Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced

This 2-day Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced (PSPO-A) is especially for Product Owners who want to improve their skills.

Share your experiences and increase your impact! This 2-day Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced training for experienced Product Owners offers you the opportunity to reflect on your role and improve your skills.

Maximize your impact!

As a Product Owner, you know all the ins and outs of Agile Product Ownership. Along the way you have already encountered all kinds of challenges that make you wonder how you can maximize your impact. That is what the Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced teaches you! From working with a Scrum Team to working with the entire organisation. We answer questions such as:

• How do you work best with stakeholders?
• How do you arrive at a common vision of value?
• how do you respond to a difficult situation?

This Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced training is perfect for...

This training is an advanced Product Owner training, which follows on from the PSPO. It is perfect for Product Owners who want to reflect on their role and are looking for in-depth Scrum knowledge. Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Chapter Leads and Managers who want to support Product Owners in their professional growth are also more than welcome! This is an Expert level training. That means we assume that you:

• have studied the Scrum Guide and understand Scrum
• have at least one year of experience as a Product Owner
• are part of a Scrum Team and/or have followed a Product Owner training

This is important to ensure that this training fits in well with your Learning Journey. In this way, we also ensure that the prior knowledge of the participants matches. A Professional or Certified Scrum Product Owner certificate is not required for participation, but we do recommend that you have knowledge at this level.

What do you learn during the Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced?

Assuming you know the basics of Scrum, we'll dive right in with Agile Governance, Contracting and Budgeting. We also discuss Scaling. How do you scale according to Scrum? What does this mean for your PO role?

You will learn what Personas and Customer Journey Mapping are and how to use them to make better decisions and create better products.

You learn to combine Business Model Innovation and Product Innovation and maximize value by using experiments and Impact Mapping. During the training, we always ask you to share your experience.

This will help you discover how you can increase your impact. 

Program

• Product Owner stances: get to know the different stances
• Customer/User Value: learn to determine the value of your product
• Stakeholders: improve the way you communicate with all stakeholders
• Product vision: learn how to use Storytelling to share your vision
• Product development: how do you make development a priority?
• Product innovation: create experiments that boost product innovation

Am I ready for the Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced (PSPO-A)?

If you're wondering which PO training currently best suits your Learning Journey, here are the differences:

Professional or Certified Scrum Product Owner courses teach you the basics of product ownership, while the Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced builds on your experiences.

In this training, you will learn how to become an even better Product Owner. The Professional or Certified Scrum Product Owner training courses train you to become a Product Owner.

The PSPO-A is intended for experienced Product Owners who want to become a Product Expert.

PSPO II Certification

The PSPO II exam (plus 1 resit) and Scrum.org certificate are included in the training. You take the exam online at a time of your choice. Please note, you will only receive a free second chance if you take the exam within two weeks after the last training day. If you pass the PSPO II exam then:

• When successful, receive a Scrum.org Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO-II) certificate
• Become a lifelong member of the Scrum.org community

About Steve  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paE00l6-xQU

Steve is an experienced Scrum Master and Professional Scrum Trainer with 20 years plus of experience in delivering complex products in many different business sectors. He started his career as a software developer, working for Nestle before moving on to work for Sky building applications & websites for many of the English Premier League football teams.

Previously being a developer, Steve has worked in various teams (Scrum and none Scrum) so comes packed with real-life stories. From Start-Ups building the next social media network, up to large corporations handling thousands of transactions a second. If you want to learn from someone who has been there, then Steve would be able to share experiences to help you on your way.

In May 2004 and after spending 6 months working on a very demanding & soul destroying project Steve decided to look for a better way to deliver products. It was either that or leave the industry. This led him to look into Agile approaches and in particular Scrum - his aim was to know to empower teams and individuals to make the right choices at the appropriate time.

Over 16 years later on from 2004, Steve's focus is still on helping individuals & teams to reach their full potential through professional development coaching and professional training.

About Andy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1b5HdqgVWs

Andy is a highly experienced Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org and a Professional Kanban Trainer with ProKanban. He wrote the book "Applying Scrum with Kanban"... so he knows a few things or two

Andy's career has taken him on a journey from late 90’s web development through professional organisations such as Nokia and IBM to now, where Andy is a professional trainer, coach and consultant. Along the way Andy learned XP, Scrum and Kanban ‘hands-on’, through leading teams of people developing complicated solutions in complex product and service delivery environments.

Andy now works with teams of people at every level to help them work smarter towards achieving their goals. Whether that's through professional personal and group coaching; or coaching Kanban with Professional Scrum, it's always based upon client and customer outcomes in mind.

Andy also has a family with two little boys and a dog called Rocky in Bristol, as you can well imagine, that keeps him pretty busy one way or another.

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