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Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO® | Scrum Alliance)

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Master the product owner role and prepare for your Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO®) certification from Scrum Alliance. You'll build the core competencies of the role: setting product goals, understanding customers and users, validating assumptions, and managing a value-driven product backlog. By the end of this path, you'll be ready to act as an effective product owner and pursue CSPO® certification. Click here < http://scrumalliance.org/exam-voucher/cspo) > to purchase the exam voucher from Scrum Alliance. Be sure to enter the Pluralsight discount code PSCSPO50OFF when checking out. \ \  

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Scrum Foundations

The shared foundation for all Scrum work: the theory, team, events, and artifacts of the framework. Start here before moving into the product owner competencies.

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO®)

Build the competencies of the product owner role: setting product goals, understanding customers and users, validating product assumptions, and managing a backlog that delivers measurable value. This section prepares you to perform the role with confidence and sit for Scrum Alliance's Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO®) certification.

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Build confidence to ace your certification exam with a variety of prep tools, including video courses, labs, and practice exams.

What You'll Learn
  • Perform the product owner accountabilities within Scrum, from backlog authority to stakeholder transparency
  • Turn a product vision into actionable product and sprint goals, forecasts and release plans
  • Validate product assumptions through discovery and build a backlog that maximizes outcomes over output
  • \--- Scrum Foundations ---\
  • 1. Scrum Foundations (Video | F2C Course, 60 minutes)\
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  • -- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO®) ---\
  • 2. Product Owner Core Competencies (CSPO®) \
  • 3. Product Strategy and Goal Setting (CSPO®) \
  • 4. Customer Discovery and Validating Product Assumptions (CSPO®)\
  • 5. Managing the Product Backlog (CSPO®)
Prerequisites
  • No formal prerequisites are required. This path is best suited to learners with some exposure to working on or alongside a team that delivers iteratively, whether as a product owner, product manager, business analyst, team lead, or similar role. Familiarity with Scrum is helpful but not required or assumed.
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