A-CSPO® Certification Information
Get Certified on Globally Recognized Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner Certification which is designed for experienced Product Owners who want to excel in their role and drive even greater value for their teams and organizations
Eligibility
- Hold a Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO) certification with the Scrum Alliance.
- Attend a certified A-CSPO® educational offering to gain techniques that expand into managing stakeholders, product discovery, and advanced Product Backlog management.
- Successfully complete all educator-designed components of an approved educational offering. This may include pre- or post-course work as deemed necessary by your approved educator to complete the learning objectives.
- You will be asked to accept the A-CSPO® License Agreement and complete your Scrum Alliance membership profile.
- Validate at least 12 months of work experience specific to the role of Product Owner (within the past five years).
Objective of the A-CSPO® Certification
- Product Owner Core Competencies
- Examining Product Owner Accountabilities and Responsibilities
- analyze the importance of Product Ownership.
- reflect on the mindset and actions of a successful Product Owner.
- discuss at least three possible impacts to their stakeholder relationships and/or product that could result if their Scrum Team adopted the latest definition of Scrum.
- Working with Stakeholders
- demonstrate at least three techniques to interact with stakeholders over multiple Sprints.
- describe two examples when the Product Owner should not act as the facilitator for the stakeholders.
- demonstrate at least three facilitative listening techniques.
- demonstrate the use of at least two alternatives to open discussion.
- describe at least three ways to facilitate a final decision with stakeholders.
- Working with Developers
- explain why the Product Owner should be cautious about accumulating technical debt.
- list at least three development practices that could help their Scrum Team deliver a high-quality
- Increment and reduce technical debt each Sprint.
- Product Ownership with Multiple Teams
- recognize at least two approaches to scaling Scrum.
- identify at least two techniques for visualizing, managing, or reducing dependencies.
- describe at least three benefits and drawbacks of feature teams and component teams.
- Examining Product Owner Accountabilities and Responsibilities
- Advanced Goal Setting and Planning
- Developing Practical Product Strategies
- discuss a real-world example of how product strategy is operationalized and evolves over time in an agile organization.
- practice at least two approaches to identify purpose or define strategy.
- Advanced Product Planning and Forecasting
- create a product plan or forecast with stakeholders.
- practice at least one technique to visualize and communicate product strategy, product ideas, features, and/or assumptions.
- Empathizing with Customers and Users.
- use one technique to connect developers directly to customers and users.
- practice at least two techniques of product discovery.
- Advanced Product Assumption Validation
- list two cognitive biases that may impact the Product Owner’s capability to effectively deliver business value.
- appraise how effectively a Sprint Review was used to inspect and adapt based on the Sprint Goal and Increment(s) that were completed during the Sprint.
- experiment with at least one approach to incorporate validating assumptions into the Scrum framework.
- develop at least two hypotheses for a target customer.
- create a plan to test at least one hypothesis.
- Product Backlog Management
- use at least two techniques to model value and at least two techniques to measure value.apply at least three techniques to order a Product Backlog to support a Product Goal.
- describe how the Product Owner can ensure that enough Product Backlog items are “ready” for the upcoming Sprint.
- integrate feedback from at least three sources to generate and refine Product Backlog items.
- experiment with at least two ways to improve their Product Backlog refinement.
- Developing Practical Product Strategies
Benefits of the A-CSPO® Certification
- Acquire the Advanced CSPO certification, recognized worldwide as a symbol of expertise and excellence in Product Ownership.
- Unlock the full potential of the Scrum framework and Agile principles to create high-value products.
- Gain a deeper understanding of stakeholder collaboration and deliver products that exceed expectations.
- Enhance your decision-making abilities and align your product strategy with business objectives.
- Join a growing community of Agile practitioners and share insights with like-minded professionals.
About A-CSPO Evaluation
- Participant should attend the classroom or virtual-classroom training by a CST®
- Participate in all the exercises and complete all the class assignments
- CST® should be convinced that you have fulfilled the learning objectives
- After you complete the A-CSPO® training and CST® is convinced, you will be asked to accept the A-CSPO® License Agreement and complete your Scrum Alliance membership profile
- You demonstrate by updating the experience on your Scrum Alliance Profile
- Once you accept the agreement, you will be A-CSPO® certified.
What will you learn with A-CSPO Certification Training?
Advanced CSPO is a case study-based approach. The application of various principles, techniques are done as the case study runs through the two days. The focus of Advanced CSPO is on applying Product Management principles at the strategic levels. Focus is on how the Product Owner can take up next level roles such as Product Manager or a Chief Product Owner.
- Product Management
- Product Owner and Product Manager accountabilities
- Relation of Product Owner / Product Manager to the different product artifacts such as product vision, product goal, product strategy, product roadmap and product backlog
- Analyzing mindset of Product Owner / Product Manager
- Scaling the Product Owner using frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS
- Developing Product Strategies
- Defining business problems
- Analyzing outcomes
- Understanding customers and users
- Understanding stakeholders and classifying them
- Defining high level Epics and features for further analysis
- Developing Product Roadmaps
- Analyzing different types of roadmaps for stable markets vs changing markets
- Selecting review frequency and planning horizons for roadmaps
- Taking the Epics defined in the product strategy and splitting them into features
- Prioritizing and estimating the features
- Defining release plans based on fixed scope or fixed time
- Calculating budges and timelines
- Product Discovery
- Defining Hypothesis for assumption validations
- Lean Startup cycle
- Different types of MVP techniques for assumption validations
- Applying MVP technique to discover product features
- Defining learning summaries
- Stakeholder Interactions
- Facilitation techniques
- Listening techniques
- Stakeholder interaction techniques
- Applying a few generally accepted Product Management techniques
- Metrics
- Definition of Ready and Done
- Prioritizing, Estimating
- Using stakeholder classification grids based on parameter such as Power, Interest, Influence,
Impacts - Using user classification grids based on parameters such as Markets, Age of product, Market
Share, Market Growth
Why do A-CSPO® when you are CSPO® Certified?
- CSPO® was about fundamentals of Product Management and Product Owner
- Advanced CSPO® is about Product Owner competencies
- Advanced CSPO A-CSPO® dives deeper so you learn advanced skills to help you consistently deliver value and improve as product owner.
- The course covers concepts around managing multiple initiatives and stakeholders, knowing how to turn a vision into a plan, How to deliver the most value to the business.
- Advanced CSPO A-CSPO® is the next level to become a Certified Scrum Professional. Once you become a CSP®, then you are eligible to apply as a Coach (CEC® or CTC®) or as a Trainer (CST®).
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Scrum Alliance is the oldest and the most credible Scrum certification body in the world. Scrum Alliance certifications are the most popular certifications in the whole world and have become hygiene with most organizations. CSM and CSPO certifications have become basic certifications looked for by the recruiters.
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