Certified Scrum Product Owner

Certified Scrum Product Owner Training

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 Certified Scrum Product Owner certification course provides the jumping off point for you to take on, or improve at, the hardest role in Scrum, being a Product Owner. Being an effective Product Owner is difficult, but, if executed well, it can be incredibly rewarding as speed to market and value will grow substantially. On completion of the course you are registered as a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) with a two year membership in the Scrum Alliance (www.scrumalliance.org) where valuable materials and information are available exclusively to CSPOs.

You will learn the essential concepts and tools of Scrum, understanding how the Product Owner role operates within the context of product management and the Product Manager role, and how to interact with the development team. At the strategic level, you will learn how to articulate a clear vision with measurable business objectives, create forward looking release plans that sequence features to market to maximize ROI within the context of the product plans. At the tactical level, you will learn how to effectively groom the product backlog, execute releases planning sessions, and track and report progress.

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 to illustrate the principles being taught in a comprehensive fashion interactively tailored to the class’s needs, based on real world experience, not ivory-tower theory.

Bonus Offerings

• 16 PDUs towards PMI continuing certification requirements
• Discount on Sanjiv Augustine's book, Managing Agile Projects
• Free lunch, snacks and beverages

Introduction to Agile

• A Case for Change
• Scrum Process Overview
• Team Structures & Roles

Planning: Modeling the Problem

• Discovery Sessions
• Identifying & Modeling Users & Customers
• Vision & Goals
• User Stories & Epics
• Acceptance Criteria to Testable Examples
• Maturing Requirements
• Product Backlog
• Release Planning

Executing: Creating a Solution

• Interacting with the Team
• Sprint
• Sprint Planning
• Daily Scrum

Evaluating: Testing & Honing the Solution

• Feedback Loops
• Sprint Review

Adapting: Tuning the Process

Agile Metrics: Counting what Counts

• Burndowns & Velocity
• Scope Changes
• Business Value Metrics
• Cumulative Flow Diagrams & Earned Value

Closing

Business customers, product managers, line managers, business analysts, quality analysts, developers, product owners, and anyone aiming to maximize the benefit that they receive from their agile projects by learning how to bring all stakeholders together to execute on a shared vision.