Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Course Curriculum

This training is aimed at instilling the core beliefs of Agile and Scrum and creating a transparent and collaborative environment where the team succeeds as a single entity. SCRUM is an Agile Project Management method that focuses on short, focused work periods called “SPRINTS”.

During this 2- day course, participants will learn to apply the Scrum framework to build new products. They will get trained as Product Owners and learn what it feels like to be on a Scrum team – experiencing many of the challenges they’re likely to face – while being coached by a Certified Scrum Trainer who has been involved with the application of Scrum at many organization

1. Scrum Basics
   • Understanding Scrum framework
   • Scrum Rules & Properties
   • Software Development Principles
   • Empirical Process Control
   • Work Culture
2. Roles & Responsibilities
   • Product Owner (in Detail)
   • Scrum Master (Overview)
   • Development Team (Overview)
   • Impact on traditional roles
3. Product Vision
   • Importance of Product Vision
   • Create effective Product Vision
   • Desired qualities of the vision
   • How the vision can be shaped?
   • Importance of just-enough prep work
   • Relationship between vision & product roadmap
4. Estimating
   • Understand different estimation levels in Scrum
   • Accuracy Vs Precision
   • Size & Duration estimation
   • Product Owner’s expectation from team
   • Difference between Estimation & Committing
5. The Product Backlog
   • Understand Product Backlog
   • Product Backlog Grooming
6. Prioritizing
   • Understand the importance of prioritizing in Product Backlog
   • Implications of making everything mandatory
   • Who inputs into prioritization?
   • Multiple factors affecting prioritization
   • Formal approach to prioritizing
   • Team’s role in adjusting sequence of work
7. Release Management
   • Goal of release management
   • Adaptive, Iterative & collaborative planning
   • Different levels of Planning
   • Quality of shippable product
   • Technical Debt
   • Release early & frequently
   • Understanding & measuring Velocity
   • Release Burndown Chart
   • Forecast future
8. Sprints
   • Product Owner’s role
   • Collaboration between Product Owner & Development team
   • Team commitment
   • Sprints – Time-boxed & protected
   • Sustainable pace concept

Prerequisite

It is desired that participants have basic knowledge of Agile to attend this course. To appear for the certification, candidates must present the 2-day CSPO course certificate, which will be provided by our trainers on successful completion of the course.

Certification

On successful completion of an in-person, two days (16 hour) CSPO course taught by a Certified Scrum Trainer (such as this course), you will receive a Certificate from Scrum Alliance designating you as Certified Scrum Product Owner. The certification includes a two-year membership in Scrum Alliance.