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Product Discovery and Validation Skills (PPDV)

Master the Product Discovery and Validation skills neesesary to take your product to the next level
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Primary Challanges

This skills course on product discovery and validation offers hands-on training to participants, enabling them to enhance value creation through practical application of discovery and validation skills in product development. This course covers core skills, equally essential for both greenfield scenarios but also the enhancement of existing products.

Strategically Balance Immediate Needs and Future Growth

Learn to prioritize features to balance immediate needs with long-term strategic growth.

Inspire and Guide Your Team with a Clear Vision

Develop a compelling product vision that aligns with goals and inspires your team.

Make Data-Driven Decisions for Optimal Results

Master data analytics tools and metrics to drive informed, evidence-based product decisions.

Achieve Unity and Drive Success

Enhance collaboration and communication to align stakeholders and teams, eliminating conflicts and delays.

Transform Ideas into Market-Winning Products

Generate and validate innovative ideas quickly to meet customer needs and reduce product failure risk.

Unlock Market Potential by Understanding Your Customers

Gain insights into customer behaviors and pain points to align your product with market demands.

PPDV Course Overview

This intensive course on product discovery and validation equips participants with hands-on skills essential for enhancing value creation and optimizing ROI in both new and existing products. Through a practical case-study approach, Product Owners, Product Managers, and product teams will learn iterative cycles, user-centric methods, and evidence-based techniques to drive targeted learning and achieve impactful customer outcomes.

PPDV Learning Outcomes

Teaches participants to identify and validate key assumptions, prioritize them based on importance, and use appropriate data to test hypotheses. Learn to manage experiment costs effectively, customize hypotheses, and employ facilitation techniques for creative solutions. The course also covers analyzing experiment results and applying learnings to enhance decision-making, ensuring impactful customer outcomes and optimized ROI.

Upcoming Dates

We dont have any dates for public classes for Professional Product Discovery and Validation Skills (PPDV) right now. sign-up to be the first to know, or contact us for discounts or private training.

Expert Facilitation

The course is led by seasoned practitioners who bring their real-world experience and provide insights into practical applications of agile, lean, and DevOps.

Immersive Learning

This course employs a blend of lectures, case studies, group discussions, and interactive exercises to establish a dynamic learning environment.

Course Overview

There are currently no public PPDV classes scheduled! Check the course schedule for all available classes or contact us for private PPDV classes.

Learning Experience Options

Our primary method of increasing Product Discovery knowledge is a deliberate developmental experience divided into learning blocks, each with four hours of live virtual classroom training with a qualified trainer-practitioner complemented with presentations and lectures in the form of videos, reading material, and writing activities provided for self-study. Live sessions are delivered online using Microsoft Teams and Mural, with Mighty Networks provides the self-study portal.

Every participant on every option receives:

  • Two attempts at the industry-recognised Scrum.org Assessments.
  • A 30m learning review, generally delivered between assessment attempts.
  • A 60m one-on-one coaching session

At a minimum, we deliver all of our training in four hour sessions or block of live practitioner-instructor lead experiances, complimented by offline self-paced content. Depending on the training course We can deliver as:

  • Traditional Learning Experience - four intensive consecutive days or four non-consecutive days over two weeks
  • Flipped Learning Experiance - a flipped learning experiance with live classroom sessions as well as offline self-paced learning.
  • Immersive Learning Experiance - an immersive learning experiance with weekly assignements that are debriefed at the next session.
  • Guided Learning Experiance - an guided journey where a trainer-pratitionar cureates and provides feedback on self-paced learnings.
  • Extended Learning Experiance - Traditional, FLipped, or Immersive compimented by additonal integrated workshops, coaching, and consulting as needed.
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  • Increase user value created by deliberately designing experiments to validate assumptions about user’s needs and wants
  • Reduce waste and improve ROI by consciously only investing based on evidence gathered from validation
  • Improve organizational collaboration and alignment by engaging with key stakeholders using data instead of opinions
  • Unlock creativity by reframing work as problems to solve rather than tasks to execute

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Public training:

Traditional
£355
Immersive
£425

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Corporate rates staring at:

Traditional
£5,400
Immersive
£6,345

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Alumni-Discount-of-30%

Alumni Discount of 30%

Have you been through a class with us before? As an Alumni you get a 30% discount on all of our classes.

The Alimni discount for this class would bring it down to £295

Combine with our generous 20% Credit per Referral program.

Under / un-employed Program

Under / un-employed Program

Are you underemployed? Our Retraining Program provides favourable payment plans for those not currently working.
Pay a 30% deposit of £130 now, and the rest when you are working.

Unlimited Reruns for 70% discount

Unlimited Reruns for 70% discount

Reruns allow you to participate in a class that you have already taken for any reason at a low cost.

Have you participated in this class with us or an equivalent from another vendor? We are intent on enabling your continuous learning so we offer you a Rerun discount of 70% to take it again with our trainers.

The Rerun discount for this class would bring it down to £130. Contact us with proof of participation in a previous class to claim your discount.

For Scrum.org classes from another trainer please provide your Scrum.org Profile URL showing that associated class. For Scrum Alliance, you will need to provide a receipt. Not sure? Contact us for a chat.

20% Credit per Referral

20% Credit per Referral

Our Advocates Program allows you to gain 20% for each referral* as a credit towards future classes! This is a cash equivelent so can be added to any other discount.

*up to £85, depending on purchase region, per referal

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This one-day skills course on product discovery and validation offers hands-on training to participants, enabling them to enhance value creation through practical application of discovery and validation skills in product development. This course covers core skills, equally essential for both greenfield scenarios but also the enhancement of existing products.

Experimentation and collecting evidence are more and more important in today’s ever-changing business environments. Thus, learning becomes a first-class citizen and this course teaches the essential skills needed to drive targeted learning. With these skills, you will delight customers while achieving company impacts and controlling risk exposure, thus optimizing Return on Investment (ROI). Throughout the class, students learn a number of discovery and validation practices that they can use once they leave the classroom.

In this skills-building course, students use an ongoing case study as a way of applying techniques learned throughout the class and preparing to take what they learn back to their workplace. This course is designed for Product Owners, Product Managers, and product teams to enable them to better incorporate discovery and validation into their product development process. Product discovery and validation focuses the team toward achieving customer outcomes and company impacts. Teams learn how to work in iterative cycles to assess what works best for the user. Leveraging product discovery and validation techniques, the course takes a user-centric approach, illustrating how this comes together with development and delivery. Students learn how discovery, delivery, and validation fit together to lead to an end-to-end empirical approach to product development

Why naked Agility with Martin Hinshelwood?

naked Agility Limited is a professional company, registered in Scotland, that offers training, coaching, mentoring, and facilitation to help people and teams evolve, integrate, and continuously improve.

We recognise the positive impact that a happy AND motivated workforce, that has purpose, has on client experience. We help change mindsets towards a people-first culture where everyone encourages others to learn and grow. The resulting divergent thinking leads to many different ideas and opportunities for the success of the organisation.

Our Core beliefs

Courage | Commitment | Focus | Respect | Openness

We believe that every organisation deserves usable software on a regular cadence that delivers the highest possible value. Organisations are complex systems. They evolve over time and the current ways of working are a result of this evolution. We help an entire organization focus on value delivery and agree to new norms.

By reducing bureaucracy and command and control management, we believe that everyone will take responsibility for achieving the organisation’s goals. Our tailored blend of training, coaching and mentoring, gives people the opportunity to learn and develop, making the organisation, and its clients, successful.

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What We Do

On an evolution towards agility and becoming a great organisation, it is your people that will determine your success. We help the entire organisation agree on methods, goals and cultural values that will enable you to adopt a product-first approach.

We have learned from the success and failure of different organisations and their experiences of introducing an agile mindset. We want to help you transition to a world within which you can delight your clients.