CSPO Certification Training

Be an efficient Product Owner to raise product value & manage product backlog effectively!

  • Guaranteed to run with live and engaging interactive sessions
  • Experiential learning with activities, games, role-plays, simulations, and case studies
  • Earn 16 SEU and 16 PDUs with 16 hours of live instructor-led training
  • Training by globally renowned Certified Scrum Trainers® (CSTs)
  • Get certified from the globally acclaimed accreditation body, Scrum Alliance®
  • Enjoy 2-Year membership with Scrum Alliance®

Why should you go for a CSPO certification?

Take your Agile team to new heights with Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®) training. Gain the skills to deliver high-value releases and maximize ROI through an immersive, hands-on learning experience. Join expert Scrum Alliance-Certified Trainers for a dynamic course filled with role-plays, activities, simulations, and real-world case studies.

Learn in fun, interactive sessions by CSTs experienced across industries along with peers from all over the world. Say goodbye to boring lectures and death by PowerPoint and hello to a world of fun and exciting learning.  

CAPITALIZE ON THE HIGH DEMAND FOR CERTIFIED SCRUM PRODUCT OWNERS


The industry today is ripe with endless opportunities for Product Owners. With 90% of modern teams using Scrum, the demand for Certified Scrum Product Owners has seen a steep rise. Their presence on an Agile team is guaranteed to ensure early ROI while maximizing business value. 

The Scrum Product Owner Certification from the globally renowned Scrum Alliance endorses and validates your Scrum expertise while enabling you to take on the Product Owner role and responsibilities with dexterity, as you lead successful projects and ensure high-velocity releases of marketable products.

An individual wishing to be an effective Scrum professional can gain from a CSPO certification in the following ways:

  • Widen the scope of your career with the knowledge of popular Agile practices.
  • Stack the top in-demand Scrum skills and demonstrate your Scrum knowledge.
  • Actively engage with the community of Agile practitioners dedicated to continuous Scrum practice and improvement.
  • Create a better product by leading and implementing Scrum in the team.

 Scrum Alliance underlines the importance of Product Owners as follows:

  • 38% of the Product Owners act as an intermediary and are responsible for maintaining relationships with the Stakeholders.
  • 24% of the Product Owners set project business priorities and work directly with the customers.
  • 15% of the Product Owner work directly with the Scrum team.

In today's rapidly changing world, most IT, as well as non-IT industry players, are hiring professionals well-versed in Agile and Scrum frameworks and those holding certifications from global accredited organizations such as Scrum Alliance are preferred. The Certified Scrum Product Owner can benefit the organization in the following ways:

  1. Defines the product vision and directs the team members to yield high value at the end.
  2. Helps the team members in delivering a high-value product.  
  3. Helps to carry out smooth communication between the Stakeholders and team members.
  4. Spreads the adoption of Scrum and helps others acquire an agile mind-set.

Process to Become a Certified Scrum Product Owner

YOUR PATH TO BECOME A SOUGHT-AFTER PRODUCT OWNER

  • LEARN in lively, interactive sessions by CSTs

    Identify a credible training provider that is a Registered Education Ally (REA) of Scrum Alliance and get trained by experienced CSTs in fun and engaging instructor-led sessions.
  • STUDY with a Scrum Alliance-Approved Curriculum

    Study with a curriculum crafted by professionals licensed by Scrum Alliance. Go from beginner to expert in Scrum, starting with the Scrum basics and roles and responsibilities, and go on to product vision, estimation, product backlog, prioritization, release management, and sprints.

  • PRACTICE with Case Studies, Role-Plays, and Scrum Activities

    Put the concepts learned in our experiential workshops to practice with real-life case studies and role-play exercises. Clear all your doubts with mentors in weekly Scrum enablement sessions, essential to your success in applying Scrum to your way of working.

  • GET CERTIFIED as a Scrum Alliance Certified Product Owner

    After completing the course, the Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) will update your details on the Scrum Alliance website. Scrum Alliance will then send you a welcome email, asking you to log in to your Scrum Alliance account and accept your CSPO license. Login through this link to reset your Login credentials and accept your license. Download your CSPO certificate by accepting your license. You are now a Certified Scrum Product Owner!

What You Will Learn

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites to take the Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®) training. However, having a good command over the Scrum basics will prove effective in understanding the Product Owner’s role at an enterprise level. If you are a Certified Scrum Master® (CSM®), taking up the CSPO training should be your next career move. 

Who Should Attend

  • Project Managers
  • Developers
  • Product Owners
  • Managers-Software development
  • Architects-Software development
  • Product Managers
  • Software developers
  • Software testers
  • Team leads/Team members interested in learning Scrum

KnowledgeHut Experience

EXPERIENTIAL WORKSHOPS

Learn in an engaging and interactive session with real-world simulations, in-class activities, and industry case studies.

ELITE PANEL OF CSTs

Get trained by Scrum Alliance accredited CSTs with more than a decade’s experience as Scrum practitioners.

SCRUM ENABLEMENT SESSIONS

Get all your doubts about the exam or how to implement Scrum effectively in weekly AMA sessions with expert CSTs.

GLOBAL REA OF SCRUM ALLIANCE

We are a Scrum Alliance Registered Education Ally (REA), having trained over 250,000 Agile professionals.

MENTORSHIP BY INDUSTRY EXPERTS

Get mentored by Scrum Alliance accredited professionals and get real-world tips and industry-proven techniques.

GATEWAY TO SCRUM COMMUNITIES

Join a Global Network of 250,000+ Agile and Scrum Practitioners certified through KnowledgeHut across the world.

CERTIFICATION RENEWAL SUPPORT

Earn 20 PDUs and 20 SEUs to renew your CSM® certification through webinars, e-books, on-demand videos and more. 

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Curriculum

Learn the fundamentals of Scrum including the core components, vocabulary, and principles that drive the Scrum work culture.

Topics Covered:
  • Understand the Scrum Flow, the core components of the Scrum framework, and the Scrum vocabulary
  • Understand the principles/legs of empirical process control
  • Understand the work culture Scrum creates
Learn about the different Scrum roles and the reasoning on which they are based.
Topics Covered:
  • Understand the scope of the Product Owner, ScrumMaster and the team role in detail
  • Understand why there is no project manager and no agile product manager
Get an insight into product vision and its ideal qualities, prep work required, and how it relates to product roadmap.
Topics Covered:
  • Understand the importance of having the product vision as an overarching goal galvanizing the entire Scrum team
  • Understand the desirable qualities of the vision and how it can be shaped
  • Understand the importance of carrying out just enough prep work
  • Understand the relationship between vision and product roadmap
Learn about project estimations, the required accuracy, size, duration, and impact of estimates.
Topics Covered:
  • Understand the different estimation levels in Scrum
  • Understand that the accuracy of an estimate is more important than the precision of the estimate
  • Understand that estimates of size and duration can be done separately
  • Understand the impact of pressuring team members to provide low estimates
  • Understand the difference between estimating and committing
Get an insight into the concept of product backlog and its grooming.
Topics Covered:
  • Understand what the product backlog is, and what it is not
  • Understand product backlog grooming
Learn how to prioritize the product backlog, different approaches to handle it, and the factors involved in prioritization.
Topics Covered:
  • Understand the importance and benefits of prioritizing the product backlog
  • Understand the implications of saying everything is mandatory
  • Understand who should have input into prioritization decisions
  • Understand that proper prioritization of a product backlog is based on multiple factors
  • Understand and know how to apply formal approaches to prioritizing (i.e. beyond just ‘gut feel’ or intuition)
  • Understand how much latitude to give a team in adjusting the sequence of work
Get an insight into release planning, managing quality and frequency of releases, and predicting the future as per the release plan.
Topics Covered:
  • Understand the goals and how-tos of release planning
  • Understand that planning is adaptive, iterative and collaborative
  • Understand why quality is frozen and the concept of technical debt
  • Understand why software should be released early and frequently
  • Understand and measure velocity
  • Understand release burndown charts
  • Understand how a release plan can help predict the future
Learn about the role of product owner with the team, and the commitment required to work at a sustainable pace.
Topics Covered:
  • Understand the product owner’s role in Scrum meetings, and how the Product Owner and Team collaborate
  • Understand why sprints are timeboxed and protected
  • Understand the concept of sustainable pace
  • Understand team commitment

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Maria

Maria Matarelli CST

Executive Agile Coach & Global Strategist

You know how IT Managers and Project Managers struggle with bringing products to market on time and under budget?

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I solve this by showing companies how to implement Agile techniques that help you get to market faster, which I have a natural ability at doing because of my background in IT Project Management and my experience working with various teams and IT Departments across several Fortune 100 companies.

Contact me today at maria (at) formulaink (dot) com and discover the first step to leading your teams to work more effectively together and get the results you've been looking for. 

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Heitor De Sa Roriz

Heitor De Sa Roriz Filho CST

CSM, CSPO & CSPO

HeitorRorizFilho is an 'agilero'. He currently works as an Agile Coach and Trainer worldwide, based in Sao Paulo. He is a writer, speaker and trainer in the area of Technology Management. He has been dealing with Agile since 2004 and in addition to speaking for Agile/Scrum, Six Sigma and PMI conferences, he is the founder activist of the ScrumAmazonia user group.

He is also the co-founder and Agile Coach of Massimus (https://www.massimus.com) a company focused on APM (Agile Project Management) training and coaching. He holds a M.Sc. in Information Technology from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Has worked and gathered experience in companies like Itautec-Philco SA, DaimlerChrysler AG, FraunhoferInstitut, FPF (Fundação Paulo Feitoza), among others. He worked for 3 years as a ScrumMaster and Product Owner for FPF and Siemens-Mobile where he also coached, trained and mentored teams to implement and improve Scrum in projects.

For more than 2 years he worked as an Information Manager for the local government at Municipal Institute of Urban Planning where he applied Scrum outside of software, in architectural and building projects. He participated as a research assistant in projects belonging to LBA (Large-scale Biosphere-atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia) at INPA in cooperation with JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) and NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Agency).

Heitor is passionate for Agile and Scrum. He truly believes Agile can change the way we work achieving excellent levels of precision and performance. He is very interested in Agile Leadership and Agile Project Management as levers of improving our ways of work.

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Fadi

Fadi Stephan

CST

Fadi Stephan is a technology consultant, Certified Scrum Trainer (CST®), and Agile coach with more than twenty years of experience at startups, government agencies, non-profits, and Fortune500 companies across various sectors including financial, hospitality, and homeland. Fadi's focus is on transforming and building high performing innovative organizations and teams that deliver impactful products early and maximize ROI. Fadi trains and coaches clients on agility, leadership, product management, user-centered design, Agile engineering and DevOps.

Fadi is a technology executive that led Excella Consulting’s software development practice growing the team of UX designers, software developers and DevOps engineers from 35 to 120 in 3 years. He also led Excella’s digital service delivery solutions growing it to more than 30 million dollars per year. At client engagements, Fadi led digital transformation efforts by combining lean discovery, with Agile Delivery and a DevOps mindset to deliver impactful digital experiences.

Prior to joining Excella, Fadi was director of Product Development at Databasics leading the development of SAAS enterprise ERP applications.

Fadi is a recognized Agile thought leader frequently presenting at conferences worldwide. Fadi is also the founder and organizer of DC’s largest Scrum User Group.

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Madhavi

Madhavi Ledalla

CST

Madhavi Ledalla is an Agile enthusiast, and brings her real-world experience and perspectives of both traditional and agile methodologies while coaching organizations and teams during transformation engagements. She is a sought-after trainer, mentor and counselor in varied agile methods including Scrum and Kanban, and in Scaling frameworks such as SAFe and LeSS. As an acclaimed agile expert, she has led large scale agile transformations across multiple domains. She is passionate about building teams that are focused on outcome instead of output. Madhavi takes keen interest in doing customized training workshops on agile, retrospectives and innovation games. She holds a B.E. qualification from Osmania University and has worked with leading organizations as an advisor during their agile implementation.

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Daniel James

Daniel James Gullo CST

CSM, CSPO & Agile

For more than 25 years, Daniel has been teaching, mentoring, coaching, and consulting for organizations of many sizes; from startups to multi-national enterprises. Daniel has led large-scale Agile adoption initiatives for organizations in Financial Services, Education, Health Care, Bio-tech, Pharma, Information Technology Consulting, Professional Associations, and Federal Government.

Daniel is well known and highly revered as 'The hardest working man in the Agile community.' He is the founder of Agile Delaware and frequent reviewer, volunteer, and speaker for the Scrum Alliance, Agile Alliance, PMI and other organizations, including delivering keynote addresses.

Daniel is the Conference Chair for the 2015 Scrum Gathering in Phoenix; he was the Conference Chair for the 2013 Scrum Gathering in Las Vegas; serves on the Trainer Acceptance Committee; is a member of the Coaching Retreat Planning Committee; host of Coaches Clinic events; facilitator of Open Space Events, including the Scrum Alliance's largest Open Space ever in Berlin; and a prolific contributor to a vast array of online forums, blogs, and other social media. Daniel is currently pursuing a PhD in Organizational Development.

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Naveen

Naveen Nanjundappa

Trainer

Naveen is an Agility Coach & Trainer who has decades of hands-on experience and a brilliant work vision. He has worked extensively in various industries honing his skills and uses the same to create an awesome working ecosystem, by coaching people to do the right things effectively and efficiently. 

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Attended Certified Scrum Product Owner®(CSPO) Certification workshop in May 2022
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Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take the next step! Thanks to KnowledgeHut, I was able to get started on my Scrum career. The CSPO workshop was extremely helpful, I truly enjoyed interacting with the instructors. Thank you KH for adding valuable skills and knowledge into my life

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Attended Certified Scrum Product Owner®(CSPO) Certification workshop in April 2022
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Mohammed Sadik Imam

Attended Certified Scrum Product Owner®(CSPO) Certification workshop in July 2021
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Kiran is very knowledgeable and a joy to discuss Agile topics with. Great workshop experience with KnowledgeHut. Excellent post-class support. Highly recommend!

Paola Benavides

AVP
Attended Certified Scrum Product Owner®(CSPO) Certification workshop in November 2020
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IT Program Manager
Attended Certified Scrum Product Owner®(CSPO) Certification workshop in November 2020