Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner®

Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner®

Get the confidence to apply scrum and agile at an advanced level, building on your experience to tackle even more complex challenges while driving excellent customer value. All A-CSPO® courses are led by Scrum Alliance-certified trainers ready to share their insights with you. When you've completed the course requirements and earned the A-CSPO, you'll also renew your membership and CSPO® certification.

Product Ownership is about parenting....

About nurturing your product to be the best in the world...

About handholding your Scrum team to achieve the product goals together...

It’s an art, science and engineering all combined into one...!!!

  

But, Do you have the skills required to make a difference…

To build the product which creates value for the customers….

To understand what your customers want and help your team translate into that awesome product.!!

 

It’s about time you go to the next level of Product Owner role and not just grow yourself but help your team and organization use Agile philosophy, principles and values to build the best product which was ever created

 

The ScrumAlliance Advanced Certified Product Owner course (A-CSPO) certification helps you to grow you skills as a Product Owner and work with team, stakeholders and business owners to build an ever evolving quality product. It helps you strengthen your role as a Product Owner by taking you through advanced concepts of Stakeholder Management, Product Backlog Management, working with Developers and also using Scrum in a Scaled Environment (Scaling Scrum or Scaled Agile is what they call it !!)

 

But before you join the workshop, here are a few things that you need to have:

• A Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO) certification with the Scrum Alliance (A valid , active one!) .
• At least 12 months of work experience specific to the role of Product Owner  (within the past five years) .. [No, no, not the title, the actual role… as Shakespeare said what’s in a name , a name is a name].
• The zeal and skills ;) to survive the rigor of the workshop.
• Eagerness to share your experience to the world and learning from others’ experiences . 

 

But how do I know that I will get the best value for my money?

Trust Pilot rating: 4.95/5

Here are some kind words from co-learners which might help you decide

 

“Madhur Kathuria guided us through 2 full days packed with lot of contents. Not only he gave us a solid understanding of the CSPO role but also provided lots of insights taken from real experience. I would love taking more courses with him, so I'm looking forward to see new certifications on his schedule!”

 

“Speaker allowed attendees to engage. Thus, I learned a lot from the experiences of the other attendees. Will definitely join other workshop of Madhur”

 

“The 2 day session was really engaging. The lessons have been presently really well, with clarity and examples on each discussion points. The participants has a venue to share our thoughts, inquiries and brainstorm. This course is highly recommended!”

“Excellent. Very engaging presentation with minimal slides, more activity, real life examples to illustrate the concepts”

“Instructor was able to answer queries from the class using interesting anecdotes and applicable real-life examples. He also set things into context and gave clarity to terms that we often use interchangeably. Learning pace and environment was not constrained by virtual limitations. Overall, he managed to keep us all engaged and met the objectives of this course.”

“The trainer was extremely competent in the scrum methodology. With each concept, he was able to provide clear examples and teach us the cognitive process he went through in his examples.”

 

About your trainer:

A Certified Scrum Trainer , Certfied Enterprise Coach and an Enterprise Transformation coach by profession, a nomad by choice, and a networker through passion, I look forward to life as a vault full of opportunities and I strongly believe every person has the right key to unlock this potential.

My firm belief in agile philosophy and principles brought me to the world of Agile coaching and transformation and after being lucky to be certified as India’s first Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), my endeavour is to spread the benefits of Agile by helping others adopt the essence of Agile methods and avoid the Scrumyths..

Having connected with close to 25000+ friends and colleagues till now through agile coaching, training and conferences, the hunger is still alive to make more friends in our small agile world.

 I have been lucky to have learned and taught co-learners from Canada, USA, Ireland, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Finland, Norway, The Netherlands, Poland, Nigeria, Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Srilanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and many more though my CSM , CSPO , Agile basics and Open Space Agility workshops.

Dates:	16-18 Jul 2024
Starting At:	08:00 EDT for 6.5 hours
Commitment:	6.5 hours per day for 3 days
Language:	English
Venue:	Virtual Online
Price:	$649
Discounts:	Discounted seats available. Contact Madhur Kathuria for more information.
Notes:	This is a live virtual course conducted through a group video call and the co-learners can join from anywhere, where they have access to a good internet connection and suitable conditions for video presence. Please note that youe sign-up would be completed directly with your guide and you will receive an invoice accordingly. For more details, please write to me at [email protected]

• Examining the Product Owner’s Role
  • Understanding the PO’s role
  • Why Product ownership is important
  • Key skills to become
• Working with Stakeholders
  • Understanding Various Stakeholder Groups
  • Working with stakeholders effectively
  • Involving Stakeholders in Scrum ceremonies
  • Creating Transparency and Visibility
  • Essential Communication Skills for a team
  • Effective Listening and Facilitative Listening
  • Facilitating Meetings
  • Problems with Open Discussions
  • Facilitating Decision making
  • When NOT to Facilitate
• Working with the Developers
  • Focus on Quality
  • Technical Debt and its consequences
  • Engineering Practices to eliminate technical debt
• Product Strategy
  • Introduction to your new product (Sample Product)
  • Differentiating traditional Product Management and Agile Product Management
  • Defining Purpose and Vision
  • Identifying Product Strategy
  • Creating a Product Plan
  • Lean Canvas Introduction
• Customer Research and Product Discovery
  • Connecting teams and customers
  • Story Telling Sessions
  • Customers as design partners
  • Various Product Discovery techniques
• Validating Product Assumptions and Hypotheses
  • Difference between Assumptions and Hypothesis
  • Validating Assumptions
  • Validating assumptions in a sprint
  • Creating a hypothesis
  • Testing a hypothesis
  • The importance of Sprint Review and creating a PSI
  • Cognitive Biases and their effect on the Product and Sprints
• Working with the Product Backlog
  • Revisiting Product Backlog
  • Creating PBIs
    • Integrating Feedback from multiple sources
  • Effective Product Backlog Refinement
  • Ensuring sufficient backlog items for your team
• Ordering the backlog
  • Outcome vs Output
  • Identifying and Measuring customer value
  • Prioritization factors
  • Different Prioritization Techniques
  • Aligning Product Backlog and Product Roadmap
    • Requirement Areas
    • Story Mapping
• Scaling Scrum
  • Base structures of scaling in an Agile environment
  • Creating and managing feature teams
  • Resolving dependencies between teams
  • Introduction to various frameworks for Scaled programs and products
• Summary
  • Revisiting the Scrum Guide

• Product Owners
• Product Managers
• Product Analysts
• Business Analysts
• Business Unit heads
• Executive team members
• Start-up founders
• Enterpreneurs

6.5 hours per day for 3 days