- International Fees
International fees are typically 3.12 times the domestic tuition. Exact cost will be calculated upon completion of registration.
Course Overview
This hands-on course follows on from COMP 2833, and builds on the content of the Scrum Guide. Students who have experience applying Agile Scrum Methods and the Scrum Framework will use integrated case studies for Agile Business Systems Analysis. COMP 2836 assumes student participation in exercises and simulations within the Scrum and Kanban frameworks. Topics include: forming self-directed teams, understanding team dynamics and Agile coaching. In class exercises include applying Agile Project Leadership styles through role-play in actual teams. Participants learn to embrace the continual flow of changing requirements as well as how to scale the agile techniques to apply Scrum to large-scale and geographically distributed projects. Continuous collaboration with the product owner and the self-directed Agile Project Leaders team is reinforced. As an added bonus, this course helps students prepare to challenge the Certified Scrum Product Owner®(PSPO1), certification exam from Scrum.org (additional cost). Students engage in delivering business value to clients with production ready concepts early and throughout the project. COMP 2836 is a required course in the Agile Development Associate Certificate and is an elective in the Computer Systems Technology (CST FLEX) Diploma. Upon completion, successful students will have gained significant experience with Agile Analysis methods, techniques and best practices as a Scrum Product Owner, working on Agile teams. This course will be offered once per year in the winter (January) term, online.
Prerequisite(s)
- 60% in COMP 2833
Credits
4.0
Domestic fees
$713.57
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful compleltion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Define and perform the role of an Agile Business Analyst (BA) Product Owner on any Agile IT team.
- Identify the appropriate Agile approaches, key principles, practices and terminology required for the elicitation of requirements for the business solution.
- Generate an Agile Business Start-up.
- Plan and document a product for the start-up using Agile techniques.
- Create a light-weight Business Case requesting project funding.
- Create a light-weight Agile Project Charter to set the vision, mission, goals, and objectives for the product.
- Apply the Agile process of progressive elaboration to iteratively and incrementally define requirements on throughout an Agile project.
- Write user stories using the User Story Mapping technique, and then decompose them to their appropriate levels of detail during an iteration. and model the derived user stories with simple lightweight graphical methods.
- Practice how to use techniques to effectively engage the entire team during the requirements elicitation process.
- Lead the Scrum Review meeting.
- Apply aspects of the Agile BA process working with a geographically dispersed team.
- Manage customer expectations and continued collaboration.
- Ensure that Agile projects and products provide the defined business value.
- Facilitate and maintain the discipline required for each of the 6 key Scrum ceremonies.
- Describe the difference between Project Leadership and Project Management, with a focus on Servant-Leadership.
- Apply servant-leadership techniques to address the complexity of creating and then maintaining a high performing Scrum team.
- Modify the process to address weak points through the facilitation of continual iteration retrospectives and knowledge gained from prior iterations.
- Scale Scrum to large, multi-continent projects with team sizes in the hundreds.
Effective as of Winter 2023
Related Programs
Agile Product Owner (COMP 2836) is offered as a part of the following programs:
- Indicates programs accepting international students.
- Indicates programs with a co-op option.
School of Computing and Academic Studies
- Agile Development
Associate Certificate Part-time
- Computer Systems
Diploma Part-time
Course Offerings
Winter 2025
Below is one offering of COMP 2836 for the Winter 2025 term.
CRN 90569
Dates
Thu Jan 09 - Thu Mar 27
- 12 weeks
- CRN 90569
- Domestic fees $713.57
Status
Seats Available
This course offering has seats available.
Class meeting times
Instructor
Edward Rubuliak
Course outline
Course outline TBD — see Learning Outcomes in the interim.
Important information
- Internet delivery format.
- Departmental approval needed
- Important course information will be sent to you prior to your course start date. Check your myBCIT email account to access this information.
- International fees are typically 3.12 times the domestic tuition. Exact cost will be calculated upon completion of registration.
- Please email cstflex@bcit.ca for Departmental approval. Include your Student number (A0#) and COMP__ and preferred CRN __ and Program Declaration____. Course is 48 hours - 36 hours synchronous online classes and 12 hours asynchronous activities/labs. The class meets once per week for 3 hours online and requires an additional 1 hour per week asynchronously. Late registration is not permitted. Please Note: Attendance, participation in class and the BCIT Learning Hub are mandatory. You should prepare to spend 2-3 hours on homework for every 1 hour of class time. This course may require an average total time commitment of 12-15+ hours per week. 3 hours of synchronous class, 1-hour asynchronous class time and 9-12+ hours per week for homework. Late registration is not permitted. BCIT Computing is primarily a Microsoft Windows environment. Students must provide their own current model Windows-compatible PC with microphone and video camera. i5 or higher equivalent processor, with 8 GB of RAM minimum, and 256 GB minimum storage. Highspeed internet access is needed for online sections and for homework. Mac users must have the ability to manage and support their iOS computer. They may need to create a virtual Windows environment using Parallels or VMWare Fusion. COMP instructors may not be able to assist Mac users with software compatibility issues. BCIT does not provide access to Parallels or support for students to use a Mac to run Windows.
Programs and courses are subject to change without notice.