Course
Professional Product Discovery and Validation™ Training («PPDV»)
Course facts
- Increasing product value by conducting targeted testing to validate assumptions about user needs upfront
- Reducing waste and improving ROI through investments based on validated insights
- Promoting collaboration and alignment across the organization by sharing data with key stakeholders
- Unleashing creativity by viewing work as problems to be solved rather than tasks
1 Analyze the problem that your stakeholder wants to solve with your product.
2 Investigate problems to be solved (instead of implementing solutions).
3 Analyze feedback from customers and users to identify «satisfaction gaps».
4 Prioritize which assumptions should be validated first.
5 Develop a hypothesis to validate or disprove assumptions.
6 Use the right data to test the hypothesis.
7 Analyze the results of your experiments.
8 Compare your decisions with those of others.
9 Demonstrate an evidence-based mindset to teams and stakeholders.
10 Increase user value by designing targeted experiments to validate assumptions about users' needs and wants.
11 Reduce waste and improve ROI by consciously investing only on the basis of collected evidence.
12 Improve collaboration and alignment in the organization by relying on data rather than opinion.
13 Unleash creativity by viewing work as problems to be solved rather than tasks to be performed.
The training thrives on interaction. Numerous mural boards etc. are created during the training. Group exercises will challenge you to react quickly and understand what needs to be done when you return to your workplace.
You will receive the course documents as a PDF after the seminar.
This training is suitable for participants who are currently working as product owners, product managers, product leaders, business analysts and other members of the product team and are looking for practical ways to increase product value, make data-driven decisions and improve investments.
- A basic understanding of the Agile mindset and principles is required.
- Practical experience in product management, business analysis or product development is helpful to better understand and apply the concepts covered in the course.
So that you can take the official Scrum.org exam after the training, we will register you with Scrum.org for the exam. During the training you will receive an email from Scrum.org asking you to create a Scrum.org account (if you do not already have one).
After successfully completing the training, you will receive another email from Scrum.org with the password for the certification. You will receive the «Professional Product Discovery and Validation™ Training» certification by passing a multiple-choice online test with 20 questions (in English), which takes 30 minutes. With a result of at least 85% you will receive the corresponding certification. The price is included in the course. You can take the exam anywhere and at any time.
As this Scrum training course is an official Scrum.org Professional Scrum Training and Scrum.org lives by the principle of rapid feedback cycles and «Inspect and Adapt», all participants of an official Scrum.org training course have the following option: If you as a participant take the Scrum certification assessment within 14 days of the end of the seminar and achieve less than 85% (i.e. have not passed the exam), you will be given the opportunity to take the exam again free of charge.