Certified Scrum Product Owner

Advanced Requirements with Innovation Games®

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 Training

Excella Consulting is excited to announce our new and improved Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) training course.  Unlike the CSPO course we have offered in the past, Excella's new CSPO class is a completely redesigned course that goes into more advanced concepts in the areas of providing vision, requirements, planning, and the Product Owner role. These concepts are presented in a highly interactive and collaborative format with elements of lecture, classroom discussion, exercises, games, and video interwoven throughout the class. 

Innovation Games®

This course will also provide a deep-dive in the modern product innovation method, Innovation Games. Innovation Games are a collection of qualitative research and problem solving techniques, based on the collaborative facilitation of customers, colleagues, partners and the community at large. The techniques include both open ended and more focused methods for achieving actionable insights and results.

Who Should Sign Up

The class is great for current Scrum Product Owners, business analysts, ScrumMasters, testers or anyone involved with creating requirements, gathering needs, and managing projects.

Note: The advanced CSPO course assumes that attendees already have a basic understanding of Scrum via our Agile and Scrum in a Day course, a Certified ScrumMaster course, or equivalent Scrum experience.  

What’s In It For You

Upon completion of the course, students will be credentialed as Certified Scrum Product Owners. Additionally, this course counts towards 14 PMI Professional Development Units (PDUs)/contact hours.

Course Outline

This course starts with an overview of the Agile and Scrum frameworks.  From there, the curriculum includes:

• What a Product Owner Does
• What to Look for in a Product Owner
• Vision and Mission Definitions
• Product Roadmaps and Story Maps
• Project Scope via Product Backlog
• User Stories and Agile Specifications
• Estimates and Release Planning
• Meeting Facilitation
• Tracking Progress

About Your Trainers

Jesse Fewell is a writer, speaker, and trainer for Excella Consulting. In addition to speaking for Agile, Scrum, and PMI conferences, he has collected a broad array of experiences in several sectors such as National Security, Aerospace, GIS, Stock Multimedia, Telecom, and Hospitality. A leader in the advancement of management practices, he founded the PMI Agile Community of Practice, helped craft the PMI-ACP agile certification, and is co-authoring the upcoming Software Extension to the PMBOK Guide. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, he is the world's only certified Project Management Professional (PMP) to also hold the agile designations of Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), and Innovation Games Qualified Instructor (IGQI).

Richard Cheng, Managing Consultant at Excella Consulting, provides consulting services to commercial and federal clients in the Washington, DC area. Richard coaches, mentors, and trains clients in understanding and implementing Agile and Scrum. He also leads Excella’s Agile Center of Excellence. A graduate of Virginia Tech, Richard has authored several publications on project management, presented at Agile and PMI sponsored industry events, is a member of Mensa, and holds certifications including Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), and Project Management Professional (PMP).  Richard is a founder and on the executive committee of the Agile Defense Adoption Proponents Team (ADAPT).

Price, Date, and Location

The registration fee for this two-day course is $1,300 (inclusive of all taxes and fees).  You may pay online via credit card or request that Excella invoice you if you have an existing billing arrangement with Excella.

Registration is now open.  Classes on both days will take place from 9am – 5pm at Excella Consulting in the Navy League Building at 2300 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 630, Arlington, Virginia (located at the Courthouse Metro stop on the Orange Line).  Parking is available in the Navy League Building and will be validated.  Light breakfast will be available at 8:30am each day and lunch will also be provided.

Cancellation Policy

Students submitting cancellation requests 5 business days or more prior to the start of the course are entitled to a full refund.  Students submitting cancellation requests less than 5 business days prior to the start of the course will be issued credit toward a future Excella training course.  The credit will be equal to the amount paid for the initial course less any applicable fees.  Should the organizer cancel the course for any reason, each registered students will be refunded 100% of the registration cost he/she paid.