Professional Product Discovery and Validation

Enhance value creation through practical application of discovery and validation techniques

Experimenting with new ideas and collecting evidence on those experiments is more important than ever in today's ever-changing business environments. Learning from potential or current users is essential to delivering the right product capabilities to market which is why this course teaches the essential techniques needed to drive targeted learning while collecting evidence to validate or invalidate potential capabilities.

This one-day training course offers a hands-on learning experience to participants, enabling you to enhance value creation by applying discovery and validation skills in product development. What is learned throughout the course is essential for developing new products and enhancing existing ones.

Throughout the class, you learn several discovery and validation practices that can be used immediately in your job.

Module 1: Formulating work as problems to solve
Module 2: Data doesn’t judge
Module 3: Discovering users’ needs
Module 4: Developing solutions
Module 5: Design, run, and learn from experiments
Module 6: Fitting it into Scrum

The course also includes a free attempt at the globally recognized Professional Product Discovery and Validation (PPDV) certification exam.

What you will learn

In this one-day module, you work hands-on as you follow a case study as a way of learning to apply techniques throughout the class. This course is designed for Product Owners, product managers, business analysts and product teams to enable them to better incorporate discovery and validation into their product development and delivery processes.

Leveraging product discovery and validation techniques, the course takes a user-centric approach, illustrating how this comes together with development and delivery. You learn how discovery, delivery, and validation fit together to lead to an end-to-end evidence-based approach to product development.

You will learn how to increase user value created by deliberately designing experiments to validate assumptions about user's needs and wants.

You will understand how to reduce waste and improve ROI by consciously only investing based on evidence gathered from validation.

You will be able to Improve organizational collaboration and alignment by engaging with key stakeholders using data instead of opinions.

And you will unlock creativity by reframing work as problems to solve rather than tasks to execute.

Course Learning Objectives

Students are challenged to analyze the problem their stakeholder wants their product to solve
Students learn to examine problems to solve (not solutions to implement)
Students are challenged to analyze customer and user feedback to identify satisfaction gaps
Students understand the need to order what assumptions to validate first
Students learn how to customize a hypothesis to in/validate assumptions
Students leave with options to use the right data to gather and test the hypothesis
Students learn how to analyze the results of your experiments
Students compare/contrast their decisions with those around them
Students understand the impact of demonstrating an evidence-based mindset to teams and stakeholders

Who should attend

This course is appropriate if you are currently working as a Product Owner, product manager, product leaders, business analysts or any other role on the product team who is looking for practical ways to increase user value created, make data-informed decisions, and better investments. Therefore this course is also suitable for all members of product teams.

As collaboration is a key factor in the success of any initiative, and as every single individual can step in when needed, it is important that any Scrum Team member, including the Scrum Master and the Developers, understand how to do Product Discovery and Validation, and have a number of techniques and practices at hand to support the Product Owner.

Format

You will work in small teams. You learn through team assignments, discussions and hands-on exercises.
Be ready to challenge and be challenged.
This course will be taught in English.

Prerequisites

You will make the most of the class if you:

Have at least one year of Product Owner experience – or similar such as Product Manager, or you have been coaching people in such roles.
Have been on or are closely involved in solving complex problems, such as (but not limited to), building or enhancing a product or service.

Assessment and Certification

All participants completing the Professional Product Discovery and Validation course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Product Discovery and Validation (PPDV) assessment. The industry-recognized PPDV certification requires a minimum passing score of 85%. Class participants who attempt the PPDV assessment within 14 days of receiving their free password and do not score at least 85% will be granted a 2nd attempt at no additional cost.
Students are able to claim Project Management Institute (PMI) PDU credits: 7 PDUs after attending a one-day Professional Product Discovery and Validation course.
Please note that PMI PDUs are earned for course attendance and not for passing a PPDV assessment. Students can claim PDUs under PMI’s “Education courses provided by other third-party providers” category.

Steven, Your Trainer

I live to energise, encourage and inspire individuals and teams so they successfully overcome the challenges on their path, making them more complete humans.

Facilitating Scrum training allows me to do just that.

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Why collaborate with Scrum.org

Scrum.org training provides a hands-on, activity-based learning experience using a consistent set of learning objectives around the world. Each course explores real-world challenges to help students apply what they learn in their roles once back at work.

On our path to becoming a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), we had to prove an important number of years of Scrum experience. Once we applied, we went through an extensive process including: interviews, validation of knowledge, training approach, peer reviews and more.

The above combined, Scrum.org provides, according to us, the highest quality Scrum training and certified Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs) to teach them.

We, as Professional Scrum Trainers, bring our own style, experience, and stories to the courses, using the same learning objectives as our basis so that all students are learning from the same solid basis.

We are a proud member of the Scrum.org Professional Training Network™(PTN). As PTN member we align with the Scrum Values and are committed to improving the profession of product delivery in part by providing Scrum.org training.

Need more info?

For additional information about this and our other Professional Scrum training modules you can contact Steven Deneir at steven@boostyourscrum.com or via 0032 477 26 93 18.
Visit our website at www.boostyourscrum.com.

We are a proud member of the Scrum.org Professional Training NetworkTM (PTN). As PTN member we align with the Scrum Values and are committed to improving the profession of product delivery in part by providing Scrum.org training.