COURSE OVERVIEW

The Product Owner’s role is multifaceted, requiring the practitioner to engage in behaviors and adopt mindsets beyond the core of Agility and the Scrum Framework. This course surfaces these behaviors by challenging the student to adopt several different Product Owner stances:

Customer Representative – focused on understanding customer problems, challenges and potential opportunities

Visionary – communicating the vision, future state and possibilities in ways that foster common understanding

Experimenter – focusing on innovation, hypothesis testing and validating potential value to spark product innovation

Influencer – communicating with and influencing stakeholders, customers and the Scrum Team to act with common purpose

Collaborator – seeking input, ideas and feedback from others

Decision Maker – focusing on creating maximum impact by making clear choices and decisions

This 2-day Professional Product Owner – Advanced (PSPO-A) course focuses on helping experienced practitioners expand their ability to establish a solid vision, validate their hypotheses, and ultimately deliver more value to their stakeholders. It is intended for Product Owners who are looking to grow their knowledge and abilities.

This course is an interactive, experiential workshop where attendees explore topics through a series of exercises and discussions. Students should have at least one year of Product Owner experience and practical knowledge of Scrum in order to participate in and benefit from these exercises.

Who Should Attend

The Professional Product Owner-Advanced course is an advanced course specifically designed for Product Owners and product managers who have practical experience managing or owning a product.

It is also beneficial to Scrum Masters and stakeholders who work with Product Owners. It is particularly beneficial for those with at least one year of building products with a Scrum Team.

Course Objectives

Students are provided with a clear path to moving forward in their Product Owner journey through an exploration of the different stances a Product Owner takes.

Students learn about the various types of stakeholders that Product Owners represent and how to best work with them.

Students will gain a better understanding of how to use vision, value, and validation to create a competitive advantage for any product.

Students are introduced to modern complementary practices through discussions, case studies, and exercises.

Course Topics

Understanding your products

Who are your customers?

Connecting product features to customer outcomes

Communicating the product vision and strategy

Value and pricing models

Innovation and experimentation

Stakeholders and stakeholder management

Agile governance, budgeting and contracting in relation to Scrum

Scaling the Product Owner role

Certification & Assessments

All participants completing the Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced course receive a password to take the PSPO II assessment and are entitled to a discount on the PSPO III assessment. The industry-recognized