Certified Scrum Professional – Product Owner

Certified Scrum Professionals challenge their teams to improve the way Scrum and other Agile techniques are applied. They have demonstrated experience, documented training, and proven knowledge in the art of Scrum.Are you ready to take your knowledge and skillset in your role as Product Owner to the next level? If so, it’s time to elevate your career further by earning the Certified Scrum Professional®-Product Owner (CSP®-PO) certification. Solidify your approaches for validating product assumptions, learn advanced interactions with customers and users and master advanced Product Backlog management.

Key takeaways

After the course you will be able to:

  • Develop your role as a Product Owner and Product Champion
  • Manage complex stakeholder relationships and conflicting perspectives
  • Work effectively with multiple Scrum Teams
  • Develop market-driven product strategies and business models
  • Apply product economics to planning and prioritization
  • Conduct advanced customer research and product discovery
  • Validate complex product assumptions
  • Apply advanced techniques for Product Backlog management
  • Develop strategic product roadmaps and release strategies

Target audience

This course is suitable for:

  • Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owners (A-CSPO) looking to take the next step in their professional development
  • Experienced Product Owners who want to deepen their Product Ownership expertise
  • Agile Coaches specializing in Product Ownership
  • Scrum practitioners who want to challenge and develop their approaches to Product Ownership

Prerequisites

This is an advanced Product Owner course. Participants must hold an active or expired Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) credential and have practical Product Owner experience.

To qualify for the CSP-PO certification, you must also have at least 24 months of experience working as a Product Owner within the past five years and complete all required components of the approved CSP-PO educational offering.

Course content:

Growing in the Role of Product Owner

  • Product Owner as Product Champion
    • Product Ownership and Organization Setup
    • Product Owner manifesto
  • Advanced Stakeholder Management
    • Facilitating sessions with conflicting opinions
    • Working with difficult stakeholders
    • Enhancing stakeholder collaboration techniques
  • Working with multiple Scrum Teams
    • Launching multiple Scrum Teams
    • Quality expectations while working with multiple teams
    • Competence growth and expectations
    • Product backlog management across multiple teams
    • Facilitating large scale participatory meetings
  • Designing interactive learning contents about product ownership

Implement Purpose and Strategy

  • Market-Driven Product Strategy Practices
    • Analyze different business models
    • Develop your own business model
    • Calculate opportunity size
  • Construct competitive analysis
  • Product Economics
    • Determining profitability
    • Calculating the cost of delay (CoD)
    • Funding of agile product development
  • Complex Product Planning and Forecasting
    • Developing a product plan
    • Defining a strategic and multi-team product roadmap
    • Developing a release strategy

Advanced Interactions with Customers and Users

  • Advanced Customer Research
    • Customer development
    • Integrating customer into product development
  • Advanced Product Discovery
    • Comparing different customer research and product discovery techniques
    • Complex Product Assumption Validation
      • Evaluating different validation plans
      • Continuous revising plans based on validation results

Advanced Product Backlog Management

  • Further differentiating outcome and output
  • Defining value – strategy and options
  • Ordering product backlog
    • Comparing various prioritization techniques
    • Deciding prioritization strategy for your product
  • Refining product backlog to deliver customer value
    • Competence, risks, uncertainties, and efficiency
    • Improving customer engagement to refine Product Backlog

Certification:

This course provides the opportunity to earn the Certified Scrum Professional – Product Owner (CSP-PO) certification, approved by Scrum Alliance.


To qualify for the certification, you must:

  • Hold an active or expired Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) credential
  • Have at least 24 months of experience working as a Product Owner within the past five years, and complete all the required components of an approved CSP-PO educational offering.

There is no formal exam—certification is awarded upon successful completion of the course and all prerequisites.

Additionally, this credential can contribute to earning Scrum Education Units (SEUs) toward ongoing professional development and renewal of Scrum Alliance certifications.

Practical information

Duration: 2 days
Price: NOK 32,900
Language: English course content and English-speaking instructor
Format: The course is offered as an open course and can also be booked as an in-company course

FAQ

Hva er Certified Scrum Professional – Product Owner (CSP-PO)?
CSP-PO er et avansert Scrum Alliance-kurs for erfarne Product Owners som ønsker å videreutvikle kompetansen sin innen blant annet produktstrategi, kundeinnsikt, interessenthåndtering og Product Backlog management.

Hvem passer kurset for?
Kurset passer særlig for Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owners (A-CSPO) som ønsker å ta neste steg i Product Owner-løpet, samt Agile Coaches med Product Ownership som spesialområde.

Hvilke forkunnskaper trenger jeg?
Du må ha en aktiv eller utløpt Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO)-sertifisering. For å kvalifisere til CSP-PO-sertifiseringen må du i tillegg ha minst 24 måneders arbeidserfaring som Product Owner i løpet av de siste fem årene.

Hva lærer jeg om produktstrategi?
Du arbeider blant annet med markedsdrevet produktstrategi, forretningsmodeller, konkurranseanalyse, produktøkonomi, Cost of Delay, produktplanlegging, roadmaps og release-strategi.

Lærer jeg mer om kunder og produktutvikling?
Ja. Kurset dekker avansert kundeinnsikt og product discovery, inkludert customer development, involvering av kunder i produktutviklingen og validering av komplekse produktantakelser.

Er det eksamen etter kurset?
Nei. Det er ingen formell eksamen. CSP-PO-sertifiseringen tildeles når du har fullført kurset og oppfylt alle kravene til sertifiseringen.

Hva er neste steg etter A-CSPO?
CSP-PO er neste nivå i Scrum Alliances Product Owner-løp etter Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO). Det bygger videre på både kompetansen og den praktiske erfaringen du har opparbeidet deg som Product Owner.

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