Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO)

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.”

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.

• Product Essentials
  • Product basics
  • Product life cycle concept and corrsponding 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