Become a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Learn how to use the Scrum framework to translate your customer’s ideas into a clear vision that inspires your product team to build the right feature the first time, with better quality, and deliver products sooner, so there is less risk and greater return.

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Course Level

The first step in the Scrum Product Owner Track. Focuses on Product Ownership and the role of the Product Owner.

Prerequisites

None. Just an open mind and willingness to learn and have fun in a safe and supportive place.

No Powerpoint

Unique, hands-on approach to learning. Experience what it’s really like to do Scrum, without boring lectures.

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Upcoming Workshops

Deepen your understanding of this Scrum role from someone who will help well beyond the initial course, when you have “yes, but in real life…” questions. Don’t settle and pay for fast food Scrum courses when becoming a Certified Scrum Product Owner. Invest in healthy, full-meal training, with take-home recipes for success and ongoing support during and after the certification course.

What you will learn

Build the product your customer needs without burning out your team

High Value Learning

For people who want to build, manage, and maintain an effective product backlog, and/or work with the Product Owner to do so (ScrumMasters, Business Analysts, etc.)

Relatable Scenarios

Learn practical solutions that you can apply the next day for difficult, real-life scenarios (e.g. how to say “no” to stakeholders and stop inflicting a feature factory on your team).

Effective Strategy

Fixing product management problems isn’t easy. You’ll get an evidence-based plan that isn’t wild promises, to help you confidently find your path through the mess.

Hands-On Practice

You don’t need boring PowerPoint and lectures. Experience building, managing, and maintaining an effective product backlog to deliver a useable product every sprint.

Fact-based, Safe, Fun

Explore ways to anticipate challenges and have a plan for how to deal with them. Grounded on case studies and evidence, not opinions or guesswork.

Ongoing Education, Free

Certification fees plus two years of Scrum Alliance membership are included, plus an abundance of post-workshop resources and support.

What our students say

"Came back to take my CSPO specifically with Mark for a reason. Amazing instructor." ..."Whether you have 0 days or 10 years of product owner experience you’re guaranted to learn a lot from this course." ... "I can’t say enough good things about the practical knowledge I’ve gained taking this training." ... "You’ll spend two great days with amazing people around and learn a lot while laughing. Take this course!"

Very engaging instructor and scenarios.
Christine APrivate Client
Mark is a very smart, passionate, knowledgable trainer, with a charismatic personality and great pedagogical skills. I see his potential to change companies culture. The course really taught me many things and made me want to read and know more!
Iulia AToronto
I thoroughly enjoyed my time with Mark. I learned a lot and appreciate his teaching style.
Kendall APrivate Client
Mark shared valuable information and advice about Scrum theory. I am now clear on many Agile views on different aspects, especially, Roadmap.
Syed AToronto
Very engaging way of learning how to be a Product Owner, just like Scrum should be.
Teeba APrivate Client
Very well structured course with a good variety of topics for further research. Great interaction with class.
Yuri AVirtual
Another excellent course! Great balance of theory, exercises, and anecdotes.
Adam BOttawa
Interaction was great, content is very useful and can be applied to improve our way right way. Nice control of the group by the instructor.
Ana BMontreal
Tons of material to get through, Mark did well with the contextual questions from our organization.
Brendan BPrivate Client
Mark was a very knowledgeable instructor and very passionate about the material. For a brand new subject area, I was very content and feeling comfortable in training (which usually is not the normal case). Whatever little pre-knowledge I had, this was a very great course. I took my own notes by hand and will strive the use the material as much as possible where I can. I did all of the pre-work and it definitely helped. Thank you for the training !
Brian BVirtual
I really enjoyed Mark, despite not being my sector I was able to make connections and take away information.
Catherine BOttawa
It was a great experience coming to Agile Scrum just a few months ago allowed this to solidify a lot of things I've been practicing. I will likely immediately reap the rewards.
Curtis BOttawa
Great use of time. Very clear examples of work life situations.
Duane BToronto
Insightful material, engaging classroom practice.
Eliza BVirtual
Mark is excellent. He uses examples that are very clear to everyone. He is patient and ensures everyone understands the material.
Emmanuel BMontreal
This was a great course that I will recomment to others! A lot to cover in a short period of time, and I managed to understand most if not all material. I'm excited to take my learnings with me and apply to my role at my company!
Lesleanne BToronto
Very good. Great at illustrating his point.
Manny BOttawa
This was a great course with an engaging instructor - well worth the time of anyone who wants to learn more about product ownership.
Mark BVirtual
Excellent communicator, good at focusing on the important topics.
Mick BPrivate Client
Mark is awesome! I really enjoyed both courses I took with him. I much prefer in-person interaction to virtual, but his approach worked well.
Nicole BVirtual
Mark is engaging and energetic. He made what could have been a dry topic quite enjoyable.
Paul BToronto
Mark was really engaging and very knowledgeable.
Samantha BPrivate Client
Instructor was great and dialed into the topic. He was also effective at managing differing opinions.
Scott BVirtual
Mark is super knowledgeable and engaging. 10/10. Would recommend.
Steve BPrivate Client
Kept audience engaged, and kept course relevant to entire group. Brought Scrum into how the course was taught! (Neat!)
Steve BOttawa
No nonsense, practical approach, dynamic, very instructive.
Yanick BMontreal
Mark delivered an excellent course, it was a value-packed 2 days.
Brent COttawa
Thank you Mark, I have lots of ideas to bring back to the team. I appreciated your energy and sense of humor.
David COttawa
Mark was a great instructor! Very enthusiastic about the course and assisting its participants in becoming successful product owners. Incredibly knowledgeable and entertaining.
Elizabeth CToronto
Excellent, material and discussion was perfect.
Jacques CVirtual
He is very engaging and clear. It was easy to grasp the concepts and apply it to exercises.
Jamielyn CToronto
Mark is a wealth of knowledge and makes agile super easy! The course is interesting, interactive, and extremely informative. I got a lot of takeaways from the course and excited to take this back to my team. I'm looking forward to taking the Advance Scrum and Advanced PO courses next Fall.
Jenny CVirtual
The course included everything I hoped to cover and Mark very well demonstrated its content.
Jerome CToronto
Mark was very knowledgeable and walked us through Scrum using the actual technique. Very good technique.
Kevin COttawa
Mark is very easy to listen to. He is knowledgeable and keeps the class engaged. He has a lot of experience.
Lori CToronto
Mark is engaging, very knowledgeable and morphs to the class knowledge. His sense of humor is also appreciated.
Malisha CToronto
Mark is a wonderful, energetic instructer who helps you to evaluate how you are working in your own environment. Then he helps you to figure out how to improve it.
Shelley COttawa
I thought the overall course material was excellent and was well present by a very dynamic and thoughful instructor.
Austin DOttawa
Remarkable! Knowledgeable! Relatable! Mark's style was a style that I can relate to. I was engaged. Enjoyed the variety of explanations, sharing screens, working with my team mates. The overall structure and delivery of the training material exceeded my expectations.
Brenda DVirtual
Very knowledgeable and interesting. I appreciated that he respected the outline and timeframes.
Caroline DVirtual
I liked him. I did Scrum Master certification with him a long time ago and, when my colleague and I thought about doing PO training, I suggested we searched to see if he was still active. We feel his experience when he talks.
Christian DVirtual
The course was awesome with great instructor. It was great to have the groups for exercices and then discuss with trainer.
Françoise DVirtual
Excellent! Engaged all of the time. My head is exploding with new knowledge.
Harlie DMontreal
Calm, able to provide examples demonstrating his points.
Martin DMontreal
Mark has figured out how to take a complex and vast subject and make it engaging via Zoom. That's amazing.
Natasha DVirtual
This is my second course with Mark and it was fantastic! Mark is incredibly knowledgeable and engaging. Taking the course virtually was very smooth. I was still able to connect with some great new people while learning a ton and having fun.
Robin DVirtual
I thought Mark did a great job. Never missed a beat and gave us a great experience
Sahan DOttawa
Extremely knowledgable on all material covered. Tons of experience and real world examples to pull from. Knowledgable on all material covered as well as periphery topics. Funny, engaging, and helped class feel they added value.
Steve DKitchener-Waterloo
Mark is great and the course is very valuable. I really appricate your time and patience. We covered a lot of mtaterial which is great.
William DOttawa
I had the best two days of practical training on Agile. Instructor has logical answers to my questions.
Angie EEdmonton
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A practical plan for Scrum team success, to guide you through your first few months after class and help you be effective long-term.

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Get professional input on the unique issues you’re facing at your organization in a coaching session with Mark after training.

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A safe online space to ask questions and get experienced answers when you run into challenges with Scrum and Agile.

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Fun and friendly virtual meet-ups to discuss Scrum and Agile. Hear from Mark and others what has and hasn’t worked for them.

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Your Guide to Everything Scrum

Mark Levison spent 12 years as a ScrumMaster and Coach, helping teams by chance before he started to systemize it. Armed with an insatiable love for research, he has been studying and teaching Agile since 2001, introducing Scrum, Lean, and Agile methodology to a broad range of individuals and organizations. Mark has helped launch Scrum practice throughout Canada including Government of Canada departments, major financial and insurance institutions, healthcare agencies, and leading payroll, HR services, and software companies.

Students and communities benefit from Mark’s more than thirty years of experience in the IT industry and over two decades of Scrum and Agile expertise, as he brings his uniquely fun and effective teaching style to thousands of individuals and teams so they can be more effective.

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Upcoming Workshops

Deepen your understanding of this Scrum role from someone who will help well beyond the initial course, when you have “yes, but in real life…” questions. Don’t settle and pay for fast food Scrum courses when becoming a Certified Scrum Product Owner. Invest in healthy, full-meal training, with take-home recipes for success and ongoing support during and after the certification course.