Professional Product Discovery & Validation training is a one-day workshop or can be spread over two days with 4-5 hour sessions. Essentially, it’s a practical case study, and like all Scrum.org courses, it is focused on practicing product discovery and validation
Who is it for?
The training is particularly recommended for Product Owners, Product Managers, Business Owners, Stakeholders, Project Managers, Managers, Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, and anyone interested in the latest practices supporting the discovery and validation of real customer and user needs.
What does the training offer?
The workshop offers plenty of exercises and also a lot of my practical examples, if participants expect that. The training focuses on a case study, the goal of which is to improve the situation of a company and its product and deliver value to customers. So, there will be assumptions that we will validate through experiments (several experiments!). There will be tools that will empower participants and provide them with ready-to-use patterns immediately after the training. We will look at the needs of top management as well as users and formulate a business statement. Before we arrive at possible solutions, we will go through a lot of assumptions we rely on. We will also focus on waste in the product and, of course, how to avoid it.
The training does not cover the Scrum framework, Kanban Strategy, or Evidence-Based Management.
What is the difference between this training and other product-focused training from Scrum.org?
The Professional Product Discovery & Validation training complements the existing Scrum.org portfolio.
The existing Product Owner-oriented courses (PSPO, PSPO-A) focus on agile, skillful, and holistic product management. The Product Backlog Management training (PSPBMS) provides tools for effective structuring, analyzing, and managing the Product Backlog. The Evidence-Based Management training teaches us to make the right decisions based on facts and to set goals and appropriate metrics based on them, measure value, also encouraging experimentation.
However, this training – Professional Product Discovery & Validation – deepens the focus on product discovery, user needs, writing hypotheses (in a scientific approach), identifying the many assumptions we use daily, and how to navigate them. In the training, we repeatedly practice the need to test assumptions by experimenting based on hypotheses. We emphasize the scientific approach here.
The training includes a voucher for the PPDV exam.
Who might not benefit from this training?
Those who have already participated in PSPO-Advanced will still gain new value from this training, as we dive deeper into, among other things, the Experimenter’s mindset and practice.
However, individuals who have participated in both PSPO-Advanced and PSU (Professional Scrum with User Experience) may find some repetition, and this training might not bring significant changes for them. Therefore, if you’ve already attended both PSPO-A and PSU, I encourage you to think about your needs and reach out to me. I’d be happy to explain and discuss whether this training would provide additional value for you.
Public training dates will be announced soon!
In-company training options are also available.
