Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner

This programme is aimed at practicing Product Owners, growing skills and knowledge in areas such as stakeholder identification and management, neuroscience-based collaboration techniques, scaling and advanced product backlog management.

The Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner™ programme will help you take that next step in your growth as a Product Owner. By the end of this programme you will be able to:

• Identify the skills and capabilities needed for a Product Owner to collaborate as a member of a cross-functional Scrum
• Team in order to create successful products
• Use techniques to identify that you are working with the key stakeholders you need
• Recognise when to act as a facilitator for stakeholders
• Identify when a group is engaged in divergent thinking or convergent thinking
• Describe the key attributes of different scaling frameworks and approaches
• Utilise approaches to identify purpose or strategy to foster alignment and shared ownershipPlan a product release based on content from a roadmap, market segmentation or window
• Connect teams directly to customers and users to build deeper understanding and empathy
• Visualise and communicate product and feature ideas and assumptions
• Incorporate testing assumptions into the Scrum framework
• Develop hypotheses for a given target user/customer segment
• Maximise outcome and impact to the business, user, and market whilst minimising output for a product/feature idea
• Use different techniques to model and measure value
• Describe and apply at least four factors to implement when ordering a product backlog, and different techniques to structure and filter the contents of a product backlog

• 2 days of high quality instruction from a Certified Scrum Trainer
• Optional online coaching sessions to reflect on your Scrum Product Owner practice
• Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner certification and Scrum Alliance certification on successful completion of the 2 day workshop
• For courses on our public schedule, refreshments before and during the course, including lunch
• Course materials

• Product definition and organisational impact
• In-depth exploration of the Product Owner role and implementation patterns
• Mapping and working with Stakeholders
• Neuroscience-based collaboration techniques
• Group facilitation techniques
• Scaling approaches and patterns(e.g. SAFe, LeSS)
• Managing dependencies or reducing/removing dependencies between teams
• Visualising dependencies between teams
• Large-scale participatory meeting formats
• Cogitative bias that influences individual and Product decision making
• Vision to value
• Identifying target markets, looking at problem / solution fit and product market fit
• Exploring user jobs to be done
• Where to start with a Product – push v’s pull
• Creating Product tests
• Getting early feedback using marketing and prototypes to drive Product research
• Quantifying value and return on investment
• Comparative cost of delay

This course is for Scrum Product Owner’s with at least a year’s experience in the role.  You must have Agile experience as the course will build on your experiences in order to deepen your understanding of Agile and yourself.

• You will already be a Certified Scrum Product Owner ® (CSPO®)
• At least 1 years’ experience working as a Scrum Product Owner

Attendees should re-familiarise themselves with the  Scrum Guide

Following successful completion of this course, participants will be designated as Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owners. This Scrum Alliance certification includes a two-year membership in the Scrum Alliance.