Professional Scrum Product Owner - AI Essentials Training and Certification (PSPO-AI)

Leverage AI to Create Greater Value

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a transformational capability, helping organizations optimize Product Ownership and create greater value. Through the application of AI tools and techniques, individuals and teams dedicated to product management can become more efficient and effective.

Scrum.org's 1-day Professional Scrum Product Owner-AI Essentials (PSPO-AI Essentials) training is an interactive, hands-on course to help you understand and apply AI to support your work.

Throughout this course, you'll engage in discussion and exercises to explore practical uses of AI tools and techniques across each Product Owner stance (Customer Representative, Visionary, Experimenter, Decision Maker, Collaborator & Influencer). In addition, you'll be introduced to a new Product Owner stance (Orchestrator) dedicated to security and ethics as you obtain guidance on adopting AI responsibly and securely within an organization.

Ultimately, a successful Product Owner needs to understand AI, its impact and how to apply it. With this training, you’ll gain the skills and confidence to harness AI effectively, delivering greater value in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

After completing a PSPO-AI Essentials class, you'll have an opportunity to attempt the PSPO-AI Essentials assessment and earn the industry-recognized PSPO-AI Essentials Certification. Earning your PSPO-AI Essentials Certification makes you part of an elite community of 2,500+ PSPO-AI Essentials badge holders from around the globe.

Who Should Attend?

The PSPO-AI Essentials course is beneficial for people in product-related roles as they learn how to integrate AI into their work, including:

Product Owners seeking to integrate AI into their workflows and enhance their Product Ownership skills.
Product Managers aiming to leverage AI for greater product value and innovation.
Business Analysts wanting to apply AI tools and techniques to improve product discovery and validation.
Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches and organizational leaders aspiring to apply AI to support their Product Owners and Scrum Teams.
Anyone who wants to master AI fundamentals and practical applications.

Learning Outcomes

The PSPO-AI Essentials course introduces you to the fundamentals of AI and its applications in modern product development.

Following class, you'll be able to:

Explain key concepts in AI, including machine learning, deep learning, generative AI and agentic AI.
Describe how AI supports modern product development.
Discuss how AI tools can enhance Product Ownership through real-world examples.
Demonstrate practical uses of generative AI tools to support product related work.
Demonstrate effective AI prompt engineering to obtain desired results.
Move from theory to practice by integrating AI tools and AI-informed behaviors into your daily work.
Apply ethical and responsible practices when working with AI.

Course Topics & Learning Objectives

You’ll be empowered with essential AI knowledge and hands-on skills within the scope of Product Ownership and creating greater value.

The PSPO-AI Essentials course is a mix of discussion and interactive exercises as you collaborate with other students on the following topics:

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Essentials.
AI and Preferred Stances of the Product Owner:
- The Customer Representative: understanding customer problems, challenges and opportunities.
- The Visionary: communicating the vision, future state and possibilities in ways that foster common understanding.
- The Experimenter: innovating, hypothesis testing and validating potential value to spark product innovation.
- The Decision Maker: creating maximum impact by making clear choices and decisions.
- The Collaborator & Influencer: seeking input, ideas and feedback from others; communicating with and influencing stakeholders, customers and the Scrum Team to act with common purpose.
- The Orchestrator (new!): identifying tasks that can be automated; designing AI-assisted workflows to support consistency and flow.
Security and Ethics.

Scrum.org Certification

After completing a PSPO-AI Essentials class, you'll have an opportunity to attempt the PSPO-AI Essentials assessment and earn the industry-recognized PSPO-AI Essentials Certification. Your assessment opportunity never expires. If you attempt the assessment within 2 weeks following class and don't receive a passing score, you'll be granted a 2nd attempt for no additional fee.

Earning your PSPO-AI Essentials Certification makes you part of an elite community of 2,500+ PSPO-AI Essentials badge holders from around the globe and unlike other Scrum training organizations, your certification will never expire or require future renewal fees.

Public and Private Training

Please visit our public training schedule to find our upcoming public 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: 7 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 learn more 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 organizations, your certification will never expire or require future renewal fees.

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, ProKanban.org and Scaled Agile (SAFe); and Staff Augmentation for the key roles of Scrum Masters, Scrum Developers and Kanban Delivery Managers.

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