Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO)
Professional Scrum Product Owner™ (PSPO) is a hands-on course for Product Owners, Product Managers, and others who want to strengthen their approach to product ownership with Scrum.
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Course Overview
Professional Scrum Product Owner™ (PSPO) is a hands-on course for Product Owners, Product Managers, and others who want to strengthen their approach to product ownership with Scrum. The course explores how Professional Scrum supports a shift from a project mindset to a product mindset and how Product Owners connect business strategy with product development to help Scrum Teams create valuable products.
Throughout the course, you will examine product vision, Product Goals, Sprint Goals, stakeholder and customer collaboration, value measurement, quality, and Product Backlog management. You will also explore the Product Owner's accountabilities and techniques for forecasting and release management while developing practical ways to align product development with business strategy and customer needs. The course prepares students for the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) certification.
Course Benefits
- Understand that Product Ownership includes Product Management performed with an Agile mindset
- Recognize the value of a product over project mindset
- Learn how to bridge business strategy to product development tactics
- Experience ways to align the team around the business strategy, product vision, Product Goal and Sprint Goal
- Find ways to effectively communicate the business strategy, product vision and Product Goal
- Discover techniques to collaborate with users, customers, stakeholders and members of the Scrum Team
- Identify metrics that can be used to track value creation and successful product delivery
- Learn how quality and the Definition of Done support long term product viability and reduce time to market
- Understand the Scrum Principles and Empiricism
- Understand the Product Owner accountabilities on the Scrum Team
- Learn techniques for Product Backlog Management, Release Management and Forecasting
Delivery Methods
Delivered for your team at your site or online.
Course Outline
This course develops practical product ownership skills in areas such as empiricism, Scrum Values, the definition of Done, forecasting and release planning, Product Vision, product value, Product Backlog management, business strategy, stakeholder and customer collaboration, technical risk, and Evidence Based Management. To see how these and other competencies map across Professional Scrum courses, visit the Professional Scrum Training Competency Mapping page on Scrum.org.
Class Materials
Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.
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