Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) In-Person Training

Lead the Product Journey, from bright ideas to happy customers.

Delivering value isn't just about following a set of requirements or a process. It's about engaging customers, discovering their needs and sequencing work to optimize outcomes rather than just outputs. Product Owners are central to maximizing the flow of value produced by the product delivery teams. Not just in person, but even when the whole team is online and virtual.

If you're ready to learn how to deliver value with Scrum in a fun and engaging way via pragmatic techniques you can apply immediately, this course is for you. From deep study of brain science and adult learning, we've learned what it takes to be effective in -person and virtual environments and avoid "Zoom fatigue."

A great PO skillset spans:

• facilitating & negotiating internal and external stakeholder needs
• translating needs into actionable requirements in the product backlog
• supporting product and project development teams throughout their planning, development and release activities
• ensuring teams and stakeholders exercise frequent feedback cycles to guide future plans
• managing expectations and projections from vision all the way through product release

Such skills are hard to learn via lecture alone - so this workshop is hands-on and interactive. This is no PowerPoint snooze fest. Short presentations cover concepts. Immersive team-based exercises are interwoven into each lesson to get you hands-on practice. Delivered in three half-day sessions, with a brief orientation and closing sessions with the instructor.

03/11/2025 - Tuesday : 9:00 am - 5:00 pm (EST)

03/12 /2025 - Wednesday : 9:00 am - 5:00 pm (EST)

(Coffee Included)

International Institute for Learning (IIL) Training Room

485 Madison Ave – 2nd Floor

New York City, NY 10022

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The workshop includes all the material required by the Scrum Alliance for its Certified Scrum Product Owner CSPO® certification, along with stories, tips, tricks, and practices to make your product backlog sing and your user stories tap-dance their way to "done." It lays the foundation for Business Agility using the Scrum framework.

Get a taste of the engaging instruction style you'll experience with this short tip to help delivery effectiveness:

By the conclusion of this dynamic workshop - you will be prepared with the skills, knowledge, and experience to not only explain Scrum to colleagues, clients or interviewers, but also to put Scrum into action with your team. Become a catalyst for change by helping your teams and programs apply these concepts to become resilient, learning organizations able to thrive in today’s emerging markets.

Scrum Alliance Reviews

"I was able to learn many concepts in-depth and had fun doing so. The pace of the class is perfect, and the instructors are knowledgeable and engaging. I highly recommend this class to anyone that wants to become a Certified Scrum Product Owner." -- Jose Mari.

"The class was excellent, the instructor very knowledgeable and kept us interested and engaged. I feel like I invested in myself, and it was worthwhile. " --Claudia T

"You're a fantastic teacher and I sincerely appreciate the time, skill, and empathy that you apply to your teaching. I've learned way more than I bargained for! :)" -- Dina R.

"When 8 hours of class doesn’t seem boring at all, that definitely deserves a 5 star! Anil’s class is so interactive and has opportunities to have hands-on experience and this is the best way to learn. I highly recommend this course." --Syed Alam

This workshop includes:

• Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Product Owner CSPO® certification fee

• Two-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, the largest, most established and influential professional membership and certification organization in the Agile community

• 16 PMI PDUs for PMPs

• 16 of the 21 contact hours needed for a PMI-ACP credential

This course is appropriate for Product Owners, Product Managers, Managers, Business Analysts and others involved in facilitating the journey of a great customer-centric idea to the realization of a solution ready for delivery. It's equally valuable for Scrum Masters, Scrum Team Members and not-so-innocent organizational bystanders wanting to collaborate with the "product folks" on agile approaches to product planning, requirements management, and release planning. This course is appropriate for folks new to the world of Agile/Scrum, as well as people whose organizations have been practicing some form of Agile for a while and need a "reset."

Anil’s career had an explosive start in the early 1990s, he worked on a messaging product that sent messages across the world in 3 seconds with a team that aligned with the Values and Principles of Agile. The product won the best Open Systems Award in 1994. From the beginning of his career, he has been tinkering with code, infrastructure, product development, and consulting in various industries.

His deep expertise in financial services and startups in developing business models has resulted in multiplying revenue and avoiding risk. He recently led a cloud transformation program for 250 application teams that saved one of the world’s largest bank over $25 million. His deep Agile, DevOps, and leadership experience have guided multiple organizations to achieve high throughput, market focus, productivity, and quality in building products. He has a deep interest in instructional design and is a certified Training from the BACK of the Room Trainer.

He is a Certified Scrum Trainer with Scrum Alliance and a Certified DevOps Trainer with DevOps Institute. Anil is also adjunct faculty teaching “transforming organizations” in the project management graduate program at New York University. Anil is well regarded in the industry as an Agile, Executive, and Technical Coach. He has helped several organizations successfully implement continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous delivery, and SRE practices. He is currently guiding the product marketing and development of a telemetry dashboard for Atlassian products.

How soon can I get my CSPO® certification? On completing your participation in the full workshop, we will let the Scrum Alliance know of your successful completion of the course. You'll receive an email from them to setup your profile on the Scrum Alliance website and then you'll be a Bonafide, official CSPO®!

Wait! Don't I Need to Take an Exam to be Certified as a CSPO®? No. Currently the only requirement to become a CSPO® is the successful completion of the course. The Scrum Alliance is hard at work to develop an online exam for the CSPO®. So, if you love taking tests, wait a bit to enroll in a CSPO® workshop. Otherwise - get it now with us!

Can I Miss Several Hours of the Workshop and Still be Certified? No. If you miss more than 15 minutes of the workshop, you will not be eligible for certification, and you will be welcome to attend the rest of the workshop. Don't worry - if something big comes up, we'll move you to a future workshop at no cost.

What do I need to bring to class? Appetite for good food and learning.  You will be provided with all the material needed for group activities. We recommend you bring a notebook to write on. 

We understand that things can change, and we strive to be as agile as possible with respect to registrations. Please email us no later than 14 business days before the start of the workshop and we'll arrange a full refund or transfer to a future date. Cancellations made 14 business days to 5 full business days prior to the start of the course will receive a credit (no cash value) towards a future workshop. If you cancel within five calendar days from the start of a class, or if you do not attend the class, you will not be eligible for a refund or credit Please request changes by emailing [email protected]

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

International Institute for Learning (IIL), 485 Madison Avenue, New York, United States