Module 1: Introduction to Advanced Product Ownership

• A-CSPO® program overview
• Role evolution: From Product Owner → Product Leader
• Strategic mindset vs tactical backlog work
• PO competencies: Discovery, Validation, Delivery, Value Maximization
• Product leadership self-assessment

Activity:

• Product Leadership Maturity Radar

Module 2: Deep Dive into Product Strategy

• Aligning Product Strategy with Organizational Goals
• Product strategy models (OKRs, North Star Metric, Kano)
• Outcome-driven product planning
• Competitive landscape analysis
• Market segmentation & value proposition refinement
• Setting measurable product goals

Activities:

• Build a North Star Metric for a sample product
• Competitor landscape mapping

Module 3: Advanced Product Discovery & Customer Research

• Dual-Track Agile: Discovery vs Delivery
• Customer research techniques:
• Interviews
• Observations
• Surveys
• Experiments
• Hypothesis building & validation loops
• Assumption mapping (Riskiest Assumption Test)
• Customer problem discovery & prioritization

Activities:

• Writing testable hypotheses
• Assumption mapping workshop

Module 4: Working with Stakeholders at a Strategic Level

• Stakeholder mapping & influence analysis
• Driving alignment across business units
• Collaborative decision-making
• Facilitating difficult conversations
• Handling conflicting priorities
• Communicating product vision with clarity

Activities:

• Stakeholder alignment simulation
• Influence mapping exercise

Module 5: Advanced User Story Mapping & Backlog Structuring

• Multi-level backlog architecture (vision → roadmap → features → stories)
• Advanced story mapping techniques
• Effective slicing strategies (vertical slicing, JTBD slicing, workflow slicing)
• Definition of Done vs Definition of Ready (advanced level)
• Complex backlog refinement with distributed teams

Activities:

• End-to-end story mapping on sample product
• Splitting complex epics exercise

Module 6: Advanced Prioritization & Decision-Making

• Prioritizing outcomes vs features
• Frameworks for complex prioritization:
• WSJF (Scaled Agile)
• RICE (Intercom)
• Opportunity Scoring
• Cost of Delay
• Making trade-offs under uncertainty
• Managing risk, technical debt, and dependencies

Activities:

• Prioritization lab: Applying 3 frameworks to the same backlog
• Cost of Delay simulation

Module 7: Product Economics, Forecasting & Release Strategy

• Understanding product economics:
• Marginal value
• ROI
• NPV
• Build cost vs value delivered
• Forecasting using Monte Carlo, velocity ranges, & probabilistic methods
• Release planning based on value, not dates
• MVP, MMP, MLP, and release slicing
• Validated learning loops

Activities:

• Build a simple release forecast
• Economic prioritization exercise

Module 8: Measuring Value & Optimizing Outcomes

• Defining outcome-based metrics (vs output metrics)
• Measuring product success with KPIs
• Leading indicators vs lagging indicators
• Using data to improve backlog decisions
• Evidence-Based Management (EBM) metrics
• Designing product dashboards

Activities:

• Build a product outcome & metric tree
• KPI design workshop

Module 9: Certification Completion & Professional Growth

• Scrum Alliance requirements for A-CSPO® completion
• Path to CSP-PO® certification
• Developing your personal Product Leadership Growth Plan
• Open Q&A and course closure