Professional Product Discovery and Validation

A fast-paced, one-day, immersive workshop designed for product owners, managers, business analysts, and agile product team members. You’ll dive into real-world, hands-on exercises following a compelling case study to master key discovery and validation practices. This training will guide you to align with customer needs, validate assumptions, and make smarter investment decisions with evidence—not guesswork.

The Product Owner accountability requires the application of the Scrum Framework to maximise value. This training explores practices of Product Ownership to use discovery and validation techniques to deliver the right product to the market.

Engage with Vision

Build the tools to communicate with the team and stakeholders based on value

• Product Vision
• Roadmaps
• Product and Sprint Goals

Lead to Value

Understand the market to execute and influence the business strategy by ensuring the product strategy is aligned.

Evolve with Validation

Use value measurements to iteratively and incrementally evolve the product through deliberate experiments.

What You’ll Get:

• An intensive, advanced training with an Expert Professional Scrum Trainer (PST)
• Real-world case studies and exercises that simulate complex product ownership scenarios
• Course materials, templates, and tools for immediate implementation
• Advanced feedback and coaching to help refine your role as a Product Owner
• Access to continuous learning resources
• Preparation for the Professional Product Discovery and Validation™ (PPDV) assessment

Course Learning Outcomes

• Analyze the problem your stakeholder wants your product to solve
• Examine problems to solve (not solutions to implement)
• Analyze customer and user feedback to identify satisfaction gaps
• Order what assumptions to validate first
• Customize a hypothesis to in/validate assumptions
• Use the right data to gather and test the hypothesis
• Analyze the results of your experiments
• Compare/contrast your decisions with those around you
• Demonstrate an evidence-based mindset to teams and stakeholders 

Who Should Attend

Whether you’re a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or a key team collaborator—join this workshop if you're inspired to deliver greater value with fewer assumptions, smarter experiments, and stronger stakeholder alignment. Great for individuals and full product teams alike

Professional Scrum Certification

All participants completing the Professional Product Discovery and Validation course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Product Discovery and Validation™ (PPDV) . Class participants who attempt the PPDV assessment within 14 days of receiving their free password and do not score at least 85% will be granted a 2nd attempt at no additional cost. 

PMI PDU Credits

Students of Scrum.org courses can claim Project Management Institute (PMI) PDU credit: 7 PDUs after attending a  Professional Professional Product Discovery and Validation (PPDV) workshop. Please note that PMI PDUs are earned for course attendance, not for passing a Scrum.org assessment. Students can claim PDUs under PMI's "Education courses provided by other third-party providers” category.