ACSPO - Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner

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

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

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

AUDIENCE

This course is tailored to support the ongoing evolution of product ownership for those who hold the CSPO certification. Whether you are a Product Owner, Portfolio Manager, Program Manager, Product Manager, Business Analyst or in a coaching role this course will help you build on your current capabilities.

CERTIFICATION

Qualification for A-CSPO requires:

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

Following successful completion of the course, the 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.

DURATION

The course runs to a convenient 9:30 pm – 16:00 pm 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 regular breaks for tea and coffee and to stretch your legs.

PRE-WORK

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