Product Discovery

Course Overview

Ever wondered what should take place before the first sprint even begins? Product discovery in Agile is the process of collaborating with your cross-functional team to identify and validate what a product should be before development kicks off. By following a validated learning cycle, the discovery team focuses on understanding customer needs, identifying market problems, and aligning on business goals to ensure that the product is designed to solve the right issues and deliver real value.

This course will guide you through the key stages of product discovery, from identifying customer needs and defining the problem statement to establishing success metrics—all before development starts. We’ll explore the use of various tools, such as problem statements, interest holder maps, product discovery canvases, and hypothesis and assumption statements. You'll learn practical techniques to facilitate product discovery tailored to your team and specific context.

Learning objectives:

• Recognize the Role of Product Discovery in Agile: Understand the importance of product discovery in Agile and how it fits into the overall development process before the first Sprint begins.
• Identify Key Participants and Timelines for Product Discovery: Learn how to select the right team members, determine the appropriate duration for the product discovery phase, and explore different ways it can be facilitated.
• Explore Product Discovery Tools: Look into various tools like problem statements, interest holder maps, and discovery canvases to help you facilitate your team through the discovery process.
• Develop Practical Skills for Leading Discovery Sessions: Acquire techniques to effectively lead and facilitate product discovery sessions for different contexts and teams

What you will get

• 2.5 hours of engaging and interactive training by a hands on practitioner and trainer
• Slides and templates to help you put into practice what you have learned
• Earn 3 Scrum Education Units (of the 20 required), under the “Learning” category, towards your Scrum Alliance certification renewal requirement. https://www.scrumalliance.org/get-certified/scrum-education-units
• A 1-hour follow up ask-me-anything session to ask specific questions after you’ve had time to apply what you’ve learned

Recommended Pre-requisite

• Certified Scrum Master or Certified Scrum Product Owner
• Minimum of 1 year of practical experience using Scrum

About the Trainer

Kristi Meredith has worked as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach & Trainer in both the Public and Private Sectors on a range of software, construction, policy and hardware projects. Through her experience, she offers a wide range of services to clients, specializing in Agile & Scrum coaching, team culture & team building, visual management and graphic facilitation, and workshop facilitation. Her objective and passion is to help teams and organizations find alignment and process that enables them to deliver value to customers while also building and sustaining a people-first, positive workplace culture. She is a Certified Scrum Professional (CSP-SM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) practitioner, Certified Disciplined Agilist, and an expert in the incorporation of visuals in both facilitation and information radiators.

Host or Publisher Alluvial Management Consulting