Make Confident Product Decisions — Not Just Better Backlogs
As products grow, stakeholders multiply, and uncertainty increases, product ownership gets harder — especially in advanced Scrum product owner roles.
Many advanced courses add more tools, models, or frameworks. This course helps you think and decide more effectively when the answers aren’t obvious.
In two focused days, you’ll sharpen your product judgment and learn how to lead product conversations with confidence — without relying on rigid frameworks or endless backlog rituals.
What This A-CSPO Course Emphasizes
Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner® assumes you already understand product owner responsibilities, backlog refinement, and Scrum fundamentals — and builds on them rather than repeating them.
You’ll focus on how to:
- Make tough prioritization decisions with confidence
- Balance stakeholder needs without becoming a feature broker
- Use evidence and outcomes to guide direction
- Lead product conversations when there’s no obvious “right” answer
The emphasis is on product judgment and leadership — not prescriptive frameworks, exam prep, or one-size-fits-all formulas.
A Unique, Interactive Learning Experience
Team Home is a collaboration platform that we designed for our courses. It is optimized for live, online training. Participants benefit by collaborating in ways beyond what is possible with generic whiteboard software such as Mural or Miro. Instructors can observe activity across all rooms, improving the effectiveness and efficiency of exercise debriefs.
Access Our Resources, Planning Poker® and AI Toolkit
Expanded access to MGS Essentials, included with your trainining, is your toolkit for doing agile better, with resources that help you and your team move faster, plan smarter, and deliver more value.
Access live events, video lectures, and a powerful set of tools including online Planning Poker®, the Elements of Agile assessment and AI tools for coaching, story splitting and backlog item generation.
Your Instructor
Mountain Goat has handpicked instructors that share our training values. These are people with deep experience, who are leading teams with agile today and can give you real-world answers about what does and doesn’t work.
Brian Milner
Starting out as a developer, Brian worked up through management layers, then transitioned to Scrum Master, then Coach and now Certified Scrum Trainer. His practical experience in both waterfall and agile organizations helps him clarify what works and what doesn’t, plus he has many years’ experience helping teams transition to agile.
Read more...Brian also brings more than 20 years of software development experience to his classes. People remark on his ability to answer even tough questions with ease, enthusiasm, and insight.
Scrum Certifications include: CSM, CST, CSPO, CAL-Educator, CAL-1, A-CSM, A-CSPO, CSP-CM, CSP-PO, Path to CSP Educator, Scrum Foundations Educator.