Course Location:
Marriott Saratoga Springs
11 Excelsior Ave
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

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Contact: Julia Hill if you have questions. More details and a link to register are below.

Summary of the Course

Through a combination of immersive team-based learning, exercises, and real-world case studies, you will learn how to:

• Plan, initiate and lead a Scrum project
• Develop the initial Product Backlog
• Improve the identification of Business Value
• Establish a shared vision for the entire team
• Generate an agile release plan utilizing user stories and story point estimation
• Manage the Gap between customer expectations and the Team's ability to deliver
• Improve business value engineering
• Balance new features against digging out of technical debt
• Refactor the Product Backlog continuously
• Lead the Team and yet have the Team remain self-managing
• Work with Stakeholders to make them more effective

CSPO training provides an applied understanding of the Scrum process and helps participants begin to develop the tools, insights, and skills required to apply Scrum on their projects and across their organizations.

Additional Information :
The course will run from 9am-5pm each day. A continental breakfast, breaks and lunch will be provided.

Following the course, each participant is enrolled as a CSPO, which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, where additional Scrum materials and information are available.

Who Should Attend

The CSPO course is for managers, analysts, product manager, and others interested in how the Product Owner works with a Scrum team. You will learn both how and why Scrum works. This course is immersive and intensive, using exercises and small-group discussions.  While an introductory course, you will be able to plan for and start your first (or next) sprint almost immediately after this class.

ScrumMasters need this course, because they must coach Product Owners in these skills.

PMPs: You can receive 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs) for this course.

Course Material

Participants will receive course materials (not books) at the course. The CSPO course was formulated to train and certify Product Owners and is used worldwide for Product Owner training. In addition, participants should obtain (at their own expense) Agile Project Management with Scrum, by Ken Schwaber, which is required reading for the course. You may also wish to obtain the primary Scrum book, Agile Software Development with SCRUM by Schwaber and Beedle, on which the course is based.

Of course, there will be updated material and training exercises in the course which you cannot get from books. The entire syllabus will be made available upon registering for the course so you can look it over and bring it with you to the sessions.

Registration and Fees

The course fee is $1,300.  There is an early bird discount for now, to $1,200. (subject to change at any time).  There is a 10% discount for groups of 3 or more.

Once you pay, you become registered. If your firm needs an invoice, we can generate those as well. You are not fully registered until we receive payment. Please contact Julia Hill for details or with questions.

Refund policy
90% of the course fee will be refunded for cancellations more that 7 days in advance of the course. No refunds will be provided for cancellations within a week of the course.