AI for Product Owners
Course overview
About AI for Product Owners
Learn how to use GenAI and AI-integrated tools to enhance product management responsibilities, including drafting product requirements and supporting your team's collaboration.
This course guides you through everything you need to know about AI in the hands of a modern product owner (or product manager, strategist, etc.). Plus, at the end of the course, you'll put what you've learned into action in a prompt engineering lab. Test out your new skills on real-world scenarios that product owners face.
With these new skills, you'll set yourself apart as a product professional who knows how to seamlessly add artificial intelligence to your team as an agile co-pilot.
Available on demand or live and led by an instructor—learn how you prefer!
Time: 4 hours
Format: On-demand or live and instructor-led
Credential: Microcredential
Prerequisites: None
What you get: Four hours of live or on-demand learning and a badge to showcase your AI skills. Members earn SEUs and get a course discount. Nonmembers receive a two-year Scrum Alliance membership upon completing AI for Product Owners.
AI series: For a complete understanding of AI on agile teams, consider taking the collection of Scrum Alliance AI courses, including:
Who Should Take AI for Product Owners?
This course is a great match for:
- Product owners
- Product managers
- Project managers
- Business analysts
- People who hold: Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®), Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner® (A-CSPO®), and/or Certified Scrum Professional® Product Owner (CSP®-PO) and want to build on the skills from those courses
- Scrum masters
- Teams of product owners from any industry
Course modules
In this module, you will examine the integration of artificial intelligence within the scrum framework, focusing on how product owners can effectively leverage AI while maintaining essential human elements.
Topics:
Where does AI belong?
AI vs. human
Product owner AI support lab
The heart of my role
Summary and next steps
In this module, you will explore the practical application of AI tools to help you streamline scrum events in your role as a product owner.
Topics:
AI: Simplifying tasks and supporting the team
Integrating AI into your work
AI output and human oversight
In this module, you will learn how to leverage AI to draft product requirements that are based on user data, craft valuable, data-driven user personas, use feedback to refine user stories for clarity and value, and then use those user personas to drive your business goals.
Topics:
AI for product requirements
Crafting valuable user personas
From feedback to features: Hidden patterns and powerful user stories
Beyond the GenAI draft: Refining user stories for clarity and value
GenAI power play: Ordering your user stories
In this module, you will learn how to integrate AI into agile workflows, enhance team collaboration, and optimize processes, making your agile practices more efficient and data-driven.
Topics:
AI-powered backlog refinement
AI-powered estimation
AI-powered roadmap integration
AI-powered tools for backlog refinement, estimation, and roadmap integration
AI for meetings
In this module, you will assume the role of a product owner in completing product owner tasks using GenAI.
Unmatched quality and scale
“I have already been using GenAI for different tasks but had never used it for product vision, user stories, backlog creation and refinement … Every PO should take this course.”
“The course was incredibly thorough and practical, offering the perfect balance of guidance and hands-on experimentation … Overall, it's an invaluable resource for product owners at any level.”
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Is a microcredential worth it?
Microcredentials are a great way to continually add new skills with fast and flexible formats. Here are just a few reasons microcredential training is a worthwhile investment for you and your team.
- Focused expertise — gain specialized knowledge in a specific area
- Flexible learning — learn the way you prefer by choosing from live or on-demand learning formats
- Cost-effective — typically less expensive than certifications or degree programs
- Relevant — topics prioritized to cover industry trends and emerging technologies
- Expedient — earn a credential in hours as opposed to weeks, months, or years
- Recognizable — validated by Scrum Alliance, a globally recognized credentialing body
- Practical — build skills and knowledge immediately applicable in your role
- Stackable — combine microcredentials to build comprehensive learning pathways
Train your team!
Interested in purchasing this course for more than one person? We can help.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
List product owner responsibilities suitable for AI augmentation and those requiring irreplaceable human skills.
Review the primary risks, ethical, data privacy, and algorithmic bias when using AI tools with team and product information.
Apply prompt engineering principles to generate tangible outputs that support the scrum events, artifacts, and commitments.
Identify how AI can assist in generating and refining user stories and product backlog items to ensure clarity, conciseness, and alignment with business value.
Utilize AI tools to order a product backlog based on customer needs, strategic goals, and other parameters.
AI for Product Owners will cover a wide range of generative AI and AI-integrated software and applications, including Jira Assistant, Spinach.io, Clickup Brain, Zapier, and ChatGPT.
You'll get hands-on experience creating and refining prompts. Utilize this skill with any generative AI tool.
This course equips you with a mindset and approach to AI that transcends specific tools, tools that will certainly change and evolve over the years. Even as you switch between applications and platforms, you'll have the skills to adapt current AI to product ownership responsibilities.
There are no prerequisites or required certifications to take AI for Product Owners.
While product owners in a scrum environment will get role-specific insights, tips, and knowledge, all of these takeaways can benefit people managing the development of products or services in a setting without scrum.
People from any industry will benefit from AI for Product Owners, not only product owners working with software products and software teams.
The on-demand AI for Product Owners is made up of text-based lessons and learning modules. There are also flash cards and interactive components. It is not a video-based course. You'll be able to make your way through the course as you please with 24/7 access to the self-paced content.
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Create better products faster and more efficiently with AI as your ally.