Professional Scrum Product Owner™ Training
Learn Professional Product Ownership
Professional Scrum Product Owner™ (PSPO) is a hands-on, activity-based course where students explore how Product Ownership is crucial to the success of a product. Throughout the class, students learn a number of practices that they can use once they leave the classroom.
Students will learn how Professional Scrum helps them to move from a project mindset to a product mindset. At the end of the class students will understand how the shift in mindset and new practices can be put into action with Agile Product Management.
The course also includes a free attempt at the globally recognized Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) certification exam.
Course Overview
There are many myths and misconceptions about the role of the Product Owner. The accountabilities of the Product Owner, however, go well beyond managing the Product Backlog and writing User Stories. The Product Owner is pivotal to bridging business strategy and product execution in order to help the organization create valuable products.
In this two day class* students will develop and solidify their knowledge of the Scrum framework and the accountabilities of being a Product Owner through instruction and team-based exercises. Students learn techniques that they can use to help them overcome the challenges that are often encountered on a day-to-day basis. They will do this while learning better ways to collaborate and engage with the users and customers, stakeholders, their team(s) and organization to provide greater value in the product being delivered.
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* When offered in-person, this course is generally delivered over two consecutive days. When offered as a Live Virtual Class, the course may be broken up into more, shorter days.
Course Learning Outcomes
When a student leaves the classroom they will have improved skills to impact their products and organizations by:
- Improving value created by staying focused on value and outcomes
- Increasing organizational learning validating sooner rather than later which will also reduce costs
- Achieving better business outcomes by aligning initiatives with business strategy through shared vision and aligning people toward clear goals
- Increasing business agility by being data informed and empirical
Course Learning Objectives
- Understand that Product Ownership includes Product Management performed with an Agile mindset
- Recognize the value of a product over project mindset
- Learn how to bridge business strategy to product development tactics
- Experience ways to align the team around the business strategy, product vision, Product Goal and Sprint Goal
- Find ways to effectively communicate the business strategy, product vision and Product Goal
- Discover techniques to collaborate with users, customers, stakeholders and members of the Scrum Team
- Identify metrics that can be used to track value creation and successful product delivery
- Learn how quality and the Definition of Done support long term product viability and reduce time to market
- Understand the Scrum Principles and Empiricism
- Understand the Product Owner accountability on the Scrum Team
- Learn techniques for Product Backlog Management, Release Management and Forecasting
Who Should Attend this class?
This course is appropriate for students in any industry where teams are working to solve complex problems. The Professional Scrum Product Owner course is for:
- Product Managers wanting to up-skill their agile proficiency
- Professionals interested in advancing their Product Ownership skills
- Product Owners with some experience in the role that are looking to improve their understanding or improve their use of Scrum and the Product Owner accountability
- Scrum Masters wishing to improve how they can coach Product Owners
While this course covers an introduction to the Scrum framework, it’s primarily from the perspective of Product Ownership. Therefore, it’s best if the students come to the course with an understanding of the fundamentals of Scrum, ideally as demonstrated by passing the Scrum Open.
Professional Scrum Certification
All participants completing the Professional Scrum Product Owner course receive a password to take the Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) assessment. The industry-recognized PSPO I certification requires a minimum passing score of 85%. Class participants of official Scrum.org classes who attempt the PSPO I assessment within 14 days of receiving their free password and do not score at least 85% will be granted a second attempt at no additional cost.
Students of official Scrum.org Professional Scrum Product Owner classes are also entitled to a 40% discount on the PSPO II assessment once passing PSPO I.
Take a Professional Scrum Class
Everyone has different needs when it comes to finding a training course, whether you are looking for something introductory, specific to your role or a more advanced topic, we invite you to explore and find a class that fits your professional needs or the needs of your team or organization. Whether you prefer to learn in person, virtually, or in a private setting with others from your organization, there are multiple options for attending Scrum.org training classes. Explore these options and learn the differences.
Search the schedule of upcoming classes to find the perfect one to meets your needs or search our list of Professional Scrum Trainers to schedule a private class for your team or organization.
What Professional Scrum Product Owner Students Say
You can also read more about our PSPO student surveys and their feedback.
Why Scrum.org
Scrum.org training provides a hands-on, activity-based learning experience using a consistent set of materials around the world no matter which of our Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs) is teaching the course. Each course explores real-world challenges to help students apply what they learn in their roles once back at work.
The maintenance of Scrum.org courseware is based on feedback from the overall PST community who are delivering each class. They all teach from the same content, bringing great consistency, but also feedback from the real-world to drive incremental improvements and high quality.
On their path to becoming a PST, they must have several years of Scrum experience. Once PST candidates apply, they then go through an extensive process that includes: interviews, validation of knowledge, training, peer reviews and more.
PSTs bring their own style and experiences with a consistent delivery of Scrum.org training around the world, so you know each course we teach is aligned with Professional Scrum, and all of your teammates are learning from the same course materials.
Find out more about what makes Scrum.org different.
PMI PDU Credits
Students of Scrum.org courses are able to claim Project Management Institute (PMI) PDU credit: 14 PDUs after attending a two-day Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) course. Please note that PMI PDUs are earned for course attendance and not for passing a Scrum.org assessment. Students can claim PDUs under PMI's "Education courses provided by other third party providers” category. You can claim your PDUs online at https://ccrs.pmi.org. Find instructions here.
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