Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner · CSP-PO
CSP-PO is for Product Owners with real miles in the role. It covers product strategy and economics, launching new Scrum teams, and owning a product across many teams. Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner is two days of advanced practice, plus any post-course work you complete in your own context. We teach it privately for your organization's senior Product Owners.
Private training only · Taught by Scott Dunn, Certified Scrum Trainer & Certified Enterprise Coach · 16 SEUs & 16 PDUs
Private training
CSP-PO isn't publicly scheduled. Every session is delivered privately and built around your Product Owners, your products, and the strategic challenges they're working on.
Either works. Email us a bit of context, like how many Product Owners you'd like to include and where they are on the track, and we'll follow up with a plan. Or skip straight to 30 minutes with Scott to talk it through.
The credential
CSP-PO is the third and final step in the Scrum Alliance Product Owner track. There's no exam. Complete both days and any post-course work, and the credential is issued once your 24 months of Product Owner experience is logged in your Scrum Alliance profile.
What you'll learn
The course is built on the five areas in Scrum Alliance's CSP-PO learning objectives. It draws on your own experience and what you learned in A-CSPO, and it covers the situations experienced Product Owners actually find themselves in.
Module 01
Act as a product champion, facilitate discussions between stakeholders who disagree, launch new Scrum teams, and own a product across multiple teams.
Module 02
Apply market-driven product strategy, handle complex product planning and forecasting, and use product economics to guide decisions.
Module 03
Go further with customer research and product discovery, so decisions rest on what customers need, not on assumptions.
Module 04
Test the assumptions behind larger, riskier product bets using higher-level validation approaches.
Module 05
Tell outcome from output, define value, order items, and refine them so customer value reaches users quickly.
Your real situations
CSP-PO assumes years in the role. Come ready to work through your own product strategy, multi-team backlog, and stakeholder landscape with Scott and your peers.
Who it's for
CSP-PO is for people who already hold an A-CSPO and have been in the Product Owner role long enough to shape strategy, not just the next sprint.
Two or more years in the role and looking for the highest Product Owner credential Scrum Alliance offers.
Owning a product built by several teams, or a backlog shared across them, and needing a systemic view.
Asked to form new Scrum teams around a product, and to set them up differently from a traditional project launch.
Responsible for product strategy, forecasting, and economics, and wanting to connect them to how Scrum teams deliver.
Planning a path toward Scrum Alliance's coaching or trainer credentials, where CSP-PO is a milestone.
Investing in the senior Product Owners who drive product decisions across your organization.
On prerequisites: you need an Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner certification, active or expired. You can take the course before you have 24 months of Product Owner experience, but Scrum Alliance won't issue the CSP-PO until those 24 months (within the last five years) are logged in your profile. If you haven't earned your A-CSPO yet, start there.
Your session
Two days of hands-on work and the highest credential on the Scrum Alliance Product Owner track.
The official Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner credential, issued once all course components are complete and your experience is validated.
Two years of membership come with the certification, and your A-CSPO and CSPO renew automatically when you earn the CSP-PO.
Count them toward your Scrum Alliance and PMI certification renewals. You earn one of each per hour of live training.
CSP-POs receive a free premium subscription to Comparative Agility, an agile assessment and continuous improvement platform.
Your trainer
Founder, Rocket Nine Solutions · Certified Scrum Trainer & Certified Enterprise Coach
Scott has worked as a developer, manager, and project manager at Inc. 500 and Fortune 500 companies, and has spent two decades coaching teams and leading agile transformations for organizations like NASA and Kaiser Permanente. As one of fewer than 80 people in the world who are both a Certified Scrum Trainer and a Certified Enterprise Coach, he teaches CSP-PO from the organizational level the course is aimed at. His sessions are practical and plain-spoken, built around the products and stakeholders participants bring with them.
Questions
No. Your Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner certification can be active or expired. When you earn the CSP-PO, your A-CSPO and CSPO renew automatically.
Yes. You can take CSP-PO any time after earning your A-CSPO. Scrum Alliance won't issue the certification until you've logged 24 months of Product Owner work experience, from within the last five years, in your Scrum Alliance profile.
No exam. Attend and take part in both days, complete any pre- or post-course work, and accept the CSP-PO license agreement in your Scrum Alliance account once your experience is validated.
A-CSPO expands a Product Owner's skills beyond the basics. CSP-PO is the highest level of the Scrum Alliance Product Owner track and looks wider: product strategy and economics, launching new Scrum teams, complex assumption validation, and owning a product across multiple teams. It's also a milestone toward Scrum Alliance's Certified Team Coach, Certified Enterprise Coach, and Certified Scrum Trainer credentials.
Every two years, by earning 40 Scrum Education Units, completing the renewal application on the Scrum Alliance website, and paying the renewal fee.
We aren't running public CSP-PO sessions right now. Every session is delivered privately for one organization at a time. That means the discussion and exercises can be shaped around your products and the strategic challenges your Product Owners are working on.
Email hello@rocketninesolutions.com with a bit about your team, or put 30 minutes directly on Scott's calendar to talk it through first.
The Product Owner track
Scrum Alliance built the Product Owner track to reward time in the role, not just time in a classroom. CSPO gets you started. Advanced CSPO and CSP-Product Owner are earned as your experience grows.
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No prerequisites. Attend the two-day course to earn the CSPO. This is the foundation for the entire Product Owner track.
Learn More →02
Requires a CSPO (active or expired) plus at least 12 months of experience as a Product Owner within the last five years, and completing an approved A-CSPO course.
Learn More →You are here
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This course. Requires an A-CSPO (active or expired) plus at least 24 months of experience as a Product Owner within the last five years, and completing an approved CSP-PO course.
Planning a path through the track for a group of Product Owners? Get in touch for private options: hello@rocketninesolutions.com.
Not sure this is the right fit?
Not sure whether your Product Owners are ready for CSP-PO, or whether they'd get more from A-CSPO first? Tell us where they're at and we'll give you a straight answer.
Email us your question →Ready to get started?
Skip the email and put 30 minutes on the calendar directly. We'll talk through your products, your Product Owners, and what a private CSP-PO session would look like.
Book time with Scott →Two days of private CSP-PO training and the highest certification on the Product Owner track. Let's find a date that works.