Professional Product Discovery & Validation™ PPDV Training

Sep 11, 2025
English、Virtual

Sep 12, 2025
Japanese, Virtual
This one-day training course offers a hands-on learning experience to participants, enabling them to enhance value creation by applying discovery and validation skills in product development. What is learned throughout the course are essential for developing new products and enhancing existing ones.
Experimenting with new ideas and collecting evidence on those experiments is more important than ever in today’s ever-changing business environments. Learning from potential or current users is essential to delivering the right product capabilities to market which is why this course teaches the essential techniques needed to drive targeted learning while collecting evidence to validate or invalidate potential capabilities.
Throughout the class, students learn a number of discovery and validation practices that can be used immediately in their jobs.

Class Overview
In this one-day course, students work hands-on as they follow a case study as a way of learning to apply techniques throughout the class. This course is designed for Product Owners, product managers, business analysts and product teams to enable them to better incorporate discovery and validation into their product development and delivery processes. Leveraging product discovery and validation techniques, the course takes a user-centric approach, illustrating how this comes together with development and delivery. Students learn how discovery, delivery, and validation fit together to lead to an end-to-end evidence based approach to product development.
Class Learning Outcomes
- Analyse the problem your stakeholder wants your product to solve
- Examine problems to solve (not solutions to implement)
- Analyse customers’ and users’ feedback to identify satisfaction gaps
- Order what assumptions to validate first
- Customise a hypothesis to in/validate assumptions
- Use the right data to gather and test the hypothesis
- Analyse the results of your experiments
- Compare/contrast your decisions with those around you
- Demonstrate an evidence-based mindset to teams and stakeholders

Who should attend?
- Scrum Masters
- Team leaders
- Product Owners
- Managers
- Developers
Areas of focus
- Scrum Theory and First Principles
- The Scrum framework
- Getting to Done
- Product delivery with Scrum
- People and Teams
- The Scrum Master’s accountabilities
Your trainer
Gregory Fontaine is the founder of Agorax. He is the only Japanese-speaking Professional Scrum Trainer. Aside from being a trainer, Gregory has been supporting many organizations in a variety of industries as an Agile coach, consultant, and a Scrum Master.

About the PPDV Certification
★★ Comes with the globally recognized Scrum.org Professional Product Discovery and Validation™ certification exam ★★
Consistent with all Scrum.org courses, students who complete this class will have the opportunity to take the globally recognized Scrum.org Professional Product Discovery and Validation™ certification exam.
When they achieve a score of 85% or more, they will receive the associated PPDV™ Certification which demonstrates their understanding of the subjects overed during the class. The certification does not expire. Students who fail the exam the first time are eligible for a second attempt if they make their first attempt within 14 days.

Pricing
Base price per student:110,000 jpy (tax included) (~$730)
Early bird price : 110,000 jpy 88,000 jpy (tax included) (~$585)
Time
9:00 – 17:30 for (one day)
Location
Virtual (Zoom) or onsite
Number of participants
Typically 25 per class
Language
Public classes in Japanese (no translation line) or English.
For Private classes, Japanese, English and French are possible.

Sep 11, 2025
English、Virtual

Sep 12, 2025
Japanese, Virtual