Certified Scrum Product Owner

Become a Scrum Alliance Approved Certified Scrum Product Owner. Live Online & In-Person Classes available.

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About the Course

If you want to become a Certified Scrum Product Owner — and have fun along the way — this is the course for you. We’ve learned what it takes to be effective in any training environment.

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Course Description
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

The Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) course is an interactive class introducing the concepts of Agile business leadership using the Scrum framework. This is an important first step in the journey towards a more adaptive form of business leadership focused on the business outcomes that matter so you can satisfy the needs of the customers and users.

The activities, tools, and techniques covered in this workshop will enable you to grow revenue, boost innovation, and increase customer satisfaction while delivering and sustaining a high quality product. You can choose to attend either a Live Online or an In-Person offering of this course which includes:
- Guided preparation work to get you ready
- Three virtual classroom sessions of five-hours each or two full-day in-person sessions
- Lots of collaboration time with your classmates
- An opportunity to reflect between sessions with short readings
Upon completion of this training, you will be designated a Certified Scrum Product Owner by the Scrum Alliance® and receive a two-year membership with the Scrum Alliance.
Agenda
Agenda

Orientation
- Familiarization of the Online Learning Environment
- Course Overview
- Review Scrum Guide
- Other readings and videos
Session 1 (5 hours)
- Opening & Welcome
- Agile & Scrum Introduction
- The Role of the Product Owner
- Product Vision
Session 2 (5 hours)
- Identifying & Validating Product Assumptions
- Scrum Workflow
- Stakeholder Management
Session 3 (5 hours)
- Product Roadmapping
- Refining and Ordering the Product Backlog
- Incremental Product Planning
- Wrap-up and Q&A
What you will learn
What You Will Learn

Through original content, interactive simulations, and real-world case studies you will learn how to:
- Establish a powerful vision that inspires your product team
- Apply the right frameworks to identify and align with the needs of your core customers
- Create high-impact features that maximize value while minimizing time-to-market and risk
- Deliver incremental value by leveraging the appropriate blend of the Scrum framework and modern product management practices
- Keep stakeholders engaged with collaborative frameworks for roadmapping and iterative release plans
What you will Receive
What you will Recieve.

This course focuses on interaction — we only use lectures to cover the basic terms and concepts. Most class time is dedicated to fun exercises, engaging discussion, and team collaboration. We focus on practical solutions to real-world, Product Owner challenges drawn from decades of experience as product managers, Agile coaches and Product Owners in Agile environments.
- A vivid student workbook full of custom exercises, activities, and course summaries that capture the essential points you need to learn and comprehend.
- A two-year membership in the Scrum Alliance
- Recognition by the Scrum Alliance as a Certified Scrum Product Owner
- Fourteen SEUs/PDUs
- One-year membership in the Profitable Software Community with Access to Horizon.
- A copy of Software Profit Streams™ by Jason Tanner & Luke Hohmann

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

The Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) course is an interactive class introducing the concepts of Agile business leadership using the Scrum framework. This is an important first step in the journey towards a more adaptive form of business leadership focused on the business outcomes that matter so you can satisfy the needs of the customers and users.

The activities, tools, and techniques covered in this workshop will enable you to grow revenue, boost innovation, and increase customer satisfaction while delivering and sustaining a high quality product. You can choose to attend either a Live Online or an In-Person offering of this course which includes:

Guided preparation work to get you ready
Three virtual classroom sessions of five-hours each or two full-day in-person sessions
Lots of collaboration time with your classmates
An opportunity to reflect between sessions with short readings

Upon completion of this training, you will be designated a Certified Scrum Product Owner by the Scrum Alliance® and receive a two-year membership with the Scrum Alliance.

Agenda

Orientation

Familiarization of the Online Learning Environment
Course Overview
Review Scrum Guide
Other readings and videos

Session 1 (5 hours)

Opening & Welcome
Agile & Scrum Introduction
The Role of the Product Owner
Product Vision

Session 2 (5 hours)

Identifying & Validating Product Assumptions
Scrum Workflow
Stakeholder Management

Session 3 (5 hours)

Product Roadmapping
Refining and Ordering the Product Backlog
Incremental Product Planning
Wrap-up and Q&A

What You Will Learn

Through original content, interactive simulations, and real-world case studies you will learn how to:

Establish a powerful vision that inspires your product team
Apply the right frameworks to identify and align with the needs of your core customers
Create high-impact features that maximize value while minimizing time-to-market and risk
Deliver incremental value by leveraging the appropriate blend of the Scrum framework and modern product management practices
Keep stakeholders engaged with collaborative frameworks for roadmapping and iterative release plans

What you will Recieve.

This course focuses on interaction — we only use lectures to cover the basic terms and concepts. Most class time is dedicated to fun exercises, engaging discussion, and team collaboration. We focus on practical solutions to real-world, Product Owner challenges drawn from decades of experience as product managers, Agile coaches and Product Owners in Agile environments.

A vivid student workbook full of custom exercises, activities, and course summaries that capture the essential points you need to learn and comprehend.
A two-year membership in the Scrum Alliance
Recognition by the Scrum Alliance as a Certified Scrum Product Owner
Fourteen SEUs/PDUs
One-year membership in the Profitable Software Community with Access to Horizon.
A copy of Software Profit Streams™ by Jason Tanner & Luke Hohmann

Upcoming Courses

Certified Scrum Product Owner | Online

$895

May 28-30 · 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM EDT
Location: Online
Instructor: Kimberly Poremski

Certified Scrum Product Owner | Online

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“The hands-on, interactive teaching style was perfect for me as a visual learner. So glad this was not two days of death by PowerPoint.”

Gloria J.

“The organization of the course was excellent. I really valued the pre-course readings and homework which allowed the live course to be dynamic and focused on solving cases rather than covering the finite details of the methodology.”

Anna Maria Q.

“The class felt very interactive despite not being co-located. The combination of the Miro board and Zoom breakout rooms helped a lot in creating an inclusive environment.”

Jemma B.

Topics Covered

Product Vision

A clear, shared vision is crucial for successful Scrum and Agile teams. We’ll walk through techniques to help unify your team, stakeholders, and customers around the right vision for your product or service.

Prune the Product Tree

Roadmaps are an important link between Product Vision and Product Backlog. Unfortunately, many roadmaps are not much more than a slide with dates and bullet-pointed features, which doesn’t provide any context. Learn how to use the Prune the Product Tree, an Innovation Game®, to collaborate with customers to build a real roadmap.

Product Backlog Basics

Learn the simple rules associated with a Product Backlog as well as a set of key practices for using a Product Backlog to develop consensus among the stakeholders on what will be delivered. Other topics we cover include:

Writing User Stories
Acceptance Criteria
Vertically Slicing User Stories
Product Backlog Refinement

Ordering the Product Backlog

The core of the Product Owner’s job is to order and prioritize among the many great things we could do and help the Development Team focus only on what is most important. Many traditional prioritization techniques are too slow for most Scrum Teams, so many Product Owners order the Product Backlog solely on intuition or by responding to the currently squeaky wheel. Learn a prioritization framework that helps you visualize the relative importance of your customer segments, internal & external stakeholders, corporate strategy, and maintain clean code.

Agile Release Planning

Believe it or not, we’ve heard many times the misinformed statement: “We’re Agile, so we don’t really plan.” Not only is this inconsistent with the Agile Manifesto, it is usually just bad business. In our experience, the best Scrum teams create a plan and expect it to change as work begins!

Learn the nuts and bolts of managing stakeholder expectations with an Agile release plan
Learn how and when to it makes sense to update the release plan

Working in Sprints

The Product Owner role doesn’t end once the Product Backlog is ready for Sprint Planning. Your team will be most effective if you are available during the Sprint to provide feedback at key points.

Learn how the Product Owner works with Development Teams during the Sprint
Explore best practices in balancing time among the Development Team, stakeholders, and customers

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