Product Owner Coaching Cohort

Maximize your career potential with our cohort-based coaching group specifically designed for Product Owners. This program offers immersive, hands-on learning experiences tailored to those currently in the Product Owner role. Whether you're new to the position or looking to enhance or grow your skills, our training and coaching will meet you at your level and help you deliver digital products more effectively and efficiently.

The cohort coaching model offers a regular interaction schedule, a structured content program, and the flexibility for participants to tailor the material to their learning needs. Each week, the coach presents prompting questions and delves into key concepts and practices with the group. Participants are encouraged to bring their work challenges to the group, where they can be discussed in a supportive environment. The other participants and the coach help breakdown these challenges, identify root issues, and brainstorm possible solutions, effectively broadening everyone's experience and perspectives.

Pre-requisites:

• ​This cohort is best suited to people actively working in a Product Owner capacity.
• Participants should be CSPO-certified prior to starting the program.

DATES:

Mon, Oct 28 (1-3pm)
Mon, Nov 4 (1-3pm)
Mon, Nov 18 (1-3pm)
Mon, Nov 25 (1-3pm)
Mon, Dec 9 (1-3pm)
Mon, Dec 16 (1-3pm)

In this cohort, participants will have the opportunity to:

• Build a community of colleagues working on similar challenges
• Develop their skills and reinforce best practices
• Reflect on other participants’ experiences and perspectives to broaden their own learning
• Work on a shared annotated work board (MIRO or MURAL)
• Have access to a contextual resource list
• Get guidance, insight and encouragement from an experienced coach for tackling their challenges
• Have access to an online discussion forum where they can interact with each other and the coach as they work through the cohort

Session topics

• Business value: Building and gaining alignment for the product vision; planning, measuring, and managing product increments focused on customer outcomes and organizational impacts
• Product planning: Identifying minimum meaningful products (MMP), managing a transparent roadmap, managing the product backlog, and improving decision-making practices
• Product discovery: Enhancing your role in product discovery and advancing your skills in this process, including journey mapping, story mapping, interviewing, observation, and forming and testing hypotheses
• Users and interest holders: Managing the expectations and involvement of users and interest holders over the product lifecycle, refining your collaboration and communication practices
• PO in Scrum: Understanding and optimizing the Product Owner role and involvement in each Scrum event
• Overcoming obstacles: Share successes and explore challenges in your context

Structure of the Cohort

This cohort will have a minimum of 6 participants and a maximum of 9 participants to ensure personalized attention while also having diverse perspectives

• Note: This cohort will only run if 6 people are signed up

• All coaching sessions are delivered virtually, using Zoom - so join us from anywhere in the world!
• 6 sessions of 2 hours over a 9-week period on Mondays from 1pm-3pm PST

• Dates of Fall 2024 Cohort: October 28th, November 4th, 18th, & 25th, and December 9th & 16th
• Coach provides offline support between sessions (emailed questions and via the online discussion forum)
• Meeting invites will be sent out after registration by facilitator

Please contact us if you would like further information on our cohorts.

Kristi Meredith

Drawing from 8 years of public sector consulting experience, Kristi excels in dynamic facilitation, leading large group sessions (80+), product increment planning, and discovery workshops. She is passionate about coaching Product Owners in best practices.

Using a visual facilitation approach across all offerings, Kristi cultivates collaborative environments, propelling teams and organizations toward innovative solutions and actionable outcomes, empowering them to achieve their goals effectively. Kristi's values are meeting people where they are at, honesty, and cultures that encourages people to be their authentic self.

Event Venue

Online