Professional Scrum

Product Owner

Live Virtual Class, 8 - 11 May, 2023

All our courses are centred around valuable learning outcomes achieved through experiential learning within a classroom environment. They are most often delivered as intense 2-day experiences.

The Immersion Program is an alternative format that extends the learning experience beyond the classroom by allowing students to apply what they have learned to real-world settings. This format is enhanced by incorporating retrospectives for improvement, making the learning experience highly effective and practical.

What is an Immersion Program?

An Immersion Program is a method of learning where students are actively engaged in the material and apply their knowledge in real-world contexts over an extended period of time.

Benefits of an Immersion Program

• Students gain practical experience by applying their learning to their real-world context.
• Students can affect a positive change in their environments immediately
• Real-world application of learning increases the engagement, motivation, and personal investment of students, leading to more effective learning
• Experiential classroom learning provides students with valuable practice in a safe environment before experimenting in their real-world context
• Opportunities for students to collaborate and create a dynamic learning environment that exposes students to a variety of ideas and ways of thinking, deepening their understanding of the topics discussed in class
• Retrospectives allow students to reflect on their learning with each other and the Professional Scrum Trainer to make improvements and gain deeper insights

What Do You Get With an Immersion Program?

• Eight half-day interactive group class sessions guided by a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST)
• Opportunity to attempt a Professional Scrum assessment
• Assignments to apply learnings in your real working environment with inspection and adaptation together with your peers and your Professional Scrum Trainer

Who Is an Immersion Program For?

The application of learning during an Immersion Program is core to the concept. Participants should have the opportunity to work with a real team on a real product during participation in the program. If you do not have this opportunity while participating in the program, you can either find a partner to pair with, or you should consider attending a traditional class.

Immersion Programs are an extension to our existing course offerings, not a replacement. We believe that learners have preferences and unique situations, to which we intend to offer greater variety in course delivery methods to meet these needs. The below characteristics of learners are generalized and intended to help guide you towards the learning method you think might suit you best.

Learners who register for an Immersion Program:

• Are committed to applying their learning and are willing to conduct small experiments at work throughout the learning experience.
• Find it easier to fit a half-day classroom session once a week into their schedule and independently focus on intersession assignments.
• Learn best by doing.
• Prefer to gain knowledge, practice in a safe environment, and then apply.
• Want to learn enough to try something quickly, then inspect and adapt to improve and grow.

Learners who register for a traditional Scrum.org course:

• Are committed to taking ownership of their learning experience which is dependent on full and active participation over a short period of time.
• Find it easier to fully focus on the class and learning for two consecutive days.
• Prefer to learn as much as possible in a condensed time-frame.
• Learn best through discussions and conversations with their peers and instructor.
• Want to gain a broad understanding of the subject and use it as a foundation for further independent learning.

Flipped Learning Experience

Flipped learning is an alternative format that moves some or all of the learning of theory away from the classroom, and reflecting and practising is done in the class (hence the name "Flipped Learning").

Benefits of flipped learning

• Consuming content in smaller iterations helps learning stick
• Multiple reflection cycles make the practical application of learning more impactful
• Variations of learning environment cater better for personal learning styles
• Continued access to learning materials

Flipped Learning Experience Overview

This class comes with 16 hours of live virtual classroom experience. The course content is divided into learning blocks, each with presentations and lectures in the form of videos, reading material, and writing activities that are provided for self-study complemented by 1/2 day live virtual sessions delivered online using Microsoft Teams and Mural. These live interactive workshops create a dynamic and interactive environment where we dive into the core concepts of Agile Product Management and the accountability of the Product Owner through group activities, interactions, and sharing experiences, all with the guidance of an expert Professional Scrum Trainer.

Obtaining new knowledge through self-study materials along with having an in-depth, rich engagement in a class allows students to enjoy learning that sticks. Students will complete the course ready to take the globally recognised Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPOI) certification exam which is included in the course fee.

Student will leave this course with an application for Professional Scrum.

Prerequisites

• Computer - Your computer will need to be fast enough to run both Microsoft Teams and Mural. We recommend 2 monitors so that you can see everyone and the work easily.
• Webcam - Please consider your staging and presence; what others see when you are on video. Try to avoid backlighting that renders you in shadow, the up-nostril, the baldie, or the half-head. 80% of human communication comes from body language and other visual queues. Consider your camera angles and try to have a view that is as close to what you would expect in person across a table.
• Internet - We recommend a strong internet to support high fidelity video both from you and with us.

Supporting people with disabilities

We do our best to support people with disabilities. Please ask us about what we can do. Closed Captioning - For persons who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, live captions allow to see what others are saying. Class Recording - A meeting recording can be helpful for people with cognitive difficulties, for example. You can go through the recording at your own pace as well as go back to double-check anything you might have missed.

The League of Extraordinary Lean-Agile Practitioners

We are providing a Lean-Agile Community in Mighty Networks that anyone can join and participate in the conversations. If you attend a class with us you will get access to additional extraordinary content.

1-hour Coaching Session

Every student gets a 1-hour complimentery remote Coaching Session with your trainer, worth £525, to help you integrate concepts into your context (at a mutually agreeable time following the course)

Use it for a 1on1 session, a group session with your team, or a chat with your leadership. 

Learning Review

Regardless of the outcome of your assessment, you get additional 1-on-1 help to focus your learning in the form of a 30 Minute Assessment Review worth £265