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HeptaMS Value Owner
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HeptaMS Certified Professional

HeptaMS Value Owner

Leads to certification: HeptaMS Certified Professional – Value Owner

The course covers responsibility for the content and direction of a product.

Course fee
from 2.199 €
certificate optional for 195 €
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At a glance
Scope
6 blocks of 4 h = 3 days 6 blocks of 4 hours
Formats
Live Online · In person
Exam
Multiple choice, 10–15 questions, 70 %, 3 attempts · optional practical submission · modules already evidenced are dropped
Prerequisites
none

What it covers

The course covers responsibility for the content and direction of a product. On the subject side it covers Lean-AI fundamentals, OKRs, and requirements work and product design. Added to that is the role work itself: formulating and defending a product vision, owning a backlog, facilitating an OKR workshop, setting up a review so that product feedback emerges, and managing stakeholder expectations.

Why take this course

The role is often described through artefacts and rarely through what makes it difficult: refusing with reasons, defending a vision against differing expectations, and staffing a review so that a signal emerges. In addition, content and architecture responsibility sit with the same person in many organisations.

What you can do afterwards

  • Assign the three responsibilities of value, flow and architecture within your own team and name the gaps.
  • Formulate a product vision that can exclude requirements, and defend it against objection.
  • Own a backlog: refuse with reasons, maintain order, set responsibilities for changes.
  • Facilitate an OKR workshop and support a cascade from portfolio to team level.
  • Set up and facilitate a review that produces product feedback, and justify who has to be present.
  • Make conflicting stakeholder expectations ready for decision.

Who this course is for

Primary

Product owners and product leads. Anyone who owns a backlog and answers for what gets built.

Also a fit

Anyone who wants to take on this role or is growing into it. Business analysts and business representatives with product responsibility. Project leads moving into a product role. Leaders who manage value owners.

Learning objectives in detail

  1. 1 Assign the three VFA responsibilities in their own team and name where they are unfilled or improperly combined.
  2. 2 Formulate a product vision that can exclude requirements and defend it against objection.
  3. 3 Own a backlog: refuse with reasons, maintain order, set responsibilities for changes.
  4. 4 Facilitate an OKR workshop, including the typical dead ends.
  5. 5 Facilitate an OKR cascade from portfolio to team level without it turning into goal assignment.
  6. 6 Set up and facilitate a review so that it produces product feedback, and justify who has to be present.
  7. 7 Make stakeholder conflicts ready for decision rather than deferring them.

Dates & demand pools

Wed, 27. – Fri, 29. Jan 2027
each day 09:00 – 17:00 Central European Time
Live Online Deutsch Online
2.199 €
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Trainer
René Hoyer
René Hoyer
Founder of HeptaMS

René Hoyer has been writing software since he was twelve. For over two decades, he has been accompanying organisations in their agile transformation: as programme manager, Product Owner and SAFe-Coach (SPC). He has introduced Scrum, Kanban and OKRs in large companies. He has been working with artificial intelligence since the early nineties, nowadays daily with coding agents. He is the founder of HeptaMS and OCENOX. He lives with his family in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Detailed schedule
Wednesday 27. January 2027 08:00 – 16:00 GMT
Thursday 28. January 2027 08:00 – 16:00 GMT
Friday 29. January 2027 08:00 – 16:00 GMT
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Wed, 10. – Fri, 12. Feb 2027
each day 09:00 – 17:00 New Zealand Time
Live Online English Online
2.199 €
Book
Details
Trainer
René Hoyer
René Hoyer
Founder of HeptaMS

René Hoyer has been writing software since he was twelve. For over two decades, he has been accompanying organisations in their agile transformation: as programme manager, Product Owner and SAFe-Coach (SPC). He has introduced Scrum, Kanban and OKRs in large companies. He has been working with artificial intelligence since the early nineties, nowadays daily with coding agents. He is the founder of HeptaMS and OCENOX. He lives with his family in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Detailed schedule
Wednesday 10. February 2027 20:00 – 04:00 GMT
Thursday 11. February 2027 20:00 – 04:00 GMT
Friday 12. February 2027 20:00 – 04:00 GMT
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