Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Agility is about steering nimbly. In Scrum, this steering is done by the Product Owner in a way that maximises the overall value and return on investment. This makes the Product Owner a high-impact accountability requiring many skills from discovery and stakeholder management to multi-faceted prioritisation and team collaboration.

The course is delivered in person and live online with Rowan Bunning from our Australian partner Adapt WithStyle. The Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) course is about moving your Agile Product Management from a tactical level to a strategic level through practical tools that support discovery, alignment and co-creation.

During the CSPO course, you will learn how the most effective Product Owners work and about the overlap with Product Management. You will find out where you are on the journey toward high-impact product leadership including product strategy and product vision.

You will add tool after tool to your toolkit including customer discovery, product vision, segmentation, goal-based scope management, hypothesis validation, Lean Startup MVPs, Agile-aligned roadmapping, goal definition, prioritisation and more.

The CSPO course takes you on a journey through foundational principles, what the Product Owner accountability involves and hands-on journey from discovery of a customer through vision, product strategy, discovery and tactical steering activities.

Inclusions

• 2 full days or 4 half days of highly interactive training,
• Active CSPO certification with Scrum Alliance* for an initial 2 year term, and a copy of all course material.

* for participants who meet the training participation requirements.

• Scrum Concepts for Product Owners – Refine how you articulate the most game changing principles to stakeholders.
• Scrum Artefacts and Events – Gain clarity as to the purpose and characteristics so that you can identify how to improve yours.
• Scrum Accountabilities – How the accountabilities are divided and work together to create increments.
• Scrum Quiz – Assess your understanding of foundational concepts.

• The Product Owner Role – Understand the authorities and anti-patterns, relationships, responsibilities and how to scale up Product Ownership.
• Jobs To Be Done – Discover a customer, product opportunity, pain relievers and value creators.
• Product Vision – Collaboratively created a unifying, broad and engaging shared vision.
• Segmentation – Differentiate your users and other stakeholders in a way that supports incremental development and user stories.

• Impact-based Scope Management – Gain game changing benefits realisation focused technique for stakeholder alignment and prioritisation.
• Hypothesis Validation – Practice identifying assumptions and designing ways to test them to make better production decisions.
• MVP – Differentiate related discovery and delivery techniques for your toolkit.
• Roadmapping – Equip yourself with Agile aligned roadmapping techniques that do not unduly sacrifice agility.
• Discovery and Product Backlog Refinement – Become familiar with a wide range of practical discovery and refinement techniques.
• User Stories and Product Backlog Items – Discover the game changing way to use user stories for improved stakeholder - team collaboration and ROI.

• Splitting Product Backlog Items – Familiarise yourself with how to split and enhance items to maximise benefit to your product’s development.
• Sprint Goal – Practice constructing goals that energise teamwork and stakeholder clarity.
• Product Economics – Improve your ability to think and frame tradeoff discussions with stakeholders from an overall economic perspective.
• Product Backlog Ordering (Prioritisation) – Practise a general purpose prioritisation framework and expand your toolkit of techniques to use within it.

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If you are registering for a live online training course, you will be taken to Eventbrite to continue your registration. Prices will be in Australian dollars, and you can use a credit card. If you want to arrange invoicing for the online course in New Zealand dollars, please contact us prior to registering.

Earning CSPO certification involves 2 steps:

1. 90 mins of self-paced learning prior to the training, and

2. 2 days or 4 half days of highly interactive training.

There is no formal test or exam involved in earning the CSPO certification other than validation of learning objective achievement during the course.

All of these reviews are from the Adapt WithStyle virtual online CSPO experience.

“Great way to learn the key skills to become a successful PO. So much to learn and apply. Great Course.” - Rakesh Chandu, Business Intelligence Consultant at ACC New Zealand

“An introduction to the value and purpose of the Product Owner role in Scrum teams using theory, examples and group exercises to get across the key concepts and techniques. Fills in the gaps in the Scrum guide and gives some attention to the variety of contexts and scenarios (including anti-patterns) that the participants might encounter.” - Alex Webster, Product Manager

“This course is a great journey through the different aspects of being a Product Owner and the wider Scrum environment you are working in. Covers a bunch of topics and provides a lot of tools and practical methods you can use to help work through different decisions or pain points.” - Aidan Antoun, Business Analyst at Xero

“A really good busy two days! Good balance between learning theory and separating into smaller groups to work out how to apply it in practice. Done remotely and really professionally managed by Rowan and his team.” - Paul Michel, Product Owner - Digital Content at Inland Revenue NZ

Anyone can do CSPO certification as there are no prerequisites. Familiarity with a small amount of preparatory material is however expected prior to the interactive training.

Whilst not mandatory, it is beneficial to have some familiarity with product development and/or projects such as “requirement” definition, planning, stakeholder interaction etc.

CSPO certification is particularly relevant for those shaping the product/solution from a business perspective. This includes Product Owners, Product Managers, Product executives, Business Owners, and Business Analysts.

CSPO is also highly relevant to those involved in coaching a Product Owner to be effective in their role. This includes Scrum Masters, Development Managers, Iteration Managers, and Project Managers.

There are no accreditation or educational prerequisites for this course, however, some experience in a product development or project environment is beneficial.

A little well targeted preparation enables participants to accelerate their learning. See the Adapt WithStyle Virtual CSPO Preparation page.

Rowan Bunning is a globally recognised educator and consultant in Agile management. He has over 27 years of experience in software intensive project delivery and product development.

In 2008, Rowan founded Adapt WithStyle (formerly Scrum WithStyle) to bring world-class Agile training and independent consulting to south-east Asia. As a Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST®) with not-for-profit Scrum Alliance, Rowan has delivered over 530 certification courses including the full three level Path to Certified Scrum Professional® (CSP®) for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches.

Rowan holds a WSQ Advanced Certificate in Learning and Performance (ACLP) from the Singapore Institute for Adult Learning (IAL).

Rowan has played project management roles in the U.K. and Australia. This includes taking a high-profile online business to launch, and safely introducing frequent change to critical infrastructure processing AUD $250 billion worth of financial transactions daily.

Rowan is passionate about developing leaders skilled at developing teams and simplifying their organisations to compete at scale on the basis of agility, innovation and highest customer value.