Your A-CSPO workshop includes a 4-hour live online session. In that session you’ll participate in our multi-sprint release planning simulation. You’ll create strategic release plans for your team, maximizing value with a variety of constraints: fixed date, fixed scope, and product goal delivery. Then you will get to see how your plan holds up to some real-world team performance data.

Your live online session will also cover communication skills and facilitation techniques that will improve your ability to communicate with stakeholders and your scrum team.

The rest of the A-CSPO learning objectives are covered in our self-paced online learning environment. After completing this workshop you will be able to:

• Demonstrate at least three techniques to interact with stakeholders over multiple sprints.
• Use effective techniques to connect developers directly to customers and users.
• Practice at least two techniques of product discovery.
• Identify at least two techniques for visualizing, managing, or reducing dependencies.
• Appraise how effectively a sprint review was used to inspect and adapt based on the sprint goal and increment(s) that were completed during the sprint.
• Compare at least two approaches to validating assumptions.
• Experiment with at least one approach to incorporate validating assumptions into the scrum framework.
• Develop at least two hypotheses for a target customer.
• Create a plan to test at least one hypothesis.
• Use at least two techniques to model value and at least two techniques to measure value.
• Apply at least three techniques to order a product backlog to support a product goal.
• Describe how the product owner can ensure that enough product backlog items are “ready” for the upcoming sprint.
• Integrate feedback from at least three sources to generate and refine product backlog items.
• Experiment with at least two ways to improve their product backlog refinement.
• Create a product plan or forecast with stakeholders.
• Practice at least two approaches to identify purpose or define strategy.
• Practice at least one technique to visualize and communicate product strategy, product ideas, features, and/or assumptions.
• Discuss a real-world example of how product strategy is operationalized and evolves over time in an agile organization.
• Describe at least three ways to facilitate a final decision with stakeholders.
• Demonstrate at least three facilitative listening techniques.
• Demonstrate the use of at least two alternatives to open discussion.
• Describe two examples when the product owner should not act as the facilitator for the stakeholders.
• List two cognitive biases that may impact the product owner’s capability to effectively deliver business value.
• Recognize at least two approaches to scaling Scrum.
• Describe at least three benefits and drawbacks of feature teams and component teams.
• Explain why the product owner should be cautious about accumulating technical debt.
• List at least three development practices that could help your scrum team deliver a high-quality increment and reduce technical debt each sprint.
• Analyze the importance of product ownership.
• Reflect on the mindset and actions of a successful product owner.
• Discuss at least three possible impacts to your stakeholder relationships and/or product that could result if your scrum team adopted the latest definition of scrum.

You should take this workshop if you’ve completed a CSPO workshop and you’re ready to take your product owner skills and certification to the next level.