Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced

About your trainers

Dave Dame is a Senior Director of Product Accessibility for Windows and Devices at Microsoft, where he leads the strategy, design, and execution of inclusive products for users of all abilities. He is a certified Professional Scrum Trainer (Trained over 1500 Product Professionals), Master, and Product Owner, as well as a Six Sigma Black Belt, with a strong background in process improvement, customer relationship management, and agile product management.

Dave is passionate about creating hardware and software solutions that empower people with disabilities and enhance their quality of life. He has launched innovative products such as the Surface Adaptive Kit, Microsoft Adaptive Accessories, Surface pen grips, Inclusive trackpad, and the Inclusive Tech Lab. He is also a professional speaker and a thought leader on product management, accessibility, inclusive design, and cognitive diversity. He believes that accessibility is a social responsibility, business opportunity, and competitive advantage.
 

Matt Dominici is a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) and consultant who has helped over 50 organizations in finance, insurance, health, legal, media, construction, ad-tech, retail and government. Through his clarity, positivity, and enthusiasm he helps teams and organizations discover their own path to true professional agility.

As a trainer and consultant, Matt draws on his practical experience as a technology Director, Agile Coach, Development Team Member, Scrum Master and Product Owner. 

Elevate Your Product Leadership: Master the Stances of a Professional Scrum Product Ownership
 

Professional Scrum Product Owner™ - Advanced (PSPO-A) is a hands-on, activity-based course that focuses on helping experienced Product Owners and Product Managers expand their ability to establish a vision, validate their hypotheses, and ultimately deliver more value to their stakeholders. Through a case study-based series of exercises, combined with instruction, students gain the entrepreneurial product leadership skills and practices critical to growing as a successful Product Owner.

The Product Owner role is multifaceted, requiring them to engage in behaviors and adopt mindsets beyond the core of Agility and the Scrum framework. Students explore these techniques and how to pivot among them by exploring several Product Owner "stances" including:

• The Customer Representative:
  • Focus on understanding customer problems, pains and opportunities
  • Get into the mindset of the customer, placing yourself in their world, understanding their needs
  • Deliver value by connecting product features to customer outcomes
• The Visionary:
  • Champion the future state, possibilities, goals and chances
  • Communicate the product vision, strategy and Product Goal
  • Understand value and pricing models
• The Experimenter:
  • Focus on innovation through experiments, hypotheses, tests, learnings, data and validation of value
  • Understand the Product Owner’s role in a scaled environment
• The Decision Maker:
  • Focus on making better decisions
  • Navigate conflicting customer feedback
• The Collaborator:
  • Seek collaboration with stakeholders and the Scrum Team
  • Work beyond the Scrum Team including contracts, finance, budgeting and governance in an agile way
• The Influencer:
  • Lead the stakeholders, customers and Scrum Team, to move in the right direction and to change their minds, when necessary
  • Learn how to create a stakeholder management strategy

Course Learning Objectives

• Experienced Product Owners will learn different stances a Product Owner takes in order to navigate everyday challenges
• Modern complementary practices will be introduced through discussions, case studies and exercises
• Students will leave with a clear understanding of Agile Product Management as they continue on their Product Owner journey
• Learn about the various types of stakeholders that Product Owners represent and how to best work with them.

Who Should Attend this class?

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 is preferred, but not mandatory.

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

• Scrum Masters / Agile Coaches
• Company leaders

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.

Discounts on future classes

By attending a class with Impact Agility, you are automatically eligible for a 30% discount on any future class, so that you can continue to level up your knowledge and skillset as a professional Agile practitioner.

Class will be held live over Zoom. A link to join will be supplied.