Why is this course important? 

Product Ownership is pivotal to maximise the value delivered by the Scrum Team. If you have the CSPO certification and are looking to provide even better outcomes for your customers and business then this course is for you.

This course will help you:

• Improve your collaboration and engagement with stakeholders
• Define Product Strategy and practice Product Discovery
• Bring the customer into the room
• Improve your collaboration with your team(s)
• Identify, articulate, prioritise and validate assumptions
• Model and Measure Value
• Revolutionise Refinement
• Scale Product Ownership

This Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner course is the second step on the Path to CSP (Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner) and builds on the fundamental principles and practices covered in the CSPO course.

Topics covered include:

Product Planning

• Levels of Planning
• Product Strategy
• Product Discovery and Design Thinking with Scrum
• Roadmaps, Release Planning and Forecasting

Engaging Stakeholders

• Stakeholder Mapping
• Bringing the Customer into the room
• Practice facilitation techniques

Product Assumptions

• Assumptions and Decision Making
• Cognitive Bias
• Identifying assumptions and Hypothesis formulation
• Testing Hypotheses
• Advanced techniques for the Product Backlog

Modelling and Measuring Value

• Why model Value?
• Approaches to understanding and modelling value
• Applying value models to prioritise the Product Backlog
• Measuring Realised Value

Product Ownership at Scale

• Organisational design and scaling for Product Based delivery
• Key patterns for groups of teams, team organisation and synchronisation across teams and specialisms.
• How these patterns relate to popular scaling approaches

Refinement

• Integrating feedback into Refinement
• Backlog Refinement workshop
• Applying BDD (Behaviour Driven Development)

Engineering Quality

• Why the PO cares about Technical Debt
• Types of Technical Debt
• Dealing with legacy debt

Schedule

The course runs to a convenient 9:30am - 16:00pm (UK) schedule over 3 days along with some homework to enable really deep learning along with some space to fit in other aspects of your life. There will also be a break for lunch and regular breaks for tea and coffee and to stretch your legs.

Preparation

We recommend you have a (re)read through the latest Scrum Guide, written by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland the co-creators of Scrum. The Scrum Alliance also has a nice overview of Scrum which might serve as refresher.

To warm up for the course here is some pre-reading and video content (time permitting):

• Refamiliarize yourself with the Scrum Guide. We will do a quick Scrum refresh exercise early in the course.
• Steve Blank – The customer Development process – a 5-minute video
• Marty Cagan – Discovery and Delivery Product Team activities
• Jeff Gothelf How to use the Lean UX Canvas – we’ll be using this canvas in the course so feel free to get a head start
• Jeff Gothelf How to prioritize hypotheses for testing – same again, building on the Lean UX Canvas

What do I need to take part in this course?

The most obvious thing you will need is a good WiFi and Internet connection with a nice quiet environment for you to both hear and also interact with your fellow course attendees and us lovely trainers! Don't worry about the odd child/dog/cat/partner wondering past or interrupting occasionally, we'll just roll with it :-)

We recommend a laptop or desktop with good sound and microphone. Course participants have struggled on phones and tablets. We will be using Zoom for the video conference functionality with a waiting room and password configured to provide a reasonable level of security. If you can, we recommend installing the Zoom app on your device but the web version should work as a plan B.

Course Outcomes

Qualification for A-CSPO requires:

• Full attendance of the course
• Engagement in group exercises
• Have successfully achieved CSPO
• Have a minimum of 12 months Product Owner experience.

Following successful completion of the course, eligible participants will become an Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (certification fee is included in the course fee).

An electronic version of course slides, materials and workshop output will also be provided.

Your Trainer

Colin

Although best known for my long association with Scrum, I love everything Lean, Agile and Kanban. I get a buzz out of catalysing new ideas, collaboration, creativity and innovation to engage the full potential of teams and leadership. Since 2005, I have been assisting organisations wrestle with the challenges of retaining agility as the scale of the challenge moves beyond a single team. My experience spans many different sectors and involves a broad spectrum of organisational elements, including strategy, budgeting, portfolio management, leadership, team design and engineering at scale. I enjoy using my hard-won years of team and senior leadership experience to help others.I am an Agile coach and consultant, a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) Trainer for the Scrum Alliance.Away from work, I try and squeeze in way too many sports and hobbies: road cycling up mountains, trail running with my dog, sailing, skiing, diving and lots of DIY projects!

Terms & Conditions

Full refunds are available 15 business or more days before the scheduled event date. Cancellations made 10 or more business days before the event will be credited toward future events, however, no refunds will be issued. Rescheduling course attendance within 10 full business days or less will be subject to a transfer fee of £100. No refunds or credits will be available for participants that fail to attend all days of the course. Substitutions will be accepted at any time prior to the commencement of the course.

In the unlikely event that we need to cancel or postpone the course you will be offered your choice of a discount on a later course or a full refund.

If you would like to pay via invoice then please contact us on info@ripple-rock.com.