Scrum Product Owner Credential
We are breaking down silos, opening up and strengthening communication, and empowering teams to help your nonprofit create twice the impact in half the time
Scrum is founded on empiricism and lean thinking. Empiricism asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making decisions based on what is observed. Lean thinking reduces waste and focuses on the essentials.
The Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team. How this is done may vary widely across organizations, Scrum Teams, and individuals.
Who should attend:
- Any nonprofit professional that is providing the vision to their team or to the team(s) they work with.
- Any nonprofit professional that wants to lead by serving their team, even if they are a nonprofit professional that looks like a “team of one” on the organizational chart.
This could mean everyone from a Board Chair to CEO to a Director of a department.
This course is credentialed by the Agile Education Program powered by Scrum Inc.™
“excellent “translation” of scrum framework and roles to nonprofit world, “
-Product Owner Attendee
The Product Owner is also accountable for effective Product Backlog management, which includes:
- Developing and explicitly communicating the Product Vision and Product Goal;
- Creating and clearly communicating Product Backlog items;
- Ordering Product Backlog items; and,
- Ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood.
The Product Owner may do the work or may delegate the responsibility to others. Regardless, the Product Owner remains accountable to the organization’s leadership for delivering value for the community and stakeholders. For Product Owners to succeed, the entire organization must respect their decisions. These decisions are visible in the content and ordering of the Product Backlog, and through the inspectable Increment at the Sprint Review. The Product Owner is one person, not a committee. The Product Owner may represent the needs of many stakeholders in the Product Backlog.
Why Should Employees Become Scrum Certified?
Scrum helps organizations:
- Innovate faster;
- Increase client and stakeholder satisfaction;
- Improve communication and reduce silos;
- Reduce friction in team collaboration;
- Improve employee morale and productivity;
- Increase transparency, fast feedback and continual improvement; and
- Move from ideation to delivery more quickly.
About the Scrum Product by Scrum Inc. for Nonprofits Course
The Scrum Product Owner program was developed by the co-creator of Scrum, Dr. Jeff Sutherland. Featuring an in-depth curriculum and insights from real-world nonprofit case studies, this course goes beyond the basics of Scrum and the Scrum Product Owner role.
The Scrum Inc. Scrum Product Owner credential formally recognizes your knowledge of lean principles, Product Owner techniques, patterns of high-performing teams, and how the Product Owner role scales in an organization.
This training is for intermediate levels of Scrum experience.
Prerequisite suggested: Scrum Basics for Nonprofits or Scrum Master for Nonprofits
About the Product Owner by Scrum Inc. Exam & Credential
Students who complete a Product Owner training comprised of at least 14 hours of live instruction time covering all Learning Objectives with a Scrum Inc. Scrum Trainer are eligible to take the Product Owner exam. Students who pass the exam will earn their Scrum Inc. Scrum Product Owner credential.
The Scrum Inc. Scrum Product Owner credential formally recognizes your knowledge of lean principles, Product Owner techniques, patterns of high-performing teams, and how the Product Owner role scales in an organization.
The Scrum Inc. Scrum Product Owner credential is the only Scrum Product Owner credential endorsed by Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum and inventor of Scrum@Scale. The Product Owner credential will make you stand out to employers, stakeholders, and peers.
By the end of this course you will be able to access and complete the Product Owner exam, download your Product Owner credential (upon successful completion of the exam), and state the renewal process.
What you will learn:
In a Product Owner by Scrum Inc. course you’ll learn:
- How the Scrum Framework helps deliver products and services faster and with higher quality while cutting cost and improving employee happiness and job satisfaction.
- How to assess business value.
- How to consistently deliver a successful product to the marketplace.
- Techniques and metrics Scrum Product Owners use to prioritize features, projects and portfolios.
- The patterns and practices of high-performing Scrum teams.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Name the key attributes of a good Product Owner
- Explain that the Product Owner should be focused on building the right thing, and is responsible for clearly communicating their vision and developing a Product Backlog to achieve that vision.
- Recite techniques for creating a vision statement that is compelling enough to be broadly shared, yet concise and easily remembered.
- Describe why the Product Owner should spend half of their time with customers and stakeholders and the other half of their time with the team.
- State that the Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value of the work done by the team.
- Explain the benefits of using customer personas.
- Recognize that the Product Owner has the final say on the ordering of the Product Backlog.
This course is credentialed by the Agile Education Program powered by Scrum Inc.™
“It’s always a pleasure to be in a training led by Diane. She does a great job of making Scrum relatable to a variety of contexts.”
-Product Owner Attendee
About Agile in Nonprofits:
Agile in Nonprofits was created in 2018 as a product of DH Leonard Consulting. Our mission is to support nonprofit organizations that are looking to achieve greater impacts in their communities faster than they ever have before. Our organization is the creator of the nonprofit-specific training in Agile and has trained over 5,000 nonprofit professionals to successfully implement Scrum in their organizations.
Meet Your Trainer:
Diane H. Leonard, GPC is a Scrum Trainer, Scrum Master, and Scrum Product Owner by Scrum Inc. Diane is credentialed by the Agile Education Program powered by Scrum Inc.
Diane is also a Grant Professional Certified (GPC) and Approved Trainer of the Grant Professionals Association along with a Certified Virtual Trainer through espeakers.
Diane’s passion for building capacity in nonprofit organizations is the link between her early career work as a grantmaker and now as a nonprofit consultant. Diane and her team at DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services have secured more than $80 million dollars since 2006 in competitive grant awards for their clients. The team began utilizing the Scrum framework in 2016 both to run their own teams, and also to help their nonprofit clients improve their grant seeking processes and overall operations efficiency. As a result of adopting Scrum, the daily operations and efficiency of the DH Leonard Consulting team has significantly improved and more importantly, their nonprofit clients that are engaged in the Scrum framework have seen an increase in their success percentage for applications as well as overall dollars awarded.
When not working with her team on improving the capacity of nonprofit organizations, Diane can be found in the 1000 Islands, out for a run, or drinking a strong cup of coffee.
The Scrum Product Owner credential is a distinguished designation highlighting individuals who can systematically drive immediate business results, uphold a compelling product vision and return real revenue for their companies via the Scrum framework.
Deliver twice the value at half the cost.
This course is credentialed by the Agile Education Program powered by Scrum Inc.™
Are you interested in the Scrum Master course also?
We offer a 3-day private intensive course combining the Scrum Master and Product Owner trainings.
