Professional Product Discovery and Validation
Live Virtual Class, September 20, 2024
Class Overview
This one-day skills course on product discovery and validation offers hands-on training to participants, enabling them to enhance value creation through practical application of discovery and validation skills in product development. This course covers core skills, equally essential for both greenfield scenarios but also the enhancement of existing products.
Experimentation and collecting evidence are more and more important in today’s ever-changing business environments. Thus, learning becomes a first-class citizen and this course teaches the essential skills needed to drive targeted learning. With these skills, you will delight customers while achieving company impacts and controlling risk exposure, thus optimizing Return on Investment (ROI).
Throughout the class, students learn a number of discovery and validation practices that they can use once they leave the classroom.
📚 Course Overview
In this one-day* skills-building course, students use an ongoing case study as a way of applying techniques learned throughout the class and preparing to take what they learn back to their workplace. This course is designed for Product Owners, Product Managers, and product teams to enable them to better incorporate discovery and validation into their product development process.
Product discovery and validation focus the team on achieving customer outcomes and company impacts. Teams learn how to work in iterative cycles to assess what works best for the user. 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 empirical approach to product development..
🎯 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
👥 Who Should Attend this class?
This course is appropriate for students who are currently working as a Product Owner or Product Manager and are looking for practical ways to increase user value created, make data-informed decisions, and better investments. This course is also suitable for members of product teams.
📈 Course Learning Outcomes
- Identify what assumptions are being made
- Explain what assumptions need to be validated
- Describe the principles used to prioritize which assumptions to validate first
- Use the right data to gather to test the hypothesis
- Explain why a desired signal strength is needed to validate a hypothesis
- Manage your cost for running the experiment based on desired signal quality and confidence level
- Customize a hypothesis to in/validate assumptions
- Define facilitation techniques for a high level of creativity and diversity in solutions
- Analyze the results of your experiments
- Use learnings in your decision-making process
🏅Professional Scrum Certification
There is not a certification associated with the class at this time as it is not yet an official class of Scrum.org. If this experiment of the class proves to drive the creation of an official class a certification test will likely become a part of the offering and any beta participants will be eligible to receive an attempt at certification at no additional charge.
🌟 Why Choose Sunil's Class?
💼 Extensive Industry Experience:
- Gain insights from real-world scenarios with top-tier organizations.
- Learn from Sunil's firsthand experiences to fast-track your success.
🚀 Principles Meets Practice:
- Get the best of both worlds with a blend of principles (why) with practical application(what & how).
- Unlock the secrets to successful implementation in any scenario.
💡 Engaging Learning Experience:
- Enjoy interactive hands-on exercises tailored for maximum learning.
- Elevate your skills in a dynamic and fun environment.
📊 Diverse Expertise:
Benefit from 25 years of multifaceted experience across various roles:
- Software Engineering
- Technical Architecture
- Project/Program Management
- Scrum Mastery and Agile Coaching
- Leading Agile Transformation
- Product Ownership/Management
- Professional Product Coaching
🤜🤛 Choose Sunil's class for a transformative learning journey.
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⏳ PMI PDU Credits
Students of Scrum.org courses can claim Project Management Institute (PMI) PDU credit: 07 PDUs after attending a one-day Professional Product Discovery and Validation workshop. 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.
Venue
This is a virtual class. We will be using Zoom and Mural, participants are requested to have a laptop with a good Internet connection for video calls.