Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management (PSPBM) Skills - Scrum.org

Class Overview

Manage and Maintain your Product Backlog to Deliver Greater Value

The Product Backlog is an emergent, ordered list of what is needed to improve the product. It is the single source of work undertaken by the Scrum Team. It changes constantly and requires a Product Owner to consider many options when adding to, deleting from, updating, and ordering it. 

Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management Skills™ is designed to help Scrum practitioners improve their ability to manage all aspects of the Product Backlog and stakeholder communication. 

Course Overview

In this skills-building course, participants will learn techniques and methods to effectively manage a Product Backlog that clearly expresses the Product Goal and brings transparency to what is most valuable for the Scrum Team to work on to delight stakeholders and customers. Students will get hands-on experience with refinement techniques such as decomposing and slicing Product Backlog items, while learning how simplicity can cure complicated and complex Product Backlogs. 

Students will be able to connect the Product Goals they are investing in to the work being done to ensure that they are delivering value as well as how to understand and manage their relationships with the stakeholders involved. 

Course Learning Outcomes

• Implement practical techniques to create, refine, and order the Product Backlog
• Explain techniques to effectively communicate with stakeholders
• Interpret stakeholder needs
• Capture stakeholder needs as Product Backlog items
• Discuss better ways to make the Product Backlog more transparent
• Describe empiricism as a competitive advantage
• Identify how to use AI to assist Product Backlog management 
  
  

Who Should Attend this class?

This course is appropriate for students who are currently working as a Product Owner and are looking for practical ways to manage their Stakeholders and Product Backlog. The course also caters to a range of roles involved in agile development and product management. The Product Backlog Management course is for:

• Professionals interested in learning essential Product Owner practices
• Product Owners looking to better understand their customers and stakeholders
• Scrum Masters wishing to be an effective coach to Product Owners will also find valuable insights in this course
• Product Managers and Business Analysts looking to improve their Product Backlog management skills
• Anyone working on refining, describing or communicating Product Backlog items

Professional Scrum Certification

Participants completing the Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management Skills course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management Skills Certification. 

Students attending an instructor led class who attempt the PSPBM Skills test within 14 days of the class and do not score at least 85% will be granted a 2nd attempt at no additional cost.