Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO)

The Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) is the second level of the Product Owner track. It is designed for practising Product Owners with at least one year of experience who want to develop more sophisticated strategies for managing competing business initiatives, defining a customer-focused product direction, and effectively communicating with a wide range of stakeholders.

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Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO)

The Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) is the second level of the Product Owner track. It is designed for practising Product Owners with at least one year of experience who want to develop more sophisticated strategies for managing competing business initiatives, defining a customer-focused product direction, and effectively communicating with a wide range of stakeholders.

Duration:
2 Days
Rating:
4.8/5.0
Level:
1500+ users onboarded

Who will Benefit from this Training?

Training Objectives

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Key training modules

Comprehensive, hands-on modules designed to take you from basics to advanced concepts
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  • Advanced Product Ownership Mindset
    1. Moving from backlog manager to strategic product thinker
    2. Product ownership in complex, multi-team environments
    3. The Product Owner as a leader: influence without authority
    4. Balancing short-term delivery pressure with long-term product health
  • Managing Multiple Business Initiatives
    1. Portfolio thinking for Product Owners
    2. Managing dependencies between product streams
    3. Trade-off analysis and resource allocation across initiatives
    4. Communicating portfolio priorities to leadership and teams
    5. Aligning multiple Product Backlogs to a common product strategy
  • Evolving Product Strategy
    1. Product lifecycle management: growth, maturity, and sunset decisions
    2. Competitive analysis and market positioning
    3. Lean startup principles: build-measure-learn and hypothesis-driven development
    4. Strategic roadmapping: outcomes-based vs. feature-based roadmaps
    5. Adapting strategy in response to validated learning
  • Advanced Stakeholder Alignment
    1. Stakeholder archetypes and how to work with each
    2. Facilitation techniques for multi-stakeholder workshops
    3. Managing executive stakeholders and governance bodies
    4. Negotiation and influencing skills for Product Owners
    5. Building a shared product vision across business units
  • Identifying and Validating Opportunities
    1. Discovery techniques: continuous discovery, opportunity solution trees
    2. Customer journey mapping and experience design
    3. Assumption mapping and risk identification
    4. Rapid experimentation and Minimum Viable Products
    5. Deciding when to pivot vs. persevere
  • Validating Business Value
    1. Defining value hypotheses and success metrics
    2. Business case development for product investments
    3. A/B testing and multivariate experiments in a product context
    4. Measuring ROI of product decisions
    5. Connecting product metrics to business outcomes
  • Advanced Backlog Management
    1. Backlog health: measuring and improving backlog quality
    2. Dealing with technical debt in the Product Backlog
    3. Large-scale backlog management: epics, features, and stories at scale
    4. Dependency visualisation and cross-team backlog alignment
    5. Working with the Scrum Master and Developers in advanced refinement

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Training Delivery Format

Flexible, comprehensive training designed to fit your schedule and learning preferences
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AWS, Scrum.org, DASA & more
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on-site/online training
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Labs and capstone projects
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How Does Personalised Training Work?

Skill-Gap Assessment

Analysing skill gap and assessing business requirements to craft a unique program

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Personalisation

Customising curriculum and projects to prepare your team for challenges within your industry

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Implementation

Supplementing training with consulting support to ensure implementation in real projects

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Why this course

  • Recognised credential: Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) credential from Scrum Alliance, valid for two years.
  • Practical skills: Ability to manage complex product portfolios and multi-initiative environments.
  • Career progression: Advanced techniques for stakeholder alignment and strategic communication.
  • Career progression: Validated approach to discovering and testing product opportunities.
  • Career progression: Foundation to progress to the Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner (CSP-PO).

Training objectives

  • Manage multiple competing business initiatives and balance strategic trade-offs
  • Evolve a product strategy based on market signals and validated learning
  • Align diverse stakeholder groups around a shared product vision
  • Identify and capitalise on critical product opportunities
  • Validate business value assumptions before committing to delivery
  • Apply advanced backlog management and prioritisation techniques
  • Facilitate difficult conversations with stakeholders around scope and priorities
  • Build a product strategy that sustains long-term value delivery

Who will benefit

  • Product Owners
  • Product Managers
  • Business Analysts
  • Scrum Masters
  • Agile Coaches
  • Business stakeholders

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. What are the pre-requisites for this training?
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The training does not require you to have prior skills or experience. The curriculum covers basics and progresses towards advanced topics.

2. Will my team get any practical experience with this training?
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With our focus on experiential learning, we have made the training as hands-on as possible with assignments, quizzes and capstone projects, and a lab where trainees will learn by doing tasks live.

3. What is your mode of delivery - online or on-site?
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We conduct both online and on-site training sessions. You can choose any according to the convenience of your team.

4. Will trainees get certified?
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Yes, all trainees will get certificates issued by Uptut under the guidance of industry experts.

5. What do we do if we need further support after the training?
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We have an incredible team of mentors that are available for consultations in case your team needs further assistance. Our experienced team of mentors is ready to guide your team and resolve their queries to utilize the training in the best possible way. Just book a consultation to get support.

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