Course Overview
The Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner® (A-CSPO®) course is an advanced-level Scrum Alliance certification designed for experienced Product Owners who want to strengthen their product management, stakeholder collaboration, and product leadership skills.
Building on the foundations of the Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®), this instructor-led course explores advanced techniques for defining product vision, validating assumptions, managing complex product backlogs, engaging stakeholders, forecasting product delivery, and maximizing customer value. Participants learn practical approaches for balancing business objectives with customer needs while working effectively with multiple Scrum teams in complex Agile environments.
The course is highly interactive, combining discussions, collaborative exercises, case studies, simulations, and instructor coaching to help participants develop advanced product ownership capabilities that can be immediately applied within their organizations.
Upon successful completion of the course and fulfillment of Scrum Alliance requirements, participants will earn the Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner® (A-CSPO®) certification.
Course Objective
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Strengthen Product Owner competencies and servant leadership skills.
- Develop and communicate compelling product vision and strategy.
- Collaborate effectively with stakeholders, customers, and Scrum Teams.
- Apply advanced Product Backlog Management techniques.
- Prioritize work using value-based decision-making approaches.
- Validate product assumptions using customer feedback and experimentation.
- Forecast product delivery using Agile planning techniques.
- Facilitate product discovery and collaborative decision making.
- Manage products across multiple Scrum Teams.
- Prepare for successful Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner® certification.
Pre-requisites
Participants must meet the following prerequisites:
- Hold an active Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®) certification.
- Minimum 12 months of Product Owner experience within the last five years (as required by Scrum Alliance for certification).
- Familiarity with Scrum principles and Agile product development.
- Experience working with Scrum Teams is recommended.
- Willingness to actively participate in discussions, simulations, and collaborative exercises.
Course Curriculum
- Responsibilities of an Advanced Product Owner
- Product ownership mindset
- Servant leadership
- Product value maximization
- Decision-making responsibilities
- Leadership without authority
- Developing a compelling product vision
- Product goals
- Product strategy
- Value proposition
- Business outcomes
- Product roadmaps
- Aligning strategy with organizational objectives
- Stakeholder identification
- Stakeholder engagement strategies
- Managing stakeholder expectations
- Customer interviews
- User personas
- Customer journey mapping
- Empathy mapping
- Product discovery techniques
- Design thinking fundamentals
- Customer feedback loops
- Product hypothesis creation
- Experimentation
- Lean Startup principles
- Value validation
- Hypothesis-driven development
- Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
- Rapid experimentation
- Measuring outcomes
- Learning from customer feedback
- Continuous product improvement
- Product Backlog refinement
- Value-based prioritization
- Ordering techniques
- User Story refinement
- Acceptance criteria
- Backlog health
- Managing technical debt
- Agile forecasting
- Release planning
- Roadmap planning
- Capacity planning
- Velocity considerations
- Incremental delivery
- Outcome-based planning
- Scaling Product Ownership
- Coordinating multiple teams
- Cross-team dependencies
- Shared Product Backlogs
- Communication strategies
- Product synchronization
- Advanced facilitation techniques
- Collaborative workshops
- Decision-making frameworks
- Conflict resolution
- Negotiation skills
- Coaching stakeholders
- Influencing organizational change
- Scrum Alliance competency review
- Practical exercises
- Group discussions
- Case studies
- Participant knowledge assessment
- Certification process overview
- Individual action planning
