Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner®

Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO)

You’ve learned the basics of Product Ownership and now you’re ready to take it to the next level and demonstrate your experience in customer-focused product visions, optimization of backlogs, management of multiple business initiatives from various stakeholders, and all aspects of being a product expert.

The Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner® (A-CSPO®) course provides a deep dive into agile product ownership in the real world and an industry-recognized certification that proves your dedication.

Take the next step and stand out from the crowd all while maintaining membership in an organization that supports your growth through resources, events, and education.

What You Will Learn

The course provides a deep dive into maximizing the value of the product. Core course concepts include:

• A deeper understanding of the Product Owner, Analyst, and Product Manager roles and concepts
• Managing complex needs and relationships of customers, users, and stakeholders
• Understanding and practicing techniques to discover user needs, maximize value, and manage the product backlog
• Understanding and practicing techniques to validate assumptions and capture feedback
• Managing products across multiple teams
• Getting hands-on with techniques and concepts such as Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Kano Analysis, Stakeholder Mapping, User Journey Mapping, DeBono Thinking Hats, and more…

Who Should Attend

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

What's In It For You

• Differentiate yourself in the global marketplace of product owners

• Open your career options by completing the prerequisite for Certified Scrum Professional® - Product Owner
• Earn an advanced certificate that may increase your salary potential, the average annual Product Owner salary is 105,411 according to ZipRecruiter.
• Claim 16  Scrum Alliance Scrum Education Units (SEUs).
• Claim 14 Project Management Institute (PMI) Professional Development Units (PDUs).

Certification

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

• Hold an active Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification with the Scrum Alliance.
• Validate at least 12 months of work experience specific to the role of Product Owner within the past five years.

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

About the Trainer

Richard Cheng is an Agile trainer with a deep background in Product Ownership. Richard creates fun immersive training courses that engage the students in a creative and effective way.

Richard is the former Lead of Agile at Excella and former Chief Product Owner at NextUp Solutions. A graduate of Virginia Tech, Richard has authored several publications on project management, given keynote talks around the world, is a member of Mensa, and holds certifications including Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified LeSS Practitioner, Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), and SAFe Program Consultant (SPC). Richard is a founder and on the executive committee of the Agile Delivery for Agencies, Programs, and Teams (ADAPT), an Agile government task force.

• Richard’s podcast interview on Product Ownership
• Richard’s webinar on Business Agility
• Richard’s webinar on the Perfect Product Owner
• Richard's podcast interview on managing Product Ownership and Leadership support