PROFESSIONAL SCRUM PRODUCT OWNER - ADVANCED

Mastering the Product Owner Stances

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Professional Scrum Product Owner-Advanced

Course Objectives

Students are provided with a clear path to moving forward in their Product Owner journey through an exploration of the different stances a Product Owner takes.

Students learn about the various types of stakeholders that Product Owners represent and how to best work with them.

Students will gain a better understanding of how to use vision, value, and validation to create a competitive advantage for any product.

Students are introduced to modern complementary practices through discussions, case studies, and exercises.

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.

Course Description

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

Course Topics

  • Understanding your products
  • Who are your customers?
  • Connecting product features to customer outcomes
  • Communicating the product vision and strategy
  • Value and pricing models
  • Innovation and experimentation
  • Stakeholders and stakeholder management
  • Agile governance, budgeting and contracting in relation to Scrum
  • Scaling the Product Owner role

Assessment Certification

All participants completing the Professional Scrum Product Owner – Advanced course receive a password to take the PSPO II assessment and are entitled to a discount on the PSPO III assessment. The industry-recognized PSPO certifications require a minimum passing score on these rigorous assessments.

Additional Course Offerings

Scrum.org offers the following additional training courses available publicly and privately.

  • Professional Scrum Foundations
  • Professional Scrum Master
  • Professional Scrum Master II
  • Professional Scrum Developer
  • Scaled Professional Scrum with Nexus
  • Professional Agile Leadership – Essentials
  • Professional Scrum with Kanban
  • Professional Scrum with UX