Professional Scrum Product Owner

Professional Scrum Product Owner™ is a 2-day course that provides the foundational knowledge needed to work with Scrum in a highly practical way. The course is a combination of instruction and team-based exercises where participants experience how the Scrum framework improves product development efforts.

The course objectives are:

• Have a clear understanding of the mechanics of Scrum
• Know how the Product Owner fits into Scrum
• Successfully work with Scrum Teams and stakeholders
• Effectively increase business agility

All participants completing the PSPO course receive one password to take the PSPO I assessment. If you attempt the PSPO I assessment within 14 days of the class and do not score at least 85%, you will be granted a 2nd attempt at no additional cost.

Who should attend

• All people involved in software development upon the Scrum framework
• People responsible over products from a business and product management perspective

What will you learn

Over the 2 days, participants will develop and solidify their knowledge of being a Product Owner through instruction and team-based exercises. The breadth of the role’s responsibilities in delivering a successful product will become more clear from an Agile perspective. Metrics are identified to track the creation of value and the successful delivery of the product to the marketplace.

The PSPO course is much more than just a set of slides and an instructor. In this course, participants work on real-life cases with other classmates together as a team. This course is made up of discussions and hands-on exercises.

Course topics include:

• Agile Product Management
• Value-Driven Development
• Scrum Principles & Empiricism
• The Scrum Framework
• Product Backlog Management
• Release Management

About the instructor

Anastasios Psarros (MSc Information Management) is an Entrepreneur, Management Consultant, Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer, and the current 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. 

The course is taking place virtually, all prices shown are excluding local VAT.