Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced

Mastering the Product Owner Stances

This 2-day Professional Product Owner™ - Advanced (PSPO-A) course focuses on helping experienced practitioners expand their ability to establish a solid vision, validate their hypotheses, and ultimately deliver more value to their stakeholders. The PSPO-A course is intended for Product Owners who are looking to grow their knowledge and abilities.

The course goes beyond the topics explored in the Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) class by deepening the attendee's understanding of the role through the exploration of the many stances of a professional Product Owner. This course is an interactive, experiential workshop where attendees explore topics through a series of exercises and discussions. Students should have at least one year of Product Owner experience and a practical knowledge of Scrum in order to participate in and benefit from these exercises. Having previously taken the PSPO class is recommended, but not required.

• Module 1: Understanding your products
• Module 2: Who are your customers?
• Module 3: Connecting product features to customer outcomes
• Module 4: Communicating the product vision and strategy
• Module 5: Value and pricing models
• Module 6: Innovation and experimentation
• Module 7: Stakeholders and stakeholder management
• Module 8: Agile governance, budgeting and contracting in relation to Scrum
• Module 9: Scaling the Product Owner role

The course also includes a free attempt at the globally recognized Professional Scrum Product Owner II certification exam (PSPO II).

What you will learn

The Product Owner's role is multifaceted, requiring the practitioner to engage in behaviors and adopt mindsets beyond the core of Agility and the Scrum Framework. This course surfaces these behaviors by challenging the student to adopt several different Product Owner stances:

• Customer Representative - focused on understanding customer problems, challenges and potential opportunities

• Visionary - communicating the vision, future state and possibilities in ways that foster common understanding

• Experimenter - focusing on innovation, hypothesis testing and validating potential value to spark product innovation

• Influencer - communicating with and influencing stakeholders, customers and the Scrum Team to act with common purpose

• Collaborator - seeking input, ideas and feedback from others

• Decision Maker - focusing on creating maximum impact by making clear choices and decisions

Over the 2 days, students will learn about areas critical to growing as a successful Product Owner and through a series of exercises combined with instruction, students gain a better understanding of what it means to deliver value and how to express that value inside and outside of the organization.

Course Learning Objectives

• Students are challenged to think in terms of Scrum and the Scrum principles to better understand what to do when they return to their workplaces.
• Practicing Product Owners will learn different stances a Product Owner takes in order to navigate everyday challenges.
• Attendees leave knowing how to best identify and serve various groups of stakeholders and what competencies are expected. In order to aid in this journey, modern complementary practices will be introduced through discussions, case studies, and exercises.
• Students will leave with a clear path to moving forward in their Product Owner journey.
• Gain a better understanding of how to use vision, value, and validation to create a competitive advantage for any product.
• Learn about the various types of stakeholders that Product Owners represent and how to best work with them.

Who should attend

The Professional Product Owner-Advanced course is an advanced course specifically designed for Product Owners and product managers who have practical experience managing or owning a product.

It is also beneficial to Scrum Masters and stakeholders who work with Product Owners. It is particularly beneficial for those with at least one year of building products with a Scrum Team.

Format

You will work in small teams. You learn through team assignments, discussions and hands-on exercises.
Be ready to challenge and be challenged.
This course will be taught in English.

Prerequisites

You will make the most of the class if you:

• Have studied the Scrum Guide (required) – available at https://scrumguides.org/.
• Took the Scrum Open assessment.
• Have at least one year of Product Owner experience - or similar such as Product Manager, or you have been coaching people in such roles.
• Have been on or are closely involved in solving complex problems, such as (but not limited to), building or enhancing a product or service.

Assessment and 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. The industry-recognized PSPO II certification requires a minimum passing score of 85%. 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 second attempt at no additional cost.
• You are also entitled to a discount on the PSPO III assessment.
• Students are able to claim Project Management Institute (PMI) PDU credits: 14 PDUs after attending a two-day Professional Scrum Product Owner Advanced (PSPO-A) course.
• Please note that PMI PDUs are earned for course attendance and not for passing a PSPO-II assessment. Students can claim PDUs under PMI’s “Education courses provided by other third-party providers” category.

Steven, Your Trainer

I live to energise, encourage and inspire individuals and teams so they successfully overcome the challenges on their path, making them more complete humans.

Facilitating Scrum training allows me to do just that.

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• my Scrum.org profile
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Why collaborate with Scrum.org

Scrum.org training provides a hands-on, activity-based learning experience using a consistent set of learning objectives around the world. Each course explores real-world challenges to help students apply what they learn in their roles once back at work.

On our path to becoming a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), we had to prove an important number of years of Scrum experience. Once we applied, we went through an extensive process including: interviews, validation of knowledge, training approach, peer reviews and more.

The above combined, Scrum.org provides, according to us, the highest quality Scrum training and certified Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs) to teach them.

We, as Professional Scrum Trainers, bring our own style, experience, and stories to the courses, using the same  learning objectives as our basis so that all students are learning from the same solid basis. 

We are a proud member of the Scrum.org Professional Training Network™(PTN). As PTN member we align with the Scrum Values and are committed to improving the profession of product delivery in part by providing Scrum.org training.

Need more info?

For additional information about this and our other Professional Scrum training modules you can contact Steven Deneir at steven@boostyourscrum.com or via 0032 477 26 93 18.
Visit our website at www.boostyourscrum.com.

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