Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO)
As a Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®), you’ve been taught the Scrum terminology, ceremonies, and principles that enable you to fulfill the role of Product Owner on a Scrum team. You’re focused on maximizing business value and prioritization, and understand how to do the best possible job to satisfy key stakeholders. One of your priorities should be your own success! Becoming Agile is a lifelong journey and incorporating Scrum values and Agile principles into your world of work takes diligence, patience, and a commitment to continuous improvement.
To further enhance your knowledge and skills, the next step is achieving an Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner™ (A-CSPO™) certification from Scrum Alliance®. This advanced offering is ideal for a Certified Scrum Product Owner who already has one year of experience working as a Product Owner on a Scrum team.
As a Product Owner, you know there are rarely enough hours in the day to do what really matters — building really great products for your customers and end users. With our new role-specific educational program, you’ll learn specific tools and techniques so you can truly deliver the business value that matters. You’ll gain new skills and deepen your knowledge in these areas, and most importantly, you’ll learn how to say “yes” to your career by saying “no.”
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Who should take the course?
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This course if for Certified Scrum Product Owners (CSPO) who are looking for the next level of growth.
- Managers who want to help your organization build fantastic products
- Product management and portfolio management professionals
- Project management professionals
- Business stakeholders
- UX and CX practitioners, and business analysts
- Product development team members
- Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and agile coaches
The Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) workshop requires previous Scrum Product Owner knowledge and experience. All attendees must have the Certified Scrum Product Owner certification (CSPO) and with some practice prior to this workshop.
Evelyn Tian
Evelyn Tian is an experienced coach, trainer, and international keynote speaker with a deep passion for enabling organizational growth and driving product excellence. She is among the very few worldwide who hold the combined credentials of Certified Enterprise Coach, Certified Team Coach, Certified Scrum Trainer, and Advanced Certified Mentor Coach.
Dedicated to supporting both individuals and organizations in reaching the next level, Evelyn has mentored agile practitioners from more than 80 countries (as of November 2023). She actively contributes to the global community through free monthly coaching clinics and international networking events.
Evelyn is a China born Canadian living in Sweden, and holds academic background spans Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and an Executive MBA.
Course Content
Product Essentials
- Product basics
- Product life cycle concept and corresponding strategy
Empathizing Customers and Users
- Perform customer research
- Interview and tips for an insightful interview
Advanced Product Assumption Validation
- Cognitive Biases and their impacts to Product
- Hypothesis Driven Development (HDD)
- Compare different HDD approaches
- Incorporating HdD into the Scrum framework
- Develop HDD and design validation plans
Advanced Purpose and Strategy
- Developing product vision and strategies
- Advanced roadmapping and its development
- Advanced product planning and forecasting
- Release planning
Advanced Product Backlog Management
- Model and measure the value for product
- Advanced Product Backlog Ordering
- Linking Product Backlog Ordering to product Strategy
- Enhancement of slicing user story techniques
Product Owner Core Competencies
- Skills, capabilities and practices of a Product Owner
- Mindset of a Product Owner
- Maximizing outcome and minimizing output
- Facilitation skills of a Product Owner
- Advanced stakeholder collaboration
- Identify stakeholders and key stakeholder groups
- Stakeholder management techniques
- Collaboration methods and decision-making with stakeholders
- Advanced Development Team collaboration
- Define technical debts
- Technical practices to help improve quality and ways of working
- Practice value maximization per sprint
- Collaboration with multiple development
- Recognize scaling manifestos
- List scaling frameworks
- Working with dependencies
Next steps for product owners
This course provides the opportunity to earn the Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) certification, approved by Scrum Alliance.
To achieve the certification, you must hold an active or expired CSPO certification and actively participate in all parts of the course delivered by a Scrum Alliance–approved instructor. All course activities and assignments must be completed. Upon completion, you will receive official recognition as an Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner through Scrum Alliance.
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