Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) Course with Certification
Our Professional Scrum Product Owner course helps students master the Product Owner role with real-world scenarios and practical exercises, enabling participants to drive product success using Agile principles and Scrum.
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Welcome to the Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) course. This transformative learning journey is designed specifically for Product Owners, Leaders, Entrepreneurs, and Managers eager to deeply understand and incorporate Scrum values and principles into their work. The course offers practical case studies and engaging exercises to ensure a hands-on learning experience.
In the ever-evolving product landscape, a thorough understanding of Scrum is not just beneficial but essential for modern teams. Scrum practices equip organizations with the agility, responsiveness, and efficiency needed to thrive amidst changing market dynamics.
Course Overview
There are many myths and misconceptions about the role of the Product Owner. The accountabilities of the Product Owner, however, go well beyond managing the Product Backlog and writing User Stories. The Product Owner is pivotal to bridging business strategy and product execution in order to help the organization create valuable products.
In this two day class* students will develop and solidify their knowledge of the Scrum framework and the accountabilities of being a Product Owner through instruction and team-based exercises. Students learn techniques that they can use to help them overcome the challenges that are often encountered on a day-to-day basis. They will do this while learning better ways to collaborate and engage with the users and customers, stakeholders, their team(s) and organization to provide greater value in the product being delivered.
View the different Focus Areas covered within this class and others.
When offered in-person, this course is generally delivered over two consecutive days. When offered as a Live Virtual Class, the course may be broken up into more, shorter days.
Course Outcomes
When a student leaves the classroom they will have improved skills to impact their products and organizations by:
Improving value created by staying focused on value and outcomes
Increasing organizational learning validating sooner rather than later which will also reduce costs
Achieving better business outcomes by aligning initiatives with business strategy through shared vision and aligning people toward clear goals
Increasing business agility by being data informed and empirical
Course Objectives
Increase business agility through proper execution of the Product Owner role.
Adopt a product mindset over a traditional project-based approach.
Bridge business strategy to product execution using Scrum.
Understand the Product Owner as an Agile Product Manager.
Master the core principles of Scrum and Empiricism.
Define and execute the Product Owner accountabilities within the Scrum Team.
Align teams around the business strategy, product vision, and goals.
Communicate the business strategy, product vision, and goals effectively.
Manage Product Backlog, release management, and forecasting.
Track value creation with meaningful metrics.
Engage stakeholders, customers, and team members effectively.
Who Should Attend this class?
The Professional Scrum Product Owner course is suitable for professionals across various industries looking to refine their Product Ownership skills, including Product Owners, Scrum Masters, managers, and those seeking a deeper understanding of Agile Product Management.
Assessment & Certification
Upon completion of the Professional Scrum Product Owner course, participants receive a password to attempt the
Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) assessment
. Achieving a minimum passing score of 85% qualifies for PSPO I certification. Participants who fail the first attempt within 14 days can retake the assessment at no additional cost. We also offer a discount on the PSPO II assessment for those who pass PSPO I. PMI PDUs can be claimed under the “Education courses provided by other third-party providers” category. Visit
https://ccrs.pmi.org
to register your PDUs.
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Syllabus
Our comprehensive syllabus is designed to accommodate various learning styles, whether you prefer a traditional in-depth session, a flexible immersive experience, or a structured mentor program. Each module can be delivered in the following formats:
Traditional Learning Experience: Engage in full-day or half-day sessions led by expert trainers in an interactive classroom setting. Perfect for those seeking an intensive, focused learning experience.
Immersive Learning Experience: Enjoy a multi-week program that breaks down full-day sessions into shorter, more manageable classes, integrating real-world applications and reflections for continuous improvement. Assignments are only
available as part of this format, encouraging participants to apply their learning practically.
Mentor Programs with Immersive Experiences: Participate in a series of immersive learning sessions as part of our mentor programs, combining structured learning with personalized guidance and continuous feedback over time. For more
information, visit our Mentor Programs page.
Our immersive programs empower growth through incremental learning, outcome-based assignments, and facilitated reflections, ensuring that the skills you gain are practical, applicable, and ready to be used in your work environment. Facilitated
Reflections are a cornerstone of our immersive approach, allowing participants to engage deeply with the material. In each session, you will have the opportunity to reflect on your learning, discuss challenges and successes with peers, and gain
actionable feedback from professional trainers. These reflective sessions enhance understanding, foster continuous improvement, and support your growth in a collaborative environment.
Agile Product Management I (Product vs. Project)
Module1 120+
Students will be able to evaluate their current situation regarding product vs. project mindset and apply changes to move their organization more towards a product mindset.
Create a definition of your product, identify where your organization stands regarding product vs. project mindset and execute at least one experiment to move more towards a product mindset.
assignment Examples forHow can you move more towards a product mindset?
Define who your users and buyers are and how they might describe your product.
Interview people inside your organization about their definition of your product and identify how these differ from your customers definition.
Facilitate a discussion with people in your organization about the impact the product mindset has on your product success.
Evaluate how much time your organization is spending in creating and maintaining project charters, project plans and milestones and form an opinion on how much this helps with achieving your business goals.
Evaluate how much time your organization is spending on discussing vision, value and doing validation and how adaptive your organization is to the insights generated by this.
Describe how your organization and the success of your product could benefit if you would adopt a product mindset.
Propose at least one change that will bring your organization closer to a product mindset and see how others in your organization are reacting to it.
Evaluate how you are living the Product Owner accountability and run one experiment that increases your proactiveness.
Agile Product Management II (Business Strategy and Product Vision)
Module2 120+
Students will be able describe their business strategy and their product vision in order to make assumptions more explicit and start a conversation with their stakeholders on alignment.
Create a vision and business model for your product. Share and discuss with your team and stakeholders and identify which insights this conversation creates.
Develop a Business Strategy using Business Model Canvas.
Develop a Business Strategy using Lean Canvas.
Develop a Business Strategy using Value Proposition Canvas.
Develop a Product Vision by creating a Product Box.
Develop a Product Vision using Product Vision Template.
Identify the various factors that sum up to the TOC of your product and quantify them.
Describe your technical strategy to manage your products TOC.
Identify if there are products in your organization that should better be discontinued. What is stopping you from doing so? How could you use business strategy and technical - strategy to support the case for excel or discontinue that product?
Discuss the Product Vision and your Business Strategy with the Scrum Team. Are they surprised? Is this changing their perspective? Are they offering additional insights?
Execute at least one experiment to validate underlying assumptions of your Product Vision and Business Strategy.
Value-Driven Development
Module3 120+
Students can initiate changes to their organization’s product management by better understanding what the value of their product is and how to measure it.
Facilitate a conversation vis various stakeholders to describe the value your product should deliver for the organization and how it can be measured.
List the metrics you are currently using in the context of your product and identify those that help to measure value.
Identify which of your metrics are leading indicators and which ones are lagging indicators. Try to list the underlying assumptions of leading indicators to signal improvements towards your goals.
Categorize your current metrics whether they are measuring resources, activities, output, outcome or impact.
Run an experiment to discontinue at least one metric that is not helping to increase transparency of your product.
Identify when the value of your product actually changed in the last 12 months.
Identify at least one experiment to deliver value through your product earlier and more frequent. Get approval from your Scrum Team(s) and your stakeholders to run the experiment.
Use the EBM Framework and assign your current metrics to the four Key Value Areas. Identify if you have some blind spots in these KVAs and propose metrics that could close these gaps. Discuss with your Scrum Team(s) and stakeholders what needs to be changed to measure these additional metrics.
Discuss with your Scrum Team(s) and your stakeholders which of your current metrics take a lot of effort to be measured and if you could stop using it or replace it with something simpler.
Identify which percentage of your budget actually helps to improve the value of your product vs. the percentage to obtain the current value. Propose at least one experiment to increase the first and get approval from your Scrum Team(s) and your stakeholders to run the experiment.
Scrum Theory & Empiricism
Module4 120+
The student is able to evaluate the concepts of complexity and empiricism in their context and determine with others in their organization how to deal with uncertainty in their environment.
Create consensus with your stakeholders and your Scrum Team(s) how you can benefit from using an empirical approach.
Identify factors that contribute to the complexity of your situation and hold a presentation with your Scrum Team(s) and your stakeholders explaining why you think your situation is complex and facilitate a discussion how to deal with this complexity.
Together with your Scrum Team(s) and your stakeholders, identify influencing factors that influence your ability to deliver value. Categorize them how much predictable they are and how much control your team has, to influence them.
Facilitate a discussion with your Scrum Team(s) and your stakeholders about how much unpredictability is in your current plan to achieve your business goals and how you are currently managing this uncertainty.
Identify how you are creating transparency over your current goals and plan and run at least one experiment to increase this transparency.
Identify how frequently you are inspecting and updating your current goals and the plan to achieve them. What are events that trigger inspection? Run at least one experiment to do inspection and adaption more frequent, adding additional triggers or increase the effectiveness of inspection and adaption.
Visualize your current feedback loops from planning and delivering a change to your product, collecting user feedback and how this feedback is influencing product decisions. - Identify at least one experiment to shorten this feedback loop or make it more effective and get approval from your Scrum Team(s) and your stakeholders to execute the experiment.
Identify how long you are currently planning into the future. What are the oldest elements of your current plan and how likely is it that you will implement it.
Identify your current arrival and departure rate to your plan and compare them.
Identify one experiment that helps to reduce unplanned work or helps to reduce unpredictability and get approval from your Scrum Team(s) and your stakeholders to execute it.
Identify those stakeholders who expect guarantees or promises on delivery dates, identify their needs behind this request and discuss how these needs could be met in a more empirical manner.
The Scrum Framework
Module5 120+
The students will be able to explain to stakeholders the influence of uncertainty and complexity on product development risks and effectively communicate the utilization of Scrum and empiricism as strategies to mitigate such risks and improve value.
Inspect and adapt how your current process is helping in achieving your business goals and improve its effectiveness by comparing it to the concepts suggested by the Scrum Framework to identify improvement opportunities.
assignment Examples forPutting Product Owner accountability into action
Discuss with your Scrum Team(s) where your current process is deviating from the Scrum Framework and run at least one experiment to adhere more to the rules defined by the Scrum Guide.
Discuss with your Scrum Team(s) if your increments are really Done and how this might impact your transparency in terms of achieving your business goals. Run at least one experiment to change your Definition of Done to increase this transparency.
Discuss with your Scrum Team(s) how your Sprint Goals help the team to focus during the Sprint and optimize the value. If you have more than one Sprint Goal, try to reduce it to one. If Sprint Goals are not effective enough to give guidance, make them more concrete or focused on value.
Discuss with your Scrum Team(s) and your stakeholders how the Sprint Goal from the last couple of Sprints where paying into your current Product Goal and therefore get you closer to your business goals.
Discuss with your Scrum Team(s) and your stakeholders how effective your Sprint Reviews are in inspecting and adapting your direction. Define at least one experiment to improve their effectiveness.
Hold a Sprint Retrospective with your Scrum Team(s) to identify how you could increase the team’s effectiveness in achieving business goals and agree on one experiment to improve.
Product Backlog Management
Module6 120+
Students will be able to identify opportunities to improve their current product management approach and how they might impact their ability to deliver value and come up with at least one improvement that they tried with their team(s) or stakeholders.
Inspect your current product management approach and identify opportunities to improve it in order to help better increasing the value of your product. Define experiment and get approval from your Scrum Team(s) and your stakeholders to execute as many of them as possible. Run at least one experiment to improve your product management approach and describe its impact.
Question the form and content of your current Product Backlog and rework it to help better focusing on creating value.
Reduce the size of your Product Backlog to increase transparency and describe the impact it has.
Create a Story Map to visualize how items on the Product Backlog help to achieve a specific goal of improvement and discuss it with your Scrum Team(s) and your stakeholders.
Revisit your Product Goal and Sprint Goal and discuss with your Scrum Team(s) and your stakeholders how they could be improved to better serve your product vision.
Run one experiment to improve your Product Backlog refinement and describe its impact.
Revisit your current approach to describe Product Backlog Items and run one experiment to improve it.
Discuss with your Scrum Team(s) and your stakeholders how you use the Definition of Done, Sprint Goal and Acceptance Criteria and run an experiment to improve them.
Discuss with your Scrum Team(s) and your stakeholders how you order your Product Backlog and run at least one experiment to change factors influencing the order.
Create a roadmap and discuss it with your Scrum Team(s) and your stakeholders in order to get feedback and increase transparency of your direction.
Revisit the process how you validate the value created by PBIs and run one experiment to improve transparency of real value created by PBIs.
Discuss with your Scrum Team(s) and your stakeholders which problem each PBI tries to solve and discuss if the problem is relevant enough.
Ask your Scrum Team(s) and Stakeholders to describe your Product Vision, Product Goal and current Sprint Goal and how they are related to validate alignment.
Releases & Forecasting
Module7 120+
Students will be able to have a conversation with their stakeholders about why forecasting should be different in a complex environment and how frequent releases can improve empiricism.
Understand your stakeholders needs in forecasting and improve how to meet these needs in a way that is more in alignment with an empirical approach addressing the specific challenges in a complex environment.
Interview your stakeholders to better understand their needs with forecasting.
Discuss with your stakeholders complexity and empiricism to explain challenges with forecasting.
Define an experiment to meet your stakeholders need in an more empirical way and get approval from your stakeholders to run it.
Calculate flow-based forecasts for historic data you have gathered and compare it with your current forecasting approach and the real data. Present the results to your stakeholders to initiate a discussion on various forecasting approaches.
Evaluate time investment in forecasting and initiate a discussion with your stakeholders what would change if you would stop this investment completely.
Discuss with your Scrum Team(s) how much undone work and technical debt your product is currently holding and how much this impacts transparency. Run one experiment to increase transparency.
Run an experiment on communicating a bandwidth for a forecast instead of a specific deadline and degrees of certainty to your stakeholders.
Run an experiment to forecast a goal instead of the work to be done.
Visualize your workflow around delivering valuable work and discuss it with your Scrum Team(s) and stakeholders.
Run an experiment to identify the smallest possible functionality to gather feedback instead of planning to build the full functionality.
Run an experiment to validate the value delivered with a release and compare it to expectations.
Discuss ways with your Scrum Team(s) and stakeholders to reduce your release cadence and get approval to run a specific experiment to shorten cycle time.
Closing
Module8 120+
As we conclude the Product Owner course, this final session is designed to reflect on your learning journey, consolidate key concepts, and prepare you to apply your new skills confidently within your team. We’ll revisit the course highlights, address any remaining questions, and provide guidance on the next steps to continue your growth as a Scrum Master.
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Catchup
Module9 120+
Two weeks after completing the Product Owner course, participants are invited to join a follow-up catch-up session designed to address any remaining questions, ideas, or challenges that have emerged since the training. This session provides an opportunity to reflect on your experiences applying the concepts learned in the course, share insights, and receive additional support.
Catchup & After
Two weeks after completion, participants are invited to join a follow-up catch-up session designed to address any remaining questions, ideas, or challenges that have emerged since the training. This session provides an opportunity to reflect
on your experiences applying the concepts learned in the course, share insights, and receive additional support.
* Assignments are part of our Immersive Training Programs, encouraging participants to apply their learning practically between sessions for a more hands-on experience.
For those looking for a more guided, continuous learning journey, explore our Mentor Programs, where you can engage in a series of immersive learning sessions combined with ongoing mentorship.
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