Certified Scrum Professional® - Product Owner

Class Format

The class is a live instructor-led 2-day virtual training experience. As part of the optional coursework, the students will have the option to perform 4 out of class activities based on their current product (or a product they have worked with in the past). These are:

1. Filling out a product canvas or product board for their product
2. Performing competitive analysis
3. Improving ROI
4. Running an experiment to test an assumption

Once these activities are complete, the student will schedule a touch point with the instructor to review the results of these activities. The time commitment of these activities is estimated to be 3 to 8 hours of effort. Note these out-of-class activities are optional, you do not need to complete these for your certification.

Certification

Upon successful completion of the course, students will have an active CSP-PO certification as long as they:

• Hold an Advanced Certified Product Owner^SM (A-CSPO^SM) certification with Scrum Alliance.
• Validate at least 24 months of work experience specific to the role of Product Owner (from within the past five years). You can take the course without the 24 months of experience, but you must have the 24 months experience to claim the certification.

Students can still attend our CSP-PO course even without these requirements and later complete the A-CSPO, and/or work experience to claim their certification. As a bonus, this class will automatically renew you’re A-CSPO, CSPO, and CSM (if applicable) certifications, even if those credentials are expired.

• Product Owner Core Competencies
  • Review what a product owner does day to day
  • How to access yourself as a product owner
  • Understand the Product Owner, Product Manager, and Analyst roles
  • Inspect how Product Owners are chosen and work in your organization
• Launching Scrum Teams
  • Understand the differences between launching a Scrum Team versus a traditional team
  • How to kickoff a Scrum Team
  • Review team canvases to identify how teams work together
• Product Ownership Across Multiple Teams
  • Review different scaling models and how product ownership and product management works in those models
  • Identify the scaling patterns that could work best for your products
• Market Driven Product Strategy Practices
  • Understand common business models to make a profit / generate value
  • Compare business models
  • Apply a business model and canvas to your product
  • Perform competitive analysis
• Complex Planning and Forecasting
  • Understand traditional product plans, adaptive product plans, and experimental product plans
  • Use product plan analysis on your product
  • Review release strategies and apply release strategies to your product
• Launching a Product
  • Product launch goals
  • Plan a product launch
• Product Economics
  • Identify, define, and maximize value
  • ROI and maximizing ROI
  • Product funding
• Stakeholders, Customers, and Users
  • Understanding stakeholder needs
  • Facilitating stakeholder communication
  • Create a customer engagement strategy
• Advanced Product Backlog Management
  • Understand outputs and outcomes
  • Prioritization techniques
  • Financial models and revenue models
  • Impact analysis and cost of delay

This course is ideal for anyone interested in expert level concepts and techniques for product management. This includes product owners, product managers, project managers, business analysts, executives, Scrum Masters, and Agile coaches.