Certified Scrum Product Owner®

Information about Scrum Alliance certification is available here.

PMI PDUs 
Participants earn 14 PDUs from the PMI, which can be applied to Project Management Professional (PMP) and PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) designations. 
Participants also earn 14 Scrum Education Units (SEUs) toward the Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) designation from the Scrum Alliance.

Training Topics:

• Lean & Agile Principles
• Scrum Values & Principles
• Scrum framework core elements: roles, activities, and artifacts
• Techniques for building a compelling product vision
• Building a visualizing a long-term product roadmap
• User Story Mapping: creating a shared understanding of customer needs
• Practical methods to understand your key customer segments
• Defining a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
• User Stories: eliciting and clearly defining stakeholder needs
• Splitting user stories: patterns to decompose large features
• Models and techniques for prioritizing product features
• Release planning for predictable delivery via Agile estimating and planning
• Effective ways to do Product Backlog refinement/grooming
• Sprint Planning and the Sprint backlog
• Communicating Portfolio & Product status – making it easily visible
• The Sprint Review (Demo): valuable feedback from stakeholders
• Retrospectives: achieving continuous process improvement
• Scaling Scrum to multiple teams

This CSPO course is intended for those already active in Scrum’s Product Owner role as well as Business Analysts and ScrumMasters/coaches within organisations that have adopted Scrum.

Pre-requisites for attendance are at least one of the following:

• Active engagement in a Scrum team in the Product Owner role
• Active engagement in a Scrum team as a Business Analyst (responsible for creating Agile requirements)
• Previous attendance at a CSM class and experience in the Scrum Master role.