Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced

Course Overview

The Professional Scrum Product Owner™ – Advanced (PSPO-A) course is a practical, exercise-focused program designed to enhance the skills of seasoned Product Owners and Product Managers. The course aims to bolster their capability to articulate a vision, confirm their suppositions, and ultimately provide increased value to their stakeholders. This course moves past the subjects covered in the Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) class by facilitating a more profound understanding of the role, through the examination of the various facets of a professional Product Owner’s responsibilities.

Who Should Attend

Regardless of what industry to work in, The Professional Scrum Product Owner course is for:

• Product Owners
• Product Managers
• Business Analysts
• Agile Coaches/Scrum Masters
• Company Leaders

Course Learning Objectives

• 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

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. 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 2nd attempt at no additional cost. You are also entitled to a 40% discount on the PSPO III assessment.