Certified Scrum Professional-Product Owner® (CSP-PO) Training

Course 1834

  • Duration: Multi-Week
  • Language: English
  • Level: Intermediate

This Certified Product Owner (CSP-PO) training program helps Product Owners advance their careers to Product Managers and solidify their education in topics such as advanced stakeholder discussion; funding and financing; customer development; product launches; and advanced product discovery. This workshop also lets you gain valuable monthly consultations from a Certified Scrum Trainer.

Certified Product Owner Training Delivery Methods

  • Train your whole team by bringing this Certified Product Owner Training to your facility:

    • In-Person
    • Online
    • On-Demand Learning

Certified Product Owner Training Information

In this course, you will learn how to:

  • Leverage the economics of product development
  • Start multiple new Agile teams
  • Prioritize a backlog and roadmap at scale
  • Incorporate collaboration frameworks
  • Apply entrepreneurship in an Agile context

Training Prerequisites

We welcome everybody to start the program. However, you will need to meet certain criteria during the annual membership to receive your CSP-PO certification (all included):

  • A current Advanced - Certified Product Owner® certification from the Scrum Alliance®.
  • 24 or more months of experience as a Product Owner within the last 5 years.

Certification Information

Upon completing the entire CSP-PO program, your certification will be active for two years. Renewing certification includes 60 hours of continued education and a $250 fee. To process your renewal, see the Scrum Alliance guide on renewing your professional certification here.

Certified Product Owner Training Outline

  • 1.1 Appraise how different organizational contexts might impact how a person is selected to be a Product Owner. 

Advanced Stakeholder Discussion 

  • 1.2 Assess a facilitated session with stakeholders who are in conflict, providing two examples of how to improve facilitation. 
  • 1.3 Compare at least two techniques for gathering, communicating, and leveraging information from internal and external stakeholders. 
  • 1.4 Evaluate how their stakeholder relationships and/or product could benefit from the adoption of the latest definition of Scrum. 

Launching Scrum Teams 

  • 1.5 Explain at least three reasons why the start of a new Scrum Team should be handled differently from a traditional project kickoff or charter. 
  • 1.6 Discuss the Product Owner’s responsibility to define expectations for quality when their Scrum Team forms. 
  • 1.7 Plan the launch of a new Scrum Team. 

Product Ownership with Multiple Teams 

  • 1.8 Demonstrate at least two methods to support Product Backlog management across multiple Scrum Teams. 
  • 1.9 Contrast at least two patterns for scaling the Product Owner role. 
  • 1.10 Develop and then teach a topic related to product ownership. 

Market-Driven Product Strategy Practices 

  • 2.1 Compare and contrast at least three business models for a product. 
  • 2.2 Develop a business model for a product idea. 
  • 2.3 Construct a competitive analysis. 

Complex Product Planning and Forecasting 

  • 2.4 Compare at least two techniques to develop a product plan or forecast. 
  • 2.5 Develop an appropriate release strategy for a business model. 
  • 2.6 Identify at least three measurable product launch goals. 
  • 2.7 Identify at least five elements of a product launch plan. 

Product Economics 

  • 2.8  Apply at least two methods to determine the profitability of a product. 
  • 2.9 Calculate the expected outcome or economic results of a product release, given fixed and variable costs, and forecasted return. 
  • 2.10 Explain an iterative and incremental investment model for product development.
  • 2.11 Demonstrate at least three ways how return on investment can be improved. 
  • 2.12 Calculate the cost of delay for a product feature. 
  • 2.13 Compare at least two approaches to fund agile product development.

  • 3.1 Prepare a plan to integrate customer research into product discovery and development.
  • 3.2 Evaluate at least three techniques for customer research or product discovery.
  • 4.1 Select an appropriate experiment to test a hypothesis. 
  • 4.2 Evaluate the results and impact of an experiment. 

  • 5.1 Assess how Scrum Teams and/or organizations emphasize outcomes and impact over output. 
  • 5.2 Compare at least three techniques to order a Product Backlog. 
  • 5.3 Defend the order of a Product Backlog with one or more stakeholders. 
  • 5.4 Evaluate their Scrum Team’s ability to effectively refine the Product Backlog.

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Course FAQs

In the CSP-PO training program, you will learn how to leverage the economics of product development, start multiple new Agile teams, prioritize a backlog and roadmap at scale, incorporate collaboration frameworks, and apply entrepreneurship in an Agile context.

  1. Product Owner Core Competencies
  2. Implementing Goal Setting and Planning
  3. Advanced Interactions with Customers and Users
  4. Complex Product Assumption Validation
  5. Advanced Product Backlog Management

We welcome everybody to start the program. However, you will need to meet certain criteria during the annual membership to receive your CSP-PO certification (all included): 

  • A current Advanced - Certified Product Owner® certification from the Scrum Alliance®.
  • 24 or more months of experience as a Product Owner within the last 5 years.

  • Product Owners, Product Managers, and other entrepreneurs
  • Certified ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches and other change agents
  • Certified Scrum Professionals looking to renew their certification
  • Architects, Business Analysts and Technical Managers

The CSP-PO training program includes a one-year subscription to course materials and Coaching Circles, online lectures and step-by-step exercises, live access to Certified Scrum Trainers, an additional Yellow Belt certification, a digital badge for your accomplishment, and Coaching Circles with your CST instructor and other students for progress check, idea sharing, and support.


Progress at your own pace! People want to know more about Scrum and Agile, but they simply do not have time to spend eight hours (or more!) in a classroom. With this program, all you need are a few spare hours a week to complete one or more topics. The program is comprised of online courses which include short lectures, engaging exercises and useful step-by-step techniques to test out with your team.

Each month, you can dial into one or more Coaching Circles with your CST and other students to check progress, share ideas, answer questions, and offer encouragement. With our program, you will feel like you are on a journey within a team, even though it is an online program. 

Yes, you can learn at your own pace with the CSP-PO training program.

Upon completing the entire CSP-PO program, your certification will be active for two years. 

To renew your CSP-PO certification, you must complete 60 hours of continued education and pay a $250 fee. Please see here to process your renewal.

The instructors for the CSP-PO training program are Carlton Nettleton and Jason Tanner.

Yes, the CSP-PO training program can be brought to your organization, and it offers full-scale program development, blended learning models, tailored content, and expert team coaching.

The prerequisites for the CSP-PO training program are a current Advanced Certified Product Owner® certification from the Scrum Alliance® and 24 or more months of experience as a Product Owner within the last 5 years.

The CSP-PO training program outline includes 5 modules covering Product Owner Core Competencies, Implementing Goal Setting and Planning, Advanced Interactions with Customers and Users, Complex Product Assumption Validation, and Advanced Product Backlog Management.

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