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

Stefano Milanesi

Stefano is a passionate trainer, coach and consultant who has been living and breathing agility since the very start of his career. He is an experienced professional in the information technology industry and has been founder and Chief Executive Officer of successful software companies. Stefano is a Scrum enthusiast. He strongly believes in people-driven processes and is able to quickly create empathic relationships during his highly interactive virtual and in-person training classes.

He loves spending his leisure time in his “house of Scrum” in the woods of central Italy (90 Km from Florence), where some in-person courses are held and where students are his guests, enjoying nature and breathing fresh air along with Scrum foundations.

Schedule

This in person session has been scheduled for October 21 2025 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (EEST).

The course is taking place virtually.