Certified Scrum Product Owner

Though each CSPO course varies depending on the instructor, all Certified Scrum Product Owner courses focus on Scrum from a product owner's perspective. Graduates will receive the CSPO designation. All CSPO course are taught by Certified Scrum Trainers.

This two-day Product Owner certification course provides everything you need to be an effective customer to a Scrum team. On completion, participants are registered as Certified Product Owners (CPOs), which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, (www.scrumalliance.org) where valuable materials and information are available to CPOs.

You will learn the essential concepts and tools of Scrum, differences between agile processes and traditional "waterfall" methodologies, and how your particular role as a business customer will change when interacting with Agile teams. Participants will learn how to effectively manage and prioritize product backlogs, plan releases and sprints, track and report progress, and scale Scrum to program-level efforts.

This course is taught by leading Agile practitioners with decades of real-world industry experience at companies ranging from small businesses to the Fortune 100. Exercises, demonstrations, facilitated discussions, case studies, tool and template examples and more are interwoven throughout the course to illustrate the principles being taught in a comprehensive fashion interactively tailored to each class’s particular needs.

Bonus Offerings

Attendees will receive:

• A discounted copy of Sanjiv Augustine's book, Managing Agile Projects
• 16 PDUs towards PMI continuing certification requirements
• A printed certificate for completion of the course

Understanding Scrum

• Release Planning
• Product Backlog
• Sprint Planning
• Sprint Backlog
• Daily Scrum
• Sprint Review
• Sprint Retrospective

Roles & Responsibilities

• Product Owner
• ScrumMaster
• The Team

Managing the Product Backlog

• Introduction to User Stories
• Writing Effective User Stories
• Prioritizing by business value
• Using Lean & Six Sigma

Release Management

• Agile Estimation
• Calculating Velocity
• Minimum Marketable Feature Sets
• Planning for Fixed Dates & Scopes

Advanced Topics

• Resource Management
• Distributed Delivery
• Metrics and Reporting
• Others as Requested and Prioritized by the Class

Business Customers, Product Managers and Line Managers aiming to maximize the benefit that they receive from their Agile projects by learning how to better prioritize and interface with Agile teams.