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.

Why is this course important?

Product Ownership is pivotal to maximise the value delivered by the Scrum Team. If you have the CSPO certification and are looking to provide even better outcomes for your customers and business then this course is for you.

This course will help you:

• Improve your collaboration and engagement with stakeholders
• Define Product Strategy and practice Product Discovery
• Bring the customer into the room
• Improve your collaboration with your team(s)
• Identify, articulate, prioritise and validate assumptions
• Model and Measure Value
• Revolutionise Refinement
• Scale Product Ownership

 

This Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner course is the second step on the Path to CSP (Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner) and builds on the fundamental principles and practices covered in the CSPO course.

 

Schedule

The course runs to a convenient 9:30 pm - 16:00 pm schedule over 3 days along with some homework to enable really deep learning along with some space to fit in other aspects of your life. There will also be regular breaks for tea and coffee and to stretch your legs.

 

Preparation

We recommend you have a (re)read through the latest Scrum Guide, written by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland the co-creators of Scrum. The Scrum Alliance also has a nice overview of Scrum which might serve as a refresher.

To warm up for the course here is some pre-reading and video content (time permitting):

• Refamiliarize yourself with the Scrum Guide.  We will do a quick Scrum refresh exercise early in the course.
• Steve Blank – The customer Development process – a 5-minute video
• Marty Cagan – Discovery and Delivery Product Team activities
• Jeff Gothelf How to use the Lean UX Canvas – we’ll be using this canvas in the course so feel free to get a head start
• Jeff Gothelf How to prioritize hypotheses for testing – same again, building on the Lean UX Canvas

 

Your Trainer - Colin Bird

Although best known for my long association with Scrum, I love everything Lean, Agile and Kanban. I get a buzz out of catalysing new ideas, collaboration, creativity and innovation to engage the full potential of teams and leadership.

Since 2005, I have been assisting organisations wrestle with the challenges of retaining agility as the scale of the challenge moves beyond a single team. My experience spans many different sectors and involves a broad spectrum of organisational elements, including strategy, budgeting, portfolio management, leadership, team design and engineering at scale. I enjoy using my hard-won years of team and senior leadership experience to help others. 

I am an Agile coach and consultant, a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), a Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) Trainer, a TAC (Trainer Approval Committee) member for the Scrum Alliance, and a cocreator of ELSE (Emergent Large-Scale Evolution) - an evolutionary approach to scaling agility.

Away from work, I try and squeeze in way too many sports and hobbies: road cycling up mountains, trail running with my dog, sailing, skiing, diving and lots of DIY projects! 

Dates:	24-26 Jun 2024
Starting At:	09:30 BST for 6.5 hours
Language:	English
Venue:	RippleRock Online
Price:	£1,100 if you register by 2024-06-07 <br/>£1,250 after 2024-06-07
Discounts:	Discounted seats available. Contact Colin for more information.

Topics covered include:

Product Planning

• Levels of Planning
• Product Strategy
• Product Discovery and Design Thinking with Scrum
• Roadmaps, Release Planning and Forecasting

Engaging Stakeholders

• Stakeholder Mapping
• Bringing the Customer into the room
• Practice facilitation techniques

Product Assumptions

• Assumptions and Decision Making
• Cognitive Bias
• Identifying assumptions and Hypothesis formulation
• Testing Hypotheses
• Advanced techniques for the Product Backlog

Modelling and Measuring Value

• Why model Value?
• Approaches to understanding and modelling value
• Applying value models to prioritise the Product Backlog
• Measuring Realised Value

Product Ownership at Scale

• Organisational design and scaling for Product Based delivery
• Key patterns for groups of teams, team organisation and synchronisation across teams and specialisms.
• How these patterns relate to popular scaling approaches

Refinement

• Integrating feedback into Refinement
• Backlog Refinement workshop
• Applying BDD (Behaviour Driven Development)

Engineering Quality

• Why the PO cares about Technical Debt
• Types of Technical Debt
• Dealing with legacy debt

Product Ownership is pivotal to maximise the value delivered by the Scrum Team. If you have the CSPO certification and are looking to provide even better outcomes for your customers and business then this course is for you.