Training: Professional Scrum Product Owner

Duration and language:

Onsite/online training - 16h - 2 days each 8 hours (including breaks).

Training is provided in English. A Polish version is also available.

Target group:

The training is intended for:

• novice Product Owners, product managers,
• business and system analysts, solution architects,
• change agents, internal trainers,
• novice Scrum Masters,
• specialists, members of operational teams,
• department/team leaders and managers.

Those who want to grow the organization in the spirit of Agile and Lean.

Training preconditions:

The Professional Scrum Product Owner™ training is intended for people with at least one year of experience in Scrum or who have already participated in an introductory course. People usually come with their own challenges that they would like to share and work together on the forum to develop improvements. If you are looking for an introductory training to Scrum, we recommend the Applying Professional Scrum™ training.

For online training, it is required to be computer literate and meet technical requirements: https://valkir.pl/en/online-training/.

Price includes:

• Preparation and training performed by an expert, accredited Scrum.org Trainer (PST), an experienced Agile and Lean consultant.
• Effective training in a small group - on average 6-12 people.
• Accredited Scrum.org training materials and requisites.
• License for performing the training (payable to Scrum.org).
• A 200$ voucher for the PSPO I assessment, 40% discount for PSPO II assessment and certificate of training completion, issued by Valkir Academy (in English).
• In case of taking the PSPO I assessment within 14 days and failing, the participant is entitled to a second attempt at no additional cost.
• 14 Personal Development Units (PDUs) for PMI PMP members.
• Lunch and catering (drinks and snacks). Not applicable to online training.
• Trainer’s travel and expenses (T&E). Not applicable to online training.

Certification:

Each participant completing the training will receive an non-expiring voucher to attempt the PSPO I assessment and 40% discount for PSPO II assessment. The assessment (in English) takes place online on Scrum.org website. In case of taking the PSPO I exam within 14 days and failing, the participant is entitled to a second attempt at no additional cost.

Training description:

What is the Professional Scrum Product Owner™ training?

Professional Scrum Product Owner™ is an accredited training from Scrum.org, expanding knowledge and building essential competencies to perform the role of Product Owner. The form of the workshop, the spectrum of examples, techniques and tools allows to better manage the business value increment in a predictable and adapted to market dynamics way.

Program provides the essence of modern product management, prepares you to develop a product development strategy, taking into account requirements analysis, stakeholder management, shortening the feedback loop from real users, and on its basis, dynamic product adaptation. Participants in leadership and managerial positions will understand what a Product Owner does on a daily basis and how crucial it is for the entire organization to properly perform this role.

The role and accountability of the Product Owner, often misinterpreted and reduced to creating business requirements, will take complete shape after this training, building the awareness of a intrapreneur who constantly analyzes market trends, knows representatives of target user segments, monitors, measures and makes informed decisions what should, and what should not be developed.

Who is behind this?

Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland are considered to be Scrum’s fathers, although the approach itself is based on self-organizing teams, popularized by the famous publication “The New New Product Development Game” written by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, published in the Harvard Business Review in 1986.

Over 300 Scrum.org trainers around the world every day support the development of management by organizing practical training, learning through games, workshops and effective practices.

Training agenda:

1. Restart: (re)definition and Scrum framework review
   • A brief reminder of Scrum theory, pillars and values.
   • Roles and accountabilities in Scrum and how they relate to positions in the organization.
   • Events and processes in Scrum, their duration, frequency.
   • Scrum artifacts and fostering their transparency.
    
2. Agile product management
   • Comparing the project approach to the product approach, discussion in the context of training participants’ organizations.
   • What is organizational agility? Its impact on product development management.
   • Overview of value-based product development management.
    
3. Agile strategic planning
   • A short comparison of the differences in the traditional approach to product and service development versus modern, based on hypotheses, experiments and growth engines.
   • Developing a product vision and product development strategy.
   • Presentation of different planning horizons depending on the scale of the product, the availability of stakeholders and market constraints.
   • Popular patterns and anti-patterns for the initial analysis of the needs of the target group.
    
4. Requirements management
   • Product Backlog, as a set of requirements described in business language. Who manages it and how.
   • Analysis of the methods of acquiring and defining the pyramid of user needs through observation, listening and conversation.
   • A brief presentation of methods for requirements synthesis and value-based product backlog refinement.
    
5. Increment and release
   • Increment as a result of the work performed in the Sprint. Definition of Done emergence.
   • Concepts of increments integration in terms of technical debt.
   • Ways of defining subsequent product releases, delivering business value without unknowingly incurred technical debt.
   • Agile product release management and adaptation of releases based on the feedback analysis from real users.
    
6. Monitoring and progress evaluation
   • Comparison of various metrics in terms of: added value for users, user and stakeholder satisfaction, and measuring the development process effectiveness.
   • Designing transparent information radiators, including diagrams and charts to support the Product Owner and the entire Scrum Team in making decisions.
   • Discussion: methods to evaluate and indicate progress.
   • Exercise: report or engage? Methods of managing stakeholder expectations.
    
7. Economic analysis and solution scaling
   • Presentation of methods for identifying and analyzing explicit and hidden costs, business models and development profitability.
   • Methods for long-term maximization of business value.
   • An introduction to scalable product development management for multiple teams, complex and disjointed product business domains or a range of products.
   • Open discussion of submitted questions, challenges and doubts and the next steps necessary to become a Product Owner in your organization.
    
8. Training summary

Training goals:

What are the challenges we address?

• How can I explain to others what a Product Owner does on a daily basis?
• How can I research the needs of the target group and develop a product development strategy?
• How can I manage stakeholder expectations and build transparency of work?
• How can I co-create requirements with a team, plan and monitor their implementation?
• How can I maximize the value of teamwork in conditions of extreme uncertainty & change?
• How can I estimate and budget the development of products, projects or initiatives in Scrum?
• How can I shorten the time from an idea to a market-fit user need
• How can I engage stakeholders to provide product feedback?

What benefits do you get?

The training allows participants to better understand their organization, the challenges it faces and more effectively steer its growth. It contains theoretical knowledge and practical methods taken from the idea of entrepreneurship, complexity theory, self-organization/self-management, business analysis, product management, change management and many other areas.

As a result of this training, participants from different areas of the organization will:

• know and understand aspects needed to effectively manage the product development and its value optimization,
• acquire skills necessary to apply mentioned methods in practice,
• understand how and why new methods can positively affect their work and product.

Whenever possible, topics presented during the training are explained through a game/exercise that allows to apply the learned practice or principle in the business context. Exercise or game usually ends with a debrief and discussion on how to adapt the presented practices to the participants’ context.