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Professional Scrum Product Owner

Live Virtual Class, February 16-17, 2021

Class Overview

Get trained by Gunther Verheyen in this online PSPO class ('Professional Scrum Product Owner').

Gunther is a world-leading Scrum expert. He started with Scrum in 2003, has published two best-selling books on Scrum ("Scrum - A Pocket Guide" and "97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know"), and has closely collaborated with Ken Schwaber, co-creator of Scrum.

Gunther calls himself an independent Scrum Caretakeron a journey of humanizing the workplace (with Scrum).

Class Details

Language

English

Delivery Method

Live Virtual Class
Time Zone: Europe/Brussels
Start/End Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Date

Start: February 16, 2021
End: February 17, 2021

Class Format

Traditional

Partner

Ullizee Inc.

Registration & Price

Price: EUR 1195

Registration for this class has closed

More Information

Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) is a 2-day course that covers the role and accountability of a Product Owner on a Scrum Team and being an Agile product manager within the organization.

It is THE cutting-edge course for effective Product Ownership. It explores the worldwide challenge that many Scrum implementations run into, i.e. how should business people and product managers engage in Scrum and collaborate with Scrum Development Teams?

The Professional Scrum Product Owner class focuses on the core expectation for Product Owners to maximize the value of the work done for a product, thereby serving customers, users and the organization.

Scrum.org selects only the most qualified instructors to deliver this course.

Scrum.org maintains the defined curriculum and materials to assure consistency and quality for students worldwide.

Course topics

  • Agile Product Management
  • The Scrum Framework
  • Managing Product Backlog
  • Managing releases
  • Value-driven development

Objectives

Students are challenged to think in terms of Scrum and the Scrum principles to better understand what to do when they return to their workplaces.

  • Students will have a clear understanding of the mechanics of Scrum and how the role of the Product Owner fits in.
  • Students can act as a Product Owner for Scrum Teams and stakeholders.
  • Students can effectively increase the business agility of their organization

Target Audience

The training may be interesting to all involved in software development upon the Scrum framework, but has been specifically conceived for those responsible over products from a business perspective and taking up the highly accountable role of Scrum Product Owner

Format

Students work in teams. They learn through team assignments, discussions and hands-on exercises. This course will be taught in English

Prerequisites

Attendees make the most of the class if they:

  • Have studied the Scrum Guide (required).
  • Passed the Scrum Open assessment
  • Have a solid understanding of Scrum either through working on a Scrum Team, or through taking part in a Professional Scrum Foundations or similar course.
  • Have been on or are closely involved in building or enhancing a software product or application using Scrum.
  • Have read one of the Scrum books of Ken Schwaber or the book “Scrum – A Pocket Guide” by Gunther Verheyen.

Assessment and Certification

The Professional Scrum Product Owner course has two associated credentials: Professional Scrum Product Owner level I (PSPO I) and Professional Scrum Product Owner level II (PSPO II).
All participants completing the Professional Scrum Product Owner course receive a password to take the PSPO I assessment and are entitled to a discount on the PSPO II assessment.
These industry-recognized certifications require a minimum passing score on the associated rigorous assessment. Scrum.org maintains a public list with everyone holding a PSPO I and PSPO II credentials.

Trainer

Gunther Verheyen is a longtime Scrum practitioner (2003). After a longstanding career as a consultant, he partnered with Ken Schwaber, co-creator of Scrum, and Director of the Professional Scrum series at Scrum.org (2013-2016). During his time, Gunther redesigned and substantially updated the PSM course material and the PSM assessments.
Gunther nowadays engages with people and organizations as an independent Scrum Caretaker.

Gunther is the author of the acclaimed book Scrum – A Pocket Guide in 2013, and a second edition was published in 2019. Ken Schwaber recommends that book as “...the best description of Scrum currently available” and “extraordinarily competent.” Several translations of his work are available. In 2020, Gunther published the book "97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know" with O'Reilly Media. 

When not travelling for Scrum and humanizing the workplace, Gunther lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.

Venue

The class will be online as a Zoom meeting. Gunther limits the technology and increases the learning. Students work in small groups in a Zoom breakout room, using a Google Jamboard. As in a physical environment, Gunther uses a physical flipchart for drawing core Scrum concepts.