Sep 12–Oct 17, 2025
Every Friday 9:00-10:30am Denver Time
A Program Designed for Internal Product Owners
Move beyond managing requests to delivering strategic business value.
You’re caught in the middle.
Between conflicting stakeholder demands.
Between strategy you don’t set and teams who need your support.
Between shifting priorities, organizational politics, and unclear authority.
If you’re a Product Owner in an internal-facing role, this probably sounds familiar.
The problem isn’t you.
It’s that most Product Owner training assumes you’re building for external customers. Visionary products. Market traction. Growth hacking.
But what if your users are in accounting, engineering, or ops? What if your backlog is full of must-haves from different VPs, and your success depends on navigating power dynamics, not pitching new features?
This Advanced Certified Product Owner course is designed for you.
What You’ll Learn
We’ve redesigned our A-CSPO program to meet the real needs of internal Product Owners. Over the course of the program, you’ll learn how to:
1. Understand Purpose, Stakeholders, and Customers
Clarify your team’s “why,” who it serves, and how to proactively engage stakeholders.
2. Move from Feature Request to Problem Discovery
Learn to lead interviews that uncover valuable insights—even when you’re not customer-facing.
3. Model and Communicate Value
Move beyond vague priorities and politics. Develop shared language for making decisions that deliver real impact.
4. Build for Complexity
Use advanced tools like Feature Mining and the CAPED framework to chart a path through uncertainty.
5. Test Assumptions, Not Just Features
Design fast, lightweight experiments that validate ideas and reduce wasted effort.
6. Make the Work Visible
Use a purpose-driven roadmap and the PO board model to show what’s happening, what’s coming next, and why.
Why This Matters
Being an internal Product Owner doesn’t mean your role has to be low leverage.
In fact, done right, it’s one of the most impactful roles in an organization.
This course will help you shift from backlog manager to strategic facilitator—without needing to own the whole company vision.
You’ll leave with practical tools, expert coaching, and a community of peers doing similar work in complex, internal-facing contexts.
“This course has given me methods of thinking and tangible skills and tools which I use every week. There is a welcome focus on forming and validating business strategy. Highly recommend!” – Bradley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Fresh Approach
What does an Agile approach to advanced training look like?
- It’s iterative
- It’s delivered in small slices with validation along the way
- It’s collaborative, with small teams working together to continuously improve
- It’s focused on delivering the highest value first, inspecting and adapting along the way
Our A-CSPO program is firmly grounded in these Agile principles. Rather than a “big batch” delivery of content, we break the training up into small slices of content with practice in between.
Learn alongside, and work with, other A-CSPO qualified Product Owners from various industries in a cohort-style virtual class. Practice concepts from the class with your team each week and help each other level up.
“This course provides the next level of Product Owner skills in a way that is easy to learn, but more importantly, easy to apply.” – Heather ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Upping Your Game
Here’s what to expect.
We meet virtually, every Friday, in a six-week cohort-based program.
Far from some boring slides and a lecture, we’ve designed these virtual sessions to be every bit as interactive and engaging as our in-person, brain-friendly training approach that thousands of clients have come to know and love.
We integrate our Training from the Back of the Room approach to virtual learning to help you learn new concepts in a way that really sticks. Best of all, the virtual sessions are just a kick-off for the week.
Each session ends with an invitation to practice the new concepts with your team or organization, and the next session always starts with a review of your experience during the week.
Think of each week as a learning sprint, planned during the virtual session, executed during the week, reviewed at the beginning of the next one.
- Includes A-CSPO certification through Scrum Alliance
- Private cohorts available for company teams
“I am always frustrated by courses that introduce ideals without helping you understand the tradeoffs and pragmatic realities that will need to be considered along the way. This course really nailed the balance between information that both inspires you to do your work better and more enjoyably, and also gets you to put those ideas into practice so you can make them your own.” – Thomas ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ready to stop managing requests and start driving value?
Register Now or email us at info@humanizingwork.com to start a conversation about your goals.
This course is not for everyone.
It is for people serious about upping their game around great Product Ownership. It requires a commitment to be present and practice before and during the program. The cohort participants help each other get better and they develop a strong connection and a lasting network of like-minded Product thinkers.
Commonly Asked Questions.
Do I have to have my CSPO certification already to do A-CSPO?
Yes, A-CSPO builds on CSPO, and Scrum Alliance requires that the courses and certifications be done in order. However, your CSPO doesn’t have to be from us. Our A-CSPO prerequisite assessment and online course will ensure all participants start the program with the same concepts and skills.
Why take your A-CSPO training with us?
Unlike some other A-CSPO courses, we use accelerated learning techniques to maximize learning and retention (this is extremely rare for online courses, in particular).
What is there beyond A-CSPO?
The A-CSPO is part of the Scrum Alliance Path to CSP program. The Scrum Alliance has additional information and available certifications options on their website here.
The Instructors
Richard Lawrence 
Richard Lawrence’s superpower is bringing together seemingly unrelated fields and ideas to create new possibilities. Drawing on a diverse background in software development, engineering, anthropology, design, and political science, Richard trains and coaches people to collaborate more effectively with other people to solve complex, meaningful problems.
Richard is a Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer, as well as a certified trainer of the accelerated learning method, Training from the Back of the Room. His book, Behavior-Driven Development with Cucumber, was published by Addison-Wesley in 2019 (for more information, visit bddwithcucumber.com).
When he’s not helping clients transform their work, you might find him experimenting in the kitchen, making music, or working alongside his family on their budding regenerative wine farm in Western Colorado.
Peter Green 
Peter helps leaders discover how to create the outcomes they care about the most. He draws on a unique combination of deep empathy and keen insight developed by an almost stubborn insistence on staying actively involved in seemingly disconnected fields, including the creative arts, business, psychology, leadership, organizational design, and philosophy. Peter majored in music composition at Arizona State University. He is an in-demand trumpet player and recording engineer.
At Adobe Systems, Peter led an Agile transformation that enabled the shift to a subscription business model. He co-developed the Certified Agile Leadership program for the Scrum Alliance. He has trained, coached, and advised dozens of organizations to create outcomes that range from leadership development, to creating vision and strategy, to creating a culture of innovation, to clarifying and validating customer segments and needs, to reinventing business models and products, to creating high performing, Agile teams.
Peter is a Certified Scrum Trainer, a graduate of the ORSC coaching system, a certified Leadership Agility and Leadership Circle coach, a certified Innovation Games practitioner, and the co-founder of the Humanizing Work company. He is an avid reader and idea-combiner. He is a firm believer in the power of range and a growth mindset. He spends his working hours dedicated to nudging the world of work towards a more human-centric, meaningful, and prosperous future. He spends his other waking hours enjoying time with his wife and five kids, running, hiking, playing golf, and making music and visual arts.
Private Workshops
Bring this training program into your organization! Public offerings are great for individuals or small groups to grow their skills in a cost-effective way. But there’s nothing like a private engagement that just includes people from your organization. Private workshops allow for the incorporation of additional elective options to align with your organizations’s unique challenges and strategic goals. Explore our program electives here.
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Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) Program–Sep 2025 (Virtual)
Sep 12–Oct 17, 2025
Every Friday 9:00-10:30am Denver Time