Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner®
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Thu Jun 06 - 07, 2024
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08:00 PDT
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4 hours each day
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Live Online + Self-Paced
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$699
Course details
Out of work? Job seekers get a 50% discount!
Learn by doing in this live online + self-paced workshop with Chris Sims. Chris is the author of two best-selling scrum books: The Elements of Scrum and Scrum: A breathtakingly brief and agile introduction.
This workshop includes a 4-hour live online session on:
June 6, 2024 from 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM US Pacific Time
In the live session, you will meet your instructor and classmates. You’ll learn how to create multi-sprint release plans for a scrum team. You’ll also get to practice communication skills and facilitation techniques that will improve your interactions with your stakeholders and team.
Besides the scheduled live session, the pace of the course is entirely up to you. Start as soon as you register, or wait until after the live session. Take as much or little time as you need to complete the in-depth coursework in the Agile Learning Labs online learning system. You’ll receive ongoing feedback from your instructor and the Agile Learning Labs team as you progress through the material.
Interactive And Hands-On
Not all self-paced courses are created equal. With Agile Learning Labs, you will participate in a project simulation and other interactive exercises so that you can learn by doing, not just by reading or listening. During the self-paced work, you can take any lesson, quiz, or assignment as many times as you want, until you know that you’ve mastered the material and feel ready to apply it in your day-to-day work. Along the way, you will receive on-going feedback and guidance from your instructor and the Agile Learning Labs team. We are committed to your success.
Connect With Your Instructor And Build Your Network
Agile Learning Labs has an amazing live online community that you will get to participate in. Several times a month, you’ll have the opportunity to meet with your instructor and classmates at office hours. The rich interactions at office hours range from exploring course material in more depth to problem solving issues from participants' workplaces and job searches. Additionally, we host monthly live online workshops or lecture sessions where you can deepen your learning. These sessions are also a great way to build your professional network, a key to finding that next awesome job. Attend as many or few of these sessions as you like, no extra charge.
You Get Chris' Best Selling Scrum Book
Every student will receive a copy of Chris Sims' book, The Elements of Scrum, which is used as a textbook in colleges and by other scrum trainers. You can read the first chapter, A Week In The Life of a Scrum Team online, or check out the five-star reviews on Amazon.
Students Say:
Chris and Season are so engaging and the content is very practical. My highlights from the training were the breakout sessions and the practical skills covered.
Marcy Bursac
Sr Technical Analyst, Splunk
I’m so happy that we brought Agile Learning Labs in to teach this A-CSPO workshop. Participants loved learning how to create MVPs, storyboarding, backlog refinement, practicing facilitation techniques, and the coverage of business value. Chris was knowledgeable and made the experience fun. Agile Learning Labs was an easy vendor to work with, I highly recommend bringing them in to work with your teams. You won’t be sorry.
Dawn Hare
Learning and Development Project Manager, Grant Thornton
You can read our students' reviews, going all the back to 2010, on our website.
Frequently Asked Questions
What discounts are available?
We offer discounts for: job seekers, veterans, students, and groups. Email us at [email protected] for details.
When do we start and end the live online session?
On June 6, the virtual classroom opens at 7:45 AM and class will begin promptly at 8:00 AM. We will end at 12:00 PM. All times are USA Pacific Time.
When can I start the self–paced work?
Within one business day of registering, you will get access to our online learning environment. It is here that you will do all of the self-paced work, and you are free to start right away!
How long do I have to finish the course?
It’s conceivable that you might be able to power through all of the self-paced work in a few days. Conversely, if you have a busy schedule, you might take six months to complete the work. No worries, this is your learning journey and you’re in the driver’s seat. We will be here to support the whole way.
What are the prerequisites for the course?
Before enrolling in our Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) workshop you should already have completed a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) workshop. If you don’t hold the CSPO designation, take one of our CSPO workshops.
What are the requirements for the certification?
To earn your A-CSPO you must:
- Complete our A-CSPO workshop
- Document at least 1 year of work experience specific to the role of product owner (within the past five years).
These two requirements can be satisfied in either order. If you have a year of experience already, then as soon as you complete the course, you will earn the certification. If you complete the course before you have the required work experience, no worries. Once you acquire the experience, just document it in your Scrum Alliance account and the certification will activate.
What is included?
The price of the workshop includes:
- A four-hour live online experiential workshop session
- The certification fee
- All of your Scrum Alliance certifications will be renewed for the coming 2 years
- You will get a copy of The Elements Of Scrum.
- On-going feedback and mentoring throughout the self-paced work from Chris and Season
- Membership in Agile Learning Labs' online community, The Scrum Professionals
- Unlimited access to online office hours with your instructor and teaching assistant
- SEUs and PDUs for every hour you spend learning!
Who are Chris and Season?
Instructor: Chris Sims
Chris Sims is a certified scrum trainer, agile coach, and recovering C++ developer who helps organizations improve their productivity and happiness. Chris is the founder and product owner of Agile Learning Labs and the co-author of two best-selling scrum books: The Elements of Scrum and Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction. More of their writing can be found on the Agile Learning Labs blog. Before starting Agile Learning Labs in 2007, Chris made a living in roles such as: scrum master, product owner, engineering manager, project manager, software engineer, musician, and auto mechanic.
Teaching Assistant: Season Hughes
Season is an agile coach, trainer, and scrum master for Agile Learning Labs. She coaches teams on finding their purpose and motivation to deliver customer value using agile methodologies. Her focus on team health sets the foundation for high performance. She has over a decade of experience in the tech industry at companies like Amazon, Atlassian, Dolby, and TripAdvisor. Season holds a number of certifications including: Certified Scrum Master, Advanced Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Professional – Scrum Master, and International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach. She is currently pursuing the Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer credential.
Do you offer a guarantee?
We guarantee our services unconditionally. If you aren't satisfied, we aren't either, and we'll work with you to make it right, up to and including your money back.
What is your refund/transfer policy?
Life happens; we get it! If you cannot attend a workshop that you’ve registered for, reach out to us and we will refund or transfer you to another course for no additional charge.
Can you do this as a private workshop for my company?
Yes! Email [email protected] to get the conversation started.
What if I have more questions?
Feel free to email us at [email protected].
Your A-CSPO workshop includes a 4-hour live online session. In that session you’ll participate in our multi-sprint release planning simulation. You’ll create strategic release plans for your team, maximizing value with a variety of constraints: fixed date, fixed scope, and product goal delivery. Then you will get to see how your plan holds up to some real-world team performance data.
Your live online session will also cover communication skills and facilitation techniques that will improve your ability to communicate with stakeholders and your scrum team.
The rest of the A-CSPO learning objectives are covered in our self-paced online learning environment. After completing this workshop you will be able to:
- Demonstrate at least three techniques to interact with stakeholders over multiple sprints.
- Use effective techniques to connect developers directly to customers and users.
- Practice at least two techniques of product discovery.
- Identify at least two techniques for visualizing, managing, or reducing dependencies.
- Appraise how effectively a sprint review was used to inspect and adapt based on the sprint goal and increment(s) that were completed during the sprint.
- Compare at least two approaches to validating assumptions.
- Experiment with at least one approach to incorporate validating assumptions into the scrum framework.
- Develop at least two hypotheses for a target customer.
- Create a plan to test at least one hypothesis.
- Use at least two techniques to model value and at least two techniques to measure value.
- Apply at least three techniques to order a product backlog to support a product goal.
- Describe how the product owner can ensure that enough product backlog items are “ready” for the upcoming sprint.
- Integrate feedback from at least three sources to generate and refine product backlog items.
- Experiment with at least two ways to improve their product backlog refinement.
- Create a product plan or forecast with stakeholders.
- Practice at least two approaches to identify purpose or define strategy.
- Practice at least one technique to visualize and communicate product strategy, product ideas, features, and/or assumptions.
- Discuss a real-world example of how product strategy is operationalized and evolves over time in an agile organization.
- Describe at least three ways to facilitate a final decision with stakeholders.
- Demonstrate at least three facilitative listening techniques.
- Demonstrate the use of at least two alternatives to open discussion.
- Describe two examples when the product owner should not act as the facilitator for the stakeholders.
- List two cognitive biases that may impact the product owner’s capability to effectively deliver business value.
- Recognize at least two approaches to scaling Scrum.
- Describe at least three benefits and drawbacks of feature teams and component teams.
- Explain why the product owner should be cautious about accumulating technical debt.
- List at least three development practices that could help your scrum team deliver a high-quality increment and reduce technical debt each sprint.
- Analyze the importance of product ownership.
- Reflect on the mindset and actions of a successful product owner.
- Discuss at least three possible impacts to your stakeholder relationships and/or product that could result if your scrum team adopted the latest definition of scrum.
You should take this workshop if you’ve completed a CSPO workshop and you’re ready to take your product owner skills and certification to the next level.
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