As a new Product Owner without any prior formal Agile Scrum training, I attended the CSPO course taught by Bernie Maloney. This interactive course provided me with an abundance of foundational and relevant knowledge, skills, and best practices that I will be able to immediately apply on the job. Bernie was an endless fountain of knowledge and conducted the course in a very engaging and dynamic manner, balancing deep conceptual principles with highly interactive and fun group activities. He employed modern virtual training tools and techniques that allowed the class to maintain focus and keep pace with his lessons. This class far exceeded my expectations, and I would enthusiastically recommend this course with Bernie Maloney to anyone seeking to sharpen their skills as a PO. I can't wait to take another class with Bernie!
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Bernie's CSPO training was excellent. He's a very engaging trainer. He brings humor, knowledge, and very organized process to teach you how to be a Certified Scrum Product Owner. I am already convinced I will be signing up for the Advanced CSPO training with Bernie next! A+ experience.
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Having been working in IT for many decades, this was probably the best example of this type of instruction that I have ever attended. Bernie seems to understand how adult learns and uses that knowledge to present the information in a way that is much easier to comprehend that you might find in written form. The class was interactive, but not so much so that the focus of the material was lost. Bernie also took the time for questions, both clarifying and related, helping individuals in the class (like me) to feel comfident moving forward. The only thing that would have made this class better would have been to have it in person. For me, in this decade and in my company, that would not have been possible.
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Bernie is an outstanding instructor. The course layout and flow clearly reflect his ability to effectively navigate the material while keeping students engaged. He consistently incorporated student participation, which made the sessions interactive and significantly enhanced understanding. His real-world insights and ability to simplify complex Scrum concepts created a positive learning environment and made the content easy to apply. Overall, this was a highly valuable and engaging course that strengthened both my knowledge and confidence in using Scrum.
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Bernie was engaging, thorough and did a great job teaching the material while giving real life examples to keep it relevant.
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Bernie was a great instructor for this class. He was knowledgeable, shared his experiences and knowledge, and kept class engaging. He came recommended by a colleague, and I will refer him to others looking for a valuable course for CSPO.
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Great framework/tool and looking forward to applying it!
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The CSPO course with Bernie Maloney was a great experience from start to finish. The content was clear, practical, and directly applicable to real world product work not just theory. Bernie does an excellent job breaking down Scrum concepts in a way that makes them easy to understand and immediately usable.
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Bernie’s course was a great experience. He was extremely professional, knowledgeable, and gracious. I wouldn’t hesitate to take another course taught by Bernie in the future. Well worth it!
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Certified Scrum Product Owner®
Taught by: Bernie Maloney
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Product Owners - Delivering Business Outcomes
Delivering value isn't just about following a set of requirements or a process. It's about engaging customers, discovering their needs and sequencing work to optimize outcomes rather than just outputs. Product Owners are central to maximizing the flow of value produced by the product delivery teams. Not just in person, but even when the whole team is online and virtual.
If you're ready to learn how to deliver value with Scrum in a fun and engaging way via pragmatic techniques you can apply immediately, this course is for you. From deep study of brain science and adult learning, we've learned what it takes to be effective in a virtual environment and avoid "Zoom fatigue."
facilitating & negotiating internal and external stakeholder needs
translating needs into actionable requirements in the product backlog
supporting product and project development teams throughout their planning, development and release activities
ensuring teams and stakeholders exercise frequent feedback cycles to guide future plans
managing expectations and projections from vision all the way through product release
Such skills are hard to learn via lecture alone - so this workshop is hands-on and interactive. This is no Powerpoint snoozefest. Short presentations cover concepts. Immersive team-based exercises are interwoven into each lesson to get you hands-on practice. You'll find the engaging and impactful sessions turn complex topics into easy to understand concepts and techniques, leaving participants eager for more.
BONUS TOPICS (time permitting) span:
AI Literacy for Product Managers
Conflict Mitigation
Value Estimation
Budgeting
Influencing Stakeholders and Groups
...and more!
Something else to know: about 20% of workshops from other trainers have more than 40 people enrolled. That's not our style.Our public class enrollments are generally below half that size. This helps you get rich feedback and interaction from other participants and your trainer.
Workshop Hours:
4h Sessions
20 Jul: 8a - Noon PT / 11a - 3p ET
21 Jul: 8a - Noon PT / 11a - 3p ET
22 Jul: 8a - Noon PT / 11a - 3p ET
23 Jul: 8a - Noon PT / 11a - 3p ET
All sessions include breaks of about 10 minutes each hour. Whole day sessions also include a mid-class break of about 45 minutes.
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The workshop includes all the material required by the Scrum Alliance for its Certified Scrum Product Owner CSPO® certification, along with stories, tips, tricks and practices to make your product backlog sing and your user stories tap dance their way to "done." It lays the foundation for Business Agility using the Scrum framework.
Get a taste of the engaging instruction style you'll experience with this short tip to help delivery effectiveness:
By the conclusion of this dynamic workshop - you will be prepared with the skills, knowledge, and experience to not only explain Scrum to colleagues, clients or interviewers, but also to put Scrum into action with your team. Become a catalyst for change by helping your teams and programs apply these concepts to become resilient, learning organizations able to thrive in today’s emerging markets.
Here's what students say about these online workshops:
"Bernie made this class fun and entertaining. The class flew by everyday. In my situation, I came from an HR background and ZERO scrum experience. Bernie was excellent about relating the class to me in ways that I would better understand what he was teaching." -- Cara Consadine
"This class is worth EVERY PENNY! Bernie is a great instructor that keeps the class entertaining but also provides useful application for real world scenarios." -- Jascelyn Gause
"Multi hour sessions are undeniably daunting, but within the first 15 minutes I was interacting, laughing, and learning. ... I can feel myself using some of the techniques of your flavorful delivery with my team already - and it's making a difference." -- Craig Cochran
"If you're taking this course, "you're in the right place"... Thank you for providing a safe environment to learn new skills. It's crazy how a good teacher can help you learn new things without making it feel like a chore. Take this course, you won't be disappointed." -- Christina Monti
Two-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, the largest, most established and influential professional membership and certification organization in the Agile community
14 PMI PDUs for PMPs
14 of the 21 contact hours needed for a PMI-ACP credential
Who Should Attend
This course is appropriate for Product Owners, Product Managers, Managers, Business Analysts and others involved in facilitating the journey of a great customer-centric idea to the realization of a solution ready for delivery. It's equally valuable for Scrum Masters, Scrum Team Members and not-so-innocent organizational bystanders wanting to collaborate with the "product folks" on agile approaches to product planning, requirements management, and release planning. This course is appropriate for folks new to the world of Agile/Scrum, as well as people whose organizations have been practicing some form of Agile for a while and need a "reset."
Meet Bernie, Your Instructor:
Bernie's career started with a flash and a bang. Literally. His first position was designing devices that protect telephone networks from lightning strikes. A few career pivots later, he had a flash of insight: it was possible to tap into latent potential in every person, every team, and every organization.
The teams he’s worked with have grown businesses to beyond $100 million, delivering products from consumer electronics to network infrastructure to services & payments at firms including TiVo, Cisco, Wells Fargo and more. He consults and teaches workshops including Agile Product Development and Agile Leadership at Stanford Continuing Studies.
As an Agile Leadership Coach, Bernie helps clients achieve performance breakthroughs with their teams, their organizations and themselves. More, he believes that Accelerating Genius℠ is possible in every person and business, and leads both to outrageous effectiveness, and a whole lot more fun.
The Fine Print
FAQ
How soon can I get my CSPO® certification? On completing your participation in the full workshop, we will let the Scrum Alliance know of your successful completion of the course. You'll receive an email from them to setup your profile on the Scrum Alliance website and then you'll be a bonafide, official CSPO®!
Wait! Don't I Need to Take an Exam to be Certified as a CSPO®? No. Currently the only requirement to become a CSPO® is the successful completion of the course. The Scrum Alliance is hard at work to develop an online exam for the CSPO®. So if you love taking tests, wait a bit to enroll in a CSPO® workshop. Otherwise - get it now with us!
Can I Miss Several Hours of the Workshop and Still be Certified? No. Because Scrum Alliance requires 16 hours of instruction, if you miss more than 15 minutes of the workshop, you will not be eligible for certification, and you will be welcome to attend the rest of the workshop. Don't worry - if something big comes up, we'll move you to a future workshop at no cost.
Can I Make Up Missed Material by Attending Part of Another Workshop? No. Amongst other factors, each class moves through the material at different paces. This means it's unreliable to predict a clear window where a set of previously missed LOs will be covered. There are further complicating factors in partial attendance. For the smoothest experience for all, you're welcome to make up missed material by attending a future workshop in full at no charge.
What do I need to bring to class? You'll need a computer with microphone, camera & speakers. Use https://fast.com to test your internet connection. After the download numbers stop, use the "more" option to calculate your upload speed. You'll need 5 down / 1 up - and more is better. Now, while in class, you'll be actively using your computer to participate in exercises, so plan to peek at your email only during a break or at lunchtime.
Cancellation Policy
We understand that things can change, and we strive to be as agile as possible with respect to registrations. Please email us no later than 5 business days before the start of the workshop and we'll arrange a refund or transfer to a future date. Cancellations received within 5 full business days of the start of the course will receive a credit (no cash value) towards a future workshop. Please request changes by emailing [email protected].
Topics covered in the Certified Scrum Product Owner® include:
Agile Foundations
The Scrum Framework
The Product Owner and Other Roles
Setting Product Vision and Product Backlog
Discovering Customer Needs and Validating Assumptions
Managing Stakeholders
Product Backlogs
Refining User Stories
Incremental Product Planning
Product Owner Tips
Anyone interested in the business or product aspects of the Scrum framework will benefit from this workshop, including
Product Managers
Business Analysts
Project Stakeholders and Sponsors
Business Leadership (Managers, Directors, Vice Presidents and C-suite execs)
Architects
Development team members
What about Scrum Masters? We find that many successful Scrum Masters and Product Owners form close working relationships and often benefit from participating in both the Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Scrum Product Owner courses.
Something to know: about 20% of all public CSMs & CSPOs have more than 40 people enrolled. That's not our style.
Our CSM and CSPO workshops are designed to be interactive in nature. There are breakout exercises roughly each hour for students to practice and apply concepts in “table teams” of a few people rather than in a plenary (whole class) session. Our public class enrollments are generally below the average course size of 20. This helps you get rich feedback and interaction from other participants and your trainer.
Our aim is that you have an engaging and practical experience - not just learn concepts and pass a test. Our intent is that the workshop leaves you feeling eager, excited and confident about putting what you've learned into practice.
Reviews
4.96out of 5.0 stars
(299 ratings)
As a new Product Owner without any prior formal Agile Scrum training, I attended the CSPO course taught by Bernie Maloney. This interactive course provided me with an abundance of foundational and relevant knowledge, skills, and best practices that I will be able to immediately apply on the job. Bernie was an endless fountain of knowledge and conducted the course in a very engaging and dynamic manner, balancing deep conceptual principles with highly interactive and fun group activities. He employed modern virtual training tools and techniques that allowed the class to maintain focus and keep pace with his lessons. This class far exceeded my expectations, and I would enthusiastically recommend this course with Bernie Maloney to anyone seeking to sharpen their skills as a PO. I can't wait to take another class with Bernie!
Bernie's CSPO training was excellent. He's a very engaging trainer. He brings humor, knowledge, and very organized process to teach you how to be a Certified Scrum Product Owner. I am already convinced I will be signing up for the Advanced CSPO training with Bernie next! A+ experience.
Having been working in IT for many decades, this was probably the best example of this type of instruction that I have ever attended. Bernie seems to understand how adult learns and uses that knowledge to present the information in a way that is much easier to comprehend that you might find in written form. The class was interactive, but not so much so that the focus of the material was lost. Bernie also took the time for questions, both clarifying and related, helping individuals in the class (like me) to feel comfident moving forward. The only thing that would have made this class better would have been to have it in person. For me, in this decade and in my company, that would not have been possible.
Bernie is an outstanding instructor. The course layout and flow clearly reflect his ability to effectively navigate the material while keeping students engaged. He consistently incorporated student participation, which made the sessions interactive and significantly enhanced understanding. His real-world insights and ability to simplify complex Scrum concepts created a positive learning environment and made the content easy to apply. Overall, this was a highly valuable and engaging course that strengthened both my knowledge and confidence in using Scrum.
Bernie was engaging, thorough and did a great job teaching the material while giving real life examples to keep it relevant.
Bernie was a great instructor for this class. He was knowledgeable, shared his experiences and knowledge, and kept class engaging. He came recommended by a colleague, and I will refer him to others looking for a valuable course for CSPO.
Great framework/tool and looking forward to applying it!
The CSPO course with Bernie Maloney was a great experience from start to finish. The content was clear, practical, and directly applicable to real world product work not just theory. Bernie does an excellent job breaking down Scrum concepts in a way that makes them easy to understand and immediately usable.
Bernie’s course was a great experience. He was extremely professional, knowledgeable, and gracious. I wouldn’t hesitate to take another course taught by Bernie in the future. Well worth it!
Bernie
(299 ratings)
Mon Apr 27 - 30, 2026
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