Go Beyond the Title: Become a Strategic Product Manager. Product Management is a job; a Product Owner is a role particular to Scrum. Our CSPO class focuses on helping you excel as a Product Manager within a Scrum Team. More importantly, this course delivers real-world, actionable guidance—not just theory. Be prepared for practical exercises and relatable examples led by expert trainers who have built Agile teams, giving you the tools to align stakeholders and prioritize effectively.
Through the CSPO®, you'll learn to:
- Build a compelling product vision and turn it into actionable goals
- Turn strategy into delivery when working with developers or senior stakeholders
- Practice story-splitting techniques that make backlog refinement faster and easier
- Apply proven prioritization techniques to align stakeholders when facing infinite work with finite capacity
- Use AI-powered prompts to clarify strategy and improve your roadmap
- Apply techniques in real-world simulations rather than relying strictly on theory
Benefits
- Earn Professional Credits: 14 PDUs with PMI (Project Management Institute) to support continued certification
- Scrum Education Units: 16 SEUs with Scrum Alliance toward your CSP journey
- Expert Instruction: Learn from seasoned facilitators who have built Agile teams and organizations
- Strategic Impact: Gain the confidence to make sharper roadmap calls and lead product adoption
Requirements
- 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).
Your Instructor
As a Certified Scrum Trainer, Lance has trained and coached teams through many successful Scrum implementations since 2011, from Fortune 20 companies to small start-ups. Lance is also experienced in showing agile coaches and managers how to help cross functional, self-organizing teams deliver high value for customers as early as possible by using Scrum.
Scrum Certifications include: CSM, CST, CSPO, CAL-1, A-CSM, A-CSPO, CSP-SM, CSP-PO, Path to CSP Educator, Scrum Foundations Educator.