Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced

Professional Advanced Product Owner (PSPO-A) certification course with Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley - co-authors of Fixing Your Scrum.

About this Event

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this class will be held virtually.

We will run the course over 2-days: using Zoom and Mural to facilitate the activities. Each day will begin a 9:00am EDT and end at 4:30pm EDT

Professional Scrum Trainer's Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller are facilitating this online event with fellow PST Julee Everett. Every participant will receive a digital copy of Ryan and Todd's book, Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems.

PROFESSIONAL SCRUM PRODUCT OWNER - ADVANCED

Mastering the Product Owner Stances

Course Objectives

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.

Who Should Attend?

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.

Course Description

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 a 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 a common purpose

Collaborator – seeking input, ideas, and feedback from others

Decision Maker – focusing on creating maximum impact by making clear choices and decisions

Course Topics

• 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

Assessment Certification

All participants completing the Professional Scrum Product Owner – Advanced course receive a password to take the PSPO II assessment and are entitled to a discount on the PSPO III assessment. The industry-recognized PSPO certifications require a minimum passing score on these rigorous assessments.