Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced Training and Certification (PSPO-A)

Advanced Product Owner Training and Certification

Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced (PSPO-A) training is a 2-day advanced course with a combination of instruction and collaborative exercises to help experienced Product Owners further develop in their Agile journeys. PSPO-A is an interactive, experiential course where you'll explore topics through a series of exercises and discussions.

Building on the Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) course (which focuses on how to maximize value and serve as a Product Owner), the PSPO-A course helps you understand the various stances of an effective Product Owner, which stances can benefit different situations and how to effectively apply the stances when serving a variety of groups and individuals:
Stances of a Successful Product Owner

Customer Representative - focused on understanding customer problems, challenges and potential opportunities.
Visionary - communicating the vision, future state and possibilities in ways that foster common understanding.
Experimenter - focusing on innovation, hypothesis testing and validating potential value to spark product innovation.
Influencer - influencing stakeholders, customers and the Scrum Team to act with common purpose.
Collaborator - seeking input, ideas and feedback from others.
Decision Maker - focusing on creating maximum impact by making clear choices and decisions.

This Professional Product Owner - Advanced (PSPO-A) course focuses on helping experienced Product Owners expand their ability to establish a solid vision, validate their hypotheses and ultimately deliver more value for their organizations.

After completing a Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced course, you'll receive credentials to attempt the Professional Scrum Product Owner II (PSPO II) assessment and earn the industry-recognized PSPO II Certification. Earning your PSPO II Certification will make you part of an elite community of 1,300+ PSPO II badge holders from around the globe and unlike other Scrum training and certification organizations, your certification will never expire nor require future renewal fees.

Who Should Attend?

The Professional Product Owner-Advanced course is an advanced course specifically designed for Product Owners and product managers who have 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.

Learning Objectives

Following the PSPO-A course, you'll have learned how to perform the following:

Effectively apply the following stances of a Product Owner:
- Customer Representative.
- Visionary.
- Experimenter.
- Influencer.
- Collaborator.
- Decision Maker.
Effectively use vision, value and validation to create a competitive advantage for any product.
Explain how to best identify and serve various groups of stakeholders as a Product Owner and what competencies are expected.
Describe how to move forward in your Product Owner journey.

Topics

The PSPO-A course is a mix of lecture, case studies and interactive exercises as you collaborate with other students:

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.
Scaling the Product Owner role.

Scrum.org Certification

After completing a Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced course, you'll receive credentials to attempt the Professional Scrum Product Owner II (PSPO II) assessment and earn the industry-recognized PSPO II Certification. These credentials never expire, however should you attempt the PSPO I assessment within 14 days after receiving your credentials and not receive a passing score, you'll be granted a 2nd attempt for no additional fee.

Earning your PSPO II Certification will make you part of an elite community of 1,300+ PSPO II badge holders from around the globe and unlike other Scrum training and certification organizations, your certification will never expire nor require future renewal fees.

Public and Private Training

Please visit our public training schedule to find our upcoming public PSPO-A classes.

Interested in private on-site or Live Virtual Training? If so, private classes are available with group discounts! Please contact us at training@madisonhenry.com or 844.BE.AGILE so we can discuss your needs.

PMI PDU Credits

Students of Scrum.org courses are able to claim Project Management Institute (PMI) PDU credit: 14 PDUs. Please note that PMI PDUs are earned for course attendance and not for earning a Scrum.org certification. Students can claim PDUs under PMI’s "Education courses provided by other third party providers” category. You can claim your PDUs here.

About Scrum.org

Scrum.org is the home of Scrum, leading the evolution and maturity of Scrum to improve the profession of software development.

In addition to defining industry-leading Scrum training for practitioners at all levels, Scrum.org provides all of the tools and resources needed by Scrum practitioners to deliver value using Scrum. It hosts the Scrum Guide in 30 languages, provides assessments to allow people to evaluate themselves and improve and hosts community blogs, forums and resources to foster discussion and knowledge transfer.

Why Train with Scrum.org?

Scrum Leadership – Scrum.org is led by the co-creator of Scrum, Ken Schwaber.
Scrum Guide Alignment – Scrum.org's training is aligned with the Scrum Guide that is published and maintained by Scrum co-creators Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland.
Consistent Quality – Scrum.org has developed and regularly enhances 1 body of content for each of its courses in collaboration with Scrum.org's 300+ global Professional Scrum Trainer to help ensure consistency and high quality. Scrum.org's approach of integrating lectures with team-based case studies and interactive exercises helps enable a great learning experience and preparation to begin effectively applying Scrum.
Meaningful Certifications – Scrum.org's Assessment & Certification Program includes rigorous assessments with the opportunity to examine your knowledge of Scrum, earn highly respected certifications and be recognized on Scrum.org. And unlike other Scrum training and certification organizations, your certification will never expire nor require future renewal fees.examine your knowledge of Scrum, earn highly respected certifications and be recognized on Scrum.org.

About Madison Henry

The Madison Henry Group helps clients realize the benefits of agile software development and pursue organizational agility.

Founded in 2005, Madison Henry enables high performance and optimizes the value delivered by complex software through three lines of professional services: Agile Transformation with coaching and consulting across the enterprise; Training & Certification in partnership with industry leaders such as Scrum.org, Kanban University and Scaled Agile (SAFe); and Staff Augmentation for the key roles of Scrum Masters, Scrum Developers and Kanban Delivery Managers.

We are passionate about our work. We value insight, commitment and innovation. We maintain an unwavering pledge to client success and satisfaction.