PRODUCT CAPABILITY • PRIVATE • ONSITE • LIVE VIRTUAL
Product Owner and User Story Training for Boston Teams
Help Product Owners and their partners connect product direction to clear priorities, actionable backlogs, effective user stories, and value the team can deliver.
COURSE AT A GLANCE
Two focused days of practical product training
Duration: 2 days
Delivery: Private onsite or live virtual
Format: Instruction, discussion, and hands-on backlog exercises
Best for: Product Owners and the people who shape requirements
2 Days
Product focused
Private Product Training
Your product group
Onsite or Virtual
Flexible delivery
Since 2010
Established in Boston
PRACTICAL PRODUCT OWNER CAPABILITY
Turn Product Direction Into Value Teams Can Deliver
Product Ownership requires more than maintaining a list of work. Participants learn how to connect strategy, stakeholder needs, product decisions, backlog quality, and team delivery in one practical operating model.
Private delivery allows the case studies, terminology, and backlog exercises to reflect your organization’s products, stakeholders, and delivery environment.
01 — MAXIMIZE VALUE
Own the Value Conversation
Connect priorities and product decisions to customer needs, measurable outcomes, learning, and return on investment.
02 — STRENGTHEN THE BACKLOG
Build an Actionable Product Backlog
Create, prioritize, estimate, refine, and communicate work at the level the team needs for useful delivery conversations.
03 — PARTNER WITH THE TEAM
Partner With the Scrum Team
Use Scrum events, feedback, and collaboration to improve product decisions, shared understanding, and delivered outcomes.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
For the People Who Shape, Clarify, and Prioritize Agile Requirements
Bring together the people responsible for product decisions, stakeholder needs, requirements, backlog quality, and the flow of valuable work to the team.
Product Owners
Build the complete toolkit needed to guide product decisions and maximize delivered value.
Business Analysts
Translate business needs into clear, appropriately detailed, and actionable backlog items.
Subject Matter Experts
Contribute domain knowledge effectively without replacing the Product Owner’s decision-making accountability.
Solution Architects
Align technical direction, feasibility, sequencing, and architecture with iterative product delivery.
Technical Leads
Partner with Product Owners on feasibility, dependencies, sequencing, quality, and valuable increments.
Scrum Masters
Coach Product Owners and strengthen collaboration across the Scrum Team and stakeholder community.
WHAT PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN
Connect Product Strategy, Stakeholder Needs, and Team Delivery
01
Own the Value Conversation
Understand Product Owner responsibilities and make decisions that improve value, learning, and return on investment.
02
Build an Actionable Backlog
Turn product direction into clear, prioritized, testable, and appropriately detailed work for the team.
03
Partner With the Scrum Team
Use Scrum events, refinement, feedback, and collaboration to improve decisions and product outcomes.
TWO-DAY PRODUCT OWNER COURSE
Product Ownership From Scrum Foundations Through Backlog Delivery
The course combines concise instruction with case studies and backlog exercises so participants practice Product Owner decisions throughout both days.
01 — SCRUM CONTEXT
Scrum Framework and Team Interactions
- Agile values and iterative product delivery
- Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Developers
- Scrum events, artifacts, commitments, and feedback
- Transparency, collaboration, and visualizing progress
02 — PRODUCT DIRECTION
Product Direction and Planning
- Product envisioning and stakeholder alignment
- Product goals, roadmaps, and release planning
- Connecting outcomes, priorities, and incremental delivery
- Using feedback and learning to refine direction
03 — BACKLOG AND STORIES
Product Backlog and User Stories
- Creating and structuring the Product Backlog
- Writing effective user stories and identifying personas
- Clarifying scope, value, assumptions, and acceptance
- Preparing useful work without replacing team conversation
04 — PRIORITIZE AND REFINE
Prioritization, Estimation, and Refinement
- Prioritizing for value, risk, learning, and dependency
- Estimating and sequencing backlog items
- Refining work collaboratively with the Scrum Team
- Definition of Done, review feedback, and continuous improvement
BUILT FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION
Build Product Capability Around Your Real Work
Private delivery gives Product Owners and their partners space to discuss real stakeholders, products, backlogs, tradeoffs, and organizational constraints while learning a consistent approach.
Your Products
Use examples and exercises that reflect your products, services, customers, terminology, and delivery model.
Your Product Community
Include Product Owners and the analysts, specialists, architects, technical leads, and Scrum Masters who work with them.
Your Delivery Format
Choose private onsite training across Greater Boston or live virtual instruction for a distributed product group.
TAKE THE LEARNING BACK TO WORK
Support Product Ownership During and After Class
INCLUDED
Detailed Course Workbook
Participants receive a detailed workbook covering Product Owner responsibilities, planning, backlogs, user stories, prioritization, refinement, and team collaboration.
OPTIONAL CERTIFICATION SUPPORT
Professional Scrum Product Owner I Preparation
The curriculum supports preparation for Scrum.org’s PSPO I assessment. Participants may also receive 90-day access to the existing Product Owner practice-question bank when included with the engagement.
2010
ESTABLISHED IN BOSTON
CAPE Project Management, Inc.
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
Agile Training Grounded in Real Delivery
Boston Agile Training is the Agile training practice of Cape Project Management, Inc. Dan Tousignant brings decades of experience across project management, product delivery, Agile implementation, team development, requirements, engineering practices, and organizational change.
The goal is not to promote a framework for its own sake. It is to help your people make better decisions and improve how work gets delivered.
PRIVATE ONSITE & LIVE VIRTUAL TRAINING
Strengthen Product Ownership Across Your Team
Tell us about your Product Owners, supporting roles, delivery preference, and the product or backlog challenges you want the training to address.