Professional Product Discovery and Validation

In this 8-hour course, students work hands-on as they follow a case study as a way of learning to apply techniques throughout the class. This course is designed for Product Owners, product managers, business analysts and product teams to enable them to better incorporate discovery and validation into their product development and delivery processes.

Students who complete this class will receive one attempt at the Professional Product Discovery and Validation™ Certification assessment and will be eligible for a second attempt if they make their first attempt within 14-days.

Who should attend

This course is ideal for:

• Product Owners, product managers, product leaders
• Business analysts and others on the product team
• Members of product teams

What will you learn

• 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

About the instructor

Ralph Jocham is founder of effective agile. an agile consulting company. He works there globally as an agile change agent helping customers of various business domains to improve their productivity, quality and throughput by using agile practices.  Currently, Ralph’s main focus is targeted towards enabling management to understand agile and see how Scrum will benefit them in their given context.

Ralph co-designed the Professional Scrum Developer (Java) course and is Europe’s first Professional Scrum Master Trainer for Scrum.org since 2010.

The book The Professional Scrum Product Owner was written by Ralph Jocham and Don McGreal.

Schedule

This in person session has been scheduled for 4 November 2025 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (EET).

The course is taking place in Learning Actors premises: Leof. Mesogeion 280, Cholargos 155 62