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The Scrum Product Backlog Management Certification equips professionals with essential skills to effectively manage and prioritize product requirements within Scrum projects. This certification focuses on mastering the art of maintaining a well-groomed Product Backlog, ensuring it remains transparent, prioritized, and aligned with business goals throughout the project lifecycle. Participants learn valuable techniques to refine backlog items, collaborate with stakeholders, and optimize the flow of work, thereby enhancing project agility and delivery. Ideal for product owners, Scrum Masters, and anyone involved in product development, this certification ensures proficiency in foundational Scrum practices essential for achieving project success.

The Program Product Owner develops the Program Product Backlog which contains a prioritized list of high-level business and project requirements preferably written in the form of large Program Backlog Items. These are later refined by the Product Owners of individual projects as they create and prioritize Product Backlogs for their projects. These Prioritized Product Backlogs have much smaller but detailed User Stories that individual Scrum Teams can approve, estimate, and commit.

The Program Product Owner continuously refines the Program Product Backlog to ensure that new business requirements are added and existing requirements are properly documented and prioritized. This ensures that the most valuable requirements in meeting the program’s objectives are prioritized as high and the remaining are given a lower priority.

The Program Product Backlog created for the program presents a larger picture of all projects that are part of the program. Therefore, it can provide significant guidance regarding project goals, scope, objectives, and the expected business benefits.

Similar to the Project Product Backlog, the Program Product Backlog may also undergo periodic refining to incorporate changes and new requirements. Changes to the Program Product Backlog can result from changes in either external or internal conditions. External conditions might include changing business scenarios, technology trends, or legal compliance requirements. Internal factors affecting the Program Product Backlog could be related to modifications in organizational strategy or policies, Identified Risks and other factors. Changes in requirements in the Program Product Backlog often impact the Project Product Backlogs of underlying projects, so they should be taken into account during the Refine Prioritized Product Backlog process.