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Unlock Your Team’s Creativity With An A-CSPO Certification

Let’s face it — if you’re going to succeed as a Product Owner, you can’t be the only one bringing good ideas to the team.

But where does a Product Owner find new ways to inspire the team to engage and contribute? How do you convince your team to share their best ideas so that you can help customers and end users solve their most pressing problems with software? To relieve your burden and create a win for your customers and end users, you need to advance yourself to the next level and complete an Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) course with The Scrum Academy.

Product Owners Need More Than Scrum Basics

We both know that you’re not done growing yet. There’s more to learn and new frameworks to master as you mature as a Product Owner. But where are you supposed to find this information? With only thirteen pages, you won’t find your answers in the Scrum Guide.

When You Know More About Product Management, You Do Better Scrum

If you want to build disruptive digital solutions, improve quality and inspire your team you need more than a foundational Scrum certification. To advance your career as an Product Owner, you need to know the following topics:

1. Writing better user stories;
2. Effective Product Backlog management;
3. Hypothesis testing and product discovery;
4. Creating realistic and accurate product roadmaps;
5. Developing product vision, Product Goals and Sprint Goals;
6. Improving your stakeholder management skills, in-person and online;
7. More about other Agile methods, like Kanban and Extreme Programming;
8. Fostering your personal growth and development;
9. Facilitation and effective meeting design;
10. Importance of technical practices.

Our A-CSPO course is divided into four half-day sessions and costs €995. By the end of these four days, you will have learned the next set of skills that brings you one step closer to becoming an expert Product Owner. Armed with the knowledge this certification brings, you will have the backing to establish yourself as a serious professional with the relevant experience, must-have skills and practical know-how to build innovative software products while working with Scrum and Agile teams.

Carlton Nettleton - An Instructor Committed to Your Success

Your instructor will be Carlton Nettleton, the President of The Scrum Academy, Certified Scrum Trainer and former SVP of Product. He has spent nearly twenty-five years working with Scrum and Agile teams and has launched multiple successful products. Based on this expertise, the Scrum Alliance recruited Carlton to help develop and create the A-CSPO certification with the goal to improve the quality of Product Owners who work in less than ideal conditions.

That’s right, the content of your A-CSM certification is the result of Carlton’s insights into what makes a successful Product Owner!

Since then, Carlton has mentored over 1,000 Scrum Masters and Product Owners. As a result of achieving advanced Scrum certifications, they have improved their performance, expanded their impact at work and reconnected with their passion to serve. When working with Carlton, expect to receive sensible and proven advice, techniques and frameworks that will enable you to. . .

Gain New Skills

• Guide a product from ideation through product development to launch.
• Manage stakeholder conflicts through expert facilitation and negotiation.
• Leverage various product management frameworks to solve customer and end user problems.

Resolve Impediments

• Sort out unrealistic expectations with respect, tact and diplomacy.
• Create healthy relationships among stakeholders, executives, customers, end users and product development teams.
• Prevent distractions and other interruptions to the focus of the team.

Grow & Improve

• Boost your confidence so that you can increase your impact as a Product Owner.
• Differentiate yourself from the CSPO masses so that you can find better job opportunities.
• Establish your reputation as a professional product manager.

No Certification Exam Required

Like the CSPO, the A-CSPO has no certification exam. To receive your certification, you will need to complete the following actions:

• Attend all four sessions,
• Participate in all the activities and exercises,
• Accept the license agreement from the Scrum Alliance.

To be eligible to receive your A-CSPO certification, you must meet Scrum Alliance’s prerequisites: a CSPO certification from the Scrum Alliance and at least twelve months of work experience as a Product Owner in the last five years.

Eight Additional Benefits Included with Your Enrollment

1. Scrum Alliance license fee for your two-year membership with the Scrum Alliance is included in the course price.
2. Digital copy of your course workbook and any other course materials.
3. Free copy of Carlton’s book, Fourteen Observations of Good Scrum Practice, an excellent reference for your post-course journey.
4. Comprehensive recommended reading list of books to supercharge your continuing education after your course.
5. Lifetime of professional support and guidance, just call or send an email if you need some additional help.
6. Hassle-free cancellation and flexible rescheduling, if needed.
7. Sixteen PDU (for PMP or PMI-ACP).
8. Sixteen SEU (for Scrum Alliance).