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Building Innovative Products

The Building Innovative Products Workshop is an immersive training and learning experience that covers the skills and competencies needed to lead product teams to build innovative products, deliver on business strategies, exceed business goals, and secure the organization’s future growth and success.

This workshop helps participants understand how to use product thinking to create a whole team approach to product development focused on maximizing customer outcomes while increasing the organization’s ROI. Participants will learn:

  • Fundamentals of lean and agile product development
  • The roles and responsibilities of customer-centric product teams
  • Aligning teams and stakeholders around a vision
  • Integrating customer research into product discovery and development
  • Testing product assumptions and market fit
  • Creating compelling value propositions
  • Building a market-driven product strategy and roadmap
  • Creating incremental release plans
  • Managing a product backlog and conflicting priorities
  • Leading cross-functional teams that deliver quality products
  • Assessing and managing product risks
  • Continuously discovering, testing, delivering, and validating product ideas

Participants leave this workshop with the knowledge and tools to launch product teams and lead them to build innovative products that delight their customers.

Upon completion of the class, students that meet the minimum eligibility requirements will attain an Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO).

Who Should Attend

The Building Innovative Products class is suitable for anyone interested in product thinking and anyone involved in defining, gathering, discovering, testing, validating, and managing product ideas and user needs. This includes:

  • Product Owners
  • Product Managers
  • Project Managers
  • Business Leaders
  • Business Analysts
  • User Experience Professionals
  • Testers
  • Programmers
  • Engineers

Course Outline

This is a 4-day class and is presented in a highly interactive and collaborative format with elements of exercises, games, simulations, videos, and classroom discussion interwoven throughout.

Topics Include:

  • Agile, Lean, and Scrum Values, Principles, and Practices
  • Fundamentals of Agile Product Development and Product Teams
  • Deep dive into the Product Owner and Product Manager Role
  • Working with Stakeholders
  • Developing a Product Strategy
  • Creating Roadmaps and Release Plans
  • Conducting Customer Research and Product Discovery
  • Empathizing with Customers and Users
  • Managing and Prioritizing the Product Backlog
  • Developing Product Backlog Items Using User Stories and User Story Maps
  • Testing Product Assumptions

Certification Credits

Upon completion of this class, students can

  • Attain the Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) designation if they already have at least 1 year of product experience
  • Earn 28 Project Management Institute Professional Development Units (PDUs)
  • Earn 28 Scrum Alliance Scrum Educational Units (SEUs)

What’s Included

Registration includes the following:

  • Live training
  • Course workbook
  • Certification fee
  • Scrum Alliance membership
  • 14 PDUs and 14 SEUs
  • Video resource library on Scrum foundations
  • Post class 1-on-1 coaching sessions
  • Full money back guarantee
  • Flexible cancelation policy

Money Back Guarantee

Your satisfaction is guaranteed! We are confident that you will be fully satisfied with this class. If the class is not meeting your expectations, just let us know by the end of day 1 and we will give you a full refund.

Flexible Cancellation Policy

  • Cancellation requests received at least 2 calendar days before the start of a public class receive a full 100% refund. All other cancellation requests receive a full credit for a future class.
  • Should the organizer cancel the class for any reason, a full 100% refund will be issued.

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Can’t find a class that fits your schedule? Request a private class for your team of 6+ participants at a date and time that works for your team. Private classes are available virtually or in-person. Special discounts apply for larger groups.