Certified Scrum Product Owner®
Certified Scrum Product Owner®
Historic tagline for informational purposes only:
100% live online instruction from one of the world's leading Scrum Trainers
Instructor
More Info
Discounted
Certified Scrum Product Owner®
Certified Scrum Product Owner®
Advance your career with high-value product management skills. CSPO® delves into the scrum framework, agile principles, and relentless focus on delivering customer value. Scrum Alliance-certified trainers have exceptional qualifications, including extensive product management experience. A two-year Scrum Alliance professional membership is included with your successful completion of this course.
*** 100% Live Online Training ***
Our Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) course is a two-day immersive learning experience focused on preparing participants for success using Scrum as a Product Owner. The course is designed to focus on the fundamental aspects and intent of what Scrum represents while providing role-specific guidance, tools, and techniques that a Product Owner can leverage to make their organizations successful.
Learn from a World Leader in Scrum Training
Chris has over 20 years of technical delivery experience in IT services. Passionate for developing teams and supporting delivery, he has a background in software development using both agile and traditional approaches. He is one of the first Educators approved by Scrum Alliance to teach the Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) and Certified Scrum Professional ScrumMaster (CSP-SM) courses and works with teams and students all over the United States to improve their Scrum adoption and effectiveness as agile leaders. In addition to training, Chris frequently speaks at agile conferences and supports initiatives of the world’s major agile organizations.
Duration
The CSPO Course is a 2 day class from 9:00AM-6:00PM Eastern Time. Webcam will be required throughout the course in order to qualify for Scrum Alliance certification.
What is Included
- 2 Day CSPO course and class materials
- CSPO Certification fees
- 2 Year Membership to Scrum Alliance
Prerequisites
There is no required prior certificate, educational background, or work experience needed to participate in the CSPO course and receive certification.
Exam Details
No Exam
To be eligible for certification, you are required to attend the full two days of class. If you miss any part of the course, you may have to complete an additional assignment, or potentially lose your certification eligibility. Should your schedule prevent you from attending the entire class, our team will work with you to schedule another class on a different date.
PDU/SEU
By attending the 2 day CSPO course you will earn 16 PDU/SEU that can be applied towards further educational goals.
Why SparkPlug Agility?
SparkPlug Agility is proud to support you, the agile professional that desires to continue to grow their skills as a Product Owner. We have a passion for supporting those agile leaders on the ground every day - helping them take their skills to the next level with practical knowledge and techniques that make an immediate impact on the hearts and minds of their organizations.
Our team brings a unique perspective to the industry, with a combination of delivery and consulting experience from various sectors:
- Technical delivery background
- Federal and commercial experience
- Active in the international agile community
Discounts and Payment Plans
SparkPlug Agility is proud to offer a range of discounts and special offers for groups, Veterans, First Responders, and Full-Time Students. Use this form to apply for a course discount. Payment plans and purchase order payment options are also available, contact us directly to discuss your options!
| Dates: | 16-17 Oct 2024 |
|---|---|
| Starting At: | 09:00 EDT for 9.0 hours |
| Language: | English |
| Venue: |
Live Online |
| Price: |
$795
|
| Discounts: |
Discounted seats available. Contact Christine Li for more information. |
| Notes: |
To be eligible for certification, participants are required to attend the full class. If a student misses any part of the course, they may be required to do an additional assignment, or potentially lose their certification eligibility. Should your schedule prevent you from attending the entire class, our team will work with you to schedule another class on a different date.
Cancellation and Transfer Policy Due to the pandemic, student cancellations and transfers for virtual courses are available at no charge until 48 hours before class begins. Within 48 hours of the start of class, there is a $50 late change fee for any cancellations or transfers.
|
Below is a summary of the topics covered in our CSPO course. The learning experience covers the Content Outline and Learning Objectives identified by Scrum Alliance, presented in an interactive and exercise-based format, including individual, pair, and table-based activities. The design of this course has been refined over several years to provide aspiring Product Owners a wide range of tools and techniques to make them successful.
Foundations
Students begin the learning experience with an introduction to the Agile Manifesto, including the Values and Principles that lay the foundation for the Agile Mindset. We explore the concepts of Empiricism as an approach towards decision making that forms the basis for the Scrum Framework. These interactions and discussions are crucial to aspiring Product Owners, empowering not only their own decision-making skills but helping to create an environment for their team members to work together to deliver a stream of value..
Scrum Roles
Aspiring Product Owners must have a basic understanding not only of their own part to play in Scrum, but also of those that they work with on a regular basis. Students are introduced to the Scrum Team, a small but powerful group of professionals. We focus on the different and regular activities of the Product Owner as well as the Developer and Scrum Master on their own before looking at the three roles from an overall teamwork point of view. This sets Product Owners up for success by helping “draw the lines” to illustrate how they fit into this team.
Product Backlog Topics
One of the major focuses of the Product Owner is on the maintenance of the Product Backlog. This module introduces a mixture of concepts, theory, and concrete practice to students to support these activities. We will introduce concepts from the newest version of the Scrum Guide, and techniques around finding the humanity in the work we identify for key stakeholders.
Artifacts
Expanding on the previous module that focused on the Product Backlog, Students are exposed to the fundamental concepts of User Stories in this module. While not a required element of Scrum, this popular but often misunderstood approach can be a “make or break” factor in a Product Owner’s success. Highlights of this module include tools and techniques to collaborate with team members to author User Stories and their related Acceptance Criteria.
Once an idea has become a Product Backlog Item, a Product Owner needs to further refine those items into something that could be worked on in the future. Students focus on the Backlog Refinement activity, where the appropriate level of details, ordering, and sizing are added to individual Product Backlog Items. This module concludes by defining the key concepts of the Increment as well as the Definition of “Done".
Scrum Events
Product Owners must understand the different conversations that make up a Sprint, the “heartbeat” of Scrum. This module focuses on the Sprint itself and its characteristics before taking a lower level look at the activities and discussions that occur during Sprint Planning, execution of the Sprint, the Daily Scrum, the Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. We will focus on Product Owner-centric behaviors and activities that happen prior to, during, and immediately after each event as well as pitfalls and anti-patterns to avoid in order to set the team up for success.
The Big Picture
Product Owners need to see not only how different parts of the overall framework influence one another, but also how they fit into that system. This portion of the learning experience looks at these concepts in a set of challenging and interactive exercises. This module “zooms out” and looks at the interrelationships between events and ties together the ideas of a Vision with the more tactical elements of the Sprint Backlog.
These activities test the student’s knowledge of not just the framework but how their activities as a Product Owner influence everyone around them. We will explore the “Life of a Backlog Item”, the day-to-day activities of a Product Owner, and complete a capstone exercise that pulls all the elements of the framework together.
In addition to aspiring Scrum Masters and Product Owners, team members in all roles can benefit from this course, helping them to better empathize with and understand the perspective of the Product Owner in team interactions. Outside of the delivery team, organizational business leaders and management can gain insight into the agile planning and value driving processes. This perspective is critical for agile success at the enterprise levels.
Beyond the role of the Product Owner itself, roles that would benefit from attending this course include:
|
|