Qualified Scrum Product Owner - II
Target Audience:
- Product Owners with initial experience
- Product managers
- Anyone wishing to deepen their Product Ownership
Course Overview:
QSPO-II expands your toolkit for strategic product leadership, data-driven decisions, scaled collaboration, and advanced backlog management.
What to Expect:
- You will develop roadmaps and product strategies.
- You will use validation and experiments for better decision-making.
- You will improve stakeholder and multi-team collaboration.
- You will apply advanced techniques to maximise value.
Your Benefits:
- You will be able to lead complex product developments.
- You will engage stakeholders strategically.
- You will make data-driven decisions.
- You will confidently exercise Product Ownership even in demanding environments.
Module 1: Strategic Product Leadership & Vision in Context
Upon completion of this module, participants will be able to:
- Refine the product vision in a changing market environment – regularly review and adapt it to new insights (Product Vision, Passion & Vision, Market Signals).
- Align product strategy with company goals, market trends, and customer needs – and develop suitable roadmaps (Strategising, Company Goals, Roadmapping).
- Distil the USP and value proposition of their product – and communicate it to different stakeholders (USP, Benefit versus Feature, Sharpening the Message).
- Analyse systemic forces and external influences on the product environment – and take them into account (Systemic Forces, Competitor Awareness).
Module 2: Customer Value, Validation & Data-Driven Decision-Making
Upon completion of this module, participants will be able to:
- Identify and validate customer needs and problems using advanced methods – e.g. Jobs to be Done, Personas, Kano Model (Customer Needs, Jobs to be Done, Kano Model, Personas).
- Formulate hypotheses about product features and plan experiments – and use insights for further development (Discovering, Innovating, Outcome Focus).
- Apply metrics and feedback mechanisms – e.g. Sprint Review Outcomes, Customer Value, Buyable Impact – and derive improvements (Outcome Focus, Customer Value, Buyable Impact).
- Estimate, assess, and communicate business value and benefits using suitable techniques – (Business Value Estimation, Value Poker, Benefit versus Feature).
Module 3: Scaled Collaboration & Stakeholder Complexity
Upon completion of this module, participants will be able to:
- Map stakeholder landscapes and analyse relationships – and develop strategies for stakeholder engagement (Stakeholder Relationships, Stakeholder Matrix, Customer Distance Mapping).
- Organise and facilitate collaboration across multiple teams and with external partners – e.g. LeSS, Communities, Circles of Influence (Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), Collaboration, Circles of Influence).
- Understand and apply agile contracts and goal systems – e.g. Agile Contracting, OKR, Tools & Goal Setting Techniques in their own product context (Agile Contracting, OKR, Tools & Goal Setting Techniques).
- Recognise and systemically analyse conflicts and goal conflicts between stakeholders – and resolve them constructively (Systemic Forces, Facilitating, Promoting).
Module 4: Advanced Backlog Management & Product Ownership in Scaling
Upon completion of this module, participants will be able to:
- Design backlog refinement as an ongoing, cross-team learning and improvement process.
- Select and facilitate estimation methods – e.g. Planning Poker, Magic Estimation, Bucket Estimation – and apply them to complex backlogs (Scrum Planning Poker, Magic / Bucket Estimation, User Story Mapping).
- Further develop the Definition of Done and acceptance criteria across teams – and ensure high product quality (Product Promises, Outcome Focus, Definition of Done).
- Reflect on and purposefully expand their area of responsibility as a Product Owner in a scaled or complex setting – (Self Mastery, Ownership Stance, Responsibility Process).
Prerequisites
- QSPO-1 certificate (or an equivalent prior achievement, such as CSPO or PSPO-I obtained in conjunction with a two-day training)
- 1 year of professional experience as a Product Owner