Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO)

In this Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) Course, you will:

-Manage multiple business initiatives from competing stakeholders
-Clearly order and express Product Backlog items to maximize outcomes and minimize output
-Define a clear Product Vision that ensures your product remains focused on the features your customers and end users will use
-Communicate effectively with various stakeholder groups to achieve alignment
? Identify the crucial opportunities to reduce dependencies and avoid waste
? Define, communicate and validate a strategy that delivers business value
? Increase your credibility as a product expert and become recognized as a
person who delivers real business results

Audience/Prerequisites

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)

Please note: This course has an Attendance and Virtual Camera Requirement
? Attendance is required throughout the duration of this course. Instructors will verify each student's attendance and participation to ensure course completion.
? Webcam usage is required by all students

Course Outline

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