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.

Certified Scrum Product Owner

The Product Owner represents the customers and users of a product or service in development. As such he is accountable for making sure that the development team is working on the right things from the perspective of users, customers and business stakeholders. The Product Owner is also in charge of release schedules and content.

It is recommended that participants familiarize themselves with the foundations of Scrum before the training. Suggested reading before the course is The Scrum Primer (http://www.scrumprimer.com/) or Chris Sims & Hillary Louise Johnson’s book The Elements of Scrum (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982866917).

Topics

The Certified Scrum Product Owner training teaches participants, among other things:

• How to steer product development towards serving the users' and business stakeholders' needs?
• What is the added value of agile methods to the customer?
• How agile development increases transparency, predictability and reduces projects' risk levels?
• What is expected of a Product Owner?
• How a Product Owner can best support the success of a project?
• How to manage requirements in agile development?
• How to structure product development to maximize the value