How do you align all the many inputs coming to you as representative of the business, keeper of the value delivered to customers and users? How do you prepare for the Sprint Planning meeting, where there must be a single, prioritized list of stories or features to present? How soon can you get feedback on your ideas?

How can you remain agile, while thinking through the path to effective results?

Beginning agile classes for business people do not adequately prepare you. In this course, learn essential skills and attitudes to obtain the views of stakeholders, organize them according to perceived value, bargain and negotiate them across conflicting departments, and line them up in a two-dimensional grid to optimize delivery in small time scales. Learn to align a flood of conflicting input and missing information to create the most valuable delivery package, while conversing with clients, users, customers, to test decisions along the way.

Learn mission statement, stakeholder analysis, motivational analysis, Kano subjective qualities, “trimming the tail” for delivering in time deadlines, actor-goal analysis, feature trading, and Jeff Patton’s story mapping. Learn how these simple techniques fit together to allow you to organize your crazy life and show up at the next sprint planning meeting confident you have the right stories to develop.

Attend this course from the world’s leading expert on agile, use cases, user stories and agile project management. 

Learn to:

• Organize requests from opinionated people into a linear backlog

• Capture stakeholders’ emotional needs

• Apply Kano’s “Subjective Quality” triangulation of features

• Use Jeff Patton's "story mapping" to maximize value to the customers

• Split features and stories into smaller parts

• “Trim The tail” to get maximize value when time runs out

• Get feedback early and quickly * Reflect and improve constantly

• Align and power your organization with the Heart of Agile 

Product Owners and Product Managers practiced in agile and wishing to deeper their mastery of modern product management, or already practiced as product managers and wishing to gain operate within the agile world. 

Attendance at the course will give you a Heart of Agile Level A certificate.

Dr. Alistair Cockburn -  One of the original authors of the Agile Manifesto. Voted in "The All-Time Top 150 iTechnology Heroes" for his work in Use Cases and Agile Software Development

Internationally renowned strategist, author of the Jolt award-winning Agile Software Development and Writing Effective Use Cases, he co-created the Agile Manifesto, the Declaration of Interdepen-dence, the Agile Project Leadership Network and the International Consortium for Agile and the latest Heart of Agile..

Dr. Cockburn is an expert on agile development, project management, process design, use cases, and object-oriented development.

Visit http://heartofagile.com to learn more.