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.”

• Build on your foundational knowledge with enhanced implementation skills;
• Distinguish yourself in the global marketplace;
• Stand out in your industry as a member of the Scrum Alliance globally-recognized community;
• Show advanced value to your employer (or potential employer) as a highly trained Agile professional.

Product Essentials

• Product basics
• Product life cycle concept and corresponding strategy

Empathizing Customers and Users

• Perform customer research
• Interview and tips for insightful interview

Advanced Product Assumption Validation

• Cognitive biases and their impacts to product
• Hypothesis Driven Development (HDD)
• Compare different HDD approaches
• Incorporating HdD into 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 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 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) requires previous Scrum Product Owner knowledge and experience. All attendees must have the Certified Scrum Product Owner certification (CSPO) and with some practice.

To receive this certification:

• You must have at least 12 months of experience as a Product Owner in the Scrum Alliance® website profile to be eligible to receive the A-CSPO® certificate.
• Successfully complete all educator-designed components of an approved educational offering. This may include pre- or post-course work as deemed necessary by your approved educator to complete the learning objectives.
• You will be asked to accept the A-CSPO License Agreement and complete your Scrum Alliance membership profile.
• Maintain your A-CSPO by earning Scrum Education Units^® (SEUs) and renewing your certification every two years.

Upcoming Training:

• CSP-PO® Certified Scrum Professional – Product Owner.