Product Owner Certifications

Accelerate your career with product owner skills. Guide development, collaborate with stakeholders, manage backlogs, and deliver value. This group of certifications provides a clear path to growing your expertise in this important agile role so you can stand out to employers.

Product Owner Track

FOUNDATIONAL
Certified Scrum Product Owner®

Prerequisite: None

ADVANCED
Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner®

Prerequisite: CSPO

PROFESSIONAL
Certified Scrum Professional® Product Owner

Prerequisite: A-CSPO

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Who should get product owner certifications?

The skills you'll learn on this certification path will support your passion for maximizing value and delighting customers in a wide variety of job roles.

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Product Owners

Already working as a product owner? Certification enhances your skills, ensuring impactful delivery while elevating your marketability.

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Project Managers

Prioritize requirements, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and deliver maximum value to stakeholders.

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Business Analysts

Integrate your efforts with agile teams, ensure smoother project flow, and improve decision-making.

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Product Managers

Better define, articulate, and champion the product vision and better understand the product's progress.

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Scrum Team Members

Get clear on scrum team accountabilities, backlog management, stakeholder relations, and value-driven delivery.

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Architects

Step into the role of a product owner as an enterprise, systems, or solutions architect and bridge the gap between business and development.

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Managers

Learn how to empower teams to deliver the right thing at the right time. Create solutions, products, and services your customers want and need.

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Executives

Deciding what to prioritize isn't always easy. Learn how to set up your teams to deliver value continuously.

Any professional working on or with agile teams will benefit from a product owner certification. Advance your career with agile skills, today.

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Are product owner certifications worth it?

Becoming a product owner shows enhanced skills in delivering value, managing backlogs, and balancing stakeholder needs. Product owners are in high demand across industries, and you'll set yourself apart with a certification. 

Gain relevant skills
Understand the scrum framework, principles, and values, and demonstrate in-demand skills to employers.
Advance your career
Increase your salary potential with widely recognized product owner certifications that show you have the agile skills to apply to any job role.
Grow your network
Join a community of nearly 1.5 million scrum and agile professionals across industries worldwide.
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What will I learn?

Product owners must understand their customers, the market, and the scrum team. The Scrum Alliance product owner track prepares you for every stage of your career.

The scrum framework and its underlying agile principles.
Aligning focus around a clear product vision and seeing the steps to make that vision a reality.
Prioritizing and deciding what the team will create next while pivoting when conditions require it.
Advanced product planning, goal setting, and forecasting.
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Certification process

How do I get a product owner certification?

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Find and complete a course

Every product owner class offers at least 14 hours of interactive instruction from a verified trainer.

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Leverage your membership

Accept your badge and benefit from a two-year membership with Scrum Alliance.

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Maintain certification

Keep learning by earning 20 Scrum Education Units required every two years to show your commitment to growth.

Product owner learning track

Unlock new possibilities in your career with certifications that build from the ground up.

FOUNDATIONAL
Certified Scrum Product Owner®

Prerequisite: None


Learn the framework, principles, and values that make scrum work.
Discover how to juggle multiple stakeholders' needs effectively.
Craft product visions and understand customer preferences.
ADVANCED
Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner®

Prerequisite: CSPO


Manage and prioritize competing stakeholder initiatives.
Order product backlog items and set a customer-focused vision.
Communicate for alignment, identify opportunities, and validate business value.
PROFESSIONAL
Certified Scrum Professional® Product Owner

Prerequisite: A-CSPO


Solidify your approaches for validating product assumptions.
Learn advanced interactions with customers and users.
Master advanced product backlog management.
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Why Scrum Alliance?

Certifications with substance
Employer demanded—Scrum Alliance certifications are listed on more job descriptions than any other scrum or agile certification.
Highest rated—we have more positive ratings than any other agile certification organization, with an average score of 4.9 on Trustpilot.
World leaders—our training is designed and delivered by world leaders in agile and scrum. When you train with us, you train with the best.

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Frequently asked questions

The cost of the Scrum Alliance product owner track certifications varies by instructor and other factors. You can compare fees and other details by viewing the available classes in the course search results.

The product owner in a scrum team maximizes the value of the product. They develop the product goal, create and order product backlog items, and work with stakeholders, customers, and the team to align efforts toward achieving the product goal.

Recent surveys suggest that product owners are highly sought after by employers. Whether you decide to pursue a dedicated PO role or add it to your existing skill set, a certification can be a great way to stand out from other job candidates.

The product owner certifications are granted once you complete an approved course led by an experienced and knowledgeable trainer.

While the CSPO and CSM are two different certification tracks, some people decide to pursue both to increase their knowledge from both the product and team angles. 

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