Enterprise Product Ownership (ICP – EPO)

Course Code: 1903

$1495

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Overview

Enterprise product owners, product owners, product managers, business analysts and other value managers need to look at the overall business value across a range of proposals to make critical business decisions, ensuring that their initiatives are aligned with the company strategy and are articulating value at the organization level. This course enables participants to go into specific tools and techniques to help keep the organization’s initiatives on the value track. The course takes participants through Product Ownership as a team sport, through a mix of exercises, case studies and lectures. The course covers the tools and techniques required to manage value generation at a broader level, which would help take the organization towards greater agility.

The course helps participants to earn their ICAgile Certified Professional in Enterprise Product Ownership (ICP – EPO) certification.

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

Live Classroom
Duration: 2 days

Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 2 days

What You'll learn

Product ownership as a team sport
Product ownership in context with other roles
Understanding vision and strategy
Defining strategic outcomes
Selecting initiatives and scope
Model and mentor value-based thinking
Defining enterprise value
Value context around initiatives
Building for discovery vs. Building for delivery
Enterprise-wide stakeholder analysis

Outline

Module 1: Welcome and introductions

Opening
Course objectives and agenda
ICAgile certification overview
Introductions
Class working assignments

Module 2: The need for product ownership

Product ownership challenges
It’s a VUCA world

Module 3: Product ownership as a team sport

The product ownership team
Product ownership interaction with other roles and disciplines
Product ownership at the enterprise level
Organizing for value

Module 4: Value leadership

Understanding vision and strategy
Defining strategic outcomes
Selecting initiatives and scope
Model and mentor value-based thinking

Module 5: Facilitating value

Facilitating outcomes regarding values
Reaching consensus of multiple stakeholders
Decision making for value optimization

Module 6: Value context around initiatives

Aligning with strategic value
Value to the customer and organization
Multiple dimensions of value
Value over time

Module 7: Value beyond initiatives

Articulate value proposition
Any change is people change

Module 8: The bigger picture

The discovery process
See the whole initiative
Enterprise-wide stakeholder analysis

Module 9: Analyzing beyond an initiative

Ideation and invention
Know the constraints, manage the risks

Module 10: Building for discovery

Discovery through building and feedback
Business value assumptions
Pivoting

Module 11: Discovery beyond initiative

Avoiding waste
Prioritizing for value
Ensuring alignment with enterprise goals

Module 12: Summary

Review key takeaways
Review ICAgile learning objectives and video

Prerequisites

This is an intermediate/advanced level workshop. Participants for this course need to have completed basic Agile training, such as, an ICAgile accredited Agile fundamentals course, a certified Scrum Master course or an equivalent, or have completed 6 to 12 months of working with Agile teams. It would also be beneficial for participants to have attended the Business Value Analysis course to have a thorough understanding of the Agile product owner role.

Who Should Attend

The course is highly beneficial for anyone who aims to lead teams with greater efficiency and achieve tangible results. The course is recommended for –

Enterprise product owners
Product owners
Product managers
Product leadership
Value managers
Anyone on their path to be a value manager
Portfolio managers
Program managers
Project managers
Agile customers
Business analysts

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Certification

The ICP-EPO is one of the two certifications on the ICAgile Product Ownership track. The certification focuses on the behaviors and skills necessary to transform an output-based enterprise into an impact and outcome-driven enterprise. It also looks at eliminating silos to organize initiatives around value-delivery.

There is no certification exam associated with the ICP-EPO certification.