Certified Scrum Product Owner®

This course is hands-on, interactive, and fun!

Contact us for private in-house course.

Our curriculum will enable you to

• Develop a solid fundamental understanding of Agile, Lean, and Scrum.
• Develop a personal plan toward becoming an empowered Product Owner
• Learn how to manage stakeholders, so they empower you to perform your role effectively
• Learn best practices to handle large product backlogs effectively
• Learn how to split user stories effectively
• Lead your developers to build empathy for your product users and customers
• Engage effectively with Senior Executive management to champion product vision and strategy
• Enable product development efforts to deliver business outcomes
• Learn release tracking techniques, metrics, and measures to manage expectations effectively

Learning by doing

Scrum is easy to understand but challenging to master. Learning new skills requires an experiential environment where you can practice your newly acquired skills. Therefore, we don’t use dry lectures. More importantly, learning happens when you are having fun!

Our participants experience Scrum concepts and principles through case studies, games, simulations, group discussions, and role-playing exercises.

How do we train?

This course encourages constructive dialogue to understand the why of agile and Scrum values and principles. We go beyond canned responses and deep practical aspects of implementing Scrum in the real world.

You need a practical grasp of agile practices to be effective in your world of work. We engage in fun, interactive role-playing simulations. This helps you to be better prepared to handle even the most challenging situations in your real world of work.

Learn together, grow together

We recommend agile teams join this course together so you can develop a shared understanding of Scrum and how you can implement the framework in your situation.

• Why Agile?
• Iterative and incremental development
• Agile vs. Waterfall
• Empirical Process control in practice
• Sooner not faster

• Scrum in a nutshell
• Scrum Roles and expectations: Scrum Master, Product Owner, Developers
• Scrum Events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Review
• Scrum Artifacts & commitments
• Working effectively with stakeholders, and developers
• Definition of done vs. Acceptance criteria
• Effective backlog refinement: Sizing, splitting, and grooming backlog items

• Technology adoption and market segments
• User role modeling
• Collaboration techniques to improve business engagement throughout the product development process
• User Story Mapping technique

• Product vs. Project organizations
• Shared visioning strategies
• Multi-level planning
• Lean startup fundamentals
• Validating product assumptions
• Anti-patterns: Scaling product development

Bring this course in-house

Customize focused learning sessions designed for your organization’s specific needs. References are provided upon request.

The Online Experience FAQ

Answers to some of the commonly asked questions from our students

• We host our virtual training on Zoom. Please install the Zoom client on your computer.
• For online collaboration, we use Mural. Participants are provided with a free guest account for the course days.
• We take breaks almost hourly, with a more extended lunch break
• Certification fees are included
• A color pdf of the workbook will be provided

Public Course Registration Policies

Course Cancellation by Provider

In the event that a course does not meet the minimum required number of participants, Evolve Agility Inc. reserves the right to cancel or reschedule the session. In such cases, participants will be offered:

• A free transfer to the next available scheduled date for the same course; or
• A full refund of the course registration fee.

Please note: In the event of a refund, original payment processor transaction fees are non-refundable.

Participant Transfers & Refunds

If you wish to change your registration, the following policies apply:

Transfers: You may transfer to a different date for the same course at no extra charge.

Standard Refunds:

• Cancellations made more than two weeks before the course date: Full refund of course fee.
• Cancellations made within two weeks of the course date: 70% refund of course fee.

Non-Refundable Fees: Payment processor transaction fees are non-refundable for all cancellation types.

No-Show Policy

Registration fees will be forfeited in full in the case of a no-show.

Intellectual Property Policy

All course materials, including but not limited to lectures, interactive boards, presentations, handouts, and assessments, are the intellectual property of Evolve Agility Inc. and are protected by copyright law.

• License: Participants are granted a non-exclusive license to use course materials for their own personal learning.
• Restrictions: Materials may not be reproduced or distributed in any form without express written consent from Evolve Agility Inc.
• Enforcement: Any unauthorized use or distribution of course materials will be considered a violation of copyright law and may result in legal action.