Certified Scrum Professional – Product Ownership (CSP-PO)
Certified Scrum Professionals challenge their teams to improve the way Scrum and other Agile techniques are applied. They have demonstrated experience, documented training, and proven knowledge in the art of Scrum.
Are you ready to take your knowledge and skillset in your role as Product Owner to the next level? If so, it’s time to elevate your career further by earning the Certified Scrum Professional®-Product Owner (CSP®-PO) certification. Solidify your approaches for validating product assumptions, learn advanced interactions with customers and users and master advanced Product Backlog management.
Who should take this course?
This course is for
- Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owners (A-CSPO) who are looking for the next level of growth of your Product Ownership
- Participants who want to advance themselves on the path to Product Owner
- Agile Coaches with product ownership as a speciality
Participants should be passionate in advancing as a Product Owner, and/or a ScrumMaster or Agile coach, and therefore be willing to challenge their own thinking and approaches within this course.
The Certified Scrum Professional Product Owner (CSP-PO) workshop requires previous Scrum Product Owner knowledge and experience. All attendees must have the Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner certification (A-CSPO) and some practice prior to this workshop
Through the CSP-PO course, you’ll learn:
- Growing in the Role of Product Owner
- Product Owner as Product Champion
- Product Ownership and Organization Setup
- Product Owner manifesto
- Advanced Stakeholder Management
- Facilitating sessions with conflicting opinions
- Working with difficult stakeholders
- Enhancing stakeholder collaboration techniques
- Working with multiple Scrum Teams
- Launching multiple Scrum Teams
- Quality expectations while working with multiple teams
- Competence growth and expectations
- Product backlog management across multiple teams
- Facilitating large scale participatory meetings
- Designing interactive learning contents about product ownership
- Implement Purpose and Strategy
- Market-Driven Product Strategy Practices
- Analyze different business models
- Develop your own business model
- Calculate opportunity size
- Construct competitive analysis
- Product Economics
- Determining profitability
- Calculating the cost of delay (CoD)
- Funding of agile product development
- Complex Product Planning and Forecasting
- Developing a product plan
- Defining a strategic and multi-team product roadmap
- Developing a release strategy
- Advanced Interactions with Customers and Users
- Advanced Customer Research
- Customer development
- Integrating customer into product development
- Advanced Product Discovery
- Comparing different customer research and product discovery techniques
- Complex Product Assumption Validation
- Evaluating different validation plans
- Continuous revising plans based on validation results
- Advanced Product Backlog Management
- Further differentiating outcome and output
- Defining value – strategy and options
- Ordering product backlog
- Comparing various prioritization techniques
- Deciding prioritization strategy for your product
- Refining product backlog to deliver customer value
- Competence, risks, uncertainties, and efficiency
- Improving customer engagement to refine Product Backlog
The workshop focuses on the advancement of Product Ownership, though theory introduction and exercise to gain hands-on experiment on the advanced skills of Scrum Product Owner role. Upon completion of the workshop, you will be ready to start your journey to become a Certified Scrum Professional with Product Owner speciality!
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Certified Scrum Professional – ScrumMaster (CSP-SM)
Certified Scrum Professionals challenge their teams to improve the way Scrum and other Agile techniques are applied. They have demonstrated experience, documented training, and proven knowledge in the art of Scrum.
Are you ready for the next level of experience and expertise in the art of Scrum? If so, it’s time to elevate your career further by earning the Certified Scrum Professional®-ScrumMaster (CSP®-SM) certification.
Learn to find practical solutions and improve your implementation of Scrum in the workplace.
Who should take this course?
This course is for:
- Advanced Certified ScrumMasters (A-CSM) who are are looking for the next level of growth.
- ScrumMasters who have Scrum experience for close to two years;
- Managers who want to better support their teams;
- Individuals who want to develop themselves on the path of Agile Coach
Our CSP-SM program is designed with deep learning for those who want to advance themselves to the next level of agile coaching, including the practitioners who want to advance to Certified Team Coach (CTC) and/or Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC).
Participants should be passionate in advancing as a ScrumMaster and an Agile coach, and therefore be willing to challenge their own thinking and approaches within this course.
All attendees must have the Advanced Certified ScrumMaster certification (A-CSM) and with practice prior to the Certified Scrum Professional ScrumMaster (CSP-SM) workshop.
Course content
- Advanced Coaching
- Advanced Coaching Skills and their application
- Coaching Tools
- Advanced Coaching + Advanced Facilitation
- Coaching Application with Responsibility Process
- Coaching Assumptions and Agreement
- Alternatives to Open Discussion
- Visual Facilitation
- Remote Facilitation
- A deeper dive into Lean, Agile and Scrum
- Key Lean Principles and Concepts
- Assessing Waste at All Levels
- Applications in Scrum Framework and Organization Transformation
- Services to Development Team
- Different Methods to Assess Existing Teams
- Team Performance Curve (and Tuckman Model comparison)
- Coaching Team via Team Development Profile
- Coaching Team via Drexler-Sibbet Model
- 5 Dysfunctions of Teams
- Starting and Growing New Agile Teams
- Coaching Team on Software Craftsmanship
- Services to Product Owner
- Creation and Revision of Product Vision and Strategy
- Complex Product Backlog Management
- Product Owner Support
- Services to Organization
- Complex Adaptive System
- Effective Culture Change (concepts and tools)
- Organization Change via contrasting different models
- Organization Change Pattern Analysis
- Scaling – Growing Organization
- Personal Development
- Case Study – how to approach different coaching scenarios (theory into practice)
- Coaching practices for personal growth actions
- Design of Individual Learning and Capability Goals and Follow-up
- Next Steps
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Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO)
As a Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®), you’ve been taught the Scrum terminology, ceremonies, and principles that enable you to fulfill the role of Product Owner on a Scrum team. You’re focused on maximizing business value and prioritization, and understand how to do the best possible job to satisfy key stakeholders. One of your priorities should be your own success! Becoming Agile is a lifelong journey and incorporating Scrum values and Agile principles into your world of work takes diligence, patience, and a commitment to continuous improvement.
To further enhance your knowledge and skills, the next step is achieving an Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner™ (A-CSPO™) certification from Scrum Alliance®. This advanced offering is ideal for a Certified Scrum Product Owner who already has one year of experience working as a Product Owner on a Scrum team.
As a Product Owner, you know there are rarely enough hours in the day to do what really matters — building really great products for your customers and end users. With our new role-specific educational program, you’ll learn specific tools and techniques so you can truly deliver the business value that matters. You’ll gain new skills and deepen your knowledge in these areas, and most importantly, you’ll learn how to say “yes” to your career by saying “no.”
Who should take the course?
This course if for Certified Scrum Product Owners (CSPO) who are looking for the next level of growth.
- Managers who want to help your organization build fantastic products
- Product management and portfolio management professionals
- Project management professionals
- Business stakeholders
- UX and CX practitioners, and business analysts
- Product development team members
- Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and agile coaches
The Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) workshop requires previous Scrum Product Owner knowledge and experience. All attendees must have the Certified Scrum Product Owner certification (CSPO) and with some practice prior to this workshop.
Course Content
- Product Essentials
- Product basics
- Product life cycle concept and corrsponding strategy
- Empathizing Customers and Users
- Perform customer research
- Interview and tips for insightful interview
- Advanced Product Assumption Validation
- Cognitive biases and their impacts to product
- Hypothesis Driven Development (HDD)
- Compare different HDD approaches
- Incorporating HdD into Scrum framework
- Develop HDD and design validation plans
- Advanced Purpose and Strategy
- Developing product vision and strategies
- Advanced roadmapping and its development
- Advanced product planning and forecasting
- Release planning
- Advanced Product Backlog Management
- Model and measure value for product
- Advanced Product Backlog Ordering
- Linking Product Backlog Ordering to product Strategy
- Enhancement of slicing user story techniques
- Product Owner Core Competencies
- Skills, capabilities and practices of a Product Owner
- Mindset of a Product Owner
- Maximizing outcome and minimizing output
- Facilitation skills of a Product Owner
- Advanced stakeholder collaboration
- Identify stakeholders and key stakeholder groups
- Stakeholder management techniques
- Collaboration methods and decision making with stakeholders
- Advanced Development Team collaboration
- Define technical debts
- Technical practices to help improve quality and ways of working
- Practice value maximization per sprint
- Collaboration with multiple development
- Recognize scaling manifestos
- List scaling frameworks
- Working with dependencies
- Next steps for product owners
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ISTQB® CERTIFIED TESTER FOUNDATION LEVEL
NB! The last registration day is 21.09.2025
This training provides an opportunity to gain basic knowledge in the field of software testing – process management, planning and test reporting. At the end of the training, after successfully passing the final examination, the international ISTQB® certificate – ISTQB Foundation Level Exam for ISTQB CTFL Certification – ISTQB Official Registration (astqb.org) is obtained.
At the end of this course, participants will achieve the following skills:
- use a common language for effective communication with other testers and project partners;
- understand main testing concepts, the essence of the testing process, testing approaches and principles to achieve testing goals;
- plan and prioritize testing tasks using selected testing techniques;
- analyze both functional and non-functional specifications;
- perform tests according to agreed testing plans, as well as analyze and report test results;
- write a clear overview of incidents;
- participate in test reports.
Target audience and prior prerequisites: Everyone who is going to participate in software testing process.
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of system testing and experience in the IT industry.
Technology needed for the course: A Windows operating system computer with permissions to install and configure applications.
Those who do not have the necessary computer can rent it by agreement with BCS Training. Please inform the training company in advance.
Course outline
- Introduction to software testing:
- Basic elements of testing;
- Definitions of testing;
- Test objectives;
- General principles of testing;
- Testing processes;
- Psychology of testing.
- Testing through the full software development lifecycle:
- Software development models;
- Verification and validation;
- Testing levels – unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and acceptance testing;
- Regression testing;
- Testing and development.
- Static testing techniques:
- Types of inspection;
- Inspection process (overview);
- Roles and responsibilities in reporting;
- Reporting success factors;
- Static analysis tools.
- Test design techniques:
- Test development process;
- Documentation;
- Types of test design techniques;
- Specification-based techniques (black box);
- Structure-based techniques (white box);
- Experience-based techniques;
- Criteria for the selection of testing techniques.
- Test management:
- Organization of testing;
- Organization of the team: roles and responsibilities;
- Planning and evaluation of testing;
- Monitoring and control of testing progress;
- Configuration management;
- Risk management;
- Classification and management of defects.
- Test support tools:
- Selection considerations;
- Types of testing tools;
- Effective use of tools: potential benefits and risks;
- Classification of tools.
Study methods: You can participate in the study by joining the training through the online environment Teams. The volume of training is 24 hours incl. 12 hours of practical exercises or group work in the training environment.
Assessment method: The achievement of learning outcomes is assessed on the basis of feedback-based practical exercises or group works carried out during the training.
Completion of training: Each participant receives a certificate of attendance after the course, the official certificate is awarded only when the exam is taken and passed within one year after the course (exam registration must be done within 6 months after completing the course).
The price includes: Study materials and examination cost (must be registered 6 months after the course and passed 12 months after the course.
Assessment method: The achievement of learning outcomes is assessed on the basis of feedback-based practical exercises or group works carried out during the training.
Curriculum group: 0612 Database and network design and management.
VMware NSX: Troubleshooting and Operations [V4.x]
This five-day, hands-on training course provides the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in operating and troubleshooting the VMware NSX infrastructure. This course introduces you to workflows of various networking and security constructs along with several operational and troubleshooting tools that help you manage and troubleshoot your VMware NSX environment. (veel …)
VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting [V8]
This five-day training course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere® 8 environment. This course increases your skill level and competence in using the command-line interface, VMware vSphere® Client™, log files, and other tools to analyze and solve problems.
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This course requires completion of one the following courses:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale and Secure
The course material presumes that you can perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:
- Install and configure ESXi
- Install vCenter Server
- Create vCenter Server objects, such as data centers and folders
- Create and modify a standard switch
- Create and modify a distributed switch
- Connect an ESXi host to NAS, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel storage
- Create a VMware vSphere VMFS datastore
- Modify a virtual machine’s hardware
- Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
- Configure and manage a VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource SchedulerTM cluster
- Configure and manage a VMware vSphere HA cluster
Basic knowledge of command line tools like ESXCLI, DCLI, and PowerCLI If you cannot complete these tasks, VMware recommends that you take the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] course instead.
Program:
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- Introduction to Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting Tools
- Troubleshooting Virtual Networking
- Troubleshooting Storage
- Troubleshooting vSphere Clusters
- Troubleshooting Virtual Machines
- Troubleshooting vCenter Server and ESXi
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe troubleshooting principles and procedures
- Use the vSphere Client, the command line, and log files to configure, diagnose, and correct problems in vSphere
- Explain the key vSphere log files from troubleshooting perspective
- Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline
- Identify the networking issues by examining the reported symptoms, and troubleshoot the reported problems
- Identify the storage issues by examining the reported symptoms, and troubleshoot the reported problems
- Troubleshoot vSphere cluster failure scenarios and analyze possible causes
- Diagnose common VMware vSphere® High Availability (vSphere HA) problems and provide solutions
- Trouble virtual machine problems, including migration problems, snapshot problems, and connectivity problems
- Identify VMware ESXi™ host and VMware vCenter Server® problems, analyze failure scenarios, and find resolutions
- Troubleshoot performance problems with vSphere components
More information:
- Read more about the course here.
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VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V4.0]
This five-day, fast-paced course provides comprehensive training to install, configure, and manage a VMware NSX® environment. This course covers key features and functionality offered in the NSX 4.0.0.1 and NSX 4.0.1 releases, including the overall infrastructure, logical switching, logical routing, networking and security services, firewalls and advanced threat prevention, and more.
Prerequisites:
- Good understanding of TCP/IP services and protocols
- Knowledge and working experience of computer networking, including switching and routing technologies (L2 through L3) and L2 through L7 firewall
- Knowledge and working experience with VMware vSphere® environments
- Knowledge and working experience with Kubernetes or VMware vSphere® with VMware Tanzu® environments
Program:
- Course Introduction
- VMware Virtual Cloud Network and VMware NSX
- Preparing the NSX Infrastructure
- NSX Logical Switching
- NSX Logical Routing
- NSX Bridging
- NSX Firewalls
- NSX Advanced Threat Prevention
- NSX Services
- NSX User and Role Management
- NSX Federation
Target audience: Experienced security administrators or network administrators
Learning methods: Practical exercise, independent work.
Assesment methods: Execution of independent work.
Assesment form: Independent practical tasks on relevant topics.
More information:
- Read more about the course from here.
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VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale and Secure [V8]
This five-day course teaches you advanced skills for configuring and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you configure and optimize the VMware vSphere 8 features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure. You also discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. Attend this course to deepen your understanding of vSphere and learn how its advanced features and controls can benefit your organization.
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VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale and Secure [V8]
This five-day course teaches you advanced skills for configuring and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you configure and optimize the VMware vSphere 8 features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure. You also discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. Attend this course to deepen your understanding of vSphere and learn how its advanced features and controls can benefit your organization.
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Veeam Backup & Replication v12: Configure, Manage and Recover
The Veeam® Backup & Replication™ v12: Configure, Manage and Recover training course is a four-day technical course focused on teaching IT professionals the skills to configure, manage and support a Veeam Backup & Replication v12 solution. With extensive hands-on labs, the class enables administrators and engineers to effectively protect and manage data in an ever-changing technical and business environment, bringing tangible benefit to business in the digital world. This course is based on Veeam Backup & Replication v12, part of Veeam Data Platform
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