The Comic Agilé Product Owner Course

A two-day course for improving your agile product leadership – with less BS and more humor

This course is for product people (Product Owners, Product Managers and supporting roles) wanting to elevate their product game.

Learning Objectives

Day 1:

  • List the stances and anti-stances of the Product Owner role/accountability.
  • Use practices from consultative selling to identify stakeholder needs.
  • Use storytelling techniques to compellingly communicate the vision of your product
  • Create a goal-oriented product roadmap in alignment with enterprise OKRs.
  • Use Empathy Mapping to understand your stakeholders.
  • Leverage on Emotional Intelligence to improve stakeholder management

Day 2:

  • Apply 10 different strategies to slice Features.
  • Apply Delegation Poker to split the accountability between the PO and other overlapping roles such as Product Managers, Line Managers and Project Managers.
  • Navigate an organisation that runs a Dual Operating System (being both project-driven).
  • Apply specific Change Management practices to increase adoption of your product features.
  • Ensure a sustainable delivery pace by managing the Team Cognitive Load.
  • Identify, communicate and address the antipatterns that impede you in your role as PO

Participate in this course as a masterclass at GOTO Aarhus or GOTO Copenhagen.

About the course instructor

Luxshan Ratnaravi, M.Sc. in Software Engineering and writer of Comic Agile, has spent the last 14 years working as and supporting the Product Owner role in agile settings and is now an independent trainer, speaker, and consultant. Having worked in industries such as insurance, pension, renewable energy and fintech, Luxshan understands how important it is to take a context-specific approach to the PO accountability in order to maximise the team’s value delivery.

This, combined with Luxshan’s vast experience in agile practices and as Agile Coach, makes his Agile Product Leadership course highly professional, concrete and concise, and is of course delivered with the usual humorous and entertaining no-BS style known from his Comic Agilé talks and workshops.

We only offer this course as an internal company-specific course. If you’re interested, please contact us.