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The Advanced Product Backlog Management Course

Turn Your Product Backlog into a Strategic Tool for Empowered Product Teams

Discover Solutions, Align Stakeholders, and Deliver Measurable Outcomes by Applying the Product Operating Model.

This self-paced course will equip you with proven strategies for streamlining your Product Backlog, aligning business objectives, stakeholders, and your team to maximize value delivery.

Transform your career with instantly actionable techniques, positioning you as an achiever.

 

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LEARN TO DELIVER VALUE

Navigate the challenges of delivering value easily, allowing for flexible learning tailored to your schedule and leveraging Stefan’s deep industry knowledge and insights for your benefit:

  • Identify Anti-Patterns and Fix Them: Learn to analyze your Product Backlog and its process to improve your team’s value delivery instantly.
  • Alignment Tools: Help your team members understand the big (product) picture and turn stakeholders into allies to solve customer problems.
  • The Product Backlog Management Process: Learn about creating a transparent, value-maximizing Product Backlog management process supported by the whole organization—say ‘no’ to being perceived as a black hole ever again!

Ready to Elevate Your Product Management Game to Master Level?

Master the Product Backlog and become the go-to leader your team and stakeholders need—your career progression starts here.

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Join The Advanced Product Backlog Management Course And You Will Get…

  • Self-Paced Learning: Access a wealth of resources, including video lectures, practical exercises, and tests to solidify your understanding.
  • Cohort Learning: Team up with your fellow course students and collaboratively explore tools from the course.
  • Join the Hands-on Agile Community: A vibrant community of like-minded professionals who’ve elevated their careers through my expert-led training. It is a place where smart people like you can ask silly questions without being judged.
  • Participate in the Hands-on Agile Open Space, February 4-6, 2025: Engage with the community on today's most challenging topic: How do we move from Concept-Based to Context-Based Agility? 
Don’t Miss Out and Accelerate Your Career at $99

Is the Advanced Product Backlog Management Course Right for Me?

If you’re reading this, you might struggle to balance stakeholder demands, team alignment, and delivering real value through your Product Backlog. Maybe your Product Backlog feels more like a black hole—tasks go in, but the results don’t always deliver the impact you’re aiming for. Or perhaps you’re tired of firefighting, constantly reacting instead of strategically steering your product forward.

This course isn’t a magic bullet. It’s a journey that will challenge you to rethink how you manage your Product Backlog, support your team, and your own approach to product leadership. You’ll have to commit, put in the work, and push yourself to adopt new practices. But if you’re ready to step up, you’ll come out of this with:

  • Clear strategies to align your team and stakeholders around a shared goal: creating value for your customers.
  • A transparent, value-driven Product Backlog that becomes an artifact for success: your organization’s and your personal success.
  • The confidence and expertise to take control rather than keep up.

In less than four weeks, you won’t just be managing a Product Backlog—you will lead with clarity, deliver results that matter, and position yourself as a stronger, more capable product leader.

If you’re serious about making that change, this course is for you.

Hands-on Agile Community — Professional Scrum Trainer Stefan Wolpers

Meet Stefan Wolpers

Based near Hamburg, Germany, I have worked for 19-plus years as a Product Manager, Head of Product, Product Owner, Agile Coach, and Scrum Master. I am also a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) with Scrum.org and the author of Pearson’s “Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide.”

He has developed B2C and B2B software for startups and corporations, including a former Google subsidiary. Stefan curates the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter, which has more than 40,000 subscribers, and organizes the Hands-on Agile Conference, a Barcamp for agile practitioners.

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Introductory Price

$99

Limited Time Offer

  • Video lectures
  • Practical exercises and tests
  • Cohort Learning
  • Hands-on Agile Community
  • Participate in the Hands-on Agile Open Space, February 4-6, 2025
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Gain the Skills to Transform Your Product Backlog into the Essential Value-Driving Artifact

Your Managers, Your Stakeholders, Your Team, and Your Career Will Be Grateful!

Enjoy the benefits of an asynchronous online learning experience with the Advanced Product Backlog Management Course. 

I have spent over 100 hours curating and explaining the best tools for the job so you can reach my level in less than four hours.