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 Deepen your skills as a product owner

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If you’re already a Product Owner but you’re hungry to broaden your understanding and sharpen your skills, this is the course for you.

 

This A-CSPO course is about growing as a Product Owner. It takes you deeper into the techniques of product ownership and successful product delivery, with a focus on how you can become more skillful and effective. It involves plenty of practical challenges, thinking for yourself and thought-provoking discussion.

 

You’ll consider the more global aspects of product ownership – how to navigate a complex product development landscape, how to apply lean principles, and what aspects of your personal growth to focus on. This will involve learning a range of advanced tools in areas such as working with stakeholders, facilitation, collaboration techniques, scaling, advanced product validation, and advanced product backlog management.

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How the course works?

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You’ll experience a combination of workshop, applied learning on the job and reflective learning as part of online group coaching sessions. The workshop includes interactive exercises, real-life examples, and lively discussion. It will push you, challenge you, and get you thinking. But the most effective learning, the kind that permanently changes you, happens when you apply techniques and knowledge and reflect on your results.​

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So following the workshop you’ll have access to optional online coaching sessions in which you can reflect on how you are applying your knowledge and skills

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What you'll come away with

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After successfully completing the course, you will be designated as an Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner. This Scrum Alliance certification includes a two-year membership of the Scrum Alliance.

 

You will be equipped to operate effectively in a more Agile product-based organization – driven by product outcomes and metrics, supported by results driven approaches, and informed by insights into human based biases and behaviors. You'll be able to:

• Use effective techniques to collaborate as a member of a cross-functional Scrum Team • Use techniques to identify your key stakeholders

• Use a range of techniques for engaging with stakeholders

• Recognize when to act as a facilitator for stakeholders

• Apply group facilitation techniques

• Identify when a group is engaged in divergent thinking or convergent thinking

• Discuss the impact of different technical practices on maximizing business value

• Understand different scaling frameworks and approaches

• Identify purpose or strategy to foster alignment and shared ownership

• Plan 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

• Visualize and communicate product and feature ideas and assumptions • Incorporate testing assumptions into the Scrum framework

• Develop hypotheses for a given target user/customer segment

• Maximize outcome and impact to the business, user, and market whilst minimizing output for a product/ feature idea

• Use different techniques to model and measure value

• Use at least four factors to order a product backlog, and different techniques to structure its contents

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What topics are covered?​​

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• Product definition and organizational 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.

• Visualizing 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.

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How should I prepare for this course?

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Attendees should re-familiarize themselves with the Scrum Guide and conduct the pre-course reading.

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Who is this course suitable for?

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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.

 

What about exams and certifications? 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.

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Are there any prerequisites for this course?

 

• You will already be a Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®)

• At least 1 years’ experience working as a Scrum Product Owner

 

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What the course includes?

 

• 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.

• Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner® on successful completion

• 2 years’ membership of the Scrum Alliance.

• Access to exclusive resources

• 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)

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Instructor

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Mr. Zia Malik, Enterprise Agile Coach & Trainer based in UK.

 

For Zia Malik, organizational change doesn’t just mean adopting new processes and working in new ways. It isn’t even simply about thinking in new ways. True transformation requires challenging beliefs, and that means changing people from the inside.

Zia is one of a small number of UK Certified Enterprise Coaches with the Scrum Alliance, and an experienced agile trainer, Certified Scrum Trainer CST and professionally trained coach in business and personal coaching, accredited by the International Coach Federation. He has worked as an enterprise coach in a range of industries including fintech, aerospace, pharma and retail, working with individuals, teams and organizations.

He works with frameworks such as Scrum, but recognizes that these don’t exist in a vacuum. People work within them and adapt to them, and Zia spends much of his time focusing on the psychological motivations and barriers involved in personal and organizational change. Ultimately it’s about moving from structures and mindsets inherited from the Industrial Revolution towards a smarter way of organizing ourselves.

Zia’s training and coaching is both inspiring and thought-provoking, aimed at giving people a set of tools, techniques and concepts they can use to achieve and sustain genuine transformation

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