Professional Scrum Product Owner II (PSPO)

When Product Ownership stays limited to backlog ordering, teams can ship work that does not clearly connect to investment value, customer outcomes, or stakeholder priorities. This PSPO II course helps IT Directors and Training Managers develop experienced Product Owners, Scrum Team Leads, product managers, and Agile IT Practitioners who need stronger decision-making beyond day-to-day backlog management.

Plan for about 7.5 hours per learner. The course is best assigned to practitioners who already understand Scrum fundamentals and need to improve product vision, customer value discovery, prioritization under pressure, stakeholder influence, and evidence-based product decisions. For change management, Team Leads can use the course as a shared language reset before product planning, roadmap discussions, or stakeholder alignment sessions.

This is not a compliance-focused course, but it helps reduce delivery risk by improving how teams evaluate product investments and make tradeoff decisions. CBT Nuggets Playlists can sequence this with related Scrum training, and Team Reporting helps IT leaders track completion across product and delivery teams.

IT teams complete this training to make Product Ownership more strategic, evidence-driven, and resilient under pressure. The course focuses on real operating challenges: moving beyond backlog administration, treating products as investments, changing decisions through vision, discovering customer value, managing stakeholders as a system, and leading without formal authority.

• Improve roadmap and backlog conversations by connecting work to investment value rather than activity alone.
• Help Product Owners and Team Leads make clearer prioritization decisions when stakeholder pressure, competing demands, or limited capacity create tradeoffs.
• Strengthen customer value discovery so delivery teams can validate direction before committing too much effort.
• Build better stakeholder alignment by treating stakeholder relationships as an interconnected system and using influence to guide decisions.

Knowledge

• How Product Ownership extends beyond backlog management.
• How to view products as investments and connect product decisions to value.
• How product vision can change day-to-day decisions and strategic direction.
• How customer value discovery supports better product choices.
• How experimentation and evidence improve product decision-making.
• How stakeholder systems affect prioritization and delivery outcomes.

Ability

• Frame product conversations around outcomes, investment, and value.
• Create and communicate vision that guides team and stakeholder decisions.
• Use evidence and experimentation to reduce uncertainty before scaling work.
• Prioritize under pressure when capacity, urgency, and stakeholder expectations conflict.
• Influence stakeholders and teams without relying on formal authority.
• Apply strategic product thinking to support stronger Scrum Product Ownership.