Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO)

The Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO®) class is an immersive training and learning experience that goes beyond the fundamentals of the Product Owner role, and dives deeper into product strategy, product discovery, stakeholder management, and advanced product backlog management techniques. Upon completion of the class, students that meet the minimum eligibility requirements will attain the A-CSPO certification.

The A-CSPO class is considered an advanced certification level class that provides a deeper understanding of how to implement Scrum as a certified professional. The class is suitable for anyone involved in defining, gathering and managing requirements that already has a Certified Product Owner certification and has at least 1 year of work experience on a Scrum team. This includes:

• Product Owners
• Business Analysts
• User Experience Professionals
• Testers
• Project Managers
• Business Leaders

The class is presented in a highly interactive and collaborative format with elements of exercises, games, simulations, videos, and classroom discussion interwoven throughout.

Topics Include:

• Deeper dive into the Product Owner Role
• Working with Stakeholders
• Working with the Development Team
• Product Ownership with Multiple Teams
• Developing Practical Product Strategies
• Advanced Roadmapping and Release Planning
• Empathizing with Customers and Users
• Customer Research and Product Discovery
• Advanced Product Assumption Testing
• Advanced Techniques for working with the Product Backlog

Upon completion of this class, students can

• Attain the Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) designation if they already hold a CSPO and have at least 1 year of Scrum experience
• Earn 14 Project Management Institute Professional Development Units (PDUs) and
• Earn 14 Scrum Alliance Scrum Educational Units (SEUs)

Your satisfaction is guaranteed. If for any reason you are not satisfied with this class, let us know by the end of day 1 and we will give you a full refund.

• Cancellation requests received up to 2 days prior to the start of a class receive a full 100% refund. All other cancelation requests receive full credit for a future class.
• Should the organizer cancel the class for any reason, a full 100% refund will be issued.
• All cancellation requests must be made via email to [email protected]

Fadi Stephan is a Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST®), Agile Coach, and technology consultant with more than twenty years of experience at startups, government agencies, and Fortune500 companies across various sectors including financial, hospitality, and homeland. His focus is on building high performing innovative organizations and teams that deliver value early and maximize ROI. Most recently, Fadi was the Software Development Practice lead at Excella Consulting as well as the Digital Services Delivery Solutions lead. Prior to that, he was Director of Product Development at DATABASICS.

Fadi’s background is in technology consulting and product development. He has successfully led digital transformations by combining lean discovery with Agile delivery and a DevOps mindset to deliver impactful digital experiences. At client sites, Fadi trains and coaches teams on agility, leadership, product management, user-centered design, Agile engineering practices and DevSecOps.

Fadi is based in Washington DC and co-organizes DC’s largest Scrum User Group and frequently presents at conferences nationwide. When Fadi is not teaching or coaching, he enjoys cycling as well as downhill skiing.

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