Professional Scrum Product Owner™ – Advanced (PSPO-A)
Overview
2 days
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 a practical knowledge of Scrum in order to participate in and benefit from these exercises.
Course Description
Learn Scrum From Those Who Created and Maintain It
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.
Read more about these stances in Yuval’s article – Scrum Product Ownership – Riding Dinosaurs
Topics Covered
- 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.
Learning Goals
- 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.
Prerequisites
Practical experience managing or owning a product and working with a Scrum Team.
Audience
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.
Professional Scrum Product Owner™ - Advanced Certification
Certification Assessments
All participants completing the Professional Scrum Product Owner – Advanced course will receive a password to attempt the PSPO-A assessment.
PMI PDU CREDITS
Students of Scrum.org courses are able to claim Project Management Institute (PMI) PDU credit: 14 PDUs after attending a two-day Professional Scrum Product Owner-Advanced (PSPO-A). Please note that PMI PDUs are earned for course attendance and not for passing a Scrum.org assessment. Students can claim PDUs under PMI’s “Education courses provided by other third-party providers” category. You can claim your PDUs online at https://ccrs.pmi.org.
Why Choose Scrum.org Scrum Training
The course content is written and updated by Scrum.org, led by Ken Schweber, one of the inventors of Scrum.
The PSM (Professional Scrum Master) certification is recognized globally as evidence of the highest level of knowledge in Scrum.
Certification for life – no annual renewal fee is required.
