Professional Scrum Product Owner Advanced™ (PSPO-A)

Scrum is the most widely adopted framework for Agile development. It is a lightweight yet incredibly powerful set of values, principles, and practices to successfully deliver complex, innovative products and services that truly delight customers. Though scrum began as a way to develop software, it is currently used in a variety of industries across the globe.

Scrum relies on cross-functional teams to deliver products and services in short cycles, enabling:

• Fast feedback
• Quicker innovation
• Continuous improvement
• Rapid adaptation to change
• More delighted customers
• Accelerated pace from idea to delivery

• 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
  
  

The Professional Product Owner-Advanced course is specifically designed for Product Owners and product managers with practical experience managing or owning a product.

It is also beneficial to Scrum Masters and stakeholders who work with Product Owners. It is particularly beneficial for those with at least one year of building products with a Scrum Team.

In this two day class students will gain a better understanding of what it means to deliver value and how to express that value inside and outside of their organization. Through a case study-based series of exercises, combined with instruction, students gain the entrepreneurial product leadership skills and practices critical to growing as a successful Product Owner. 

The Product Owner role is multifaceted, requiring them to engage in behaviors and adopt mindsets beyond the core of Agility and the Scrum framework. Students explore these techniques and how to pivot among them by exploring several Product Owner "stances" including:

• 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

All participants completing the Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Scrum Product Owner II (PSPO II) assessment. The industry-recognized PSPO II certification requires a minimum passing score of 85%. PSPO-A class participants who attempt the PSPO II assessment within 14 days of receiving their free password and do not score at least 85% will be granted a second attempt at no additional cost.

You are also entitled to a discount on the PSPO III assessment. 

Professional Scrum Product Owner Advanced™  certification 

When taking PSPO II, you should have experience as a Product Owner and a strong understanding of the fundamentals of Scrum. While attendance is not a prerequisite, attending a Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced class is highly recommended.

PSPO II tests your knowledge of Scrum, Product Ownership, delivering value and how you would handle real-world situations.

PSPO II includes questions from the following Focus Areas as defined in the Professional Scrum Competencies. The greatest emphasis is on Managing Products with Agility followed by Evolving the Agile Organization.

• Understanding and Applying the Scrum Framework:
  • Empiricism, Scrum Values, Scrum Team, Events, Artifacts, Scaling
• Managing Products with Agility:
  • Forecasting & Release Planning, Product Vision, Product Value, Product Backlog Management, Business Strategy, Stakeholders & Customers
• Evolving the Agile Organization:
  • Organizational Design & Culture, Portfolio Planning, Evidence Based Management
    
    

Your PSPO-A course registration payment includes the following:

• 2 days of high-quality instruction from a Scrum.org Trainer and Agile expert with over 20 years’ training and consulting experience
• Course materials handbook (PDF)
• Access to electronic copies of other reference documentation
• Recognition by the Scrum.org as a Professional Scrum Product Owner Advanced after passing the exam
• Password to take the PSPO-A assessment and 2nd Attempt is included if taken within 14 days of the course

John provided a challenging and interesting class, showing great flexibility and posing challenging ideas and concepts.
It helped me clear some preconceptions about the stances and complimentary practices.
His availability to the participants surprised me very positively, as well as the great environment created during the class.
Thank you!

Excellent training. John and Ben were super helpful and knowledgeable on all the topics with clear answers and real life examplse.