Be stubborn on vision but flexible on details
Jeff Bezos
I was looking through courses in LinkedIn Learning today when I came across a course on Foundations of an Agile Product Owner role. I absolutely loved going through this course for the following reasons:
- It clearly walks through what a day in a Product Owner’s shoes looks like.
- Meetings
- Negotiations
- Reviews
- Analyses
- Facilitations
- Relationship Building
- It walks through the set of skills required to be successful in this role.
- Relationship Building
- Analysis
- Decision Making
- Leadership and Communication
- Value Analysis
- Facilitation
- This course covers in a very easy-to-understand manner the work that goes into product ownership starting from product vision, roadmaps, backlogs, refinement, to agile planning (That includes information about sprint/release planning, etc.)
- This course also provides the following credits:
- International Institute of Business Analysis™ (IIBA®) –> Continuing Development Units (CDUs) : 1.5
- National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) –> Continuing Professional Education Credit (CPE): 2.2
- Project Management Institute (PMI)® –> PDUs/Contact Hours: 1
If you are someone, trying to understand what a Product Owner does on a day to day basis, or just trying to become better at this role, this course is a good reference. Please find the link to the course below:
Agile Product Owner Role: Foundations
That said, I have summarized my learnings from the course in the embedded PowerPoint deck below. Also, if you’d like to learn more about value-based problem solving, do check out my post on the topic by clicking here: