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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.

Advanced Scrum.org Traditional (Full Day) · Traditional (Half Day) · Immersive

What changes for your team

  • Stop wasting sprints on unproven ideas
  • Replace opinion debates with clear signals
  • Validate smarter without over-spending

Immersive training pays back differently to a two-day course. Sessions spread across several weeks mean each idea is applied in your real work before the next one lands — so capability builds instead of fading under a backlog. Why immersive produces better returns →  ·  Other formats available in the panel above.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

The PPDV course is designed for Product Owners, Product Managers, business analysts, and product teams involved in product development. If your work isn’t related to creating or improving products—such as purely operational or support roles—this course likely won’t fit your needs.

The fee includes access to the Professional Product Discovery and Validation (PPDV) assessment. If you take the assessment within 14 days and do not achieve at least 85%, you’ll get a second attempt at no extra cost.

You’ll leave with the ability to design and run experiments, create customised hypotheses, prioritise which product assumptions to test, analyse data from those experiments, and use these insights to inform decisions back at work.

PPDV builds on foundational Scrum knowledge, so it’s best suited if you’ve completed training such as Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management Skills (PSPBMS), or Applied Professional Scrum for Software Development (APS-SD).

PSPO lays the foundational Scrum and Product Ownership concepts, while PPDV focuses specifically on practical discovery and validation skills like experimentation and hypothesis testing—it’s designed as a next step after PSPO.

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