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.

Course Description

You are in charge of building a system, creating a new product release, or any other complex business project. Traditionally, you would hand this undertaking over to a trained project manager to run for you. You would then wait and hope for the best, since over 50% of all projects fail and those that succeed deliver products in which 65% of the functionality is rarely or never used.

Scrum provides a way for you to directly and effectively manage the project yourself. Intuitive and lightweight, the Scrum process delivers completed increments of the product at rapid, regular intervals, usually no longer than monthly.

Your primary tool for managing the project is called a Product Backlog, a list of features you want in the system or release, prioritized by value, cost, and risk. You use the Product Backlog to cause the most valuable functionality to be built first, and remove risk early in the project. As you watch the product take shape, increment by increment, you can restructure the Product Backlog to incorporate your insights or respond to changes in business conditions. You can also identify and cancel unsuccessful projects early, often within the first several months. The Certified Scrum Product Owner course equips you with what you need to achieve success with Scrum.

Following successful completion of the course, each participant will be designated a Certified Scrum Product Owner. This certification includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, where additional member-only material and information are available.

You Will Learn

• Practical, project-proven practices
• How to write a usable product backlog
• Proven techniques for prioritizing the product backlog
• How to predict the delivery date of a project (or the features that will be complete by a given date) using velocity
• Tips for managing the key variables influencing project success
• How to successfully scale the product role on large, multi-continent projects with team sizes in the hundreds
• Tips and tricks from the instructor's ten-plus years of using Scrum in a wide variety of environments

Combine This Class With Other Training

This class will be followed by an Agile Estimating and Planning class in the same location. You can attend these classes separately or together.

What You Get

• High quality training from an industry expert
• Recognition by the Scrum Alliance as a Certified Scrum Product Owner®
• A hot lunch buffet and two coffee breaks each day
• A one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, a $50 value
• A printed, color copy of the course materials

Professional Development Units (PDUs)

PMPs: You can receive 16 PDUs for this course.

Onsite

Don’t see a date and location you like? Want to train a team or department without the hassle of travel? This course is available for onsite delivery. Contact Mike Cohn at (720) 890-6110 or by e-mail at Contact Mike Cohn

Brochure

Download a PDF brochure with additional information.

Cancellation Policy

Registered students may cancel without penalty up to September 18. Cancellation after this date requires full payment. A course registration may be transferred to another person after contacting Citerus, which is organizing this class for Mike in Stockholm. If the class is cancelled by Citerus, for any reason, a full refund will be issued of the amount paid for the class. No matter the cause of the cancellation, Citerus will not be responsible for student¹s travel expense, loss of time etc.

• Expectations of the product owner
• Scrum overview
  • What it is
  • How would your life change with Scrum?
  • The Scrum skeleton
  • Scrum roles
• Stocking the product backlog
  • Failure of upfront thinking
  • Emergent requirements
  • User stories on the product backlog
  • Augmenting the user stories
  • User roles
  • INVEST in your backlog
• Day one retrospective
• Prioritizing the product backlog
  • The right size for prioritizing
  • Kano analysis
  • Theme screening
  • Theme scoring
  • Relative weighting
  • Priority poker
• Responsibilities
  • Project responsibilities
  • Developing the core
• Release management
  • Estimating
  • Accuracy and precision
  • Velocity
  • The release planning meeting
  • Fixed date planning
  • Fixed scope planning

This course is ideal for product managers, analysts, testers, and others who represent and are expected to understand the desires of users and customers on agile projects. You will leave with solid knowledge of how and why Scrum works and of your role on the project. Through practical, hands-on exercises and small-group discussion you will leave prepared to guide a Scrum team to success.