Description
Why this course?
– After successfully completing the course you will be designated as a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Professional® – Product Owner.
– You will be equipped to operate effectively with a deeper entrepreneurial mindset in a more Agile product-based organisation. Driven by a better understanding of propositions competitors and product outcomes and metrics supported by results driven techniques and informed by insights while better understanding your business customers and stakeholders.
You will be able to:
– Recognise organisational context that allow you to grow as a great Product Owner
– Understand that benefits of considering the product owner as an entrepreneur and owner of a microenterprise
– Use techniques to alleviate stakeholder conflicts and improve collaboration
– Use a range of techniques for engaging with stakeholders to improve communication
– Apply techniques to design and implement a product team immersion plan
– Understand and apply a business model for a product idea
– Develop a deeper understanding of product propositions
– Use techniques to better understand competitor analysis and product propositions forecasts
– Understand beyond budgeting techniques and how they differ from traditional budgeting
– Use cost of delay and return on investment to deliver better value to customers
– Visualise and communicate product and feature ideas and assumptions
Why this course?
– Deepen your knowledge of how to become an even better product owner through wider organisational context and business acumen and business agility.
– Become a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Professional® – Product Owner.
– Gain the best next level Scrum Professional – Product Owner accreditation to complete the triad of certifications being one of the most recognised and in demand from employers and recruiters.
– Take a significant step in your agile journey to Certified Team Coach® or Certified Enterprise Coach®
Who is this course suitable for?
This course is for Scrum Product Owner’s with at least two 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 product development and your own abilities as a product owner.
Are there any prerequisites for this course?
– You will already be a Scrum Alliance Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner ® (A-CSPO®)
– At least 2 years’ experience working as a Scrum Product Owner
How should I prepare for this course?
Attendees should re-familiarise themselves with the Scrum Guide, other pre-reading will be sent out in the joining instructions.
What about exams and certifications?
There are no exams for this course and following successful completion of this course participants will be designated as Certified Scrum Professional® – Product Owner.
What the course includes:
– Certified Scrum Professional® – Product Owner on successful completion
– 2 years’ membership of the Scrum Alliance worth $100
– One hour coaching session post course
– High quality instruction from our Certified Scrum Trainers® and Certified Agile Coaches® with many years’ experience of training Scrum and very importantly implementing Scrum in the real world.
Course materials:
– 14 Category B Professional Development Units (PDUs) can be claimed for this course
– 16 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours and CPD certificate
– 16 Scrum Education Units® (SEUs)
Delivery Method:
Live Instructor Led Virtual
– 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 format
– 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



