Cultivate vital skills in agile product ownership through Scrum practices via the CSPO program, and elevate agile product ownership through advanced product discovery, strategy and roadmap, product prioritisation, stakeholder management and more via the Advanced CSPO program.
The Ultimate Agile Product Ownership program contains two modules both ending with the unique separate certification.
Product owners have a unique and demanding role on agile teams.
A product owner decides what the team will create next to deliver more value to the customer. In The Ultimate Agile Product Ownership program (CSPO® + A-CSPO® ) class, you’ll learn the framework, principles, and values that make scrum work, plus key skills and tools you need to be effective.
You will discover how to juggle multiple stakeholders’ needs, get hands-on practice creating a product vision, and learn new ways to get to know your customers so that you can choose the right next piece of value to bring to market for them.
What are the benefits of The Ultimate Agile Product Ownership program?
By earning a Certified ScrumMaster® certification you:
- Learn the foundation of Scrum and the scope of the Certified Scrum Product Owner’s role from the best minds in Scrum.
- Demonstrate to employers and peers your attainment of core Scrum knowledge.
- Expand your career opportunities by staying relevant and marketable across all industry sectors adopting Agile practices.
- Engage with a community of recognized Scrum experts who are committed to continuous improvement.
As a CSPO, you will be able to fulfil the role of Product Owner on a Scrum team. You will also have access to a 2-year membership with Scrum Alliance. Through this membership, you can join local user groups, and online social networks, and gain access to deep discounts on gatherings, and additional member-only resources. In addition, CSPOs can use a specially designed logo to highlight their credentials.
Who should take the course?
Anyone who enjoys (or wants to become more familiar with) the business side of projects can benefit from participating in The Ultimate Agile Product Ownership program (CSPO + A-CSPO).
CSPOs decide what the team will create, ordering the work to ensure that the most valuable, impactful products reach customers at a regular cadence.
The training will be beneficial to:
- Product owners or product owner candidates;
- Product and portfolio managers;
- Business representatives;
- Business experts;
- Executives, managers, and support staff who are interested in improving product development through an in-depth hands-on workshop;
- Anyone curious about how to enhance products;
MODULE 1 – Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) 11 – 12.12.2024
Course content:
- Understanding Customers and Users
- Why product discovery
- Segmenting customers and users
- Creating a shared understanding of customer needs
- Prioritizing conflicting customers’ needs
- Persona concepts and application
- Validating Product Assumptions
- How to validate within Scrum Framework
- Validation methods and selection
- Product Purpose and Strategy
- Create and describe Product Vision
- Product Strategy
- Roadmap and Release planning
- Prioritization
- Define and measure the value for products
- Models and techniques for prioritizing product features
- Product Backlog and Product Goal
- Product backlog and its characteristics
- Product Backlog Item (PBI) and its characteristics
- User Stories
- Product Backlog Refinement – a powerful vehicle
- when, why and how
- Methods for slicing larger needs into smaller product backlog items
- Scrum Framework Introduction
- Scrum framework overview
- How to benefit from Scrum framework to build a fantastic product
- Agile estimation and release planning
- Summary of Product Ownership
- Core competencies of a product owner
- Key benefits of Product Ownership
- Differentiating outcome and output
- Collaboration with stakeholders
- Collaboration with developers
- Working with multiple Scrum teams
- Next steps to be a great Product Owner
MODULE 2 – Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) 03 – 05.03.2025
As a Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®), you’ve been taught the Scrum terminology, ceremonies, and principles that enable you to fulfil 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.
Now, to further enhance your knowledge and skills, the next step is achieving an Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner™ (A-CSPO™) certification from Scrum Alliance®.
All attendees of this module must have the Certified Scrum Product Owner certification (CSPO) and some practice prior to this workshop.
Course content:
- Product Essentials
- Product basics
- Product life cycle concept and corresponding strategy
- Empathizing Customers and Users
- Perform customer research
- Interview and tips for an insightful interview
- Advanced Product Assumption Validation
- Cognitive biases and their impacts on 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 road mapping and its development
- Advanced product planning and forecasting
- Release planning
- Advanced Product Backlog Management
- Model and measure the value for a 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
- A 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
As a Product Owner, you know there are rarely enough hours in the day to do what really matters — building 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.”
Assessment method:
The achievement of learning outcomes is assessed on the basis of feedback-based practical exercises carried out during the training.
Graduation criteria:
A graduate of the training receives a certificate if he performs all the practical exercises given during the training. Participants who have not achieved the learning outcomes will be issued a certificate of participation in the training upon request.
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