Certified Scrum Professional® - Product Owner

Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner (CSP-PO®)

You’ve learned the basics of Scrum and have a solid understanding of the Product Owner role and how to effectively manage a product. This course goes well past the basics and arms you with effective concepts and tools to take your product and your career to the next level.

In this course, we will work through your experiences as a product owner along with the context of your specific organization and products as you learn how to take expert-level product ownership concepts into your environments. This course teaches you concepts in a way that you can immediately understand and apply to your specific situations.

This immersive and interactive learning experience features simulations, role play, small group and class discussions, and multimedia presentations. Taught by Richard Cheng, a renowned expert in the product field, you will have fun while you learn and grow your mastery of product ownership.

Class Format

The class is a live instructor-led 2-day virtual training experience. As part of the optional coursework, the students will have the option to perform 3 out of class activities based on their current product (or a product they have worked with in the past). These are:

1. Filling out a product canvas or product board for their product
2. Performing competitive analysis
3. Running an experiment to test an assumption

Once these activities are complete, the student will schedule a touch point with the instructor to review the results of these activities. The time commitment of these activities is estimated to be 3 to 8 hours of effort. Note these out-of-class activities are optional, you do not need to complete these for your certification.

What’s In It For You

• Differentiate yourself in the global marketplace of product owners
• Attract more recruiters and command a higher rate of pay, the average annual Product Owner salary is 105,411 according to ZipRecruiter
• Claim 24 Scrum Alliance Scrum Education Units (SEUs) and  Project Management Institute (PMI) Professional Development Units (PDUs)
• Attend exclusive CSP events with other leaders in Agile and Scrum
• Establish a gateway and milestone toward becoming CST^®, CEC, or CTC
• Receive a free Premium subscription to the world's largest Agile assessment and continuous improvement platform, Comparative Agility^®

Certification

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

• Hold an Advanced Certified Product Owner^SM (A-CSPO^SM) certification with Scrum Alliance.
• Validate at least 24 months of work experience specific to the role of Product Owner (from within the past five years). You can take the course without the 24 months of experience, but you must have the 24 months experience to claim the certification.

Students can still attend our CSP-PO course even without these requirements and later complete the A-CSPO, and/or work experience to claim their certification. As a bonus, this class will automatically renew you’re A-CSPO, 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 managing Product Ownership and Leadership support