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Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner®

Taught by: Doug Shimp
Get the confidence to apply scrum and agile at an advanced level, building on your experience to tackle even more complex challenges while driving excellent customer value. All A-CSPO® courses are led by Scrum Alliance-certified trainers ready to share their insights with you. When you've completed the course requirements and earned the A-CSPO, you'll also renew your membership and CSPO® certification.
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 Dec 26, 2025 |
 12:00 PM UTC |
 16 hrs
$750
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Max number of students: 20
 

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3BACK'S ADVANCED CERTIFIED Scrum Product Owner TRAINING

HERE'S WHAT WE DO!
The A-CSPO is a very intense course, and our goal is to maximize our student outcomes in the 16 hours we have together.​

12 of those 16 hours are guided learning, where you will be working, reading, completing exercises, discussions, and so on. We guide you through 13 learning modules with great materials, discussions, and exercises. All of the Learning Objectives will be verified in 12 Contact hours while you are working through assignments that are reviewed. We facilitate this for you by review, by verifying you've completed each module before moving to the next one, and by having our admin available to you for questions.

4 of these 16 hours are Office Hours, where the Trainer does Coaching, Mentoring and Q&A based on the Students' questions and supports the LOs. In practice, the vast majority of this time is spent talking about work problems or misperceptions about agile and scrum.

We believe, and our reviews validate, that this structure provides a near-optimal learning experience for our Students.

LEARN AT YOUR OWN PACE!
This on-demand, online course can be completed in as little as 2 weeks or you have up to 3 months - you decide your pace! Enjoy the freedom of getting certified when it’s convenient for you (see our policy page for details).

LEARN BY DOING!
Engaging Scrum training from a leading industry expert with years of practical experience.

TRAIN WITH THE BEST!
Dan and Doug have developed this On-Demand A-CSPO course just for you. They have been training and coaching product development teams for 20 years. They have written numerous books on Scrum; you can review their published works on Amazon. They have been doing this since the Scrum Alliance was first incepted. Combined they have trained over 20,000 students in the concepts of agility and Scrum. Review bios for Dan and Doug.

GET CERTIFIED!
Earn your credentials from 3Back, a recognized Education Provider of the Scrum Alliance – the first and most widely recognized international Scrum certification organization.​

STAY SHARP!
Competitive job market? No problem! Learn increasingly popular skills that employers are looking for to increase your marketability and stand out from the crowd.

GET FREE STUFF!
Digital materials, 16 PDUs, 2 Year membership to Scrum Alliance, and much more!

MORE ABOUT THE COURSE
As a Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®), you’ve been introduced to Scrum values, practices, and applications. You now understand how to facilitate a Scrum team's development, teamwork and improvement processes through the use of Scrum. 

The next step in your journey is to obtain an Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner® (A-CSPO®) credential from Scrum Alliance®. To obtain your A-CSPO you need to take an A-CSPO class, have at least one year of experience as a Scrum Product Owner within the past five years, and hold a Scrum Alliance issued CSPO certification (for details see here).

3Back's Exclusive Companion Book

Product Ownership is largely about making hard decisions as you lead your Team forward. The Product Ownership II book and companion course is designed to help you prepare for the challenges you will encounter as a Scrum Team Leader. For anyone who is new to the world of Scrum -- its foundations, its principles, its nuances -- there’s a lot to digest. You will discover that Scrum is lightweight, useful, and difficult to master. Once mastered, Scrum becomes an intuitive extension of how you approach work.

To help you master Scrum, our books are broken down into two groups. The Scrum Handbooks which describe the models of Single-Team Scrum and Multi-Team Scrum - what it is. And the Scrum Guidebooks, which describes guidance for implementation - how to apply. Both book groups will help you frame Scrum Effectively so that you can maximize your chances of success - especially in complex, ever-changing environments.

The Scrum Leadership Series is a core set of books and companion courses that, when combined with years of domain-driven experience, allow a person to be designated as a Recognized Scrum Leader.

3Back's A-CSPO training

WHAT'S INCLUDED

A-CSPO CERTIFICATION
By taking and completing the class, you will receive your Scrum Alliance A-CSPO Certification.

SCRUM ALLIANCE MEMBERSHIP
Two (2) year membership to the Scrum Alliance ($50 value).

PMP’S
16 PDUs from PMI® upon completion of this course.

ACCREDITED TRAINING FROM THE EXPERTS
3Back trainers don’t just teach Scrum; they have a combined 46 years of working on and with Scrum teams. They are authors of the Exploring Scrum: The Fundamentals, the Scrum Study Guide and the agile tool Get To Done®, as well as world-renowned conference speakers.

A FUN AND MEMORABLE LEARNING EXPERIENCE
3Back’s A-CSPO course is not your usual online training. Our trainers use cutting edge adult learning practices, which not only make the class enjoyable, but are proven to increase retention and understanding.

ADDITIONAL

SCRUM RESOURCES

GET TO DONE® is both online software and cards on walls. We have worked hard to bring this unique tool to you so that you have full support for writing and managing complex backlogs. Stop regressing! Getting Scrum implemented right is hard, your software tool needs to support the right behaviors or groups often regress. As a 3Back public course participant, we encourage you to use the Get to Done® planning and implementation tool. This powerful tool will help to enable your team to excel with increased team visibility and accountability.

SCRUM DICTIONARY exists for one simple reason. Words matter. In the world of Agile frameworks, words matter even more. Scrum Dictionary removes the lexicon noise and delivers a clear, concise definition of Agile terms, complete with examples and related terminology, in a format that’s as user-friendly as they come.

SCRUM HANDBOOKS The Scrum Handbooks are a description of Scrum (both single-team and multi-team) that both unifies and extends older descriptions of Scrum, and is easier to relate to real world scenarios. It is the cleanest, most flexible and most agile version of Scrum there is…

ONSITE COURSES Interested in having a Certified Scrum course or other Credentialed course delivered to you and your team members? We can help! Take the next step in Scrum; request an Onsite Course.

VIEW OUR RESCHEDULING AND CANCELLATION POLICIES

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AGENDA

This course is built upon shared experience and exercises that provide concrete practice to build deeper understanding of and skill with the topics covered.

CHAPTER 1: SCRUM REFRESHER

  • Elevator Pitch
  • Roles
  • Events
  • Scrum’s ‘Guardrails’
  • Summary
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 2: HISTORY, VALUES, AND PRINCIPLES

  • The Three Scrum Pillars
  • Artifacts
  • Scrum Values
  • Lean Values and Principles
  • History of Software Agility pre-Manifesto
  • Manifesto for Agile Software Development
  • Twelve Principles of Agile Software Development
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 3: PRODUCT OWNERSHIP

  • Types of Product Owners
  • Some Specific Responsibilities of the Different Product Owners
  • Product Ownership Relationships and Alignment
  • Summary
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 4: LEADERSHIP

  • Teams and Team Captains
  • The Perfect Team Captain
  • Decision-Making Styles
  • Use Different Styles for Different Decisions
  • Use Emergent Leadership
  • Use Emergent Developing a Perfect Team Captain through Decision-Making
  • Summary
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 5: WORKING WITH STAKEHOLDERS

  • Facilitating Open Discussions
  • Making Decisions
  • More Formal Techniques
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 6: BEING AN EFFECTIVE TEAM CAPTAIN

  • There are Different Kinds of Team Captains
  • Producing Value
  • Working with the DevTeam
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 7: TECHNICAL DEBT AND THE DEFINITION OF “DONE"

  • Technical Debt and why You Should Care
  • Creating a definition of “Done” for Software
  • A Definition of “Done” for a non-Software Product
  • Storyotyping
  • Preventing Technical Debt
  • Removing Technical Debt
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 8: RIGHT-SIZING STORIES

  • Refinement, “Ready”, and “Done”
  • Example Mapping
  • Strategies for Splitting Stories
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 9: MAKING HARD DECISIONS

  • Decision-Space
  • Justifying Decisions: Facts, Assumptions and Hypotheses
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 10: FROM IDEA TO STRATEGY TO PRODUCT

  • Ideation: The ‘Product Strategy’ Method
  • Ideation: The ‘Story Mapping’ Method
  • Product Roadmaps and Product Goals
  • The Development Process
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 11: SCALING

  • An Example of Growing an Organization
  • Scaling Scrum
  • Scaling is a Form of Organizational Change
  • Scaling Methods/Frameworks
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 12: VELOCITY, SIZE, AND EFFORT

  • Velocity
  • Not Everything Provides Velocity
  • Estimation
  • Summary
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 13: INTROSPECTION AND REFLECTION

  • Exercises

Most importantly, by receiving the A-CSPO certification, you will improve your implementation of Scrum in the workplace and keep your team on the right track.

 


PREREQUISITES FOR THE COURSE

12 months of professional experience as a Scrum Product Owner during the last five years and a Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®) certification is required for this course.

3Back's A-CSPO Training

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This course is for those with agile experience, and specifically for those that have their Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO), from the Scrum Alliance.

If you don't have any agile experience or training, you should look for a Certified Scrum Product Owner training course here.

TESTIMONIALS

OUR STUDENTS SAY IT BEST

It was a wonderful experience and kept us engaged throughout. It was perfect.

 

K. CHANDWANI

I enjoyed the class and the interaction from the trainer with the class. One of the few trainings I really looked forward to coming back to the next day

 

D. BROWN

I have had many various training courses but this one was far the best I've received thus far. The course had the right amount of practicality to keep the whole class engaged.

 

H. HARQUETT

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