Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced

This Class is the Best on Product Ownership and Agile Product Management

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HERE ARE SOME REASONS THAT MY PRODUCT OWNER CLASSES ARE AN EXCELLENT CHOICE

• Coaching, not in class materials: I'll help you understand how to estimate product development (and software development) efforts.

• Coaching, not in class materials: I'll tell you how to get leaders to focus on the improvements the Scrum Team needs to deliver more value.

• I am a Product Owner and Program Manager. I have created the visions, budgets, hiring, product roadmaps, and schedules for multi-million dollar, multi-year, and multi-country development efforts at two different companies.  I led the development activities in the Scrum teams.

• I lead the creation of product visions with senior leaders and stakeholders.

• As a mechanical engineer, I have more than a decade of automotive and aerospace design experience in final assembly locations.

• I know how to get measurable results that prevent loss of life and lasting engineering solutions.

• I individually led the Product Owner and internal program manager creation and execution at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics IT. I also led the creation and implementation of agile software development.  I worked in the development team.

• I am a IIBA-certified Business Analyst

• Ken Schwaber trained me in Scrum.

• Ken Schwaber trained me in the Product Owner and internal product manager accountability.

• Jeff Sutherland trained me in the Product Owner and internal product manager accountability.

• Participants will receive a curated and prioritized list of post-class books, guides, tools, articles, and videos.  These materials will help you become a great Product Owner and internal Product Manager.

• You'll receive my step-by-step assessment preparation list.

YOU NEED SOMEONE WITH THE SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION, AND QUALIFICATIONS TO HELP YOU

I am a product development professional with expertise in lightweight, agile product development concepts and practices.  With a degree in Mechanical Engineering, I use product design and engineering experience, analysis skills, and agile process control principles to help clients solve problems and create value.

I am vision-guided and action-oriented.  I lead the way for others in incremental analysis, team formation, team collaboration, and agile practices for product development. I am a Professional Scrum Trainer, Lean Six-Sigma Green Belt, IIBA certified business analyst, and member of the Order of the Engineer.

PREVIOUS PARTICIPANTS APPRECIATED TRANSFORMATIVE TEACHING AND CARE FOR STUDENTS

     "The class was enjoyable, well taught and perfectly relevant, but the interaction with the instructor put it through the roof.
Whether you are nearing the terminal edge of creativity or helming a massive vessel, product ownership could clear the fog.
     A cooperative, multi-front, blitzkrieg of an approach smashes stagnation, analysis paralysis and the competition.
Russell's real-world application of material made crystal clear the depth of his understanding and field experience.
     Take the plunge and in two days your rewired neurons will have an increased ability to produce consistent value in your company"

Down to earth instructor who really cares for his students

Russell does a fantastic job of explaining complex topics in a way that everyone can understand. His tempo is great. His stories and references are spot-on. You can really tell that his number one goal is to provide a great learning experience, and knowledge transfer, to his students.

MASTERING THE PRODUCT OWNER STANCES

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. 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.

COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Experienced Product Owners will learn different stances a Product Owner takes to navigate everyday challenges.
• Your instructor will introduce modern complementary practices through discussions, case studies, and exercises.
• Students will leave with a clear understanding of Agile Product Management
• Participants learn the various types of stakeholders that Product Owners represent and how to work best with them.

COURSE OVERVIEW

In this two-day class, students will understand what it means to deliver value and how to express that value inside and outside their organization. Through a case study-based series of exercises, combined with instruction, students gain the entrepreneurial product leadership skills and practices critical to growing as successful Product Owners. 

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 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

View the different Focus Areas covered within this class and others.

PROFESSIONAL SCRUM CERTIFICATION

All course participants will receive a password to attempt the Professional Scrum Product Owner II (PSPO II) assessment.  Scrum.org will grant PSPO-A class participants a no-cost 2nd attempt if they take the PSPO II assessment within 14 days of receiving their free password and do not score at least 85%.  Participants are also entitled to a discount on the PSPO III assessment.

We will be using video conferencing, Mural, and PowerPoint.  Mural instructions are provided beforehand.