CSPO case studies
CSPO · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) is a certification from Scrum Alliance that validates scrum knowledge and understanding of the product owner accountability on a scrum team. It is aimed at anyone who enjoys or wants to become more familiar with the business side of product or service development: product managers, business analysts, project managers, data analysts, and other scrum team members who want to build in-demand product skills. The CSPO case studies are 5 cases and about 4,674 words.
1Sprint 14, Day 6: the €2M demo that is not on the backlog
Your team builds a B2B payments portal. It is an eight-person Scrum Team, two-week Sprints, and today is Day 6 of Sprint 14.
967 words, about 5 min2Two Product Owners, one product, 70 duplicate backlog items
Two Scrum Teams, six Developers each, build one product: a mobile banking app with a shared codebase and a single production release every three weeks. Each team has its own Product Owner, its own Product Backlog and its own Sprint cadence.
892 words, about 4 min3Nine weeks, 150 points, and a proposal to lower the Definition of Done
Our product adjudicates dental claims for 40 clinics. The team is six Developers plus you as Product Owner, two-week Sprints, average velocity 28 points.
928 words, about 5 min4The 31% customer, the bespoke EDI feed, and a Product Goal nobody is funding
Your company sells dispatch software to regional freight carriers. The Product Goal agreed six months ago: 'a dispatcher can re-plan a disrupted route in under 90 seconds.' Twelve discovery interviews with mid-market carriers keep naming the same blocker - they will not switch without a public API for their own TMS integrations.
950 words, about 5 min5A 340-page fixed-scope contract with a three-hour monthly feedback loop
Your agency signed a fixed-price, fixed-scope contract for a case-management system. The requirements document is 340 pages and 14 months old, and any change must go through a change board that meets monthly with a six-week lead time.
937 words, about 5 min