Product Leaders

Professional Product Discovery and Validation Skills (PPDV)

Gain practical skills in product discovery and validation, including experimentation, hypothesis testing, data analysis, and risk control for effective product development.

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Professional Product Discovery and Validation Skills (PPDV)

Course Code: PPDV

Overview

A one-day, hands-on course equipping participants with essential skills in product discovery and validation, focusing on experimentation, evidence collection, and risk control to enhance value creation in product development.

Target Audience

  • Product Owners
  • Product Managers
  • Teams involved in product development

Learning Outcomes

  • Identify assumptions being made in product development.
  • Explain which assumptions require validation.
  • Describe principles for prioritizing assumptions to validate first.
  • Gather and use appropriate data to test hypotheses.
  • Explain the importance of desired signal strength in hypothesis validation.
  • Manage experiment costs based on signal quality and confidence level.
  • Customize hypotheses to validate or invalidate assumptions.
  • Apply facilitation techniques to encourage creativity and diverse solutions.
  • Analyze experimental results.
  • Integrate learnings into decision-making processes.

Course Topics

  • Product Discovery
  • Product Validation
  • Experimentation
  • Hypothesis-Driven Development
  • Metrics and Learning
  • Decision Making
  • Value Delivery
  • Pragmatic Thinking
  • Entrepreneurship

Delivery Format

  • Traditional (instructor-led)

Proficiency Level

  • Beginner

Course Length

  • 1 day

Trainer/Designer

  • Martin Hinshelwood

Vendor

  • Scrum.org