What Is a Product Owner, and How Do I Become One?
October 9, 2024
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The average salary of a product owner in the U.S. is $110,000 (Indeed). Product owners are highly valued and in demand across industries. If you're looking to start a career as a product owner or seek certification to enhance your resume, this Professional Certificate program provides exam preparation and key skills employers value. No prior experience required!
What do product owners do? Product owners guide product development, manage backlogs, set priorities, and ensure products meet customer needs and organizational goals.
In this program, you'll explore the Scrum framework and learn to develop a product vision, prioritize backlogs, write user stories, and manage stakeholder expectations.
You'll also focus on Agile practices, including lean startup principles, release planning, and iterative development. Through hands-on projects, you’ll refine product roadmaps, collaborate with teams, and apply data-driven decisions to improve product value. Plus, you'll prepare for the Scrum.org PSPO 1 certification exam.
This program is well suited for those who want to start their career as a product owner as well as practising project managers and product managers looking to expand their skill sets. ENROLL TODAY to gain the skills employers need!
Applied Learning Project
Throughout this Professional Certificate journey, you’ll get the opportunity to apply and test your new skills in labs and projects. Examples include:
Developing a product vision and creating a roadmap aligned with organizational goalsand key milestones.
Prioritizing and refining the product backlog, writing user stories, and definingacceptance criteria.
Creating a strategy to engage stakeholders, manage expectations, and incorporatefeedback.
Planning product releases based on value and feedback and developing a Minimum ViableProduct (MVP) for testing.
Applying Lean Startup principles to validate assumptions, experiment, and improveproduct value.
