Certified Scrum Product Owner^®(CSPO) Certification Training in Montreal, Canada

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

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Get certified from the globally acclaimed accreditation body, Scrum Alliance
Earn 16 PDUs and SEUs in just 2 days
Excel in addressing challenges through Scrum as an effective Product Owner
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Every high-functioning Agile team has a well-trained Product Owner making critical product decisions. A Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®) is one such certification that helps holders become successful product owners by training them on aspects of on-time delivery of high-value releases and maximizing the ROI. A globally recognized CSPO certification, therefore, is a career-defining credential for anybody willing to take up the challenging role of a Product Owner on a Scrum team in an organization.

Increasing Demand for CSPO® Certified Professionals

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.

As Scrum Alliance captures it:

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.

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.

Individual benefits
Organizational Benefits

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.

CSPO certification has been gaining increased popularity since the past few years. The reason is, almost every organization is hiring Product Owners to keep ahead of their peers in today’s competitive marketplace. The Certified Scrum Product Owner can benefit the organization in the following ways:

Defines the product vision and directs the team members to yield high value at the end.
Helps the team members in delivering a high-value product.
Helps to carry out smooth communication between the Stakeholders and team members.
Get a skilled workforce who are all on the same page with respect to the Agile mindset.

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Process to Become a Certified Scrum Product Owner

Steps to attain CSPO certification

Step 1: Identify a reputed institute which is a Registered Education Provider (REP) of Scrum Alliance.
Step 2: To understand fundamental Scrum concepts and terminology go through the Scrum Guide and Agile Manifesto to prepare yourself for training.
Step 3: Attend the 2-day CSPO course and get instructed by Certified Scrum Trainers® (CSTs).
Step 4: After completing the course, Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) will update your details to the Scrum Alliance website.
Step 5: Scrum Alliance will send a welcome email to log in to your Scrum Alliance account and accept your CSPO license.
Step 6: Login through this link to reset your Login credentials and accept your license.
Step 7: Download your CSPO certificate by accepting your license.

What You Will Learn

1. Product Owner skills

Understand the core concepts of Scrum, Scrum flow, etc. and enhance your skills as a Product Owner

2. Lead Agile teams

Understand the scope of Product Owner, Scrum Master and lead, motivate Agile teams and team members.

3. Facilitate communication

Facilitate transparent, smooth communication channels between the stakeholders and the Scrum team

4. Implement Scrum functionality

Learn how to improve on the implementation of Scrum functionality like Sprint.

5. Plan better

Learn how one can create practical efficiency-oriented plans and schedules and work better.

6. Manage risks

Learn about methods to mitigate risks through predictive pre-planning.

7. Improve ROI

Learn ways and methods to improve business value and ROI and how to implement them.

8. Faster delivery

Learn ways to ensure maximum high-velocity within time and budget frames.

9. Scope of the Product Owner role

Understand and learn Scrum foundations and the role of the Product Owner on a high-performing team

1. Product Owner skills

Understand the core concepts of Scrum, Scrum flow, etc. and enhance your skills as a Product Owner

2. Lead Agile teams

Understand the scope of Product Owner, Scrum Master and lead, motivate Agile teams and team members.

3. Facilitate communication

Facilitate transparent, smooth communication channels between the stakeholders and the Scrum team

4. Implement Scrum functionality

Learn how to improve on the implementation of Scrum functionality like Sprint.

5. Plan better

Learn how one can create practical efficiency-oriented plans and schedules and work better.

6. Manage risks

Learn about methods to mitigate risks through predictive pre-planning.

7. Improve ROI

Learn ways and methods to improve business value and ROI and how to implement them.

8. Faster delivery

Learn ways to ensure maximum high-velocity within time and budget frames.

9. Scope of the Product Owner role

Understand and learn Scrum foundations and the role of the Product Owner on a high-performing team

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

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Interact with accredited CSTs who also have years of experience as active Scrum practitioners.

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Learn directly from active practitioners engaged in implementing Scrum principles in real projects.

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Get access to a wider community of active Scrum professionals and enhance your practical knowledge of Scrum.

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Avail continuous support through monthly webinars, e-books, and conferences and keep pace with the latest industry updates.

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Curriculum

1 Scrum Basics

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

2 Roles & Responsibilities

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

3 Product Vision

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

4 Estimating

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

5 Product Backlog

Understand what the product backlog is, and what it is not
Understand product backlog grooming

6 Prioritizing

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

7 Release Management

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

8 Sprints

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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Iain Mckenna

CSM, CSPO & Agile

Iain McKenna is an experienced trainer, coach and practitioner who has successfully used Scrum together with other agile and lean frameworks over a number of years both in project recovery and greenfield projects.

Iain has also been extremely successful in helping many organisations adopt or improve their use of Scrum through training, coaching and mentoring, including United Health, BBC, Cisco and BSkyB. Having worked with IT for over 30 years, Iain has a wealth of experience ranging from operations, analysis, testing, software engineering, project and programme management through to IT Leadership.

Iain has also been a customer and user of many software products over the years. This breadth of experience helps Iain to work with teams to build high quality products that meet the needs of all stakeholders, often exceeding expectations through innovation and focus on value and eliminating waste. - See more at: https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/profile/imckenna#sthash.N0XFpvpm.dpuf

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Alexandre Magno CST

CSM, CSPO & CSD

Alexandre helps creative workers, teams and organisations to learn better by facilitating unique learning and training experiences on agile, self-organising teams and learning 3.0. He really believes that emergent learning and learning facilitation are the keys to creative workers' success and expertise in this complex and fast-paced new world of work.
Alexandre is the author of 'How Creative Workers Learn', the first book in the Learning 3.0 series, and founder of the Learning 3.0 brand at Happy Melly. Throughout his career, he has moved from programming computers to software development; then moving back into to database development; product, project and team leadership; agile coaching...and finally: business management. In all those fields Alexandre was in someway involved with learning initiatives and mentoring, realising that was where he is able to make a huge social impact, and so identifying this as his calling in life.

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Peter Green

Executive Agile Leadership Coach, Trainer, and Speaker

Peter Green led a grass root Agile transformation at Adobe from 2005 to 2015, starting with his own team, Adobe Audition. His influence includes the teams behind such software flagships as Photoshop, Acrobat, After Effects, Flash, Dreamweaver and Premiere Pro, as well as dozens of internal IT and platform technology teams and groups such as marketing and globalization. His work and mentorship were major factors enabling Adobe product teams to successfully transition from perpetual desktop products to the subscription-based service, Creative Cloud.

His hands-on Scrum and Agile training and coaching at all levels of the organization including executives helped lay the groundwork to shift teams from two-year product cycles to the frequent delivery of high-quality software and services.

Peter’s qualifications include Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Innovation Games® Qualified Instructor, Conteneo Collaboration Architect, and a Leadership Agility™ 360 Administrator certification. He is also a much sought after instructional designer, coach, trainer, and facilitator. He is a frequent speaker and thought leader on Agile transformation, combining Lean Startup with scrum, Agile leadership, and emergent organizational models.

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Vivek Angiras CST

Scrum

Vivek is an Agile coach and trainer. He is a certified TBR (Training from the Back of the Room) trainer and speaker who started his career in scientific research more than a decade ago. He has experience working with clients from Fortune 500 to start-ups, spanning the State Department, banking, retail, non-profits, insurance, and healthcare.
His expertise includes large-scale Agile transformations, organizational change, and leadership development. Vivek is actively involved in the Agile community and frequently speaks at global conferences and at local practitioner groups.
Vivek's other certifications include CLP, PMI-ACP, SPC, and IGTF. Vivek holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and is currently based out of Washington, DC.

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Aakash Srinivasan

Scrum

Aakash Srinivasan is an Agile trainer, coach, TBR-certified trainer and speaker who travels to consult Fortune 100 companies on business efficiency, process improvements, organizational change and large-scale Agile transformations.
He holds several qualifications including Agile Certified Practitioner, Certified Scrum Developer, Certified Scrum Trainer and other certifications.
He is a mentor and trainer par excellence and his training workshops are very popular.

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Iain Mckenna

CSM, CSPO & Agile

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Alexandre Magno CST

CSM, CSPO & CSD

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Peter Green

Executive Agile Leadership Coach, Trainer, and Speaker

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Vivek Angiras CST

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