Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner
Make Confident Product Decisions — Not Just Better Backlogs
Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner is a private two-day Scrum Alliance certification course that helps experienced product owners make difficult tradeoffs, lead stakeholder conversations, and guide product direction when the right answer is not obvious.
Chosen by companies in SaaS, Healthcare, Government, Consulting, Financial Services, Retail, Energy, and more.
When Backlog Basics Are No Longer The Challenge
- Stakeholders multiply and every request sounds urgent
- Prioritization gets harder when evidence is incomplete
- Feature conversations crowd out outcomes and value
- Product owners become brokers for competing requests
- Uncertainty delays decisions and weakens product direction
Advanced Product Ownership That Creates Direction
- Make difficult tradeoffs clearly and confidently
- Lead stakeholder conversations toward outcomes
- Use evidence without pretending uncertainty has disappeared
- Know when to listen, decide, push back, or change direction
- Focus teams on value rather than output alone
What This A-CSPO Course Emphasizes
What Participants Will Be Able To Do
Make Clearer Prioritization Decisions — Choose among competing options even when data is imperfect.
Lead Stakeholder Conversations — Move discussion from requested features toward outcomes and evidence.
Focus Teams On Value — Keep attention on the results worth pursuing, not output alone.
Navigate Uncertainty — Make responsible progress without waiting for false certainty.
Strengthen Product Leadership — Know when to listen, decide, push back, or change direction.
Compare Product Owner Workshops
Compare A-CSPO with Certified Scrum Product Owner and Effective Product Owner to choose the right level of certification, structure, and product ownership development.
How The Course Works
This is a focused, interactive advanced certification course for product owners who already know the fundamentals. Participants examine realistic product situations, practice difficult choices, and discuss how to lead when priorities, stakeholder needs, and evidence conflict.
The course satisfies Scrum Alliance’s minimum 16-hour A-CSPO education requirement and is designed for live online delivery using Mountain Goat Software’s interactive learning environment.
- Scrum Alliance Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner course
- Delivered over two focused days
- Designed for live online delivery
- Private course for your organization
- Builds on CSPO foundations rather than repeating them
- Supports the education requirement for A-CSPO certification
Course Outline
- Agile product thinking across discovery, delivery, learning, value, and uncertainty
- The Product Owner as decision-maker and product leader
- Product vision, strategy, goals, outcomes, and strategic focus
- Prioritization and transparent tradeoffs when options compete
- Stakeholder collaboration, influence, assumptions, and outcome-focused conversations
- Evidence-based decisions using data, feedback, and experimentation
- Product ownership mastery, leadership stance, and continued growth
Tools And Resources Participants Can Keep Using
The course extends beyond two days with resources that support product decisions back at work:
- MGS AI Toolkit for coaching, story splitting, and backlog items
- Planning Poker for collaborative estimation
- Prompts and techniques for prioritization, evidence, and stakeholder conversations
- Course resources participants can revisit after training
Taught By People Who Helped Shape Scrum
Mountain Goat Software was founded by Mike Cohn, a co-founder of both the Scrum Alliance and the Agile Alliance and the author of User Stories Applied, Agile Estimating and Planning, and Succeeding with Agile.
For more than 25 years, Mountain Goat Software has helped teams apply Scrum in ways that work across industries, team types, and organizational cultures. Participants learn from experienced trainers who can connect advanced product ownership ideas to the decisions real product owners face.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who should attend?
This course is for experienced product owners who already understand Scrum and backlog fundamentals and want to improve their impact as product decision-makers. Participants should hold a Scrum Alliance CSPO certification before they can receive the A-CSPO credential.
What experience is required for A-CSPO certification?
Scrum Alliance requires at least 12 months of product owner work experience within the past five years. You may complete that experience before or after the course, but it must be validated in your Scrum Alliance account before the credential is issued.
Does my CSPO need to be active?
No. Scrum Alliance currently accepts an active or expired CSPO as the prerequisite credential. The prerequisite must be from the product owner track; a CSM does not substitute for it.
How is this different from Certified Scrum Product Owner?
Certified Scrum Product Owner establishes the foundations of the Product Owner accountability, customers and users, prioritization, and Product Backlog management. A-CSPO assumes that foundation and focuses on advanced judgment, stakeholder leadership, evidence, outcomes, and difficult tradeoffs.
Can this course be customized?
Examples, discussion, and exercises can connect to your organization’s products and challenges. Because this is a certification course, it must still satisfy Scrum Alliance A-CSPO learning objectives and education requirements.
Do we sell individual seats?
No. Mountain Goat Software focuses on private training for organizations. We can discuss a private A-CSPO course for your company.