Certification courses for Product Owners
Become a successful Product Owner
- Enhance your skills in agile product management
- Learn to validate assumptions and measure customer value
- Leverage Scrum for closer collaboration with customers
The Product Owner role
The Product Owner is accountable for the success of the product.
- Is the visionary and strategist of the product
- Masters agile product management
- Connects their teams with the customer and strengthens their collaboration
Myths about the Product Owner role
The Product Owner writes user stories
Although accountable for the Product Backlog and having the final say in its ordering, they don't have to do everything themselves. They involve their teams in backlog management, strengthening their co-ownership of the product.
The Product Owner explains customer requirements to teams
That just quickly turns them into a bottleneck and a game of telephone. Instead, the Product Owner connects their teams directly with the customer so everyone understands their needs firsthand.
Each team has its own Product Owner
Each product has its Product Owner. If multiple teams collaborate on a product, they work toward a shared vision and from a shared backlog.
Product Owner vs. Product Manager
Product Owner and Product Manager are roles from two different worlds.
In the world of Scrum:
- Product Owner is the role accountable for the success of the product.
- Product Management is a discipline, not a role. The Product Owner must master it and actively involve their Scrum teams in it.
Become a successful Product Owner!
Scrum Intro
Half a day. Online. Highly interactive. No fluff. No BS.
- When is Scrum suitable and when not
- Real-life case studies from a corporate and a startup
- Why Scrum often "doesn't work" and how to avoid it
Professional Scrum Product Owner™
Introduction to Scrum focused on product and customers.
- Product definition
- Product vs. team-level Product Owner
- Scrum Framework
Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management Skills™
How not to drown in the backlog and a thousand priorities.
- Effective refinement
- Slicing
- Story Mapping
Professional Product Discovery and Validation™
Fast and effective validation of product ideas.
- Product Discovery
- Quick and effective validation
- The customer's perspective
Professional Scrum Product Owner™ AI Essentials
Leverage AI to its full potential for product management.
- How modern AI works and what to expect from it
- Strengths and limitations of generative AI
- Applications in discovery, strategy, data analysis and many more
Professional Scrum Product Owner™ Advanced
Modern agile product management.
- 1000+1 product management practices
- PO as visionary, leader and experimenter
- Involving the team in product management
Professional Agile Leadership™ Evidence-Based Management™
Track and measure customer value and your organizational agility.
- Setting strategic and tactical goals
- Customer value
- Organizational agility
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Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills™
Guide meetings to team decisions everyone will stand behind.
- How to engage even the biggest grumblers?
- How to leverage conflict towards a shared agreement?
- How to be an impartial facilitator?
Certified LeSS Basics
Multiple teams, one backlog. Everyone works on product priorities.
- One backlog vs. team backlogs
- Specialized vs. end-to-end teams
- The Product Owner role in LeSS
coming soon
Certified LeSS Practitioner
How to flip a product organization around a single backlog.
- How to drive transformation bottom-up for lasting change
- Introducing end-to-end teams
- Collaboration, coordination, prioritization
Need help with choosing?
Not sure which course is the best for you? Schedule a video call with me and I will help you choose.
Do you want to have a private course for your company?
You pay a fixed price, regardless of the number of participants up to 30. Invite everyone who can benefit from the course.
We will prepare an agenda tailored to your needs
In-person or online, in Czech or English
Certification exam for everyone included
From the first minute Karel entertained us. He created an atmosphere that forced us to think "out of the box". The training opened my eyes to many things. Thank you!
As an entrepreneur I was pleasantly surprised. I learned techniques that immediately helped my company with product development.
I left with concrete action steps. Highly recommend to anyone who wants to level up in product management.
Both days were intense yet engaging thanks to the informal and humorous approach.
Karel obviously loves his work. His passion for the topic is as captivating as his knowledge.
Richard is a true professional. He led the course brilliantly and with enthusiasm. I really enjoyed it and look forward to the next meeting. Thanks!
Karel led the full two days in an educational yet fun way. I appreciate the practical examples built on the theoretical foundations we covered.
Karel paid attention to our specific problems and always provided advice or good questions. Recommended!
Karel is an amazing coach. His facilitation of discussions, ability to foster collaboration, and skills in answering tricky questions are truly impressive.
A very valuable training, two days of lectures and hands-on exercises. I applied it in my company right away and changed many processes.
A collaborative workshop with lots of interesting topics. Karel is a great speaker and keeps the students' brains sharp. I strongly recommend training with ScrumDojo to everyone.
Karel engaged the group with great content and approach. I can't remember the last time I was so immersed in a training.
I especially appreciate the introduction to EBM, which I used when communicating with management about business value.
Karel is a fantastic trainer. The PSPO course exceeded our expectations multiple times over. Karel deeply understands the subject and teaches it very well. He has corporate experience and shares amazing stories.
Karel is a great professional with in-the-trenches experience from many projects. The training was well prepared, with plenty of tips and materials for the certification exam.
Meet your trainers
Karel Smutný
Chief Energizing Officer, founder of ScrumDōjō
Karel is one of the first Scrum and organizational agility consultants in the Czech Republic. He founded ScrumDōjō as a platform for long-term education of agile teams and organizations.
Robert Batůšek
Consultant, programmer, LeSS trainer
Robert has 20 years of experience implementing Large Scale Scrum in large development teams. As a technical coach, he helps SW teams improve agile engineering practices.
Richard "Riki" Ross
Senior Agile Coach
Riki is an experienced and empathetic agile coach and Scrum and Kanban trainer. He spends most of his work time actively coaching, which he reflects in practically-oriented trainings.