Overview
As a Certified Scrum Product Owner® you are accountable for generating the value of a product resulting from the work of a Scrum team, by working closely with stakeholders and focusing on outcomes that satisfy your customer needs.
Our highly interactive course will provide you with an understanding of how to apply an agile mindset through the use of the scrum framework. We will explore discovery and validation techniques to help teams build sustainable products that balance customer desirability, business viability, and technical feasibility.
The course is led by one of our world-class Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainers (CST®) who combine their real-world experience with practical tools, real-life examples, lively discussion, and interactive exercises to help you learn and embed key learning from the course.
After successfully completing this class, participants will be registered with the Scrum Alliance as Certified Scrum Product Owners (CSPO®) and will have online access to the class training materials and any updates for one year. This course is also approved for 16 PDU's with the PMI.
*Please visit the Certified Scrum Product Owner Workshop (CSPO®) certification page for more information as certification requirements periodically change.
- Attend a course taught by a Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST®), or receive private coaching from a Certified Agile Coach (CAC™)
- Have 14 hours of live online or 16 hours of in-person training with your CST®, or 25 hours of face-to-face interaction with your CAC™
- After successfully completing the course, you will need to accept the License Agreement and complete your Scrum Alliance® profile (Note that there is currently not a test for the CSPO® certification)
GSA: $649 USD
16 PDUs
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Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®) Schedule
Full Course Details
Part 1: Product Owner Core Competencies
- Product Owner in different organizations
- Demonstrate progress on goals to Stakeholders
- Gathering insights
- Product Owner Interaction with Scrum teams
- Product Ownership of multiple teams
- Owning the Product backlog
- Collaborating with the Scrum team
Part 2: Goal Setting and Planning
- Defining Value
- Product Visions and Product Goals
- Creating a Sprint Goal
- Product Planning and Release Planning
- Identifying small valuable increments
Part 3: Understanding Customers and Users
- Product Discovery
- Segmenting customers and users
- Conflicting customer needs
- Defining Product Outcomes
- Connecting developers to users
Part 4: Validating Product Assumptions
- Validating Product assumptions in Scrum
- Approaches to validate assumptions
Part 5: Working the Product Backlog
- Outcome vs Output
- Maximizing outcomes
- Product economics
- Describing and measuring value
- Creating Product Backlogs, Product Goals, and Product Backlog Items
- Refining a Product Backlog
Part 6: Scrum Theory
- Empiricism and the three empirical pillars
- Benefits of an iterative and incremental approach
- The Scrum Framework
- Scrum Values
- Scrum alignment to the Agile Manifesto
Part 7: Scrum Teams
- The responsibilities of the Scrum Team
- The responsibilities of the Product Owner, Developers, and Scrum Master
- Working with stakeholders
- Working with multiple teams
Part 8: Scrum events and activities
- Benefits of timeboxing
- Purpose of a Sprint
- Define and perform Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective
- Product Backlog Refinement
Part 9: Artifacts and commitments
- Purpose of the Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment
- The commitments of Product Goals, Sprint Goals, and Definition of Done
- Product Backlog emergence
- Attributes of a Product Backlog
- Sprint and Increment relationship
- Evolution of a Definition of Done
Technical professionals associated with the specification, design, development and testing of products will benefit from this two-day program. Some of the professionals this will benefit include:
- Product Owners
- Product Managers
- Business Analysts
- Functional/Operational Managers/Directors
- Project Sponsors
- IT Leadership (Managers/Directors/VPs/CIOs/CTO)
- Anyone interested in learning the benefits of Scrum for Product Management
This class is suitable for those who are responsible for setting product direction on a Scrum project. While current Certified ScrumMasters are welcome to attend, this class should not be considered as a next step after taking the CSM® Class, but instead should be viewed as an alternative to the CSM® Class.
Please note: This course has an Attendance and Virtual Camera Requirement
- Attendance is required throughout the duration of this course. Instructors will verify each student's attendance and participation to ensure course completion.
- Webcam usage is required by all students
- Explain the fundamental accountabilities of a Product Owner
- Maximize the value of a product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team
- Work with stakeholders to provide transparency towards Product Goals and understand the value of Scrum
- Understand customers and users, working to connect them directly to Developers
- Create and maintain the Product Backlog whilst developing and communicating the Product Goal
- Understand your Product Owner responsibilities within the Scrum Inspect and Adapt Events
- Understand how to offer greater transparency with the use of a clear vision, key artifacts, and commitments
- Describe the relationship between outcome and output.
It is an arduous task to be able to deliver this training virtually and Kim absolutely nailed it! Well done!
Kim is a great instructor with tons of passion. She has clearly internalized the material and the way she delivers it is engaging and fun.
Eric was a great facilitator! He made the content very understandable and ensured all members were engaged through zoom. Great work
Very much enjoyed Kim as an instructor and would highly recommend.
About a month ago I completed the Scrum Master course and could have received a discount however, I wanted to take it from a different instructor and am so glad I did! What an excellent class lead by Eric! He kept us well engaged, and was extremely informative. I also appreciate his personal experiences as it related to the content. I will definitely recommend this class to colleagues. Thanks Eric!
Anu is super-pro. I was very impressed with her depth of knowledge and teaching capability.
Kim did a great job facilitating and teaching the workshop. Lots of exercises and tools to review. The content was relevant and interesting.
A good balance of team and lecture. High degree of time to value - lots of lessons in a short period of time while keeping a coherent story arc.
Very good and friendly introduction to the concepts of SCRUM.
Great training; I think most of us are hands on learners - so having so many "projects" to do kept us engaged. More so that we used real world examples.
Best class I took. Best instructor I ever had.
The class was very hands on and even the agenda for the class was sprint - I thought that was amazing way to learn the CSPO role. Thanks!
Kim was amazing. She was clear, kept us focused, engaged, etc. She set clear expectations on what we should know before the class which was very helpful. It was a great mix of learning and applying. I felt like this could NOT have gone better. I don't feel like there was any issue with this being virtual as opposed to in-person.
Great class, good flow. Open and honest communication; felt comfortable throughout. [Instructor was] professional and prepared.
Very enjoyable class. I will admit, I was unsure how engaged I would be in a virtual class but it was great! Eric's use of the Miro tool and the breakout sessions really kept us engaged. Thank you!
The content of the course was well explained with thorough detail. Slides were focused and provided relevant information about the topic at hand. Angela did a fantastic job during the training. She was polite, personable, direct, and focused.
The course was fast paced, clear, and very concise. Both instructors were very passionate about SCUM.
Peter was an amazing instructor. He delivered the content in an interactive way and kept the attention of the class throughout the course. He was extremely knowledgeable on the topics and was able to answer any questions the class had.
-Tim M.