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Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO)

Earn your PSPO Certification and stand out as a certified Scrum Product Owner. This PSPO 1 certification course is designed for IT managers, product managers, and anyone ready to lead with agility. You’ll master product backlog management, release planning, and stakeholder collaboration while gaining the confidence to drive product success. Along the way, you’ll practice Scrum terminology and real-world techniques so you’re fully prepared to pass the PSPO 1 exam.

Updated September 2025

10Skills
8h 12mTotal
8h 12m

Who This Course Is For

This course is for IT managers, product managers, developers, and team leads who want to step into or strengthen a Product Owner role. It’s meant for anyone who wants to earn their PSPO and start connecting business goals with team execution using Scrum.

Course Curriculum

  • Premium skill.PSPO Versus PSM48m
  • Premium skill.Let's Meet The Product Owner!50m
  • Premium skill.Backlog Management45m
  • Premium skill.Forecasting and Release Planning48m
  • Premium skill.Developing People and Teams46m
  • Premium skill.The Scrum Framework Revisited50m
  • Premium skill.The Scrum Team49m
  • Premium skill.Scrum Artifacts and Commitments53m
  • Premium skill.Scrum Events Lab56m
  • Premium skill.The Final Review48m

Certification

Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO)

The Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) certification from Scrum.org validates a candidate's understanding of the Scrum framework and their ability to maximize the value of products and systems. It is ideal for product owners, business analys...

Exam PSPO ILevel ProfessionalDifficulty BeginnerCost 200
ScrumProduct OwnershipStakeholder ManagementValue MaximizationAgile Practices
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For IT leaders

What IT leaders need to know before assigning this course

Distributed product delivery often fails when ownership, priorities, and Scrum expectations are unclear. This PSPO I course gives IT Directors and Training Managers a structured way to align Product Owners, Team Leads, and IT Practitioners around backlog management, forecasting, release planning, Scrum events, artifacts, and team accountability. The time investment is realistic for working teams: about 8 hours and 15 minutes per learner, making it suitable for onboarding new Product Owners or standardizing Scrum practices across a product or delivery group. This is not a compliance course, but it can reduce delivery risk by helping teams make product decisions more transparent and consistent. CBT Nuggets Playlists can sequence this training by role, Practice Exams can support PSPO I exam readiness, and Team Reporting helps leaders track completion across assigned learners.

Team Impact

How this training helps your team succeed

IT teams complete this training to reduce ambiguity between business priorities and Scrum execution. The course focuses on real delivery situations Product Owners and Scrum teams face, including backlog decisions, release planning, and running Scrum events with clear commitments.

  • Clarify the difference between Product Owner and Scrum Master responsibilities so teams avoid duplicated or missing ownership.
  • Improve backlog management practices so work is better ordered, refined, and connected to product value.
  • Support forecasting and release planning conversations with stakeholders using Scrum-aligned practices.
  • Reinforce how Scrum teams, artifacts, commitments, and events work together to create transparency and inspect progress.

After completion

Knowledge & ability your team will gain

Knowledge

  • How the PSPO role differs from the Scrum Master role.
  • The Product Owner’s accountability in Scrum and how it connects business goals to team execution.
  • Core backlog management concepts, including ordering, refinement, and value focus.
  • Forecasting and release planning concepts within a Scrum environment.
  • Scrum framework fundamentals, including teams, events, artifacts, and commitments.

Ability

  • Explain Product Owner responsibilities to stakeholders and delivery teams.
  • Support healthier backlog conversations and prioritization decisions.
  • Participate in release planning and forecasting discussions with more confidence.
  • Recognize how Scrum events should support inspection, adaptation, and transparency.
  • Prepare for the Professional Scrum Product Owner I certification exam with a structured review path.

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