Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner (CSP-PO®)

You’ve learned the basics of Scrum and have a solid understanding of the Product Owner role and how to effectively manage a product. This course goes well past the basics and arms you with effective concepts and tools to take your product and your career to the next level.

In this course, we will work through your experiences as a product owner along with the context of your specific organization and products as you learn how to take expert-level product ownership concepts into your environments. This course teaches you concepts in a way that you can immediately understand and apply to your specific situations.

This immersive and interactive learning experience features simulations, role play, small group and class discussions, and multimedia presentations. Taught by Richard Cheng, a renowned expert in the product field, you will have fun while you learn and grow your mastery of product ownership.

Agenda

Product Owner Core Competencies

• Review what a product owner does day to day
• How to assess yourself as a product owner
• Understand the Product Owner, Product Manager, and Analyst roles
• Inspect how Product Owners are chosen and work in your organization

Launching Scrum Teams

• Understand the differences between launching a Scrum Team versus a traditional team
• How to kickoff a Scrum Team
• Review team canvases to identify how teams work together

Product Ownership Across Multiple Teams

• Review different scaling models and how product ownership and product management works in those models
• Identify the scaling patterns that could work best for your products

Market Driven Product Strategy Practices

• Understand common business models to make a profit / generate value
• Compare business models
• Apply a business model and canvas to your product
• Perform competitive analysis

Complex Planning and Forecasting

• Understand traditional product plans, adaptive product plans, and experimental product plans
• Use product plan analysis on your product
• Review release strategies and apply release strategies to your product

Launching a Product

• Product launch goals
• Plan a product launch

Product Economics

• Identify, define, and maximize value
• ROI and maximizing ROI
• Product funding

Stakeholders, Customers, and Users

• Understanding stakeholder needs
• Facilitating stakeholder communication
• Create a customer engagement strategy

Advanced Product Backlog Management

• Understand outputs and outcomes
• Prioritization techniques
• Financial models and revenue models
• Impact analysis and cost of delay

Who Should Attend

This course is ideal for anyone interested in advanced and professional level concepts and techniques for product management. This includes product owners, product managers, project managers, business analysts, executives, Scrum Masters, and Agile coaches.

Class Structure

The class is a live instructor-led 2-day virtual training experience. As part of the optional coursework, the students will have the option to perform 3 out of class activities based on their current product (or a product they have worked with in the past). These are:

1. Filling out a product canvas or product board for their product
2. Performing competitive analysis
3. Running an experiment to test an assumption

Once these activities are complete, the student will schedule a touch point with the instructor to review the results of these activities. The time commitment of these activities is estimated to be 2 to 8 hours of effort. Note these out-of-class activities are optional, you do not need to complete these for your certification.

What's In It For You

• Differentiate yourself in the global marketplace of product owners
• Attract more recruiters and command a higher rate of pay, the average annual Product Owner salary is 105,411 according to ZipRecruiter
• Claim 24 Scrum Alliance Scrum Education Units (SEUs) and Project Management Institute (PMI) Professional Development Units (PDUs)
• Attend exclusive CSP events with other leaders in Agile and Scrum
• Establish a gateway and milestone toward becoming CST®, CEC, or CTC
• Receive a free Premium subscription to the world's largest Agile assessment and continuous improvement platform, Comparative Agility®

Certification

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

• Hold an Advanced Certified Product Owner (A-CSPO) certification with Scrum Alliance.
• Validate at least 24 months of work experience specific to the role of Product Owner (from within the past five years).

Students can still attend our CSP-PO course even without these requirements and later complete the A-CSPO, and/or work experience to claim their certification. As a bonus, this class will automatically renew you’re A-CSPO, CSPO, and CSM (if applicable) certifications, even if those credentials are expired.

NOTE: You may take the CSP-PO educational offering at any time after completing your A-CSPO certification, and must have at least 24 months of Product Owner experience logged into your Scrum Alliance profile before you are eligible to receive your CSP-PO certification.

About the Trainer

Richard Cheng is an Agile trainer with a deep background in Product Ownership. Richard creates fun immersive training courses that engage the students in a creative and effective way.

Richard is the former Lead of Agile at Excella and former Chief Product Owner at NextUp Solutions. A graduate of Virginia Tech, Richard has authored several publications on project management, given keynote talks around the world, is a member of Mensa, and holds certifications including Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified LeSS Practitioner, Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), and SAFe Program Consultant (SPC). Richard is a founder and on the executive committee of the Agile Delivery for Agencies, Programs, and Teams (ADAPT), an Agile government task force.

• Richard’s podcast interview on Product Ownership
• Richard’s webinar on Business Agility
• Richard’s webinar on the Perfect Product Owner

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 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.