Product Owner II (PO II)

Scrum Product Owners, business owners, business analysts, business managers

This advanced-level, very hands-on and fast-paced course is designed to develop your Product Owner skills from good to great, to go beyond the basic mechanics of the Product Owner role by concentrating on:

• Product Owner Core Competencies 
• Advanced Purpose and Strategy 
• Empathizing with Customers and Users 
• Advanced Product Assumption Validation 
• Advanced Techniques for Working with the Product Backlog

When taking PO II course, you should have work experience as a Product Owner and a strong understanding of the fundamentals of Scrum. Having basic level Product Owner certification (PSPO I, CSPO) is not mandatory, but it is strongly recommended.

1. Towards Mastery

• ShuHaRi 

2. Product Owner Core Competencies

Working with Stakeholders

• Identifying major stakeholder groups
• Collaborating with the stakeholders
• Identify purpose and define strategy
• Product Owner as facilitator
• Facilitative listening techniques
• Alternatives to open discussion
• Multiple perspectives
• Divergent thinking and convergent thinking

Working with the Development Team

• Technical debt
• Technical practices and their impact

Product Ownership with Multiple Teams

• Scaling frameworks
• Handling dependencies

3. Advanced Purpose and Strategy

Developing Practical Product Strategies

• Operationalizing product strategy
• Product plan
• Plan a release

4. Empathizing with Customers and Users

Customer Research and Product Discovery

• Customer Research Techniques
• Techniques of product discovery
• Techniques to communicate product ideas

5. Advanced Product Assumption Validation

• Cognitive biases
• Engaging with stakeholders over multiple Sprints
• Effective Review meetings
• Approaches to testing assumptions
• Testing assumptions in the Scrum framework
• Hypotheses

6. Advanced Techniques for Working with the Product Backlog

• Differentiating Outcome and Output
• Maximizing outcome while minimizing output

Defining Value

• Techniques to model and measure value

Generating and Ordering Items

• Generate new product backlog items
• Techniques in ordering a product backlog
• Reaching the final decision

Advanced Item Refinement

• Ensuring Readiness
• Session for Breaking down the Features
• Feedback sources
• Improving the product backlog

Certification

• The course price includes an online test in English for the Professional Scrum Product Owner™ II (PSPO™ II) certification. You take the test from your own computer at a time of your choice.
• Professional Scrum Product Owner II (PSPO II) test:
  • Passing score: 85%
  • Time limit: 60 minutes
  • Number of Questions: 40 (partial credit provided on some questions)
• After passing the exam, you are listed as Professional Scrum Product Owner II (PSPO II) in the web-page of Scrum.org™ 
• Free Credly digital credential included
• Lifetime certification - no annual renewal fee required

Training material

The training material and certification test are in English. The training is run in Finnish or in English, see the information next to the training date.

Product owner training package

If you are an experienced Product owner without a certification, you can simultaneously buy both Product Owner I and Product Owner II training courses at a reduced price of 2745 eur + vat (normally 3280 eur + vat). To claim the benefit, mention "Product Owner combined" in the additional information field of the enrollment form.