Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO)
The advanced certification course to boost your agile capabilities.
Certification course endorsed by Scrum Alliance and designed to boost your career in Agile Product Management. Facilitated by Martin Alaimo, the only Spanish-speaking professional who holds the four most prestigious certifications in the Agile industry.
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Program
In our first class, we will analyze the Product Owner profile as it relates to the competencies of Agile Product Management. I will focus on the relationship with stakeholders and how to manage their interests. I will teach you techniques that will help you facilitate meetings so that you can help stakeholders negotiate opposing interests and make better decisions.
In our second class, we will learn how to interact with Developers. I will show the different practical techniques that you must know and how to manage product development on scale where you encounter multiple teams.
We all agree that you cannot start designing a product or service without first understanding what your users really want, right? Therefore, in our fourth meeting, we are going to delve into customer research practices so that you can design a product that your customers love.
Steve Jobs once said 'Some people say: Give customers what they want. However, this is not my approach. My job is to find out what customers are going to want before they know it... People do not know what they want until you show it to them.' During our fifth meeting, I will introduce you to Product Discovery techniques that will help you identify the appropriate product to develop.
You need to doubt your assumptions and view your proposals as hypotheses, especially in the development of new products. This discipline is plagued with cognitive biases and if you are not aware of them, they can play very dirty tricks on you. You are not leading projects but rather, experiments and in this meeting, I will teach you how to do those validations.
One of the biggest challenges when switching from product management to agile product management is to shift the focus from delivering features to delivering value. But, what does value mean? How can you measure it? Why is this approach change so critical? All of this will be covered in our sixth meeting.
Creating and evolving a product requires an immense effort for everyone involved. All that effort without a North and motivation ends up stressing everyone. Establishing a purpose (or a vision) should be the starting point of any product initiative but it is overlooked often. In this meeting, I will teach you how to establish a purpose and develop a strategic map that stems from that vision.
At the end of the course, we will see different techniques for organizing/ordering/prioritizing, and refining the Product Backlog. This will be the 'cherry on top' and your last step towards certification.
What will you learn?
You will learn Customer Research and approaches to bring teams and customers closer.
How to develop and validate sound hypotheses about product functionalities and your customers' use of them.
You'll differentiate outputs from outcomes as a clever means to create outstanding products.
Advanced Product Backlog refinement techniques.
Let's picture for a second the following scenario
Right in front of you lies the opportunity of a lifetime to create a product that can blow your users’ minds off. However, the outlook does not look too promising.
Your stakeholders have opposing interests, so you will undoubtedly have to facilitate challenging meetings to help stakeholders make the best decisions without pulling each other's hair out/throwing things at each other.
On the other hand, you have the developers. They talk about technical debt and an infinite amount of engineering techniques that guarantee a robust product. However, they talk so technically that it sounds like a foreign language to you.
At the same time, your most important responsibility is none of those mentioned above; instead, your primary focus should be the end-user. You are the one that represents the customer/client/user. You must put their interests above all else and make sure that the outcome of all the work to be done indeed solves end-users’ most profound issues.
On the way, you will have to identify typical cognitive biases, conduct consumer research, almost to the point of being able to read your customers’ minds, develop hypotheses, and put into practice different techniques to validate them.
And the journey does not end there. If everything goes as expected, you are likely to lead a product at scale, where multiple teams work simultaneously. Which will require an advanced degree of knowledge about organizational structures and coordination of multiple agile teams.
Not even the best Product Owners can do this instinctively. They need to learn how to manage stakeholders, interact with developers, facilitate meetings, empathize with users, use design thinking approaches, develop and validate hypotheses, and lead large-scale product development.
These new skills are waiting for you in the Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) program.
Sign up today and start boosting your career right away.
Overview
A learning Path
40+ hours of blended learning (live sessions and asynchronous activities).
Educational Platform
A learning environment you can access for unlimited time
Program Recording
Long-term access to the course recordings.
A-CSPO Certification
Upon successful completion of the program, you will receive the A-CSPO certification from Scrum Alliance, the most recognized entity in the Agile world.
Requirements
You can take the certification course at any time, but to certify, you must have at least 12 months of experience as a PO in the last 5 years and the CSPO certification (if inactive, it will be renewed upon certification).
Attendance
75% attendance in at least 75% of the online meetings.
Miles
27 Miles redeemable for discounts on other Alaimo Labs live programs.
About the Instructor
Martin Alaimo
Consultant and trainer dedicated to Business Agility and Digital Product Creation.
You will be trained by an expert who supports companies and has assisted over 6,000 professionals in more than 20 years of agile product development.
Martin's approach is situational and practical, while his teaching style is immersive, offering novel experiences with the material that facilitate rapid learning.
He is a recognized author of 5 books on the benefits of Agility, Scrum, and Coaching in digital innovation and has been a speaker at over 30 conferences in the United States and 14 countries in Latin America and Europe.
He is one of the few experts holding the industry's highest certifications in agile practices and professional coaching: Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), Certified Team Coach (CTC), Certified Agile Leadership Educator (CAL Educator), and Path to CSP Educator.
Upon completion of this Scrum Alliance Advanced Product Owner certification course
You will identify the competencies and beliefs necessary to make it as a Product Owner, going beyond the basics and entering the world of strategy and outcome metrics.
You will know how to deal with Stakeholders. You will be able to negotiate, facilitate meetings, and help them make the best decisions and thus, stop simply 'doing what they ask you to'.
You will be aware of the fundamental technical aspects of product development so that you can understand and talk with developers/ engineers so it no longer seems that they speak a different language and you can reach better buy-in faster.
You will know how to handle yourself in environments where agility is applied at scale. You will be capable of managing products built by multiple teams working simultaneously.
You will be able to differentiate tactics from product strategy. You will understand how to define the purpose of a product and steer it with a strategy to achieve it.
You will identify the differences with plans and roadmaps and how to communicate them to the Stakeholders. You will also know how to differentiate strategic communication, objectives, and tactics, from product features.
You will put Product Discovery techniques into practice, which will allow you to quickly separate good ideas from bad ones. Thus, increasing the probability that your products not only solve your customers' or users' most important problems but also create products that will blow their minds.
You will be able to identify the different cognitive biases in the world of Agile Product Management and you will have the tools to mitigate them.
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Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO)
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ATTENTION: In order to be certified as A-CSPO at the end of the program, it is necessary that 1) have an active Scrum Alliance CSPO certification and 2) that you have at least one year of experience working as a Product Owner in the last five years.
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