Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner

The Advanced CSPO is a two-day course which acts as the second step in the three-part Product Owner Path to CSP. It helps Product Owners who have already been practicing Scrum to take their art to the next level in a deeply interactive experience that is tuned to the particular organizational and personal needs of each class.

The course is structured so that each exercise has multiple benefits, acting both as an engaging exploration of a subject and as a model for facilitation itself. This allows students to experience a wide range of advanced tools that they can then use on their own following the course. Far from a dry lecture or recanting of well-worn theories, this workshop aims to deliver personalization and practicality in the most engaging manner possible. All materials are provided in perpetually updated digital format for a rare level of accessibility and reusability.

To earn an Advanced CSPO, you first must have an active CSPO® certification with Scrum Alliance®, as well as at least one-year work experience specific to the role of Product Owner.

Professional Benefits

Earn 16 PMI PDUs & 16 Scrum Alliance SEUs
Merit recognition as a A-CSPO on the Scrum Alliance Website

Who Should Attend

Product Owners
Team Leads
Development Managers
Delivery Managers
Project Managers
Agile Coaches

The LitheSpeed Experience

Digital copies of all training materials
Catered breakfast, lunch and snacks
Access to our free retrospective tool Sensei

What You'll Learn

Some topics that will be covered in this class include:

Improving your ability to effectively sell the role of the Product Owner in Scrum
Assessing and advancing your expertise as a Product Owner
Managing large groups of stakeholders with competing interests
Exploring how to best engage with the broader organization
Tuning the way Scrum events are run and facilitated
Improving the PO’s relationship with the team
Utilizing Kanban classes of service and other advanced prioritization methods to build pull systems
Gaining and spreading empathy for customers and users
Dealing elegantly with technical debt in evolving and legacy systems
Understanding and using agile engineering practices and DevOps appropriately
Grasping the host of available scaling methods

Acting as a PO or Chief PO in scaled environments
Scaling while maintaining ownership and effective feedback loops
Advanced methods for facilitating big room planning sessions
Understanding and visualizing value streams
Addressing waste through process and application redesign
Exploring large scale case studies of business-driven agile transformations
Applying appropriate divergent brainstorming techniques
Advanced techniques for roadmapping and release planning
Modeling user and customer archetypes and using them for design and prioritization
Getting the team engaged in usability testing
Testing assumptions using both qualitative and quantitative methods
Finding and tracking effective metrics
Refining the backlog more fluidly and easily