What Is a Product Owner?
A product owner is an individual on a scrum team responsible for managing the backlog of work and overseeing sprints. They act as the scrum team's project manager, although the agile community generally does not accept that term. The product owner is accountable for serving the customer's voice, assuring that all development work matches the end-user's needs.
The truth is, companies employ product owners in many ways, and the role might vary depending on what the company wants. Some companies look at the product owner as a tactical, hands-on manager of work. Others might do the product owner more loosely to represent the vision of the product.
Who Can Attend?
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Product owners
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Product management team
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Business analysts
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Scrum Masters
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Executive management
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Stakeholders
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Business Managers
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Business Head
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Customer Facing Executives
Professional Scrum Product Owner: Level I (PSPO I) Certification
The Professional Scrum Product Owner: Level I certification is intended for business, marketing, or management staff who plan to play as a Product Owner in Scrum projects.
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Required PSPO I Exam: Earning the Professional Scrum Product Owner: Level I (PSPO I) certification needs passing one exam - the PSPO I exam.
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Requirements: While not required, Scrum.org supports candidates take the Scrum Open and Product Owner Open practice assessments before taking the PSPO I Assessment.
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Recommended Experience: Scrum.org approves PSPO I candidates should understand the Scrum framework and apply it to deliver a quality product.
The PSPO I certification validates a candidate’s understanding of the following selected focus areas from the Professional Scrum Competencies:
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Understanding and Applying the Scrum Framework
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Developing People and Teams
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Managing Products with Agility
Why PSPO I (Professional Scrum Product Owner I) Certificate?
Being a professional Product Owner includes more than writing demands or managing a Product Backlog. Product Owners need to have a strong understanding of all product management aspects, including but not limited to, product ownership that makes value from their products.
PSPO I is the advanced course for Product Owners, Agile product managers, and anyone responsible for a software product’s success in the market. In this workshop, members will develop and solidify their knowledge of being a Product Owner through instruction and team-based exercises. The breadth of the role’s responsibilities in delivering a successful outcome will become more apparent from an agile perspective. Metrics are identified to track value creation and the successful delivery of the product to the marketplace.
As a leading framework for bringing agility in product development, Scrum continues to prove a compelling new way of working. This new way is quickly making into many organizations, particularly the software development divisions, due to the transformational results. The central role in the Scrum Team is the Product Owner role, whose responsibility is to maximize the use of the product and optimize the performance of the Development Team. The likelihood of product success will be in jeopardy if the Product Owner does not fulfill the role as conceived by Scrum.
So, there is an expanding requirement for the Product Owners and those who shape the product to understand the Product Ownership's full dimension in its original form and benchmark their learning. The most respected certificate of all that certify Scrum Product Owner is the Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) by Scrum.org. Also, here are the reasons to like this certificate. Here is the list:
PSPO I assessment requires good knowledge of Scrum's original version, and its passing requirements are high (85%). Such stringent criteria to obtain the certification provide more teeth to its certificate than the other similar credentials in the marketplace.
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PSPO I do not require any necessary training courses.
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Once you obtain the certificate, you do not need to renew. It is a certificate for a lifetime.
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The name will be attached to Scrum.org's list of Professional Scrum Product Owner 1 on their website so that anyone can verify your credentials.
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There are no essential qualifications for the assessment.
Scrum Certification Salary and Career Information
A quick search of the job site for scrum master and similar generic titles shows that there are many well-paying job openings - over 28,000 - for Scrum professionals, with salaries ranging from $85,000 to over $125,000.
Searches specifically for Scrum.org resulted in fewer than 250 open jobs for about three-quarters of them. In many of the jobs, certifications from the two authorities appear to be used either/or based.
Without consideration for certifying authority, an average Scrum certification salary for a Scrum Master can range from $84,000 for an entry-level position, to $96,000 for mid-level, and $108,000 for senior-level jobs.
Scrum certification salaries for Scrum Product Owners average nearly $88,000 for entry-level positions to $97,500 at mid-level, and $107,600 for senior-level positions. On the developer front, entry-level Scrum Developers can earn an average of $88,000, compared to $97,800 for mid-level, and $11,700 for senior-level developers.
Wrapping-up
After the course, members have the opportunity to test their newly gained knowledge with the Professional Scrum Product Owner I Assessment. The PSPO I exam is charging and requires a sound understanding of Scrum. The certification exam is an online test in the English language and takes 60 minutes. Certification charges are covered in the course price. Further information on PSPO I certification can be seen on the Scrum.org website.