Professional Scrum Product Owner Advanced
- Advancing product ownership skills
Available as in-house training
Date and location of the in-house training to be agreed
Price: 1200 EUR + VAT / person
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:
- Product Owners, product managers,
- business and system analysts, solution architects,
- change agents, internal trainers, Scrum Masters,
- agile coaches, Agile consultants,
- specialists, members of operational teams,
- department/team leaders and managers.
Training preconditions:
The Professional Scrum Product Owner™ - Advanced (PSPO-A) training is designed for experienced Product Ownerów who have an in-depth knowledge of the Scrum framework. Product Owners who have at least one year of experience will get the most value from the training. People usually come with their own challenges that they would like to share and work out a way to improve together on the forum.
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 250$ voucher for the PSPO II assessment, 40% discount for PSPO III assessment and certificate of training completion, issued by Valkir Academy (in English).
- In case of taking the PSPO II 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 II assessment and 40% discount for PSPO III 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.
Available dates:
| Date | Location | Price per person | |
|---|---|---|---|
| To be agreed | To be agreed | 1200 EUR | Request quote |
Training description:
What is the Professional Scrum Product Owner™ training?
Professional Scrum Product Owner™ - Advanced (PSPO-A) is an accredited training from Scrum.org that focuses on hands-on exercises and workshops, designed for experienced Product Owners and product managers. The training is designed to deepen participants’ knowledge and skills in advanced product management in the Scrum framework, which is the next step in every Product Owner’s professional development journey.
The PSPO-A training program is designed to help participants understand and adopt the various stances that characterize an effective Product Owner. Participants will learn how to effectively perform roles such as customer representative, visionary, experimenter, decision maker, collaborator and influencer. Each of these stances is analyzed and practiced during interactive exercises, enabling them to better understand and implement the knowledge gained in their daily work.
During the training, participants will learn how to effectively communicate the product vision, validate hypotheses, conduct experiments and deliver greater value to stakeholders. They will also learn how to better collaborate with the Scrum team, stakeholders and customers to maximize the value delivered by the product.
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:
- Product Owner as a stance
- Back to the roots: Who is a Product Owner and what can we expect from him/her?
- Discussion of popular myths and perceptions about a Product Owner.
- Stances or anti-stances? Product Owner behaviors depending on the context.
- Product Owner as a Customer Representative
- Understanding customer pains and gains - various methods of empathizing from fundamental ones like Proto(Persona), Empathy Map to B2B and B2C pyramid of needs.
- Mapping customer needs using concepts such as JTBD and Value Proposition Canvas.
- Popular patterns and anti-patterns for first actions of validating target group needs.
- Product Owner as a Visionary
- Methods of defining a product vision using selected techniques such as 3 by 3 Vision framework, Product Canvas, Business Model Canvas, Lean Canvas.
- What are product roadmaps and their purpose - 3 roadmap formats as an example.
- Defining product strategies and objectives - from storytelling via EBM to pricing strategies.
- Product Owner as an Experimenter
- Defining and validating the problem hypothesis, experiments in complex environments.
- Discussion: Differences between the types of prototypes, the balance between the cost of creation and the profit from the verified hypothesis of the problem and solution.
- Product scaling concepts to mitigate dysfunction of PO accountability in the organization.
- Product Owner as a Decision maker
- Decision-making dilemmas in product management, prioritization and Product Backlog management in an environment of high uncertainty.
- Decision-making based on the example of Delegation Poker and Decision Trees techniques.
- How to deal with thinking traps - confirmation bias / confirmation error.
- Product Owner as a Collaborator
- Planning, budgeting and organizational governance in a complex environment.
- Agile contracts - Signing contracts aligned to agile ways of working.
- Facilitation techniques and structures for conducting meetings (hierarchical, cooperative, autonomous). Navigating stakeholders and the team to achieve common goals.
- Product Owner as an Influencer
- Strategic stakeholder management using stakeholder maps and radars as an example.
- Building authority and trust - the art of diplomacy, negotiation and influence.
- Assertive communication on the basis of understanding thinking styles and personality traits discovered using psychometric models (e.g. DISC, MBTI, Fris, Insights Discovery).
- Training summary
How our training look like?
Training goals:
What are the challenges we address?- What stances should a PO embody when supporting a Scrum Team and an organization?
- What stances should a Product Owner avoid? What does it depend on?
- How to effectively formulate and communicate a product vision?
- How to validate hypotheses and experiment with new ideas?
- How to optimize product management processes?
- How to develop decision-making skills and influence the team and stakeholders?
- How to implement advanced prioritization techniques?
- What methods to use to manage dependencies in complex products?
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.
