• Introduction to Terraform course or intermediate understanding of Terraform.
• AWS fundamentals, including at least beginner knowledge of EKS.
• Understanding of Helm, at least beginner knowledge.

Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Understand the different pieces of the Spinnaker application model and how they relate to automating deployments and/or resource management.
• Grasp continuous integration and delivery/deployment pipelines and how they relate to Spinnaker’s pipelines, stages, etc. for deploying applications to the cloud.
• Know the available provider integrations for Spinnaker, and capabilities for working on less standard, non-provider-based deployments and automated scenarios.
• Use Spinnaker to deploy a micro-service into a cloud Kubernetes environment such as EKS, GKE, etc.
• Understand how Spinnaker works with Helm for templating, artifact creation, and artifact (templated chart) installation and upgrades.
• Learn how to use Spinnaker in Falcon.

Section 1: Introduction

Continuous Integration and Delivery
Overview of Spinnaker

• Applications.
• Pipelines.
• Triggers.
• Clusters.
• Server Groups.
• Load Balancers.
• Firewalls.

Section 2: Spinnaker Architecture.

Section 3: Kubernetes Quick Ramp-up.

Section 4: Spinnaker with Jenkins.

• Packaging app in Jenkins and Deploying using Spinnaker.

Section 5: Spinnaker Accounts:

• Github.
• S3.
• ECR.

Section 6: Spinnaker Artifacts

• YAML files.
• S3 files.
• Docker Containers.

Lab 1: Creating an Application
Section: Pipelines

• Stages.
• Deploy Manifest Manual Judgment.
• Wait.
• Triggers.
• Github.
• ECR.
• Other Pipelines.

Lab 2: Deploying to Staging and Production.
Section: Spinnaker Expression Language.
Section: Diagnosing Errors & Introspecting the Run.
Section: Deployment Strategies.

• Highlander.
• Blue/Green.
• Canary.

Section: Rolling Back

• Ad Hoc Rollbacks.
• Programmatic Rollback.

Section: Scaling Resources
Section: Restricting Execution

Lab 4: Manual Judgments, Scaling, Rolling back

Section: Running Jobs

• Review of Kubernetes Jobs.
• Using a Kubernetes container to perform work.

Section: Running AWS EC2 and ECS2

• Cloud Providers.
• Designating a VPC.
• Baking EC2 instances.
• Running ECS with a Docker Image.
• Operations Available using AWS Cloud Provider.
• Compare and Contrast AWS with Kubernetes.

Benefits:

• Build on your foundational knowledge with enhanced implementation skills.
• Distinguish yourself in the global marketplace increasing your marketability.
• Stand out in your industry and profession as A-CSPO.
• Show advanced value as a highly trained Agile professional.
• Manage multiple business initiatives from competing stakeholders.
• Clearly order and express Product Backlog items.
• Define a clear product vision that ensures your product remains focused on the features your customers and end users will actually use.
• Communicate effectively with various stakeholder groups to achieve alignment.
• Identify the crucial opportunities and avoid wasting time.
• Define and validate business value.

Product Owner Core Competencies:

• Examining the Product Owner Role.
• Working with the Development Team.
• Working with the Stakeholders.
• Product Ownership with Multiple Teams.

Advanced Purpose and Strategy:

• Developing Practical Product Strategies.
• Advanced Product Planning and Forecasting.

Empathizing with Customers and Users:

• Customer Research and Product Discovery.

Advanced Product Assumption Validation

AAdvanced Product Backlog Refinement:

• Differentiating Outcome and Output.
• Defining Value.
• Ordering Items.
• Advanced Product Backlog Refinement.

Prerequisites:

• Hold active Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) credential .
• Demonstrate 12 months of work experience (in last 5 years) for PO role and any pre- or post-course work as deemed necessary by Trainer.

Exam / Certification Details:

Attending A-CSPO workshop and satisfying pre-post case study, assigned by trainer and confirming 12 months of PO experience makes you to get your A-CSPO Certificate.

Course Outline

1. What is Quality ?

2. Definitions of Quality?

3. Dimensions of Quality for Product & Service

4. Evolution of Quality

5. Introduction to Quality Management System (QMS), Overview to QMS & Quality Policy

6. Why Quality is Important?

7. Cost of Quality

• Appraisal Cost – Inspection (In process, Final), Measuring, Testing, Calibration
• Prevention Cost – Process Performance Review, System Audit (QMS) – Internal & External, Training – Internal & External, Vendor Selection & Evaluation
• Failure Cost (COPQ) – Cost of Poor Quality
• Internal Failures – Errors / Defects / Defectives – rework
• External Failure – Penalties, Loss of market share, Product Recalls & Rework
• Concept of Hidden Factory, 1:10:100 Rule, Iceberg Model of COQ,

8. Approaches to reduce COQ

• Scrum Basics.
• Scrum Flow, the core components of the Scrum framework, and the Scrum vocabulary.
• The principles/legs of empirical process control.
• The work culture Scrum creates.

Roles & Responsibilities

• • Scope of the Product Owner, Scrum Master and the team role in detail.

Understand why there is no project manager and no agile product manager.

Product Vision

• Importance of having the product vision as an overarching goal galvanizing the entire Scrum team.
• Desirable qualities of the vision and how it can be shaped.
• Importance of carrying out just enough prep work.
• Relationship between vision and product roadmap.

Estimating

• The different estimation levels in Scrum.
• The accuracy of an estimate or precision of the estimate.
• Estimates of size and duration.
• Impact of pressuring team members to provide low estimates.
• Difference between estimating and committing.

Product Backlog

• What is product backlog.
• Product backlog grooming.

Prioritizing

• Importance and benefits of prioritizing the product backlog.
• Implications of saying everything is mandatory.
• Prioritization decisions.
• Factors for proper prioritization of a product backlog.
• Understand how much latitude to give a team in adjusting the sequence of work.

Release Management

• The goals and how to of release planning.

Sprints

• The product owners role in Scrum meetings, and how the Product Owner and Team collaborate.
• Why sprints are time boxed and protected.
• Understand the concept of sustainable pace. Understand team commitment.

• Are you a product owner who is struggling to understand your role in a Scrum or agile process?
• Are you facing challenge in meeting stakeholder & team’s expectations?
• Are you finding challenge in creating backlog and correctly prioritizing them to meet the product vision?
• Are you finding it difficult in getting visibility on team’s progress?
• Or you have this passion to be a Product Owner because you think this is what you want and you are capable of, and want to learn what it takes to be one?

Course Outline
This training is aimed at instilling the core beliefs of Agile and Scrum and creating a transparent and collaborative environment where the team succeeds as a single entity. SCRUM is an Agile Project Management method that focuses on short, focused work periods called “SPRINTS”.

During this 2- day course, participants will learn to apply the Scrum framework to build new products. They will get trained as Product Owners and learn what it feels like to be on a Scrum team – experiencing many of the challenges they’re likely to face – while being coached by a Certified Scrum Trainer who has been involved with the application of Scrum at many organizations.

Scrum Basics

1. Understanding Scrum framework
2. Scrum Rules & Properties
3. Software Development Principles
4. Empirical Process Control
5. Work Culture

Roles & Responsibilities

1. Product Owner (in Detail)
2. Scrum Master (Overview)
3. Development Team (Overview)
4. Impact on traditional roles

Product Vision

1. Importance of Product Vision
2. Create effective Product Vision
3. Desired qualities of the vision
4. How the vision can be shaped?
5. Importance of just-enough prep work
6. Relationship between vision & product roadmap

Estimating

1. Understand different estimation levels in Scrum
2. Accuracy Vs Precision
3. Size & Duration estimation
4. Product Owner’s expectation from team
5. Difference between Estimation & Committing

The Product Backlog

1. Understand Product Backlog
2. Product Backlog Grooming

Prioritizing

1. Understand the importance of prioritizing in Product Backlog
2. Implications of making everything mandatory
3. Who inputs into prioritization?
4. Multiple factors affecting prioritization
5. Formal approach to prioritizing
6. Team’s role in adjusting sequence of work

Release Management

1. Goal of release management
2. Adaptive, Iterative & collaborative planning
3. Different levels of Planning
4. Quality of shippable product
5. Technical Debt
6. Release early & frequently
7. Understanding & measuring Velocity
8. Release Burndown Chart
9. Forecast future

Sprints

1. Product Owner’s role
2. Collaboration between Product Owner & Development team
3. Team commitment
4. Sprints – Time-boxed & protected
5. Sustainable pace concept

1) Is there an examination to become a CSPO®?
Not currently. Post completion of the 2-day course, the CST will upload your details on the ScrumAlliance website, and you will receive an email. Once you accept the license, you will be a “Certified Scrum Product Owner”.

2) What all is included in the Course Fee?
The below are included in the course fee:

• 2-day (16-hour) training by a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST)
• Certification Fees for the 1st 2 years
• Optional membership to the online ScrumAlliance community

3) What is the platform for the LVC Training?
The CSPO LVC Training will be conducted on Zoom. The trainer will utilise features such as Break Out Rooms, Whatsapp groups & Googledrive to facilitate activities & exercises.

4) Does the virtual mode have any impact on the quality of the training?
While the exact experience cannot be replicated, we have taken measures to ensure that the difference between virtual & classroom training is minimal. The feedback from the past remote classes has been immensely positive & we have received no complaints till now. ScrumAlliance has also set certain guidelines and limitations that each CST must follow, to ensure that the delivery & experience of the training is up to the mark.

• Are you a product owner who is struggling to understand your role in a Scrum or agile process?
• Are you facing challenge in meeting stakeholder & team’s expectations?
• Are you finding challenge in creating backlog and correctly prioritizing them to meet the product vision?
• Are you finding it difficult in getting visibility on team’s progress?
• Or you have this passion to be a Product Owner because you think this is what you want and you are capable of, and want to learn what it takes to be one?

Course Outline
This training is aimed at instilling the core beliefs of Agile and Scrum and creating a transparent and collaborative environment where the team succeeds as a single entity. SCRUM is an Agile Project Management method that focuses on short, focused work periods called “SPRINTS”.

During this 2- day course, participants will learn to apply the Scrum framework to build new products. They will get trained as Product Owners and learn what it feels like to be on a Scrum team – experiencing many of the challenges they’re likely to face – while being coached by a Certified Scrum Trainer who has been involved with the application of Scrum at many organizations.

Scrum Basics

1. Understanding Scrum framework
2. Scrum Rules & Properties
3. Software Development Principles
4. Empirical Process Control
5. Work Culture

Roles & Responsibilities

1. Product Owner (in Detail)
2. Scrum Master (Overview)
3. Development Team (Overview)
4. Impact on traditional roles

Product Vision

1. Importance of Product Vision
2. Create effective Product Vision
3. Desired qualities of the vision
4. How the vision can be shaped?
5. Importance of just-enough prep work
6. Relationship between vision & product roadmap

Estimating

1. Understand different estimation levels in Scrum
2. Accuracy Vs Precision
3. Size & Duration estimation
4. Product Owner’s expectation from team
5. Difference between Estimation & Committing

The Product Backlog

1. Understand Product Backlog
2. Product Backlog Grooming

Prioritizing

1. Understand the importance of prioritizing in Product Backlog
2. Implications of making everything mandatory
3. Who inputs into prioritization?
4. Multiple factors affecting prioritization
5. Formal approach to prioritizing
6. Team’s role in adjusting sequence of work

Release Management

1. Goal of release management
2. Adaptive, Iterative & collaborative planning
3. Different levels of Planning
4. Quality of shippable product
5. Technical Debt
6. Release early & frequently
7. Understanding & measuring Velocity
8. Release Burndown Chart
9. Forecast future

Sprints

1. Product Owner’s role
2. Collaboration between Product Owner & Development team
3. Team commitment
4. Sprints – Time-boxed & protected
5. Sustainable pace concept

• Are you a product owner who is struggling to understand your role in a Scrum or agile process?
• Are you facing challenge in meeting stakeholder & team’s expectations?
• Are you finding challenge in creating backlog and correctly prioritizing them to meet the product vision?
• Are you finding it difficult in getting visibility on team’s progress?
• Or you have this passion to be a Product Owner because you think this is what you want and you are capable of, and want to learn what it takes to be one?

Course Outline
This training is aimed at instilling the core beliefs of Agile and Scrum and creating a transparent and collaborative environment where the team succeeds as a single entity. SCRUM is an Agile Project Management method that focuses on short, focused work periods called “SPRINTS”.

During this 2- day course, participants will learn to apply the Scrum framework to build new products. They will get trained as Product Owners and learn what it feels like to be on a Scrum team – experiencing many of the challenges they’re likely to face – while being coached by a Certified Scrum Trainer who has been involved with the application of Scrum at many organizations.

Scrum Basics

1. Understanding Scrum framework
2. Scrum Rules & Properties
3. Software Development Principles
4. Empirical Process Control
5. Work Culture

Roles & Responsibilities

1. Product Owner (in Detail)
2. Scrum Master (Overview)
3. Development Team (Overview)
4. Impact on traditional roles

Product Vision

1. Importance of Product Vision
2. Create effective Product Vision
3. Desired qualities of the vision
4. How the vision can be shaped?
5. Importance of just-enough prep work
6. Relationship between vision & product roadmap

Estimating

1. Understand different estimation levels in Scrum
2. Accuracy Vs Precision
3. Size & Duration estimation
4. Product Owner’s expectation from team
5. Difference between Estimation & Committing

The Product Backlog

1. Understand Product Backlog
2. Product Backlog Grooming

Prioritizing

1. Understand the importance of prioritizing in Product Backlog
2. Implications of making everything mandatory
3. Who inputs into prioritization?
4. Multiple factors affecting prioritization
5. Formal approach to prioritizing
6. Team’s role in adjusting sequence of work

Release Management

1. Goal of release management
2. Adaptive, Iterative & collaborative planning
3. Different levels of Planning
4. Quality of shippable product
5. Technical Debt
6. Release early & frequently
7. Understanding & measuring Velocity
8. Release Burndown Chart
9. Forecast future

Sprints

1. Product Owner’s role
2. Collaboration between Product Owner & Development team
3. Team commitment
4. Sprints – Time-boxed & protected
5. Sustainable pace concept