Professional Scrum Product Owner

Maximize the Value of Your Organization's Products

Scrum.org’s Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) course provides leading-edge training for Product Owners and anyone utilizing Scrum and the Scrum Framework to help maximize the value of software products and systems.

Through a combination of instruction and exercises, you’ll learn about the role of Product Owner and key practices such as agile product management and value-driven development that can help you deliver successful products. You’ll also learn techniques and strategies for Product Backlog and Release Management. Finally, this course identifies metrics for tracking the creation of value and successful delivery of products and systems.

Learning Objectives

Following the PSPO course, you'll have learned how to perform the following:

• Apply Scrum related to the Product Owner role as described in the Scrum Guide.
• Serve in the role of Product Owner for Scrum Teams and stakeholders from an in-depth understanding of delivering and optimizing value.
• Effectively increase the business agility of your organization.

Who Should Attend?

Anyone involved in product delivery using the Scrum Framework. This course is particularly beneficial for people dedicated to helping organizations maximize the value of software products and systems.

Immersion Training - A Different Learning Approach

All Scrum.org courses are centered around valuable learning outcomes, achieved through hands-on learning within a classroom environment. They are most often delivered as interactive 2-day experiences.

Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) Immersion Training is an alternative class format with short training sessions over eight weeks. Additionally, Immersion Training extends the learning experience beyond the classroom by enabling and encouraging you to apply what you've learned in your jobs between training sessions. This format is enhanced by incorporating facilitated reflections for improvement, making the learning experience highly effective and practical.

Elements of PSPO Immersion Training

PSPO Immersion Training classes have the following elements: 

1. Incremental Classroom Learning
2. Outcome-Based Assignments
3. Facilitated Reflections

1. Incremental Classroom Learning

PSPO Immersion Training classes are delivered in 2.5 hour, live classroom sessions over eight weeks. Within each classroom session, you'll learn and practice a new concept. This approach offers you the opportunity to focus on and internalize learning at a sustainable pace. By breaking down the material into manageable chunks, you can gain a good understanding of each concept before progressing to the next.

2. Outcome-Based Assignments

The heart of PSPO Immersion Training lies here. Following each classroom session, you'll receive an assignment that directly applies the concepts and learning objectives covered in class. These assignments are intentionally flexible by focusing on outcomes over outputs, thus accommodating the diverse backgrounds and proficiency levels of participants. While the assignments are challenging and aspirational, the emphasis is not solely on completion. Instead, the focus is on pushing boundaries and experimenting with new approaches, while receiving guidance and support. This approach ensures that both novice and experienced learners can engage meaningfully and contribute to their respective contexts positively. 

3. Facilitated Reflections

Every classroom session following the first session commences with dedicated time for students and their Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) to reflect on their experiences with the assignments. These reflections are integral to the learning process and provide a platform for you to share challenges, successes, and ask for help. Facilitated by your PST, you'll engage in constructive group discussions that foster peer learning and receive actionable feedback. Reflections are about sharing your journey and nurturing your growth through collective insights.

Benefits of PSPO Immersion Training

• You'll gain practical experience by applying your learning in your jobs.
• You can affect a positive change in your work environment immediately.
• Real-world application of learning increases your engagement, motivation and personal investment, leading to more effective learning.
• Hands-on classroom learning provides you with valuable practice in a safe environment before experimenting in your work environment.
• Opportunities for you to collaborate and create a dynamic learning environment that exposes you to a variety of ideas and ways of thinking, deepening your understanding of class topics.
• Facilitated reflections enable you to inspect your learning with other students and the Professional Scrum Trainer to make improvements and gain deeper insights.

What Do You Get?

• Eight half-day interactive class sessions facilitated by a Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer (PST).
• Assignments to apply learnings in your real working environment with inspection and adaptation together with your peers and your Professional Scrum Trainer.
• Inspection and adaptation together with your peers and your Professional Scrum Trainer.
• Opportunities to attempt the Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) assessment and earn the industry-recognized PSPO I Certification. The initial opportunity never expires, however should you attempt the PSPO I assessment within 14 days after receiving your password and don't receive a passing score, you'll be granted a 2nd attempt for no additional fee. Earning your PSPO I Certification will make you part of an elite community of 250,000+ PSPO I badge holders from around the globe and unlike other Scrum training and certification organizations, your certification will never expire or require future renewal fees.

Who Should Participate in PSPO Immersion Training?

The application of learnings during PSPO Immersion Training is core to the concept. You should have the opportunity to work with a real team on an actual product during your participation in this program. If you do not have such an opportunity while participating in this program, you should consider attending a traditional PSPO training class.

The below characteristics of learners are generalized and intended to help guide you towards the learning method you think might suit you best.

Learners who register for a PSPO Immersion Training class:

• Are committed to taking ownership of their learning experience which is dependent on full and active participation over an extended period of time.
• Are committed to applying their learning and willing to conduct small experiments at work throughout the learning experience.
• Find it easier to fit a 2.5 hour classroom session once a week into their schedule and independently focus on inter-session assignments.
• Learn best by doing.
• Prefer to gain knowledge, practice in a safe environment, then apply and reflect.
• Want to learn enough to try something quickly, then inspect and adapt to improve and grow.

Learners who register for a PSPO traditional class:

• Are committed to taking ownership of their learning experience which is dependent on full and active participation over a short period of time.
• Find it easier to fully focus on the class and learning for two consecutive days.
• Prefer to learn as much as possible in a condensed time-frame.
• Learn best through discussions and conversations with their peers and instructor.
• Want to gain a broad understanding of the subject and use it as a foundation for further independent learning.

PSPO Immersion Training Agenda

PSPO Immersion Training is a mix of lecture, case studies and interactive exercises as you collaborate with other students during classroom sessions plus assignments which are not part of a traditional PSPO course. These assignments are aligned with the PSPO course's learning objectives.

PSPO I Certification

After completing PSPO Immersion Training, you'll receive credentials to attempt the Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) assessment and earn the industry-recognized PSPO I Certification. These credentials never expire, however should you attempt the PSPO I assessment within 14 days after receiving your credentials and not receive a passing score, you'll be granted a 2nd attempt for no additional fee.  

Earning your PSPO I Certification will make you part of an elite community of 250,000+ PSPO I badge holders from around the globe and unlike other Scrum training and certification organizations, your certification will never expire nor require future renewal fees.

Class Pricing Options:

• Student Ticket: USD 1795
• Early Bird Student Ticket - Special Promotion: USD 1295 While They Last
• Special Offer: Buy 2 Tickets & Get 1 Free While They Last

Virtual PSPO Immersion Training

This PSPO Immersion Training will be facilitated virtually. Prior to training, registered students will receive guidance and credentials to prepare for and participate in our program remotely. If you have any questions or we can provide any assistance, please contact us at training@madisonhenry.com or 844-BE-AGILE.