Certified Scrum Professional-Product Owner® (CSP-PO) Training
Course US-1834

This Certified Product Owner (CSP-PO) training program helps Product Owners advance their careers to Product Managers and solidify their education in topics such as advanced stakeholder discussion; funding and financing; customer development; product launches; and advanced product discovery. This workshop also lets you gain valuable monthly consultations from a Certified Scrum Trainer.

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

• In this course, you will learn how to:

  • Leverage the economics of product development
  • Start multiple new Agile teams
  • Prioritize a backlog and roadmap at scale
  • Incorporate collaboration frameworks
  • Apply entrepreneurship in an Agile context

• Training Prerequisites

  We welcome everybody to start the program. However, you will need to meet certain criteria during the annual membership to receive your CSP-PO certification (all included):

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

• Certification Information

  Upon completing the entire CSP-PO program, your certification will be active for two years. Renewing certification includes 60 hours of continued education and a $250 fee. To process your renewal, see the Scrum Alliance guide on renewing your professional certification here.

Certified Product Owner Training Outline

Module 1: Product Owner Core Competencies

• 1.1 Appraise how different organizational contexts might impact how a person is selected to be a Product Owner. 

Advanced Stakeholder Discussion 

• 1.2 Assess a facilitated session with stakeholders who are in conflict, providing two examples of how to improve facilitation. 
• 1.3 Compare at least two techniques for gathering, communicating, and leveraging information from internal and external stakeholders. 
• 1.4 Evaluate how their stakeholder relationships and/or product could benefit from the adoption of the latest definition of Scrum. 

Launching Scrum Teams 

• 1.5 Explain at least three reasons why the start of a new Scrum Team should be handled differently from a traditional project kickoff or charter. 
• 1.6 Discuss the Product Owner’s responsibility to define expectations for quality when their Scrum Team forms. 
• 1.7 Plan the launch of a new Scrum Team. 

Product Ownership with Multiple Teams 

• 1.8 Demonstrate at least two methods to support Product Backlog management across multiple Scrum Teams. 
• 1.9 Contrast at least two patterns for scaling the Product Owner role. 
• 1.10 Develop and then teach a topic related to product ownership. 

Module 2: Implementing Goal Setting and Planning

Market-Driven Product Strategy Practices 

• 2.1 Compare and contrast at least three business models for a product. 
• 2.2 Develop a business model for a product idea. 
• 2.3 Construct a competitive analysis. 

Complex Product Planning and Forecasting 

• 2.4 Compare at least two techniques to develop a product plan or forecast. 
• 2.5 Develop an appropriate release strategy for a business model. 
• 2.6 Identify at least three measurable product launch goals. 
• 2.7 Identify at least five elements of a product launch plan. 

Product Economics 

• 2.8  Apply at least two methods to determine the profitability of a product. 
• 2.9 Calculate the expected outcome or economic results of a product release, given fixed and variable costs, and forecasted return. 
• 2.10 Explain an iterative and incremental investment model for product development.
• 2.11 Demonstrate at least three ways how return on investment can be improved. 
• 2.12 Calculate the cost of delay for a product feature. 
• 2.13 Compare at least two approaches to fund agile product development.

Module 3: Advanced Interactions with Customers and Users

• 3.1 Prepare a plan to integrate customer research into product discovery and development.
• 3.2 Evaluate at least three techniques for customer research or product discovery.

Module 4: Complex Product Assumption Validation

• 4.1 Select an appropriate experiment to test a hypothesis. 
• 4.2 Evaluate the results and impact of an experiment. 

Module 5: Advanced Product Backlog Management

• 5.1 Assess how Scrum Teams and/or organizations emphasize outcomes and impact over output. 
• 5.2 Compare at least three techniques to order a Product Backlog. 
• 5.3 Defend the order of a Product Backlog with one or more stakeholders. 
• 5.4 Evaluate their Scrum Team’s ability to effectively refine the Product Backlog.