Definitive Scrum Product Owner and PSPO Certification Course

Explore the agile manifesto’s four values: individuals and interactions over processes and tools; working software over documentation; customer collaboration over contract negotiation; and responding to change over following a plan.

Explore the agile values and 12 principles that support agile, their overlap with scrum, and learn to summarize each principle in a single word to prioritize customer value.

Explore key agile principles for product owners, including simplicity and delivering value early and often, and learn how to apply these principles to prioritize work and validate outcomes.

Discover the agile mindset as a perspective shaped by values and principles, and learn how practices like standups deliver value when aligned with purpose, plus where agile fits and doesn't.

Embrace empiricism in agile by applying transparency, inspection, and adaptation to solve complex problems, guiding product owners to learn, test hypotheses, and adapt Scrum practices to reveal unknowns.

Adopt Scrum as a lightweight framework—not a methodology—to help teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems, driven by a shared goal and teamwork.

Walk through the scrum framework, outlining the product goal, product backlog, and the roles of the product owner, developers, and Scrum master. See how sprints deliver an increment with transparency.

Examine the product owner role in scrum, its accountabilities to maximize product value, manage the product backlog, and act as an investment manager whose decisions earn organizational trust.

Learn how the scrum master acts as a servant leader who coaches, mentors, and facilitates to help the organization, product owner, and developers realize value from scrum.

Plan the sprint by setting a feasible sprint goal with the product owner, scrum master, and developers, using the product backlog, increment, and velocity to define the sprint backlog.

Review the sprint backlog and progress toward the sprint goal in a 15-minute daily scrum. Identify impediments and collaboration needs to replan effectively.

Discover how scrum artifacts raise transparency, enable inspection, and guide adaptations to deliver the most valuable product, focusing on the product backlog, sprint backlog, and increment.

Define the definition of done to establish a shared standard of quality across all backlog items, increasing transparency and enabling inspection and adaptation in scrum.

Explore the scrum values through a focus exercise and observe how context switching affects agility and creativity. Learn to guide teams toward cohesive work that strengthens sprint and product goals.

Explore how scrum empowers product owners to test and validate value, fill the backlog with hypotheses of value, and tackle challenges by developing essential skills and traits.

Explore the five core challenges of product ownership, including accountability, authority, availability, analysis, and experimentation, and learn practical steps to assess and improve your leadership.

Learn evidence-based management by aligning goals, evidence via key value areas, and empiricism, then test hypotheses through the empirical cycle to learn and steer toward strategic, product, and sprint goals.

Explore evidence-based management's four key value areas—current value, unrealized value, ability to innovate, and delivery time—and learn how to measure them with example metrics and questions.

Assess the ability to innovate by examining how we deliver new capabilities, remove sludge from the development pipeline, and speed time to market to deliver value to customers.

Explore evidence-based management to sharpen strategic conversations for product owners, boost value to organizations, and understand how scaling impacts your role.

Scaling involves coordinating multiple teams or products, but scrum keeps one product owner, one backlog, and one product goal per product, to avoid slower decisions and diluted accountability.

Product goals act as strategic stepping stones toward a product vision, guiding planning and focusing the team. They are discussed at every sprint planning and review to identify next objective.

Learn to manage a product backlog by keeping it ordered and transparent, evolving through adding, removing, reordering, and detailing items, with refinement and stakeholder collaboration to focus on top priorities.

Product owners frame backlog items as investments and run experiments to validate hypotheses of value. The invest-experiment-validate cycle with smaller backlog items guides prioritization and investment decisions.

Collaborate with stakeholders to split backlog items effectively using data, goals, and experiments to maximize value. Avoid becoming a proxy for the loudest voices; earn trust through bets and wins.