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

Course 1824

  • Duration: Multi-Week
  • Exam Voucher: Yes
  • Language: English
  • Level: Intermediate

As CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner®), you create a product vision, order the product backlog, and ensure the best possible job is done to delight the customer. This Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) training course will advance your skills in maximizing business value and Product Backlog optimization and earn the Advanced CSPO certification demonstrating your experience in this role.

A-CSPO Training Delivery Methods

  • In-Person

  • Online

A-CSPO Training Information

In this course, you will learn how 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 the crucial opportunities and avoid wasting time.
  • Define and validate business value.
  • Build on your foundational knowledge with enhanced implementation skills.
  • Distinguish yourself in the global marketplace with an Advanced certification.

Training Prerequisites

We welcome everybody to start the program. However, you will need to meet certain criteria to receive your A-CSPO certification:

  • A current Certified Scrum Product Owner® certification from the Scrum Alliance®.
  • 12 or more months of experience as a product owner within the last 5 years.

Certification Requirements

  • Attend at least four instructor-led coaching circles (you are welcome to attend more).
  • Complete all the online modules, quizzes and assignments.
  • Bring a positive attitude and desire to make a real impact along with your team.

A-CSPO Course Outline

Examining Product Owner Accountabilities and Responsibilities 

  • 1.1 Analyze the importance of Product Ownership.
  • 1.2 Reflect on the mindset and actions of a successful Product Owner.
  • 1.3 Discuss at least three possible impacts on their stakeholder relationships and product that could result if their Scrum Team adopted the latest definition of Scrum. 

Working with Stakeholders  

  • 1.4 Demonstrate at least three techniques to interact with stakeholders over multiple Sprints. 
  • 1.5 Describe two examples when the Product Owner should not act as the facilitator for the stakeholders. 
  • 1.6  Demonstrate at least three facilitative listening techniques. 
  • 1.7  Demonstrate the use of at least two alternatives to open discussion. 
  • 1.8 Describe at least three ways to facilitate a final decision with stakeholders.  

Working with Developers   

  • 1.9 Explain why the Product Owner should be cautious about accumulating technical debt.   
  • 1.10  List at least three development practices that could help their Scrum Team deliver a high-quality Increment and reduce technical debt each Sprint. 

Product Ownership with Multiple Teams   

  • 1.11 Recognize at least two approaches to scaling Scrum. 
  • 1.12 Identify at least two techniques for visualizing, managing, or reducing dependencies. 
  • 1.13 Describe at least three benefits and drawbacks of feature and component teams. 
  • 2.1 Discuss a real-world example of how product strategy is operationalized and evolves over time in an agile organization. 
  • 2.2 Practice at least two approaches to identify purpose or define strategy. Advanced Product Planning and Forecasting 
  • 2.3 Create a product plan or forecast with stakeholders. 
  • 2.4 Practice at least one technique to visualize and communicate product strategy, product ideas, features, and assumptions. 
  • 3.1 Use one technique to connect developers directly to customers and users. 
  • 3.2 Practice at least two techniques of product discovery.
  • 4.1 List two cognitive biases that may impact the Product Owner's capability to deliver business value effectively.  
  • 4.2 Appraisal of how effectively a Sprint Review was used to inspect and adapt based on the Sprint Goal and Increment(s) completed during the Sprint. 
  • 4.3 Experiment with at least one approach to incorporate validating assumptions into the Scrum framework. 
  • 4.4 Develop at least two hypotheses for a target customer.  
  • 4.5 Create a plan to test at least one hypothesis. 
  • 5.1 Use at least two techniques to model value and at least two techniques to measure value. 
  • 5.2 Apply at least three techniques to order a Product Backlog to support a Product Goal.  
  • 5.3 Describe how the Product Owner can ensure that enough Product Backlog items are “ready” for the upcoming Sprint.  
  • 5.4 Integrate feedback from at least three sources to generate and refine Product Backlog items. 
  • 5.5 Experiment with at least two ways to improve their Product Backlog refinement.

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A-CSPO Training FAQs

The A-CSPO Training course covers several topics, including product owner core competencies, working with stakeholders, working with developers, product ownership with multiple teams, advanced goal setting and planning, developing practical product strategies, advanced product planning and forecasting, empathizing with customers and users, advanced product assumption validation, and product backlog management.

We welcome everybody to start the program. However, you will need to meet certain criteria to receive your A-CSPO certification:

  • A current Certified Scrum Product Owner® certification from the Scrum Alliance®.
  • 12 or more months of experience as a product owner within the last 5 years. 

The A-CSPO Training course is an intermediate-level course.

Product Owners, Product Managers and other entrepreneurs

Certified ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches and other change agents

Certified Scrum Professionals looking to renew their certification

Architects, Business Analysts and Technical Managers

The A-CSPO Training course includes on-demand training, online lectures, step-by-step exercises, a one-year subscription to course materials and coaching circles, live access to certified Scrum trainers, and coaching circles with CST instructors and other students for progress checks, idea sharing, and support.

Progress at your own pace – you only need an hour a week. We understand people want to know more about Scrum and Agile but do not have time to spend eight hours (or more!) in a classroom. With this program, you only need a few spare hours a week to complete one or more topics. This A-CSPO program comprises seventeen online courses, including short lectures, engaging exercises and useful step-by-step techniques to test out with your team.

Each month, you can dial into one or more Coaching Circles with your CST and other students to check progress, share ideas, answer questions, and offer encouragement. With our program, you will feel like you are making your A-CSPO journey within a team, even though it is an online program.

  • Attend at least four instructor-led coaching circles (you are welcome to attend more, of course!).
  • Complete all the online modules, quizzes, and assignments.
  • Bring a positive attitude and desire to make a real impact along with your team.

To receive the A-CSPO certification, you need to have a current Certified Scrum Product Owner certification from the Scrum Alliance and 12 or more months of experience as a product owner within the last 5 years.

To receive the A-CSPO certification, you need to attend at least four instructor-led coaching circles, complete all the online modules, quizzes and assignments, and bring a positive attitude and desire to make a real impact along with your team.

Yes, an exam voucher is included in the A-CSPO Training course.

  1. Product Owner Core Competencies
  2. Advanced Goal Setting and Planning
  3. Empathizing with Customers and Users
  4. Advanced Product Assumption Validation
  5. Product Backlog Management

A-CSPO Training is a multi-week course.

The instructors for the A-CSPO Training course are Carlton Nettleton and Jason Tanner.

Yes, the A-CSPO Training course can be brought to an organization as a private team training program.

Certification candidates and existing credential holders are responsible for reporting all Continuing Certification Requirements Program (CCR) activities to PMI (Project Management Institute). To report the completion of a Learning Tree course, you can use the Online PDU (Professional Development Units) Resources System.

  • Go to the PMI Continuing Certification Requirements System https://ccrs.pmi.org/
  • Log in with your username and password
  • Locate the claim code associated with your course in the table in this document
  • Click on “Report PDU for this activity”
  • Fill in the date started and date completed
  • Click on the box agreeing that this claim is accurate and then submit

PDU Information for This Course:

  • Total PDUs: 16
  • Ways of Working PDUs: 11
  • Power Skills PDUs: 5
  • Business Acumen PDUs: 0
  • PMI Claim Code: 1154KP5J0F
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