Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced

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Navigate the complex world of product ownership and take value to the next level 

How can a Product Owner effectively juggle the multitude of responsibilities, priorities, and personalities that come with product development? The Professional Scrum Product Owner™ - Advanced (PSPO-A) course is here to help! This hands-on, activity-rich course is designed specifically for experienced Product Owners and Product Managers seeking to sharpen their skills and make a more effective impact on product value.

In this course, you’ll explore a range of behavioral patterns and mental models, or “stances,” to help you handle challenging situations with greater confidence and clarity. You’ll go beyond foundational Product Owner concepts, learning how to set a powerful vision, validate hypotheses, and deliver more value to stakeholders. PSPO-A dives deeper than the basics, empowering you to become a truly professional Product Owner with a comprehensive view of the role and strategies to tackle the complexities of real-world product management.

Product Owners understand different approaches to problems

Product Ownership is About Vision, Value, and Validation

Product Owners don’t just manage requirements—they evolve the product by deeply understanding its vision, delivering customer value, and validating outcomes.

The Product Owner is a Strategic Value Maximizer

Often mistaken for a “requirements generator,” the Product Owner’s role is focused on maximizing strategic value. This class explores how Product Owners can drive product impact through well-informed, value-focused decisions.

Scrum is More Than an IT Delivery Method

Scrum is commonly misinterpreted as a delivery tool mainly for IT teams. This course reframes Scrum as a flexible mechanism for delivering potential value to customers. By continuously responding to customer feedback, Product Owners can pivot towards delivering the highest value.

Collaborative Requirement Creation and Product Backlog Management is Key

While the Product Owner steers the Product Backlog, they aren’t solely responsible for creating or modifying requirements. Effective Product Owners communicate and collaborate closely with the Scrum Team to foster shared ownership and leverage team insights.

This course helps product owners embrace a strategic, collaborative approach that drives true product value.

Thoroughly explore approaches for Professional Scrum Product Ownership

With this knowledge, you’ll be equipped to assess situations thoughtfully and adopt a practical approach to overcome challenges. By learning and applying effective Product Owner behavioral patterns, you’ll be able to deliver greater value to stakeholders with less friction and more confidence every Sprint!

Why Scrum.org?

Choosing Scrum.org means choosing quality, consistency, and expertise. Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber directed the creation of every course with hands-on exercises aligned with the Scrum Guide. Scrum.org classes are the intent of Scrum, right from the inventor.

Aside from a first-hand understanding of Scrum, what sets our courses apart is the collaborative approach. With input from hundreds of Professional Scrum Trainers worldwide, our courses continually evolve through a steward model. This collective expertise ensures that our content reflects the latest thinking and best practices in Scrum, giving you access to insightful and innovative training.

When you choose Scrum.org, you’re getting more than a course. You’re getting the course created by the inventor of Scrum, which is curated and evolved by a global network of experts.

Why Dr. Suscheck?

Dr. Charles Suscheck is a seasoned software development and Agile education expert, with over 30 years of experience that spans from hands-on development to enterprise-level Agile coaching. Starting as a developer, he has grown into a leading figure in Agile transformation, helping organizations align business and IT to unlock the full potential of Agile principles. His classes range from advanced, highly technical programming classes to executive-level organizational change classes.

Dr. Suscheck holds a Doctor of Computer Science, a Master’s in Computer Information Systems, and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science. He has served as a full-time faculty member at Colorado State University and continues to teach as an adjunct faculty member at several universities. Beyond teaching, he consults with large organizations, helping align business and IT to maximize the benefits of Agile principles.  Charles is a past Scrum.org Professional Scrum Product Owner course Steward.

Why Anastasios Psarros?

Anastasios Psarros (MSc Information Management) is an Entrepreneur, Management Consultant, Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer, and a past Scrum.org Professional Scrum Product Owner course Steward.

He has significant professional experience in various international sectors, e.g., IT, insurance, energy, retail, and finance, as a Product Owner, Scrum Master, Manager, and Managing Director. Anastasios has experienced the power of diverse, motivated teams during his tenures in Germany, USA, and Netherlands. He is passionate about helping companies on all continents unlock their full potential throughout their Agile journey, especially Managers, Leaders and Product Owners. To help lay the ground for an Agile world, he has been a lecturer for Agility and Scrum at the University of Applied Science in Koblenz, Germany since 2016.

Anastasios has helped the community by organizing one of the biggest Agile conferences in Germany, Scrum Deutschland, since 2015, and co-written two books on Scrum & Management and Responsive Enterprises. 

Learning Objectives

• Learn and explore the different stances (behavioral patterns) 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.
• Learn the skills, traits, and behavior shifts required to be an effective Product Owner.

Outline

The PSPO Advanced course is a mix of lectures, case studies, and interactive exercises as you collaborate with other students. Active learning is the main approach throughout the course.

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

Who should attend?

The course assumes experience as a product owner and an understanding of the Scrum framework.  If you are new to Scrum, this course will be a challenge as Scrum isn't the focus, but rather the behaviors of a Professional Product Owner. You should read the Scrum Guide (www.scrumguides.org) before class. The course is perfectly appropriate for non-IT professionals who are looking to apply Scrum in their context. 

Certification

After completing a Professional Scrum Product Owner course, students receive credentials to take the Professional Scrum Product Owner II (PSPO II) assessment, which earns them the industry-recognized PSPO II Certification. Students take the assessment independently after class.  

Virtual via Zoom.

We’ll use Zoom and MURAL during our class. You don’t need to be an expert in either tool. You won’t need an account for either one or any applications - everything is completely browser-based. 

Having a good internet connection, a webcam, and a microphone will help as the class is very interactive.

For more information or to arrange group rates contact:  info@juniperhillassociates.com