Professional Product Discovery and Validation

Maximize value through learning!
 

This one-day training course offers a hands-on learning experience to participants, enabling them to enhance value creation by applying discovery and validation skills in product development. What is learned throughout the course is essential for developing new products and enhancing existing ones.

Experimenting with new ideas and collecting evidence on those experiments is more important than ever in today's ever-changing business environments. Learning from potential or current users is essential to delivering the right product capabilities to market which is why this course teaches the essential techniques needed to drive targeted learning while collecting evidence to validate or invalidate potential capabilities.

 

Course Overview

In this one-day* 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.

Leveraging product discovery and validation techniques, the course takes a user-centric approach, illustrating how this comes together with development and delivery. Students learn how discovery, delivery, and validation fit together to lead to an end-to-end evidence-based approach to product development.

Who should attend?

• New Product Owners/Product Managers
• Experienced Product Owners
• Leaders and managers of Product Owners
• Teammates or stakeholders that work with Product Owners/Product Managers
• Scrum Masters and coaches helping their Product leaders

Course Learning Objectives

• Increase user value created by deliberately designing experiments to validate assumptions about user's needs and wants
• Reduce waste and improve ROI by consciously only investing based on evidence gathered from validation
• Improve organizational collaboration and alignment by engaging with key stakeholders using data instead of opinions
• Unlock creativity by reframing work as problems to solve rather than tasks to execute

Certification

Consistent with all Scrum.org courses, students who complete this class will receive one attempt at the associated assessment and will be eligible for a second attempt if they make their first attempt within 14-days. Upon launch of the course, only students will have access to earn the certificate. The general public will gain access to the assessment approximately 6 months after launch.

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Who is Chris?

I love making Product Ownership better. All my classes are for Product Owners, or people who work with them. Being a Product Owner is key, but people don't always know what it is. So, I want to help Product Owners succeed. I've worked in tech for over 10 years and was a Product Owner for most of that time. I've been a Product Owner in many places, from startups to big companies. I'm passionate about Product Ownership and how it helps organizations focus on humans. I've helped thousands of people learn how to be better Product Owners. Join my class to learn how to be a better Product Owner too.

In my free time, I enjoy going on walks with my wife and daughters. I also partake in what I called the lazy person's Olympics: frisbee golf, cornhole, ping-pong. I'm based out of Northern Kentucky and I'm a big Bengals and Reds fan.

Why should I take a class from him?

• Shorter, more spread out sessions give the brain space to process
• Engaging, fun exercises designed for you
• I’ve been in your shoes in multiple contexts, so learn from my failures and successes
• I combine principles (why) with practices (what + how)
• 10 years experience as:
  • Product Owner
  • Product Manager
  • Product Owner Coach
  • Scrum Training Lead for a Fortune 500 company

Can Unstuck help after the class?

Yes! We offer more than just a one-time experience in training. Unlock the potential of your teams and organizations with Unstuck! Our agilists provide the expertise and insights you need to help you move past the roadblocks in your way. Reach for new heights and become more agile with Unstuck - get out of a rut and on the path to success.

We have deep experience and a breadth of offerings. We offer a full range of training, coaching, and strategic consulting services.

We meet you where you are. We evaluate where you are on your journey, provide valuable ‘aha’ moments, and help you get unstuck in your agility.

Everything we do, we can teach; everything we teach, we can do. Our mission is to enable your success in developing and delivering valuable products by teaching you to own your agility.

Ways we empower organizations’ agility include:

• Health Check: Doing some things well with Agile and some things not so well? Gain outside perspective on your situation with specific, actionable recommendations through a four-week health check assessment.
• Team Formation or Relaunch: Starting teams off on the right foot has proven to be a key to long-term success. Team Formation is a set of highly interactive sessions that progress from training and workshops toward mentoring and facilitation in order to enable the team to take ownership of enacting new ways of working.
• Agile Foundations Workshop: Teams can be coached and given the tools to succeed, but without support from the larger ecosystem outside of the team, these efforts can fall flat. Through this one-day immersive workshop, leaders and stakeholders will walk away with a healthy understanding of how to engage with Agile teams for value-add work, understand the principles and purpose of agility, and explore how it benefits themselves and the organization.

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