Scrum Alliance® CSPO Sessions can only be delivered by a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST). Becoming a CST is hard and there are less than 300 CSTs world-wide, so many companies rent CSTs to deliver (we don't).

We have in-house CST capability so our trainers have been vetted further and are motivated to deliver excellence.

Grow-Lean is an approved Scrum Alliance Path to Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) Provider. This means that in addition to the CSPO we are authorized to deliver advanced courses.

Grow-Lean is an approved Scrum Alliance Registered Education Provider (REP), meaning that we can list and deliver continuing education classes that earn you Scrum Education Units® (SEUs).

Product development activities span the value stream, from product ideation to release, so a wide variety of participants attend this session.

The Certified Product Owner® Certification focuses on the effectiveness paradigm. A good Product Owner (PO) ensures that we deliver what was asked for, a great Product Owner leads a discovery process to deliver what is actually valuable (what is asked for and what is valuable are often not the same).

The PO ensures that items that are most likely to increase company ROI, add value for the customer, and maximize learning are built, then released. The development and release processes generate learnings that guide future releases. By continual learning you can ensure long term success even in the face of short term failures.

After the session you will be registered with the Scrum Alliance as a Certified Product Owner®. More importantly, you will have the conceptual basis on how to determine:

• Why: clarify the vision and measurable goals
• What: collaboratively and iteratively define the functionality
• When: prioritize on value (to business, users, and for learning)
• Done: determine when stories, features and releases are complete

You will apply the Scrum framework to product development and practice a dual-track readiness maturation process to prepare your team for release planning and sprint planning events gaining a practical perspective on applying the roles, artifacts and ceremonies of Scrum via hands on exercises, discussion and simulation.

You will learn how a variety of other frameworks strengthens Scrum and allows you to maximize value delivery.

• XP and DevOps®: XP (Extreme Programming) is a Scrum superset for engineering excellence, including, among other things Test Driven Development (TDD), refactoring (keeping a code base clean) and continuous integration (build and test at least daily). DevOps builds on XP and adds continuous delivery (CI/CD) so that you can get to market, and learn, faster.
• SAFe®, LeSS®, Scrum@Scale®: Scaling frameworks that provides additional roles, ceremonies and artifacts to work across multiple teams.
• Kanban: Known for visualizing, limiting WIP creating flow, and making policies explicit. We focus on Kanban for your readiness pipeline (refinement).
• Lean Startup®: An approach to mitigating business risks by getting to market quickly with a release that is also an experiment, learning from it, and adapting based on leanings. These concepts are critical to all PO's, in startups and large companies alike.

Exercises, discussions, simulations, games, yes we really mean games, case studies, examples and fun, yes even jokes, are interwoven throughout the course to illustrate the principles being taught in an immersive, engaging manner so that you learn, while enjoying yourself.

If you have time prior to the session, you can benefit by by clicking here to check our free reading material and videos.

1. Go with a safe choice as Grow-Lean is a Scrum Alliance Registered Education Provider and Path to CSP Educator with Certified Scrum Trainers on staff (no rent a trainer).
2. You won't get canceled on at the last minute (choose your training company wisely). Over 99% of our attendees for Certified ScrumMaster Sessions (CSM, A-CSM, CSPO) get to attend the class they register for (i.e. except for extreme situations, like snowstorms, cancellations are rare and when they happen we give lots of notice).
3. Get trained by a Scrum Alliance® approved, Certified Scrum Trainer (CST).
4. Gain an understanding of the agile philosophy with principles you can apply immediately.
5. Gain practical skills you can apply in your workplace.
6. Have fun while learning. Yes, serious fun, don't go to a boring training!
7. You get high quality, hot food, and all day beverages.
8. You are trained in a clean, quality, venue.
9. You have a trainer with significant real world experience, as well as significant experience delivering training.
10. Get increased retention via hands-on simulations, frequent quizzing, discussions and multiple mechanisms.