Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced

Mastering the Product Owner Stances 

This Professional Product Owner - Advanced (PSPO-A) course focuses on helping experienced practitioners expand their ability to establish a solid vision, validate their hypotheses, and ultimately deliver more value to their stakeholders. The PSPO-A course is intended for Product Owners who want to grow their knowledge and abilities.

The course goes beyond the topics explored in the Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) class by deepening the attendee's understanding of the role by exploring the many stances of a professional Product Owner. This course is an interactive, experiential workshop where attendees explore topics through a series of exercises and discussions. Students should have at least one year of Product Owner experience and practical knowledge of Scrum in order to participate in and benefit from these exercises.  Having previously taken the PSPO class is recommended but not required.

The course also includes a free attempt at the globally recognized Professional Scrum Product Owner II certification exam (PSPO II).

📚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

This course is an interactive, experiential workshop where attendees explore topics through a series of exercises and discussions. Students should have at least one year of Product Owner experience and practical knowledge of Scrum in order to participate in and benefit from these exercises.

🎯 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

📈 Course Objectives

• Students are provided with a clear path to moving forward in their Product Owner journey by exploring 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 better understand how to use vision, value, and validation to create a competitive advantage for any product.
• Discussions, case studies, and exercises introduce students to modern complementary practices.

👥 Who Should Attend

This course is designed for Product Owners, Product Managers, and Business Analysts, focusing heavily on Product Management skills, tools, techniques, and knowledge as part of their work on the Scrum Team. The course does not address the Scrum framework (much), and we assume people have a proper understanding of the Scrum framework. Participants should have at least one year of experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager, while multiple years of experience and having attended the Professional Scrum Product Owner course and passing PSPO is preferred but not mandatory.

Other people who might benefit from the PSPO-A course include:

• Scrum Masters / Agile Coaches
• Company leaders
• process

🌟 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.

🏅Professional Scrum Certification 

All participants completing the Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Scrum Product Owner II (PSPO II) assessment. The industry-recognized PSPO II certification requires a minimum passing score of 85%. PSPO-A class participants who attempt the PSPO II 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.

You are also entitled to a discount on the PSPO III assessment.

⏳ PMI PDU Credits

Students of Scrum.org courses can claim Project Management Institute (PMI) PDU credit: 14 PDUs after attending a  Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced (PSPO-A) 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.

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.