Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) Training (Virtual)

Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO)

You’re a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) who’s focused on maximizing business value and product backlog optimization to do the best possible job to satisfy key stakeholders. The next step in your Agile journey is to achieve your Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) certification in NextUp’s interactive two-day class.

What You Will Learn

This course builds on foundational knowledge and implementation skills that go beyond the basics. Through our A-CSPO training, you’ll learn to:

• Manage multiple business initiatives from competing stakeholders
• Clearly order and express product backlog items
• Define a clear product vision that ensures your product remains focused on the features your customers and end-users will actually use
• Communicate effectively with various stakeholder groups to achieve alignment
• Identify crucial opportunities and avoid wasting time
• Define and validate business value
• Increase your credibility as a product expert and become recognized as a person who delivers real business results

Certification

Upon successful completion of the course, students will have an active A-CSPO certification as long as they:

• Hold an active Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification with the Scrum Alliance.
• Validate at least 12 months of work experience specific to the role of Product Owner within the past five years.

Students can still attend our A-CSPO course even without these requirements and later complete the CSPO and/or work experience to claim their certification.

Who Should Attend

NextUp’s A-CSPO is ideal for anyone interested in advanced concepts and techniques for product management as well as Product Owners, product managers, project managers, business analysts, executives, Scrum Masters, and Agile coaches.

What’s In It For You:

• The average annual Product Owner salary is 105,411 according to ZipRecruiter.
• A projected 24% annual job growth for Product Owners.
• Claim 16  Scrum Alliance Scrum Education Units (SEUs).
• Claim 14 Project Management Institute (PMI) Professional Development Units (PDUs).

Also Included In This Course:

• Two-year membership to the Scrum Alliance
• Digital copies of all class materials and templates
• Dedicated customer support and scheduling flexibility
• Access to NextUp’s original content like blogs and webinars as well as trainer office hours.

Location

This is a live online (virtual) class. After registering, students will receive the Zoom weblink to join the training. We recommend that students download the Zoom web-based application prior to joining class.

About Your Trainer

Dr. Patrick (Mack) McConnell is the Vice President of Agile Services at NextUp Solutions and a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) specializing in Agile transformation in the public sector and scaling agile frameworks. A criminologist by training, Patrick transitioned from developing geospatial applications in Agile teams to coaching and training Agile methods and frameworks. He has served as an Agile coach and trainer for over 50 U.S. Government organizations, as well as the states of Alabama, Maryland, and New York.

Cancellation Policy

Students submitting cancellation requests 10 business days or more prior to the start of the course are entitled to a full refund. Students submitting cancellation requests less than 10 business days prior to the start of the course will be offered a credit toward a future NextUp Solutions course of equivalent value, or a refund less a processing fee of $100. Should the organizer cancel the course for any reason, each registered student will be issued a full refund.

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