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.



Joe Little will lead a Certified Scrum Product Owner course in Montreal, CA.

Joe is an experienced Agile coach, with in-depth practical experience in helping teams become very productive with Scrum and Agile. He co-teaches these courses with Jeff Sutherland, who co-created Scrum. Joe's blog is Agile & Business, here .

Contact: Julia Hill if you have questions.

Summary of the Course

Through a combination of immersive team-based learning, exercises, and real-world case studies, you will learn how to:

  • Plan, initiate and lead a Scrum project
  • Develop the initial Product Backlog
  • Improve the identification of Business Value
  • Establish a shared vision for the entire team
  • Generate an agile release plan utilizing user stories and story point estimation
  • Manage the Gap between customer expectations and the Team's ability to deliver
  • Improve business value engineering
  • Balance new features against digging out of technical debt
  • Refactor the Product Backlog continuously
  • Lead the Team and yet have the Team remain self-managing
  • Work with Stakeholders to make them more effective


CSPO training provides an applied understanding of the Scrum process and helps participants begin to develop the tools, insights, and skills required to apply Scrum on their projects and across their organizations.

Additional Information:
The course will run from 9am-5pm each day. A continental breakfast, breaks and lunch will be provided.

Following the course, each participant is enrolled as a CSPO, which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, where additional Scrum materials and information are available.

Dates:

9-10 Mar 2009
Location:

Montreal, QC

Venue:

Marriott Chateau Champlain
1050 de la Gauchetiere West
Montreal, QC H3B 4C9
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/yulcc-montreal-marriott-chateau-champlain/

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Price:

USD1,250

Notes:

Course Material

Participants will receive course materials (not books) at the course. The CSPO course was formulated to train and certify Product Owners and is used worldwide for Product Owner training. In addition, participants should obtain (at their own expense) Agile Project Management with Scrum, by Ken Schwaber, which is required reading for the course. You may also wish to obtain the primary Scrum book, Agile Software Development with SCRUM by Schwaber and Beedle, on which the course is based.

Of course, there will be updated material and training exercises in the course which you cannot get from books. The entire syllabus will be made available upon registering for the course so you can look it over and bring it with you to the sessions.

Registration and Fees

The course fee is $1,395. There is a 10% discount for groups of 3 or more.

Once you pay, you become registered. If your firm needs an invoice, we can generate those as well. You are not fully registered until we receive payment. Please contact Julia Hill for details or with questions.

Refund policy
90% of the course fee will be refunded for cancellations more that 7 days in advance of the course. No refunds will be provided for cancellations within a week of the course.

 

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The CSPO is for managers, analysts, and product managers. For anyone interested in working on or with a Scrum team in a business or customer side role, this course is suited for you. You will leave with solid knowledge of how and why Scrum works. Through practical, hands-on exercises and small-group discussion you will be prepared to plan your first (or next) sprint immediately after this class. And you will be ready to be a strong Product Owner.

ScrumMasters need this course, because they must coach Product Owners in these skills.

PMPs: You can receive 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs) for this course.