Certified Scrum Professional-Product Owner® (CSP-PO) Training
Course US-1834
Course Outline
This Certified Product Owner (CSP-PO) training program helps Product Owners advance their careers to Product Managers and solidify their education in topics such as advanced stakeholder discussion; funding and financing; customer development; product launches; and advanced product discovery. This workshop also lets you gain valuable monthly consultations from a Certified Scrum Trainer.
Certified Scrum Professional-Product Owner® (CSP-PO) Training Benefits
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In this course, you will learn how to:
- Leverage the economics of product development
- Start multiple new Agile teams
- Prioritize a backlog and roadmap at scale
- Incorporate collaboration frameworks
- Apply entrepreneurship in an Agile context
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Training Prerequisites
We welcome everybody to start the program. However, you will need to meet certain criteria during the annual membership to receive your CSP-PO certification (all included):
- A current Advanced - Certified Product Owner® certification from the Scrum Alliance®.
- 24 or more months of experience as a Product Owner within the last 5 years.
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Certification Information
Upon completing the entire CSP-PO program, your certification will be active for two years. Renewing certification includes 60 hours of continued education and a $250 fee. To process your renewal, see the Scrum Alliance guide on renewing your professional certification here.
Certified Product Owner Training Outline
Module 1: Product Owner Core Competencies
- 1.1 Appraise how different organizational contexts might impact how a person is selected to be a Product Owner.
Advanced Stakeholder Discussion
- 1.2 Assess a facilitated session with stakeholders who are in conflict, providing two examples of how to improve facilitation.
- 1.3 Compare at least two techniques for gathering, communicating, and leveraging information from internal and external stakeholders.
- 1.4 Evaluate how their stakeholder relationships and/or product could benefit from the adoption of the latest definition of Scrum.
Launching Scrum Teams
- 1.5 Explain at least three reasons why the start of a new Scrum Team should be handled differently from a traditional project kickoff or charter.
- 1.6 Discuss the Product Owner’s responsibility to define expectations for quality when their Scrum Team forms.
- 1.7 Plan the launch of a new Scrum Team.
Product Ownership with Multiple Teams
- 1.8 Demonstrate at least two methods to support Product Backlog management across multiple Scrum Teams.
- 1.9 Contrast at least two patterns for scaling the Product Owner role.
- 1.10 Develop and then teach a topic related to product ownership.
Module 2: Implementing Goal Setting and Planning
Market-Driven Product Strategy Practices
- 2.1 Compare and contrast at least three business models for a product.
- 2.2 Develop a business model for a product idea.
- 2.3 Construct a competitive analysis.
Complex Product Planning and Forecasting
- 2.4 Compare at least two techniques to develop a product plan or forecast.
- 2.5 Develop an appropriate release strategy for a business model.
- 2.6 Identify at least three measurable product launch goals.
- 2.7 Identify at least five elements of a product launch plan.
Product Economics
- 2.8 Apply at least two methods to determine the profitability of a product.
- 2.9 Calculate the expected outcome or economic results of a product release, given fixed and variable costs, and forecasted return.
- 2.10 Explain an iterative and incremental investment model for product development.
- 2.11 Demonstrate at least three ways how return on investment can be improved.
- 2.12 Calculate the cost of delay for a product feature.
- 2.13 Compare at least two approaches to fund agile product development.
Module 3: Advanced Interactions with Customers and Users
- 3.1 Prepare a plan to integrate customer research into product discovery and development.
- 3.2 Evaluate at least three techniques for customer research or product discovery.
Module 4: Complex Product Assumption Validation
- 4.1 Select an appropriate experiment to test a hypothesis.
- 4.2 Evaluate the results and impact of an experiment.
Module 5: Advanced Product Backlog Management
- 5.1 Assess how Scrum Teams and/or organizations emphasize outcomes and impact over output.
- 5.2 Compare at least three techniques to order a Product Backlog.
- 5.3 Defend the order of a Product Backlog with one or more stakeholders.
- 5.4 Evaluate their Scrum Team’s ability to effectively refine the Product Backlog.
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