Course Taxonomy: Scrum

Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner® (A-CSPO®)

Part 1: Product Owner Core Competencies

  • The importance of the product ownership
  • The mindset and Actions of a Product Owner
  • Interacting with Stakeholders
  • Product Owners as facilitators
  • Facilitation techniques
  • Facilitation of conversations with Stakeholders
  • Understanding the risk of technical debt
  • Understanding the importance of development practices
  • Recognize approaches to scaling scrum
  • Visualizing and reducing dependencies
  • Benefits of Feature Teams

Part 2: Advanced Goal setting and planning

  • Operationalizing Product Strategy
  • Approaches to define product strategy
  • Product Planning
  • Visualizing and communication Strategy, ideas, and features

Part 3: Empathizing with Customers and Users

  • Connecting Developers with Customers
  • Customer product discovery techniques

Part 4: Advanced Product Assumption Validation

  • Recognize cognitive biases
  • Improving your Sprint Review
  • Defining Hypotheses
  • Planning how to test hypotheses
  • Validating assumptions in Scrum

Part 5: Product Backlog Management

  • Techniques for measuring value
  • Techniques for ordering Product Backlogs
  • Getting enough Product Backlog items ready
  • Improving Product Backlog Refinement