The SCRUM Users: Advanced Expertise Lab course is a hands-on, activity-based program tailored for experienced SCRUM users and Product Managers aiming to enhance their capability to establish a vision, validate hypotheses, and deliver increased value to stakeholders.

This course expands upon the foundational concepts explored in the SCRUM Users: Essential Skills Accelerator class by delving deeper into the multifaceted role of a professional SCRUM user.

Participants are expected to have at least one year of SCRUM user experience and a practical understanding of Scrum to fully engage in and benefit from the course activities. While prior attendance of the SCRUM Users: Essential Skills Accelerator class is recommended, it is not mandatory.

Course Learning Objectives:

• Gain insight into the various stances a SCRUM user adopts to tackle daily challenges effectively.
• Explore modern complementary practices through interactive discussions, case studies, and exercises.
• Develop a clear understanding of Agile Product Management principles to advance in the SCRUM user role.
• Learn strategies for effectively engaging with different types of stakeholders represented by SCRUM users.

Who Should Attend:

This course is designed for SCRUM users, Product Managers, and Business Analysts heavily focused on honing their Product Management skills, tools, techniques, and knowledge within the Scrum Team context.

While the course does not extensively cover the Scrum framework, it assumes participants possess a solid understanding of it. Attendees should ideally have at least one year of experience as a SCRUM user or Product Manager, although multiple years of experience and prior attendance of the SCRUM Users: Essential Skills Accelerator course, along with passing the SPO exam, are preferred but not obligatory.

Additionally, individuals in roles such as Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and company leaders may also find value in the SCRUM Users: Advanced Expertise Lab course.

Course Overview

The Customer Representative:

• Focus on understanding customer problems, pains, and opportunities
• Get into the mindset of the customer, placing yourself in their world, understanding their needs
• Deliver value by connecting product features to customer outcomes

The Visionary:

• Champion the future state, possibilities, goals, and chances
• Communicate the product vision, strategy, and Product Goal
• Understand value and pricing models

The Experimenter:

• Focus on innovation through experiments, hypotheses, tests, learnings, data, and validation of value
• Understand the SCRUM user’s role in a scaled environment

The Decision Maker:

• Focus on making better decisions
• Navigate conflicting customer feedback

The Collaborator:

• Seek collaboration with stakeholders and the Scrum Team
• Work beyond the Scrum Team including contracts, finance, budgeting, and governance in an agile way

The Influencer:

• Lead the stakeholders, customers, and Scrum Team to move in the right direction and to change their minds when necessary
• Learn how to create a stakeholder management strategy

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must understand basics of Professional Scrum Product Owner or attend course SCRUM Users: Essential Skills Accelerator

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