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Advance beyond basics
Sharpen your skills. Find out how to lead product development, manage stakeholder expectations, and maximize the delivery of customer value.
This course builds upon entry-level CSPO knowledge. The focus is on the next-level skills that agile professionals need. Through A-CSPO, you will stand out in your industry and show advanced value to your employer (or potential employer) as a highly-skilled Agile professional.
Advance your understanding beyond the basics of Scrum. Increase your influence to impact real change in your organization. You get to experience best practices for collaboration. Our course is designed for group interactions and supports different adult learning styles.
Own outcomes, not orders
Getting customer needs wrong is a big problem, and getting them right is tricky. Managing stakeholder expectations, collaborating effectively with the development team, and delivering delightful products to customers can be challenging.
This course builds upon your fundamental understanding of Scrum and, through practical exercises, develops your skills to set you on the path to becoming better at Product Ownership.
You will gain skills to implement agile product development strategies through hands-on exercises and real-world case studies.
Uncertainty destroys monotony
Excellent Product Owners embrace uncertainty and win over incumbents that are too comfortable in their monotony. Successful product development organizations never chase the next best thing; they are making it.
This course is designed for passionate people who care about making a difference with the products they develop.
Advance your skills to navigate through a fast-changing competitive landscape. You will learn to define product strategy, discover product-market fit, validate hypotheses via experiments, and collaborate with development teams. You will increase your confidence to influence your team and leadership constructively.
Our curriculum will enable you to
- Identify opportunities and gaps in your agile organization
- Develop a personal plan for improvement in becoming a better Product Owner
- Lead agile teams to high-performance
- Facilitate collaborative decision making
- Lead product development efforts in scaled settings
- Balance competing stakeholder needs, such as new features vs. paying off technical debt
- Develop agile product roadmaps
- Design and implement experiments to validate product assumptions
- Develop a go-to-market strategy for your product
Learn together, grow together.
We recommend a group of Product Owners join this course together, so your community of practice can develop shared strategies to tip the balance to becoming a product-led organization.
The Online Experience FAQ
Answers to some of the commonly asked questions from our students
- We host our virtual training on Zoom. Please install the Zoom client on your computer.
- For online collaboration, we use Mural. Participants are provided with a free guest account for the course days. Please confirm that you can access the website from your network.
- We take breaks almost hourly, with a more extended lunch break
- Certification fees are included
- A color pdf of the workbook will be provided
- Invitation to private Slack group where past and current participants network
Course Instructor
Dhaval Panchal is an experienced Executive, Organization Design consultant, and Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Coach and Trainer (CEC, CTC, and CST), since 2008. He has been practicing agile since 2003 and helped build multiple agile organizations from the ground up. He is one of the first to bring Systems & Complexity thinking tools and techniques for transforming teams, and organizations.
Dhaval is the founder of Evolve Agility that provides Agile training and coaching services to enable his clients to amplify the scale and speed of Agile transformations. He has led large scale transformations at Fortune 500 companies, and mid-size Product Companies. Dhaval has first-hand experience with transformation challenges in Oil & Gas, Banking, Insurance, Gaming, and Medical domains. He is also member elected Scrum Alliance Board of Director for 2024-2026 term.
What Participants Say
"It was an amazing learning experience. His knowledge, experience in the Agile space is amazing. He was patient, encouraged a learning atmosphere and is a pleasure to work with. He also does Agile coaching for Fortune 500 companies and I will highly recommend him and his courses for both individuals and large organizations who are interested to use Agile to further their careers and projects." - Altaf Hajiyani
"I was so pleased with his teaching style, depth of subject matter expertise, and patience in getting across new and somewhat difficult concepts to students from a variety of backgrounds. He was able to cater to the large variety of experiences with Scrum in the class without making any student feel either behind or ahead of the rest of the group. His sense of humor and ability to think of anecdotes on the fly made the days much more enjoyable than expected." - Leah Farmer
"I highly recommend Dhaval as an excellent agile coach and teacher. As a participant in two of his certification courses, I quickly learned a tremendous amount and significantly boosted my career as a result of his flawless execution of each class. His flexible, highly interactive style combined with his deep applied knowledge of the agile space make him truly special – consider me a ‘raving fan,’ thank you Dhaval!" - Brett Barry
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