Scrum Product Owner Certification Training

The course runs for 16 hours of live, instructor-led online training across 8 sessions. Weekend and weekday batches are available, and the next batch starts on Saturday, October 31, 2026.

A Scrum Product Owner is the person accountable for maximizing the value of the product a Scrum team builds. The Product Owner represents customers and the business, works with stakeholders to decide what the product should do, and owns the product backlog.

A Scrum Product Owner is responsible for:

• Defining the product goal and vision
• Creating and clearly communicating product backlog items
• Ordering the product backlog by value
• Updating priorities after each sprint as needed
• Accepting or rejecting completed work
• Keeping stakeholders informed and gathering their feedback

Scrum Product Owners work in almost every industry that builds products or services in short cycles, including IT and software services, healthcare, banking and financial services, telecom, education and manufacturing.

A product manager usually owns the long-term product strategy, market research and business results, while a Product Owner is the Scrum accountability for maximizing the value the team delivers, mainly by managing the product backlog. In many companies one person does both jobs.

The Product Owner decides what the team builds and in what order, to maximize value. The Scrum Master helps the team and organization use Scrum well, coaches the team and removes impediments. One focuses on the product, the other on how the team works.

A product backlog is the ordered list of everything the team might do to improve the product. The Product Owner owns it and keeps it ordered so the most valuable items are at the top and ready for the next sprints.

Product backlog refinement is the ongoing work of breaking backlog items into smaller, clearer pieces, adding detail and estimates, and reordering them. The Product Owner and the team do it together so items are ready for sprint planning.

A product goal is the long-term objective for the product that the Scrum team plans against. It describes a future state of the product and gives the product backlog a clear direction.

It depends on the certification. Scrum Alliance's Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) has no exam, but it requires a course taught by a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer. Scrum.org's Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) requires passing an online assessment and does not require a class.

You can earn CSPO by completing a course with a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer, or PSPO I by passing Scrum.org's online assessment. This CertOcean course teaches the Product Owner knowledge both are based on, prepares you for the PSPO I assessment, and gives you a CertOcean course certificate when you complete it.

The CertOcean course fee is shown on this page. If you take an industry exam such as Scrum.org's PSPO I, you buy the assessment separately from Scrum.org at their current price.

Scrum Alliance certifications such as CSPO must be renewed every two years by earning Scrum Education Units (SEUs) and paying a renewal fee. Scrum.org's PSPO I does not expire.

Our trainers are experienced, qualified agile professionals who teach with practical, up-to-date content, so you grasp the principles quickly and feel ready for your Product Owner exam.

Product Owner certification helps you:

• Build a strong Scrum foundation
• Raise the standard of Scrum in your team
• Lead agile teams
• Grow your product ownership skills
• Improve your job prospects in every industry that uses agile
• Stay current with agile practices and connect with Scrum communities

Common career paths for Product Owners include:

• Business analyst
• Project or program manager
• Product manager and director of product
• Senior product and business leadership roles

SEUs (Scrum Education Units) are credits you earn through learning activities that show your continued growth in Scrum. PDUs (Professional Development Units) are similar credits used by PMI. To keep a Scrum Alliance credential, you earn the required SEUs and renew it every two years.

Yes. Our support team is available 24x7, during and after the program, to help with your questions.

Yes, if you cancel within 24 hours of your payment. For any personal reason, email support@certocean.com within 24 hours and we refund the full amount you paid. After 24 hours, we don't give refunds for personal reasons, but you can still change your batch or transfer your seat. Corporate bookings made by purchase order follow the terms in that agreement. Our refund policy page has the full details.

• You can move to a later batch of the same course once at no cost, if you ask at least 48 hours before your batch starts and seats are available.
• A second batch change, or one requested less than 48 hours before your batch starts, may carry a rescheduling fee of 20% of the course fee.
• You can transfer your seat to another person before your course starts.
• If you miss a class, you can watch the recording or attend that session in another live batch.

You choose between a full refund and a free move to a future batch. We may cancel or reschedule a class if there are too few enrollments, or if a trainer becomes unavailable because of circumstances beyond our control, and we will tell you by email as early as we can.

Yes. You receive a CertOcean certificate of completion when you finish the training.