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Scrum Product Owner Certification

Certified Live Online In Person Two Days

Our CSPO® class gives you real world, actionable advice you can use to create a winning vision and build the best product.

NEW: AI-powered exercises in all CSPO classes!

We’re excited to introduce our custom-built AI tools to help you work faster and more effectively during the class. You’ll use Mountain Goat Software’s exclusive story-splitting AI to break down big stories and refine them quickly—saving time and effort during backlog refinement. You’ll also turn a vision statement into clear product goals with AI, then review and refine them to align with your strategy.

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Learn from experts with track records of successfully leading and training agile teams

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Practical exercises help you master building a vision and delivering value to stakeholders

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Real-world lesson examples that are easy to understand and apply

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Josue Cedeno
Honestly, this is the best scrum course I've taken hands down! Julie was fantastic and it was a great cohort in class. I'll definitely look to Mountain Goat for courses in the future.
Cassie E
Here is not only an opportunity to become a Certified Scrum Product Owner, but to learn and interface with a Scrum pioneer in Mike Cohn! The overall experience of this course - from the pre-course materials to the live sessions - were exceptional, engaging and exceeded my expectations.
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Mike Maddaloni
After the class, so many useful materials we can use - which is amazing!
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Marko
Mike Cohn and his team at Mountain Goat software have a highly refined training system that is absolutely first rate. The CSPO virtual training course pushed me beyond theory and equipped me with practical concepts that I can immediately put to work. The quality technical administration along with their talented team of facilitators made for an excellent training experience.
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Oksana Cyrwus
I am in Learning & Development, and the interactive piece of this class has been amazing! Please pass on my compliments! I am a learning designer and this is the best class accompany tool I've ever ran across. This class has been fantastic.
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Our Instructors

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.

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Mike Cohn

With 20+ years of agile training experience, Mike has honed a talent for explaining agile concepts with clear illustrations and real-life examples. Participants enjoy his passion for teaching the agile methodologies in a relatable and digestible way. 

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Brian Milner

Brian is the Senior Vice President of Training and Coaching with Mountain Goat Software and is a Certified Scrum Trainer. Starting out as a developer, Brian worked up through management layers, then transitioned to Scrum Master and then Coach. 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. 

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Lance Dacy

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. 

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Scott Dunn

Scott Dunn has more than 20 years of experience in management, project management (PMP), engagement management, and software development (MCSD). He’s worked in a variety of areas and industries from social media to mortgage banking, healthcare, defense, e-commerce, plus state and local government sectors.

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Lucy O’Keefe

Lucy has been a developer, Product Owner and Scrum Master in many scrum teams during her 28 years of IT experience. This brings a valuable perspective to the Teaching Assistant role as she helps students have a great training experience.

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Training Videos

Book this course and receive over 3 hours of pre-training videos to keep. Each lesson is 5-10 minutes and delivered by Mike Cohn.

The videos help you prepare for the class. With everyone starting day one with a shared understanding of the fundamentals, you can dive into deeper topics and discussions straight away.

This means you have more time over the two days to practice the skills you need to excel in your role.

 

Team Home

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.

 

Click below to see samples of the 100+ exercises instructors use in our courses.

In this CSPO exercise, participants take on roles in a movie studio and spend virtual currency to prioritize what will make them a successful movie.

Participants experience the benefits of collaborating and working as a cross-functional team in this exercise from Working on a Scrum Team.

During the CSM exercise, participants discuss how managers should interact with Scrum teams. Also shown is the custom debrief view used by instructors so they know which items need the most discussion after the exercise.

Exercises have custom debrief views for instructors, which help them know which topics warrant the most discussion after the exercise.

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After full participation of the complete training you will be registered with the Scrum Alliance as a Certified Scrum Product Owner.

14 PDUs within the PMI.
16 SEUs towards your CSP designation within the Scrum Alliance.

Additionally, if you currently hold a certification with the Scrum Alliance, attending this course will automatically advance your previous certification expiration date to the new certification expiration date.

Course Outline

1. Scrum Overview

  • Agile
  • Scrum

2. The Product Owner

  • What Is a Product Owner?
  • Characteristics
  • Responsibilities
  • Product Owners in Different Contexts
  • Quarterly Activities
  • Involvement over Time
  • Asking for Clarifications, Not Changes
  • Dealing with Difficult Situations
  • Business Analysts & Product Managers
  • Scaling the Product Owner Role

3. Visioning

  • Specifying the Problem, Not the Solution
  • Creating a Concise Vision
  • Five Techniques for Communicating Vision

4. Customers and Users

  • Validating Assumptions
  • User Roles
  • User Role Modeling
  • Personas
  • Roles vs. Personas
  • Decorated Roles & Extreme Characters

5. The Product Backlog

  • What Is a Product Backlog?
  • Progressive Elaboration
  • Product Backlog Refinement 
  • User Stories
  • Adding Detail to User Stories
  • Job Stories
  • Technical Stories
  • Themes & Epics
  • Splitting Stories with the SPIDR Approach
  • Who Contributes Items?
  • Story Writing Workshop
  • Story Mapping

6. Prioritizing

  • Key Concepts in Prioritization
  • Factors in Prioritization
  • Formal Approaches
  • What Different Stakeholders Value
  • Collaborative Prioritization Techniques

7. Planning

  • Accuracy and Precision
  • Velocity
  • Using a Velocity Range
  • Fixed-Date Plans
  • Fixed-Scope Plans

8. The Scrum Master

  • Responsibilities
  • Description of Role

9. Developers

  • Responsibilities
  • Component and Feature Teams