Additional Information:

• Course timings will vary based on the class dates - please check with trainer. [email protected]
• Unlimited breakfast, and beverages in your home environment provided by you. :-)
• To take the course you must hold a CSPO certification now.
• You must have at least 12 months of experience with Scrum before the course starts.

A-CSPO requirements:

Hold a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification with the Scrum Alliance.

Attend a certified A-CSPO educational offering to gain techniques that expand into managing stakeholders, product discovery, and advanced Product Backlog management.

Successfully complete all educator-designed components of an approved educational offering. This may include pre- or post-course work as deemed necessary by your approved educator to complete the learning objectives.


You will be asked to accept the A-CSPO License Agreement and complete your Scrum Alliance membership profile.

Validate at least 12 months of work experience specific to the role of Product Owner (within the past five years).

Course Material: Participants will receive a “workbook,” which is a .pdf copy of the slide deck. (We have many discussions and exercises outside the slide deck.) :

Details:

There is a 05 percent discount for any group of three or more.

We offer Early Bird pricing to encourage you to sign up early, but Early Bird pricing can end at ANY time. If you need us to hold Early Bird pricing for you for a few days (e.g., to get approval), please contact us and we can probably do that.

If you have any questions, please click “more information” or contact our office at 1.800.758.2445(AGILE)

In-House Courses: If you think you need an in-house course, please contact us — we do these frequently!

Other benefits:

• You may earn 16 PDUs toward PMI requirements
• 16 SEUs toward the CSP (Certified Scrum Professional) requirements

Agenda

1. Examining Product Owner Role

a. Importance of true product ownership

b. Mindset and characteristics of a great product owner

c. Improving your ability to effectively sell the role of the Product Owner in Scrum

d. Assessing and advancing your expertise as a Product Owner

2. Stakeholders Management

a. Stakeholders – definition, identification and classification

b. Stakeholders communication techniques over multiple sprints

c. Product Owner facilitation – when to and when not to facilitate with stakeholders

d. Managing large groups of stakeholders with competing interests

3. Exploring how to best engage with the broader organization

4. Refining the way Scrum events are run and facilitated at a team level and with multiple teams

5. Enhancing the PO’s relationship with the team

6. Several advanced prioritization methods to build pull systems using Kanban principles

7. Gaining and spreading empathy for customers and users

8. Understanding technical debt and dealing strategically with technical debt in evolving and legacy systems

9. Understanding and using agile engineering practices and DevOps appropriately

10. Understanding various scaling methods, acting as a PO, Chief PO, Product Manage scaled environments

11. Scaling while maintaining ownership and effective feedback loops

12. Advanced methods for release planning and facilitating big room planning sessions

13. Understanding and visualizing value streams

14. Lean - Addressing waste through process and application redesign

15. Exploring large scale case studies of business-driven agile transformations

16. Applying appropriate divergent brainstorming techniques

17. Advanced techniques for road mapping and release planning

18. Modeling user and customer archetypes and using them for design and prioritization

19. Getting the team engaged in usability testing

20. Testing assumptions using both qualitative and quantitative methods

21. Finding and tracking effective metrics

22. Refining the backlog more fluidly and easily

23. Q&A/Closing

Who should join:

• Individuals who have been in the Product Owner, Product Manager, Chief Product Owner, Overall Product Owner, Agile Coaches role for at least 12 months
• IT Leadership (Managers/Directors/VPs/CIOs/CTOs)
• Project Managers, Product Owners, Product Managers, Delivery Managers