Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner®

Part 1: Product Owner Core Competencies

• The importance of the product ownership
• The mindset and Actions of a Product Owner
• Interacting with Stakeholders
• Product Owners as facilitators
• Facilitation techniques
• Facilitation of conversations with Stakeholders
• Understanding the risk of technical debt
• Understanding the importance of development practices
• Recognize approaches to scaling scrum
• Visualizing and reducing dependencies
• Benefits of Feature Teams

Part 2: Advanced Goal setting and planning

• Operationalizing Product Strategy
• Approaches to define product strategy
• Product Planning
• Visualizing and communication Strategy, ideas, and features

Part 3: Empathizing with Customers and Users

• Connecting Developers with Customers
• Customer product discovery techniques

Part 4: Advanced Product Assumption Validation

• Recognize cognitive biases
• Improving your Sprint Review
• Defining Hypotheses
• Planning how to test hypotheses
• Validating assumptions in Scrum

Part 5: Product Backlog Management

• Techniques for measuring value
• Techniques for ordering Product Backlogs
• Getting enough Product Backlog items ready
• Improving Product Backlog Refinement

Please visit the Advanced Certified Product Owner (A-CSPO) certification page to view full details about this certification. Students who take this course must: 

• Already hold an active Certified Product Owner® (CSPO®) certification with Scrum Alliance®
• Complete all pre- or post-course work as deemed necessary by the instructor
• Validate at least 12 months of Product Owner work experience within the past five years

Professionals who benefit from taking this course include: 

• Individuals who have undertaken the Product Owner accountability for at least 12 months
• Product Managers
• Business Analysts
• IT Leadership (Managers/Directors/VPs/CIOs/CTOs)