He has also co-authored two books on agile, #noprojects - A Culture of Continuous Value, and The Rock Crusher, which explores bridging the gap between business analysis and agile. Outside of work, he is a Leadership and Transformational Coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and a Board of Trustees member for Te Awhi Rito Trust, a charity that provides a safe space for local children.

Pricing

• Regular - THB 42,500 (VAT Excluded)
• Group Discount - 20% for group of 3 or more