Certified Scrum Professional - PO

Complete the Path to Certified Scrum Professional and Improve Product Development Effectiveness

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The Grow-Lean Certified Scrum Professional Product Owner (CSP-PO) builds on the A-CSPO to complete the Scrum Alliance Product Owner Path to CSP. Following this course you will be able to pursue Guide level certifications like the CST, CTC or CEC.

Our CSP-PO is 100% live, completely interactive and slide-free. It is delivered online using the tools Mural and Mentimeter. You will learn from the industry’s most experienced CSP-PO Trainer, Arlen Bankston, as well as other advanced attendees.


Arlen Bankston is Scrum Alliance Member 41 and was one of the first to deliver the CSPO course. His experience leading two consultancies for over 20 years, funding and building his own products, leading UX/UI work within agile teams and coaching large-scale organizational transformations means that you’ll get practical advice based on work across the public and private sectors. His extensive graphic and instructional design background also results in a uniquely entertaining and practical workshop experience. Arlen goes to great lengths to help students share with one another, a benefit unique to these most advanced classes.

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Key Details

Benefit from Deep Agile Experience of Your Trainer

This class includes a variety of custom-built tools and templates that you will find nowhere else, developed based on years of experience in product design, management, agile coaching and executive leadership.

  • You will experience a wide variety of techniques to discover and analyze market and competitive landscapes, customer needs and strategic goals.
  • You’ll learn how to craft and iterate upon business models, roadmaps and product backlogs, using analytics to guide your decisions.
  • You’ll see how tools like the ones used in class can also be used to collaborate and communicate more fluidly with both your teams and your stakeholders.
  • You’ll learn advanced stakeholder management techniques, forecasting methods, estimation strategies, team interaction patterns, scaling models and more.
  • Finally, whatever questions you raise in class will be answered as directly as possible, as we favor practical application over theory.

What You Learn

Session Agenda.

The Role of the Product Owner in its many forms:
The theory of the role doesn't always match the reality of your authority and constraints. Learn how to make the most of your position based upon the type of business you’re in, the products or services that you helm, the life-cycle in which those products exist, your organization’s maturity and more.


Advanced stakeholder and customer engagement:
Product Owners hear a lot about “saying no” an appropriate thought given that much of their job boils down to scope management with perspective, but this is much easier said than done. Work through a variety of real-world situations that veer from the ideal and learn how you can work most effectively with stakeholders and customers in you unique context.


Launching new Scrum teams and projects:
Learn how to rapidly but thoughtfully kick off a new team or new engagement, considering how to properly align roles, create a basis for appropriate collaboration between the team and stakeholders, and communicate a compelling vision along with practical means to measure progress against it.


Scaling to larger projects:
Explore how and when to apply multiple teams against a common goal with a coherent backlog, intelligent dependency management and proper synchronization… without falling into a host of common traps.


Designing and communicating product strategy:
Practice crafting and comparing business models, creating targeted experiments, and prioritizing opportunities by value, time and economic impact.


Advanced backlog and release management:
Delve into a variety of techniques for prioritizing the backlog in tricky situations, creating long-term road-maps without sacrificing adaptability, optimizing release strategies and demonstrating return on investment for agile efforts.

Don't let your voice get drowned-out in a large 50 person class.
Choose Grow-Lean for a small class, personal experience, where you voice is heard?

Session Schedule

Certified Scrum Professional - PO (CSP-PO)

Two 8-hour sessions - Live Online
Trainer: Arlen Bankston

Mon
6
May
Tue
7
May
USD 1,495
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (EDT)
USD 1,295
Live Online / Virtual
valid till 30 Mar
Arlen Bankston
$108 a month
10:00 AM (EDT)
6:00 PM (EDT)
USD 1,495 USD 1,295
valid till 30 Mar
Two 8-hour sessions - Live Online
Trainer: Arlen Bankston

Thu
23
May
Fri
24
May
USD 1,495
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (EDT)
USD 1,295
Live Online / Virtual
valid till 6 Apr
Arlen Bankston
$108 a month
9:00 AM (EDT)
5:00 PM (EDT)
USD 1,495 USD 1,295
valid till 6 Apr
Two 8-hour sessions - Live Online
Trainer: Arlen Bankston

Mon
10
Jun
Tue
11
Jun
USD 1,495
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (EDT)
USD 1,295
Live Online / Virtual
valid till 6 Apr
Arlen Bankston
$108 a month
9:00 AM (EDT)
5:00 PM (EDT)
USD 1,495 USD 1,295
valid till 6 Apr
Want to bring a training to your team or organization?
Contact us to discuss options for private workshops.

Training Discounts

A variety of discounts to fit your situation.

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The benefit to you is that you do not pay any interest or fees if all payments are on time.

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Get 5% off for each public session, over $495, you took with us, up to 20%.

The Alumni Discount provides you discounted rates to future Grow-Lean training.

For each Grow-Lean session* you take with us, at a rate of $495 or above, you accumulate another 5% off of a future training, up to 20% off*.

* We have a small number of partner events where the alumni discount does not apply.

Hardship
Hardship

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Address Myths that Hold You Back

Unicorns are beautiful, but not real. Don't be fooled by seemingly believable agile myths.

We address common PO misconceptions, including:

Myth: "As a, I want to, So that" is the only format for PBIs.

Facts:

  • There are many equally valid formats for writing stories.
  • Use what works in your context.

Myth: You should collect and clarify customer requirements, then hand-off details to the developers.

Facts:

  • Getting stuck in the weeds and micro managing the developers means you have no time for strategy.
  • Instead, help customers, users, SMEs and developers collaborate to refine the details.

Myth: Going live is risky so only do it rarely.

Facts:

  • Infrequent releases means big releases and less learning.
  • Frequent smaller releases mean less risk & more learning.

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Everything You Need is Included

Avoid the nasty surprise costs.

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Be careful of the company you pick. With Grow-Lean everything is covered including pre-reads, the class itself, the certification, and you receive additional discounts off of your next session, such as leadership training or session in the ScrumMaster pathway.

There are no surprise costs when you register or accept your license and we have a user friendly transfer and cancellation policy.

Benefits You Earn

Valuable post class benefits including membership, a free class retake, etc.

By taking the session you earn the chance to become a Certified Scrum Professional Product Owner (CSP-PO) as long as already have the A-CSPO Certification and are able to validate at least 24 months in the role of Product Owner, or Product Owner coach, over the last five years.

You also earn the opportunity to pursue guide level certifications:

  • Certified Scrum Trainers (CST): A CST is a trainer that has been vetted, and approved, to deliver Scrum Alliance Certifications, including the CSP-PO.
  • Certified Team Coach (CTC): A CTC is coach that has been vetted and approved to coach at the team level on Scrum.
  • Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC): A CEC is coach that has been vetted and approved to coach at the organizational level on Scrum.

At present there are few trainers or coaches who have significant product development experience; meaning, there is an opportunity for people like if you have that experience.

The CSP-PO will differentiate you, but more importantly the deep learning will allow you to interview with confidence and apply advanced techniques in your work place.

CSP Product Owner Certification
Path to CSP - Certified Scrum Professional Product Owner (CSP-PO) Certification.
Certification Fees Covered
Your certification fees are covered. There are no additional charges or surprise costs.
Two Year Scrum Alliance Membership
Two year membership with the Scrum Alliance.
Automatic Certification Renewal
Your other Scrum Alliance certifications are automatically renewed, with no Scrum Alliance fees and no need for SEUs
16 Project Management Institute PDUs
Although this is not a PMI Class you still get 16 Professional Development Units to help meet your PMI continuing education requirements.
One Free Class Retake (within 120 days)
Want to learn more, take the class a second virtual class as long as it is listed at the same or lower rate.
Alumni Discount
Take one training get 5%, two get 10% off, three get 15%, all the way up to 25% off.

"We know the impact that a great workshop experience can have so all of our trainers have a minimum of 18 years of agile experience and 15 years of training experience."

The Grow-Lean Training Team

Why choose our training?

Live Online Workshop with an Agile Expert.

If you want to take a live online CSP-PO Workshop you have few options. One thing you can't get with the others is Arlen Bankston who:

  • Has been actively applying agile since the late 1990's.
  • Was Scrum Alliance member 41.
  • Who delivers the most engaging training experience.

Because you will...

  • Experience a blend of exercises, real-world case studies, engaging games, short videos and more.
  • Oscillate between theory and application to illustrate the gap between what is possible most often done in business environments.
  • Leave ready to take your product team to the next level through pragmatic tips and stories from the instructor’s decades of consulting experience, as well as learning from often equally experienced fellow students.

Because you get...

  1. Deep discussion and learning.
  2. A 100% live collaborative session.
  3. Meaningful answers to questions.
  4. Case studies and real-life examples.

Plus, you will laugh! We provide edutainment so that you have energy that drives retention.

Why Choose Grow-Lean?

Longest tenured trainers, smaller classes and higher quality.

  • Small group of elite, experienced, practical agile trainers.
  • The highest quality for a fair price.
  • Caring customer support before and after training.
  • Interactive class experience.
  • Everything is included. No hidden fees!
  • Trainers are actual practitioners. Don't trust talking heads!
  • Unique training material, templates and approaches.
  • Small class size so you get personal attention.

Earning Your Certification

The Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner.

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Taking the session earns your the coveted CSP-PO Certification if you meet the requirements outlined below.

  • Have a Scrum Alliance® A-CSPO Certification.
  • Can validate at least 24 months in the role of Product Owner or Product Owner Coach over the last five years.

Earning the CSP-PO allows you to pursue guide level certifications:

  • Certified Scrum Trainer (CST)
  • Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC)
  • Certified Team Coach (CTC)
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