The Product Owner position is one of the most demanded roles in the software development and startups world. Well, if you look at Glassdoor statistics, you will see that big companies like Banco Sabadell, Nestle, Softonic, King, Mango & many others also hire Product Owners intensively. Companies are starting to understand how critical it is to have someone that holds a clear view of the product from the technical and business point of view and can prioritize user stories in an agile team.
Product ownership course
And right now there is a gap in the market in terms of number of good POs and learning materials of how to become one. Therefore, our Ramon Felip – Product Owner at Apiumhub started to write articles about this topic, for example, Product Leader – not ( only ) agile, Product definition roadmapping: from ideas to plans to products, How to write good user stories. Also, in 2018 he started to organize meetups focusing on PO topics and look at them from a more practical point of view. There he saw that there are a lot of people who are interested in growing professionally. That’s when he decided to prepare a Product Owner course for Apium Academy in Barcelona, where he would explain how to guide the development of software products, understand customer needs and define product roadmaps, user stories and prioritize backlogs.
During this course, Ramon will show practical examples on how to engage the team and resolve conflicts, manage product vision and scope and facilitate requirements gathering, designs and cost forecasts. Also, he will give some tips on how to ease transparency and communication and deliver optimal working software according to milestones.
Ramon strongly believes that Product Owners should have some technical knowledge to be more effective and be able to explain tech concepts to the team, because the PO is like a middle man between the development team and the stakeholders. But apart from having tech knowledge, he believes that POs should be knowledgeable on a product from the end user’s perspective and have a business background as well.
In this course, his idea is to show how to become a project’s key stakeholder, creating a common vision of how the product will be built, transmitting it to the team and ensure the team meets deadlines and goals.
Well, let us tell you a bit more about Apium Academy and the course itself…
What is Apium Academy?
Apium Academy is based in Barcelona and offers high-quality courses by leading software developers to those interested in building working software and improve their skills.
These software development courses offer practical, hands-on experience. They tackle current issues and find optimized solutions following best practices, and you will be able to implement the acquired knowledge right away.
Apium Academy is comprised by highly qualified software engineers that are truly passionate about teaching.
Product Ownership course will provide you detailed insights on the Product Owner role. Product Owners are one of the most demanded professional positions, yet few companies fully understand the role. This course will review all the sides, attributions and responsibilities of a Product Owner in an Agile Environment.
You will get to know and practice technical aspects such as Backlog management, User Stories, Prioritization and soft skills like communication, expectation management and leadership to name a few. It will also teach you how to imagine, plan and work with a product life cycle.
Starting Date: October 1, 2019
Duration: 12 hours divided into 6 sessions of 2h each (3 weeks).
Schedule: Tuesday and Thursday, 18:30 to 20:30
Reference Materials: Alongside the course, students will be given reference materials with additional information
Product ownership course topics
Product leader and Product Owner
Leadership and Communication: Managing all the actors
Ekaterina Novoseltseva is an experienced CMO and Board Director. Professor in prestigious Business Schools in Barcelona. Teaching about digital business design. Right now Ekaterina is a CMO at Apiumhub - software development hub based in Barcelona and organiser of Global Software Architecture Summit. Ekaterina is proud of having done software projects for companies like Tous, Inditex, Mango, Etnia, Adidas and many others. Ekaterina was taking active part in the Apiumhub office opening in Paseo de Gracia and in helping companies like Bitpanda open their tech hubs in Barcelona.
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