Approved Certified Scrum Trainers (CSTs) who wish to deliver CSPO (or CSM) courses must achieve all of the following:
Be an active Scrum Alliance certificant in good standing (free of Scrum Alliance Code of Ethics complaints or violations).
Hold an active CST certification.
Hold, and have visible on their profile, an active CSP-PO (or CSP-SM, if applying for that path) certification.
Validate at least 24 months of Product Owner (or Scrum Master, if applying for that path) experience, including key learnings and impacts to your trainings. Experience should include: actively working as a product owner/scrum master and/or actively working as a coach directly with product owners/scrum masters. This experience should have been gained in at least three different areas; for example: different companies or organizations, business units, product lines, or contexts.
Have instructed or co-instructed at least two product owner/scrum master courses within the last 24 months. These courses may be certified or uncertified. At least one of these courses must be co-trained with an active CST previously approved to deliver CSPO (or CSM).
Submit mapped CSPO/CSM training materials, which validate the most recent version of the Scrum Foundations and CSPO/CSM learning objectives as well as be aligned with the most recent version of the Scrum Guide.
Provide a thorough course offering overview for the submitted course, painting a portrait of the student experience. This overview must detail the minimum 16 hours of course instruction.You may be submitting course materials and/or mapping that were co-created or are proprietary to your company/employer. For the purpose of evaluating your unique CSPO/CSM course submission, we want to see you, your experience, your perspective and your story, come across in your materials. Show us your personal, differentiating approach to product ownership/scrum mastery. Please integrate your unique examples, rooted in your unique experience(s), to highlight your unique approach. Please provide context to the learning objectives based on your perspective.
Please credit all sources where appropriate and request appropriate permission(s) for photos, illustrations, etc. Please include with your application a list of sources to be acknowledged. It is YOUR responsibility as the candidate to make sure that you have appropriate rights and licenses to any materials you use.
Please note: it is against your CST agreement to schedule or list any CSPO/CSM courses until you are approved for delivery. Please do NOT schedule, confirm, nor list any courses until you after you have received an official approval. Evidence of this will be considered a Code of Ethics violation.
This is NOT the application to complete if you are a CST candidate. Please see this application if you are applying for CST.
If you would like to access your archived application, please email us at providersteam@scrumalliance.org. Once you pay the application fee, the payment is valid for a full calendar year.
Scrum Alliance strives to be inclusive and accommodating to all candidates. If you require special accommodations for any reason, including disabilities, language or other communication barriers, or other challenges to participating in the CST application process, please contact cstapplications@scrumalliance.org with a description of the issue and Scrum Alliance will do our best to work with you to find an acceptable solution.
Scrum Alliance Trainer applications are intended to provide personalized insights into your own experiences and abilities in your own words and style. As such, Scrum Alliance does not permit use of generative artificial intelligence tools to generate your answers to application questions. However, you may use assistive technology to aid in communication, such as grammar checkers, translation tools, and similar software, even if the technology incorporates artificial intelligence. In other words, you must do your own work but may use AI tools to improve it.
Scrum Alliance General Application Appeal Process can be found here.
Not ready to apply? Go back to the Scrum Alliance website.
The Scrum Guide is © 2020 Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland. Content from The Scrum Guide is used by permission of Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland under the terms of the Creative Commons – Attribution – Share-Alike License v. 4.0. which is accessible at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode and also described in summary form at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.
CSPO or CSM course submission by CST
Approved Certified Scrum Trainers (CSTs) who wish to deliver CSPO (or CSM) courses must achieve all of the following:
Be an active Scrum Alliance certificant in good standing (free of Scrum Alliance Code of Ethics complaints or violations).
Hold an active CST certification.
Hold, and have visible on their profile, an active CSP-PO (or CSP-SM, if applying for that path) certification.
Validate at least 24 months of Product Owner (or Scrum Master, if applying for that path) experience, including key learnings and impacts to your trainings. Experience should include: actively working as a product owner/scrum master and/or actively working as a coach directly with product owners/scrum masters. This experience should have been gained in at least three different areas; for example: different companies or organizations, business units, product lines, or contexts.
Have instructed or co-instructed at least two product owner/scrum master courses within the last 24 months. These courses may be certified or uncertified. At least one of these courses must be co-trained with an active CST previously approved to deliver CSPO (or CSM).
Submit mapped CSPO/CSM training materials, which validate the most recent version of the Scrum Foundations and CSPO/CSM learning objectives as well as be aligned with the most recent version of the Scrum Guide.
Provide a thorough course offering overview for the submitted course, painting a portrait of the student experience. This overview must detail the minimum 16 hours of course instruction.You may be submitting course materials and/or mapping that were co-created or are proprietary to your company/employer. For the purpose of evaluating your unique CSPO/CSM course submission, we want to see you, your experience, your perspective and your story, come across in your materials. Show us your personal, differentiating approach to product ownership/scrum mastery. Please integrate your unique examples, rooted in your unique experience(s), to highlight your unique approach. Please provide context to the learning objectives based on your perspective.
Please credit all sources where appropriate and request appropriate permission(s) for photos, illustrations, etc. Please include with your application a list of sources to be acknowledged. It is YOUR responsibility as the candidate to make sure that you have appropriate rights and licenses to any materials you use.
Please note: it is against your CST agreement to schedule or list any CSPO/CSM courses until you are approved for delivery. Please do NOT schedule, confirm, nor list any courses until you after you have received an official approval. Evidence of this will be considered a Code of Ethics violation.
This is NOT the application to complete if you are a CST candidate. Please see this application if you are applying for CST.
If you would like to access your archived application, please email us at providersteam@scrumalliance.org. Once you pay the application fee, the payment is valid for a full calendar year.
Scrum Alliance strives to be inclusive and accommodating to all candidates. If you require special accommodations for any reason, including disabilities, language or other communication barriers, or other challenges to participating in the CST application process, please contact cstapplications@scrumalliance.org with a description of the issue and Scrum Alliance will do our best to work with you to find an acceptable solution.
Scrum Alliance Trainer applications are intended to provide personalized insights into your own experiences and abilities in your own words and style. As such, Scrum Alliance does not permit use of generative artificial intelligence tools to generate your answers to application questions. However, you may use assistive technology to aid in communication, such as grammar checkers, translation tools, and similar software, even if the technology incorporates artificial intelligence. In other words, you must do your own work but may use AI tools to improve it.
Scrum Alliance General Application Appeal Process can be found here.
Not ready to apply? Go back to the Scrum Alliance website.
The Scrum Guide is © 2020 Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland. Content from The Scrum Guide is used by permission of Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland under the terms of the Creative Commons – Attribution – Share-Alike License v. 4.0. which is accessible at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode and also described in summary form at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.