Professional Scrum Product Owner – Advanced (PSPO-A)

Professional Scrum Product Owner™ - Advanced (PSPO-A) is a hands-on, activity-based course that focuses on helping experienced Product Owners and Product Managers expand their ability to establish a vision, validate their hypotheses, and ultimately deliver more value to their stakeholders. The course goes beyond the topics explored in the Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) class by deepening the attendee's understanding of the role through the exploration of the many stances of a professional Product Owner.

• Experienced Product Owners will learn different stances a Product Owner takes in order to navigate everyday challenges
• Modern complementary practices will be introduced through discussions, case studies and exercises
• Students will leave with a clear understanding of Agile Product Management as they continue on their Product Owner journey
• Learn about the various types of stakeholders that Product Owners represent and how to best work with them.

Students should have at least one year of Product Owner experience and a practical knowledge of Scrum in order to participate in and benefit from these exercises.

Having previously taken the PSPO class is recommended, but not required.

Target audience

This course is designed for Product Owners, Product Managers, and Business Analysts focusing heavily on Product Management skills, tools, techniques, and knowledge as part of their work on the Scrum Team. The course does not address the Scrum framework (much), and we assume people have a proper understanding of the Scrum framework.

Participants should have at least one year of experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager, while multiple years of experience and having attended the Professional Scrum Product Owner course and passing PSPO is preferred, but not mandatory.

Other people that might benefit from the PSPO-A course include:

• Scrum Masters / Agile Coaches
• Company leaders

• 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

• Passing score: 85%
• Time limit: 60 minutes
• Number of Questions: 40 (partial credit provided on some questions)
• Format: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answer
• Language: English