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Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner®

Taught by: Madhavi Ledalla
Get the confidence to apply scrum and agile at an advanced level, building on your experience to tackle even more complex challenges while driving excellent customer value. All A-CSPO® courses are led by Scrum Alliance-certified trainers ready to share their insights with you. When you've completed the course requirements and earned the A-CSPO, you'll also renew your membership and CSPO® certification.
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28 - 30 May, 2025 |
  6:00 PM IST |
 5.5 hrs/day
₹28,999
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The Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner® (A-CSPO®) is a comprehensive certification program designed for Product Owners, Agile practitioners, and business leaders seeking to advance their skills in product strategy, backlog management, customer engagement, and Agile leadership. This course, accredited by Scrum Alliance, builds on foundational Scrum principles, focusing on real-world application, advanced decision-making, and stakeholder collaboration to maximize product value. The A-CSPO® Training is an engaging, hands-on program that incorporates interactive learning, team exercises, and practical case studies. 

Meet Your Trainer- MADHAVI LEDALLA

Author| ICF Certified Agile Coach | Certified Scrum Trainer- Madhavi Ledalla is a seasoned Agile practitioner , product strategist, and an expert coach with over 20 years of experience in technology, Agile methodologies, and organizational change. She specializes in engaging diverse audiences, crafting compelling learning experiences, and driving impactful change through her expert training and coaching.

Why Learn from Madhavi?

🔹 Seasoned Agile Coach & Trainer with expertise in Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, and Kanban
🔹 Author of Retrospectives for Everyone – a guide on using metaphors for Agile retrospectives
🔹 Speaker and volunteer at global Agile conferences
🔹 Trainer and mentor for Agile professionals, helping teams and leaders thrive
🔹 Trusted consultant for organizations across industries in their Agile transformation journey

By completing this training, Participants will gain practical expertise in product visioning, goal setting, strategic planning, backlog refinement, and assumption validation—equipping them to drive business outcomes and lead high-performing Scrum teams. The A-CSPO® course follows the “Path to CSP” framework, helping professionals strengthen their Scrum and Agile knowledge while preparing them for Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner (CSP-PO) certification.

Key Learning Areas & Outcomes:

1. Advanced Product Owner Core Competencies

  • Understanding the evolving role of the Product Owner in Agile organizations
  • Enhancing stakeholder collaboration and decision-making techniques
  • Applying active listening, facilitation, and conflict resolution for successful interactions

2. Advanced Goal Setting and Planning

  • Developing long-term product strategies and roadmaps
  • Creating actionable product plans and forecasts with stakeholders
  • Utilizing visualization techniques to communicate product vision effectively

3. Empathizing with Customers and Users

  • Strengthening customer and user connections through direct interactions
  • Leveraging product discovery techniques to gain deep customer insights
  • Using empathy-based frameworks to ensure customer-centric product development

4. Validating Product Assumptions

  • Recognizing cognitive biases that impact product decision-making
  • Utilizing hypothesis-driven development and experimentation
  • Running effective Sprint Reviews to inspect, adapt, and align with business goals

5. Advanced Product Backlog Management

  • Applying prioritization techniques to maximize product value
  • Refining Product Backlog items to ensure readiness for development
  • Integrating multi-source feedback to enhance backlog refinement and iteration planning

Key Benefits & Certification Path:

  • Earn the Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner® (A-CSPO®) certification
  • Gain practical, real-world experience through hands-on learning and case studies
  • Develop advanced backlog management, goal-setting, and stakeholder engagement skills
  • Advance towards Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner (CSP-PO) certification

This interactive and engaging course equips participants with essential tools and frameworks to lead successful Agile product development, enhance team collaboration, and drive continuous innovation.

Product Owner Core Competencies

Learning Objectives: 

Illustrate why Product Ownership is important for you and learn at least three techniques to interact with stakeholders over multiple Sprints. Learn why the Product Owner should be cautious about accumulating technical debt. Identify at least two techniques for visualizing, managing, or reducing dependencies.

Topics

  • Examining the Product Owner Role
  • Working with Stakeholders
  • Working with the Development Team
  • Product Ownership with Multiple Teams 

Advanced Purpose and Strategy

Learning Objectives:

Learn with a real-world example how product strategy is operationalized evolved over time in an Agile Organization. Create a product plan and practice at least one technique to visualize and communicate product strategy. 

Topics

  • Developing Practical Product Strategies
  • Advanced Product Planning and Forecasting 

Empathizing with Customers and Users

Learning Objectives:

Learn the technique used to connect teams directly to customers and users and practice at least two techniques of product discovery. 

Topics

  • Customer Research
  • Product Discovery 

Advanced Product Assumption Validation

Learning Objectives:

Learn how to compare at least two approaches to validating assumptions and experiment with at least one approach to incorporate validating assumptions into the Scrum framework. Develop at least two hypotheses for a target customer and create a plan to test at least one hypothesis.

Topics

  • Effective Business Value Delivery
  • Sprint Review
  • Validate Assumptions
  • Target Customer Hypothesis 

Advanced Techniques for Working with the Product Backlog

Learning Objectives: 

Learn how to apply at least two techniques to organize and filter a Product Backlog to link to product goals or strategy and illustrate how the Product Owner can ensure that enough Product Backlog items are “ready” for the upcoming sprint.  

Topics

  • Differentiating Outcome and Output
  • Defining Value
  • Ordering Items
  • Advanced Product Backlog Refinement

This course is ideal for professionals who are looking to deepen their Agile product ownership expertise and maximize business and customer value.

✔ Certified Scrum Product Owners (CSPOs) who want to advance their skills
✔ Product Owners managing complex product backlogs and stakeholder needs
✔ Business Analysts & Product Analysts seeking Agile-based decision-making techniques
✔ Project Managers & Strategy Analysts looking to enhance Agile product management practices
✔ Scrum Masters & Agile Coaches who collaborate closely with Product Owners
✔ Product Managers & Directors overseeing product strategy and delivery
✔ Pre-Sales & Executives involved in Agile transformations and product visioning

This course is beneficial for anyone responsible for defining, prioritizing, and delivering products that align with business and customer needs.

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