Duration
Advanced Certified Product Owner
2 days
Outline
The Scrum Alliance Advanced Certified Product Owner certification course is designed for Product Owners to manage multiple business initiatives from stakeholders, define clear Product vision and Product strategy, learn advanced techniques to order and refine Product Backlog etc. The Product Owner learns real-time techniques to define and attain business value for organizations, manages multiple team efforts to create great products; and help the organization scale to address the product complexities.
This certification course will also help build beyond your foundational Product development knowledge, distinguish yourself in the global marketplace, demonstrate advanced value to your employers and customers as a highly trained Agile professional.
This also helps you stand out in your industry as a member of the globally recognized Scrum Alliance community. The Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO®) is one of the flagship certifications offered by Scrum Alliance (USA).
Benefits of the A-CSPO® certification include:
- Make stronger contributions towards product success. Develop world class products that can bring business Agility and customer value.
- Achieve organisations’ success in businesses and products.
- Become part of a global movement toward product excellence.
- Distinguish yourself in the global marketplace. Stand out in your industry as a member of the globally recognized Scrum Alliance community.
- Prove a full understanding of product development and how to apply to develop great products.
- Demonstrate advanced value to your customers.
- Increase career opportunities and expand your professional community.
- Enhance your industry credibility and earning potential.
Pre-requisites
The pre-requisites to attend Scrum Alliance Certified Product Owner (A-CSPO®) course are below:
- Must hold a Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO) certification with the Scrum Alliance.
- Successfully complete all educator-designed components of an approved educational offering. This may include pre- or post-course work as deemed necessary by the approved educator to complete the learning objectives.
- Validate at least 12 months of work experience specific to the role of Product Owner (within the past five years).
Who can attend?
This course is appropriate for anyone who wants to excel in the Product Owner role, and anyone who wants to learn advanced techniques in Product Strategy, Design Thinking, Product Backlog Refinement; thus help the organization develop great products. This will enable you to achieve astonishing results – both as an individual and as an organization. The roles include but not limited to the following:
- Product Owners
- Product Managers
- Entrepreneurs
- Start-up founders
- Investors
- Business Analysts
- Agile Coaches
- Release Managers
- Product Architects
- Project Managers
- Program Managers
- Management teams
- Senior Leadership roles handling product development and services teams.
And anyone who desires an advanced certification education on Product Ownership; and wishes to demonstrate value to both the product and the organization. And anyone who wishes scale the products within and outside the department or the organization.
Day 2
Why Product ownership?
Visualize & communicate Product Strategy, Product features and assumptions.
Mindset and actions of a successful Product Owner
Techniques to connect teams to customers and users
Interacting with stakeholders
Techniques of Product discovery
Product Owner as a facilitator, Various Facilitation techniques
Cognitive biases of Product Owner
Technical debt, how to reduce?
How to validate product assumptions?
How to maximize flow of value?
Outcome versus Output
Scaling frameworks
Define and test hypotheses for target customers
Techniques to define Product purpose and define Product strategy
Advanced techniques for ordering and refining Product Backlog
Product planning
Advanced techniques to determine product value
Market analysis, competitor analysis
Organizational Change & Impact
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.