Orange CSPO

Lead Scrum Teams to Create Valuable Products!

For Product Owners, Product Managers, Business Analysts, Project and Program Managers, Consultants, Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches and Engineers

As Product Owner, your are a source of warmth and energy for your team, enabling their creativity while achieving business goals.

Learn to Lead Your Scrum Team as Product Owner in the Orange CSPO Product Owner Program with Peter B. Stevens

Why Orange?

The color orange is vibrant and energetic, often symbolizing enthusiasm, creativity, and warmth. Orange represents the stage of organizational development characterized by innovation, achievement, and the meritocracy of ideas.

As Product Owner you serve as a critical communicator and facilitator between the development team and various stakeholders, ensuring that the product vision aligns with user needs and business goals.

If you want to develop a new product, work with an external software vendor, learn how to lead a product team, improve your processes with Scrum, or understand your role as a Product Owner, this course is for you!

Lead by Peter B. Stevens

Creator of Inside the Scrum Team!

Register for an Orange CSPO Course in Zurich!

Our focus is currently on private training. Contact us here, to find out about Training and Coaching for your organization.

What you get

In this program you get access to:

  • Two days of face-to-face training with Peter B. Stevens, Certified Scrum Trainer®
  • Option: Orange Entrepreneurship - An additional day on Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Story Writing.
  • 80-page, full color workbook with full explanations.
  • Free printed copy of The Illustrated Guide to Scrum. ($19 Value). Use it as a reference and to share better Scrum in your organization!.
  • Free Scrum Assessment from Scrum Ambassadors. $100 Value!
  • Access to repository of course materials, templates, checklists, guides & useful information
  • 15 SEUs/PDUs
  • 2 year membership in the Scrum Alliance
  • Certification as a Scrum Product Owner (if you are present in mind and body for the whole class)
  • A personalized list of discussion points for improving your project or organization
  • Certificate of attendance
  • Lunches and breaks

Book with confidence!

All course dates are guaranteed!

By the end of this program you will be able to:

  • Lead a Scrum Team as its Product Owner.
  • Infuse new energy and new ideas into your Scrum project!
  • Guide your team from initial idea to done.
  • Identify Products Worth Building
  • Identify Risks and Impediments to Project Success.
  • Validate with your customers and stakeholders that you are building the right product
  • Collaborate effectively with your team
  • Create user stories and prioritize the Product Backlog effectively
  • Predict when your product will be ready
  • Deliver Value frequently and reliably to your stakeholders
  • Qualify for Certification as a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Product Owner®

Select the package which meets your needs

  No-Frills Standard Economy
Description Lowest Price, No changes, no refunds Booking Flexibility
Cancellation allowed No Up to 15 days before the workshop, full refund*
Change of participant allowed No up to 3 days before workshop, no charge
Postponement to a later date allowed No Up to 15 days before the workshop, subject to availability, no charge*
Scrum Alliance Membership, Certification and Test Fees Included Included
Printed Course Book Yes, Full Color Yes, Full Color
Electronic Course Materials Yes Yes
Lunch provided at the Venue Yes Yes
Advance Purchase Required 2 months/1 month 1 day
Payment terms Immediate, by credit card before course begin, credit card or bank transfer
Payment with Purchase Order No Minimum CHF 10'000 per order
Electronic access to all course materials Yes Yes
Discounts Apply No Yes
Train The Team Discounts No Yes
Price (per person, excluding VAT) Discount up to CHF 400 compared to Standard Economy! CHF 2'195.--
Orange Entrepreneurship if booked together with Orange CSPO (per person, excluding VAT) CHF 745.-- CHF 795.--

Discounts on two-day classes and workshops

We grant discounts to participants paying with their own money on a case-by-case basis. We offer a CHF 200 discount to SwissICT members. We also grant "Train the Team" discounts depending on the number of people booked and invoiced together:

  • 3 to 6 people: CHF 400.-- per person
  • 7 to 9 people: CHF 500.-- per person
  • 10 or more people: CHF 600.-- per person

To qualify for a train-the-team discount, all participants must be booked at the same time. If after your initial booking, you wish to book additional participants to the same class, the same discount will be applied as for your initial booking.

* Note: Cancellation is not allowed and postponement is limited if a train the team discount was applied.

Discounts are calculated against Standard Economy packages. If multiple discounts apply, only the most beneficial discount will be applied. To qualify for a discounted price, on-time payment by the date stated in the invoice is required.

Peter_Stevens-Life-is-the-Sea-450x300 "I have coached Product Owners, business founders, and all levels of management, from executives to team leaders and department heads. As entrepreneur and Product Owner for my own products, I have worked with offshore, distributed teams since 2012. I understand from first-hand experience what it means to be a product owner and how to be a good one. My goal is to share this experience with you!"

As a long-time Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer, Peter Stevens is a recognized Agile expert who has trained over 2’000 people to transform their world of work for the better. He is the inventor of Personal Agility(tm) and co-author of Personal Agility: Doing More That Matters.

This course satisfies the 2022 update of the Scrum Alliance CSPO Learning Objectives:

  • Product Owner Core Competencies
  • Goal Setting and Planning
  • Understanding Customers and Users
  • Validating Product Assumptions
  • Working with the Product Backlog

Each course is defined dynamically according to the your needs and those of your fellow participants. Here is a typical program:

Day 1

Sprint 1 - Scrum Basics

  • What do you know about Scrum?
  • What do you know about Product Ownership?
  • Why Scrum?
  • What does a Product Owner do?

Sprint 2 - What does a Product Owner do?

  • How does the P-O impact team performance?
  • How is a product different than a project?
  • What happens when?

Day 2

Sprint 3 – How to Work with the Backlog

  • How to manage requirements in Scrum?
  • How to get the backlog ready for implementation?
  • How does the Product Owner fit in to the organization?

Sprint 4 – How to Manage and Respond to Change?

  • What happens in Sprint Planning?
  • Who is responsible for what?
  • How to react to change?
  • When is something (really) done?

Nicht nur Scrum frontal lernen, sondern Scrum auch praktisch und nützlich erleben. Das bietet der Kurs von Peter an! -- Ivana Tzschoppe, SBB, Zurich, May 12-14, 2014

What do recent participants say about this course?

Participants are enthusiastic! Net Promoter Score from October 2013 to April 2014: +63%! (Read more about my commitment to top quality courses!). Here's a selection of recent comments:

Scrum Product Owner Roles

Interactive learning helps you genuinely understand Scrum

Scrum Product Owner Training. Create an analogue version of the product you wish to create.

Creating an"analogue version" of a cool new product -- yours!

Take home many

Take home many "A-Ha!" moments as you figure out the why of Scrum!

You'll leave the course with clear ideas on what & how to improve!

You'll leave the course with clear ideas on what & how to improve!

 
  • Experienced trainer, well-working course, good food for thought¨ -- Roland Lüthi in Zürich, August 2018
  • I thought the class size, room and hotel worked really well. Along with the materials I feel like I received value for money all things considered. -- Richard Kearney in Zürich, July 2018
  • It was an amazing class. I learn a lot about scrum. -- Meera Kaneswaran in Zürich, June 2018
  • Thanks peter ! You are a great mentor, I wish to connect with you in future. -- Rahul Rajpal in Delhi, April 2018
  • Great organizing and outstanding expert. -- Naveen Shekar in Bangalore, April 2018
  • Thanks for a great 3 days - money and time well spent! -- participant in Zurich, March 2018
  • Thank you for these amazing three days. -- Stefan Steiner in Zurich, March 2018
  • I learned A LOT in these three intense days! It was well organized and the program was very diversified. I found the exchanges with the pairing partner very helpful for the learning process. Thank you, Peter! -- participant in Bern, January 2018
  • I enjoyed the course and feel its time well invested.-- participant in Zürich, February 2018

This Workshop is for You!

Even the breaks can be great for networking, discussion, and learning!

Testimonials

  • Palash Patel
    Peter is an excellent coach who makes sure that participants wholeheartedly participate in the course. I would recommend the course to professionals interested in building better products, irrespective of their domain.
    Palash Patole
    Research Associate at University of Bern
  • Peter made clear the underlying principles of agile, so rather than the course feeling like reading a book, I felt like I was establishing a new way of thinking.
    Ryan Prater
    HeyScience
  • Great workshop for product practitioners to work effectively with teams.
    Harm Cronie
    HeyScience
  • Pit Ernster
    Although I was already a Scrum enthusiast, Peter managed to revive that initial drive again. I feel much more comfortable in my role as a Scrum Product Owner. I would recommend this class to any aspiring Product Owner!
    Pit Ernster
    Supercomputing Systems AG
  • The class was very interactive and encouraged diverse opinions. I’d recommended this to anyone in Product or Development teams.
    Michelle Kaiser
    Bontique (Gubemo AG)
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How do you know if this workshop is for you? Would you like to...
  • Fulfill your product and schedule commitments?
  • Convert your project to Scrum or Agile?
  • Achieve higher team performance, happier stakeholders, and more engaged staff?
  • Transition from a Business Analyst or Project Manager role?
  • Understand or fulfill the duties and responsibilities of the Product Owner role?
This course is ideal for you if:
  • Poor requirements make it hard to get things done
  • You and your and team are juggling too many projects
  • You are not sure what the customer really wants
  • Your timelines shift and interruptions are frequent
  • Your team is complaining about the User Stories and/or the Product Backlog
  • You are not getting the quality or the performance you want from your Agile team
  • You'd like work to be more fun
What this workshop is and is not

This workshop...

  • Is a two-day interactive, face-to-face workshop about creating great products
  • Is taught by Peter Stevens, an active Product Owner
  • Is not a repeat of the Scrum Master class
  • Does not put you through “death by PowerPoint”

Register for an Orange CSPO Course in Zurich!

Our focus is currently on private training. Contact us here, to find out about Training and Coaching for your organization.