Professional Product Discovery and Validation™ (Beta Course)
Beta Course - Enhance value creation through practical application of discovery and validation skills
This one-day training course offers a hands-on learning experience to participants, enabling them to enhance value creation by applying discovery and validation skills in product development. What is learned throughout the course are essential for developing new products and enhancing existing ones.
Experimenting with new ideas and collecting evidence on those experiments is more important than ever in today's ever-changing business environments. Learning from potential or current users is essential to delivering the right product capabilities to market which is why this course teaches the essential techniques needed to drive targeted learning while collecting evidence to validate or invalidate potential capabilities.
Throughout the class, students learn a number of discovery and validation practices that can be used immediately in their jobs.
Course Overview
In this one-day* course, students work hands-on as they follow a case study as a way of learning to apply techniques throughout the class. This course is designed for Product Owners, product managers, business analysts and product teams to enable them to better incorporate discovery and validation into their product development and delivery processes.
Leveraging product discovery and validation techniques, the course takes a user-centric approach, illustrating how this comes together with development and delivery. Students learn how discovery, delivery, and validation fit together to lead to an end-to-end evidence based approach to product development.
Course Learning Objectives
- Increase user value created by deliberately designing experiments to validate assumptions about user's needs and wants
- Reduce waste and improve ROI by consciously only investing based on evidence gathered from validation
- Improve organizational collaboration and alignment by engaging with key stakeholders using data instead of opinions
- Unlock creativity by reframing work as problems to solve rather than tasks to execute
Who Should Attend this class?
This course is appropriate for students who are currently working as a Product Owner, product manager, product leaders, business analysts and others on the product team who are looking for practical ways to increase user value created, make data-informed decisions, and better investments. This course is also suitable for members of product teams.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Analyze the problem your stakeholder wants your product to solve
- Examine problems to solve (not solutions to implement)
- Analyze customers' and users' feedback to identify satisfaction gaps
- Order what assumptions to validate first
- Customize a hypothesis to in/validate assumptions
- Use the right data to gather and test the hypothesis
- Analyze the results of your experiments
- Compare/contrast your decisions with those around you
- Demonstrate an evidence-based mindset to teams and stakeholders
Professional Scrum Certification
There is not a certification associated to the class at this time as it is not yet an official class of Scrum.org. If this experiment of the class proves to drive the creation of an official class a certification test will likely become a part of the offering and any beta participants will be eligible to receive an attempt at certification at no additional charge.
Take a Beta Class
Below are some of our upcoming beta classes planned by our Professional Scrum Trainers to validate the class and receive critical feedback before the class is finalized and made into an official Scrum.org course. Please note that this class may not become an official Scrum.org class and currently does not come with a certification. If we do make this an official Scrum.org class, any past students will be eligible for a free attempt at the certification.
Our Professional Scrum Trainers are often running private classes for their clients and also perform classes open to the public. For a private class contact us or one our Professional Scrum Trainers