Professional Scrum Product Owner Advanced (PSPO-A)- GUARANTEED TO RUN

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Mastering the Product Owner Stances 

This 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 designed for Product Owners seeking to expand their knowledge and skills.

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

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

Course Description

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

• The Customer Representative: 
  • Focus on understanding customer problems, pains and opportunities 
  • Get into the mindset of the customer, placing yourself in their world, understanding their needs
  • Deliver value by connecting product features to customer outcomes
• The Visionary: 
  • Champion the future state, possibilities, goals and chances
  • Communicate the product vision, strategy and Product Goal
  • Understand value and pricing models
• The Experimenter: 
  • Focus on innovation through experiments, hypotheses, tests, learnings, data and validation of value
  • Understand the Product Owner’s role in a scaled environment
• The Decision Maker: 
  • Focus on making better decisions
  • Navigate conflicting customer feedback
• The Collaborator: 
  • Seek collaboration with stakeholders and the Scrum Team
  • Work beyond the Scrum Team including contracts, finance, budgeting and governance in an agile way
• The Influencer: 
  • Lead the stakeholders, customers and Scrum Team, to move in the right direction and to change their minds, when necessary
  • Learn how to create a stakeholder management strategy

View the different Focus Areas covered within this class and others.

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

Course Learning Objectives

• Experienced Product Owners will learn different stances a Product Owner takes in order to navigate everyday challenges
• Modern complementary practices will be introduced through discussions, case studies and exercises
• Students will leave with a clear understanding of Agile Product Management as they continue on their Product Owner journey
• Learn about the various types of stakeholders that Product Owners represent and how to best work with them.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for Product Owners, Product Managers, and Business Analysts focusing heavily on Product Management skills, tools, techniques, and knowledge as part of their work on the Scrum Team. The course does not address the Scrum framework (much), and we assume people have a proper understanding of the Scrum framework. Participants should have at least one year of experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager, while multiple years of experience and having attended the Professional Scrum Product Owner course and passing PSPO is preferred, but not mandatory.

Other people that might benefit from the PSPO-A course include:

• Scrum Masters / Agile Coaches
• Company leaders

Assessment Certification

All participants completing the Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced course receive a password for taking 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.

PMI PDU Credits

Students who complete Scrum.org courses can claim Project Management Institute (PMI) PDU credit: 14 PDUs after attending a Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced (PSPO-A) workshop. Please note that PMI PDUs are earned for course attendance, not for passing a Scrum.org assessment. Students can claim PDUs under PMI's "Education courses provided by other third-party providers” category. You can claim your PDUs online at https://ccrs.pmi.org.

Are you ready?

Attendees of Professional Scrum Foundations (PSF), Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I), and Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) are expected to prepare themselves. In fact, regardless of the workshop, basic, intermediate, or advanced, the advice to prepare is to watch the following:

• Product Owner, in a Nutshell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=502ILHjX9EE 
• A video on common misperceptions of a Product Owner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr2rjaGmUzo
• Scrum Tapas videos at https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=scrum+tapas+scrum.org, especially video recordings by Steve Porter, Ryan Ripley, and Don McGreal

and slowly & carefully read:

• The Agile Manifesto (values and principles pages, particularly the principles pages) - http://agilemanifesto.org/
• The Scrum Guide and read the history at https://www.scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html
• Bonus points if you have already read Liberating Structures for large group facilitation - http://www.liberatingstructures.com/ls/. Extra bonus points if you install and play with the Liberating Structures app; it's free.

Arriving at a workshop without slowly and carefully reading the Scrum Guide shows disrespect to other attendees. Respect is one of the five Scrum Values.

Pricing

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