Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner®

Lead the Product Journey from bright ideas to happy customers, leveraging AI

Product Owners - Framing Profitable Products

Improving the value delivered through an organization isn’t just about following a framework. And just feeding teams solutions to deliver can lead to falling into a build trap, churning out features that are rarely or never used.

If you’re ready to harness the power of aligned autonomy to positively impact business outcomes, this course is for you. Together we’ll uncover the mindset for success as a Product Owner. You’ll learn how to visualize strategy and align towards goals. And you’ll grasp how it’s possible to lead effective multi-team product development to grow profitable products that customers want and love.

Ready to register?  Use this link to enroll.

Learn to Create a Fundamentally Profitable Product

By the end of the workshop, you’ll be prepared to:

• Frame and Validate your Product Hypothesis
• Establish and Communicate a sound Product Strategy
• Model and Measure Value
• Make data driven decisions based on analysis that drives impact
• Engage Stakeholders and Developers towards Product Goals

Such skills are hard to learn via lecture alone - so this workshop is hands-on and interactive. This is no Powerpoint snoozefest. Short presentations cover concepts. Immersive team-based exercises in each lesson get you hands-on practice with skills to create profitable products. You'll find the engaging and impactful sessions turn complex topics into easy to understand concepts and techniques.

Workshop Hours:

4h Sessions

• 16 Dec: 8a - Noon PT / 11a - 3p ET
• 17 Dec: 8a - Noon PT / 11a - 3p ET
• 18 Dec: 8a - Noon PT / 11a - 3p ET
• 19 Dec: 8a - Noon PT / 11a - 3p ET

All sessions include breaks of about 10 minutes each hour. Whole day sessions also include a mid-class break of about 45 minutes.

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The workshop includes all the material required by the Scrum Alliance for its Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner certification. You’ll get:

• certification fees included
• a digital workbook and scrapbook of all class exercises
• access to a private community of your peers for perspective when challenges arise
• complimentary 1:1 personal coaching with your instructor
• stories, tips, tricks and practices to scale your organization so it can thrive in change, profitably.

Get a taste of the engaging instruction style you'll experience with this short tip to help delivery effectiveness:

By the conclusion of this dynamic workshop - you will be ready to not only guide an Agile team and manage a product backlog, you will expand your effectiveness when working with stakeholders and practice how to uncover paths to increase value delivery. You'll have techniques to visualize and communicate strategies as well as validate assumptions, and tools to align Product Backlogs to support Product Goals. You'll be ready to be a catalyst for change, applying these concepts so your teams and programs become resilient, learning organizations able to thrive in today’s emerging markets.

Here's what students say about these online workshops:

"Bernie made this class fun and entertaining. The class flew by everyday. In my situation, I came from an HR background and ZERO scrum experience. Bernie was excellent about relating the class to me in ways that I would better understand what he was teaching." -- Cara Consadine

"This class is worth EVERY PENNY! Bernie is a great instructor that keeps the class entertaining but also provides useful application for real world scenarios." -- Jascelyn Gause

"Multi hour sessions are undeniably daunting, but within the first 15 minutes I was interacting, laughing, and learning. ... I can feel myself using some of the techniques of your flavorful delivery with my team already - and it's making a difference." -- Craig Cochran

"If you're taking this course, "you're in the right place"... Thank you for providing a safe environment to learn new skills. It's crazy how a good teacher can help you learn new things without making it feel like a chore. Take this course, you won't be disappointed." -- Christina Monti

Use this link for even more student evaluations.

Get your A-CSPO and More!

This workshop includes:

• Scrum Alliance A-CSPO certification fee

• Two-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, the largest, most established and influential professional membership and certification organization in the Agile community

• 16 PMI PDUs for PMPs

• 16 of the 21 contact hours needed for a PMI-ACP credential

Who Should Attend

Have you struggled to deliver products and features that have impact? Do you want to help avoid multi-million dollar missteps? According to Pendo, a product experience platform, around 80% of product features are rarely or never used. Instead, wouldn't you rather build things your customers love, Accelerating Genius℠ that's been dormant in your teams and organization?

Then this course is for you.

This workshop is designed for leaders, managers and practitioners with a grasp of single team Agile. While you can take this course at any time, you'll need to hold a CSPO® and have 1 year of relevant experience for approval for the A-CSPO credential.

We’ll cover topics including advanced product planning and forecasting, customer and product discovery, hypothesis validation as well as multi-team Agile and product backlog management. Participants will build skills to grow learning organizations that handle complexity and can thrive in change.

As participants come from diverse industries, they often learn from each other’s experiences, contexts and perspectives. Typical participant roles span:

• Executives, Directors and Senior Management
• Chief Product Owner, Product Managers, Product Owners
• Architects, along with Functional and Technical Managers
• Program or Project Managers and Release Train Engineers
• Practice leads, Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters

If you’re ready to realize it's potential to deliver Twice the Value with Half the Stress, you’re in the right place.

Ready to register?  Use this link to enroll.

Meet Your Instructors

Bernie Maloney

Bernie's career started with a flash and a bang. Literally. His first position was designing devices that protect telephone networks from lightning strikes. A few career pivots later, he had a flash of insight: it was possible to tap into latent potential in every person, every team, and every organization. 

The teams he’s worked with have grown businesses to beyond $100 million, delivering products from consumer electronics to network infrastructure to services & payments at firms including TiVo, Cisco, Wells Fargo and more. He consults and teaches workshops including Agile Product Development and Agile Leadership at Stanford Continuing Studies.

As an Agile Leadership Coach, Bernie helps clients achieve performance breakthroughs with their teams, their organizations and themselves. More, he believes that Accelerating Genius℠ is possible in every person and business, and leads both to outrageous effectiveness, and a whole lot more fun.

Anil Jaising

Anil's been tinkering with code, infrastructure and product development from the beginning of his career with expertise in both financial services and startups.

In the early 1990s he worked to develop a product that distributed messages worldwide within 3 seconds. He's led cloud transformation programs across 250 application teams for one of the world's largest banks. With his deep experience in Agile, DevOps and leadership, he's helped to guide multiple organizations to achievements in market focus, productivity and quality gains.

Anil has a deep interest in instructional design. In addition to his CST® credential, he's also a certified Training from the BACK of the Room trainer. He teaches in the graduate program at New York University and is well regarded as an Agile, Executive and Technical Coach.

The Fine Print

FAQ

• How soon can I get my A-CSPO certification?  This certification requires at least 1 year of demonstrated experience as a Product Owner. Before the workshop, please update your Scrum Alliance profile with such experience. At the end of the workshop, your Instructor will review that experience. When it's aligned with the experience requirement and you've completed all course assignments, we'll let the Scrum Alliance know of your successful completion of the course. You'll receive an email from them to accept your license agreement with Scrum Alliance and activate your new certification.

• Wait!  Don't I Need to Take an Exam to be Certified?   No. The only requirement to earn the A-CSPO is the successful completion of the full course, including exercises and 1 year of validated experience as a Product Owner.

• Can I Miss Several Hours of the Workshop and Still be Certified?  No. Because Scrum Alliance requires 14 hours of instruction, if you miss more than 15 minutes of the workshop, you will not be eligible for certification, and you will be welcome to attend the rest of the workshop.  Don't worry - if something big comes up, we'll move you to a future workshop at no cost.

• Can I Make Up Missed Material by Attending Part of Another Workshop? No. Amongst other factors, each class moves through the material at different paces. This means it's unreliable to predict a clear window where a set of previously missed LOs will be covered. There are further complicating factors in partial attendance. For the smoothest experience for all, you're welcome to make up missed material by attending a future workshop in full at no charge.

• What do I need to bring to class?  You'll need a computer with microphone, camera & speakers.  Use https://fast.com to test your internet connection.  After the download numbers stop, use the "more" option to calculate your upload speed.  You'll need 5 down / 1 up - and more is better.  Now, while in class, you'll be actively using your computer to participate in exercises, so plan to peek at your email only during a break or at lunchtime.

Cancellation Policy

We understand that things can change, and we strive to be as agile as possible with respect to registrations.  Please email us no later than 5 business days before the start of the workshop and we'll arrange a refund or transfer to a future date.  Cancellations received within 5 full business days of the start of the course will receive a credit (no cash value) towards a future workshop.  Please request changes by emailing [email protected].

Questions?

Drop us an email at: [email protected]