Product Owner Academy
Learn Product Owner essentials: Agile principles, backlog management, prioritization, stakeholder collaboration & more
3.3 hours · Beginner · ⭐ 4.5 (1,141 ratings) · 15,000+ students
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What you'll learn:
✓ Master the Product Owner role: core responsibilities, qualities, and skills needed to succeed in Agile teams
✓ Conduct customer research: quantitative and qualitative methods, interviews, surveys, personas, and journey maps
✓ Plan products using the planning onion: vision, roadmap, quarterly planning, sprint planning, and daily standup
✓ Build and manage product backlog: write user stories, epics, spikes, bugs, and define acceptance criteria
✓ Estimate effort using t-shirt sizes and Fibonacci; prioritize work based on value vs effort matrix
✓ Define product vision that guides all planning decisions: identify customers, their needs, and your unique value
✓ Apply definition of ready and definition of done to ensure team clarity and quality standards
✓ Work effectively with development teams: leadership, coaching, mentoring, and giving/receiving feedback
Course overview:
This course provides a practical foundation for succeeding as a Product Owner or Product Manager in an Agile team. It covers the responsibilities, mindset, tools, and collaboration skills needed to connect customer needs, product strategy, and delivery.
You’ll work with customer research, product vision, roadmaps, backlogs, user stories, acceptance criteria, estimation, prioritization, planning, stakeholder management, and collaboration with development teams, with practical exercises and real-world scenarios throughout.
Subtitles in 8 languages
English · French · German · Hindi · Portuguese · Russian · Spanish · Ukrainian
Audio: English
Who this course is for:
✓ Aspiring Product Owners and Product Managers exploring a career shift into product roles and Agile teams
✓ New Product Owners starting in Agile environments and wanting to master customer research and backlog management
✓ Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches exploring a transition into Product Owner roles and product planning
✓ Business Analysts, Project Managers, and Developers moving into product ownership and customer-focused work
✓ Team members who want to understand the Product Owner role and collaborate more effectively with POs
✓ Anyone curious about Agile product development, customer research, and the Product Owner career path
Your instructor
Masha Ostroumova
Enterprise Agile Coach & Instructor
Masha Ostroumova is an Enterprise Agile Coach and instructor who has helped teams and organizations around the world adopt practical Agile ways of working. Her courses combine real-world transformation experience with clear, practical explanations you can apply immediately.
Udemy students
170,000+
Agile experience
14+ years
teams coached
100+
Students love this course
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“Excellent introduction to the Agile Product Owner role and core skills. I enjoyed the interactive nature of the course which was very thought provoking and I learned a lot about my strengths and weaknesses / areas that…”
— Mark Williams
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“This course was an eye-opener! Masha’s clear and practical teaching style made complex concepts easy to grasp. I learned key skills like customer research, feature prioritization, and effective team collaboration. The…”
— Afolasayo Seun Ojediran
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“Gave me good headstart in learning about product management. I am looking to repivot my career from content marketing to PM and this will play an instrumental role in my professional journey.”
— Neel Vithlani