Discovering Product Demands
- Product discovery overview
- User centric product discovery
- Dealing with conflicting needs
- Modeling & measuring business value
- Creating a minimum viable product (MVP)
Certified Product Leader 1
From Product Owner to Product Leader
Get past managing backlogs and start leading agile product delivery with confidence, own your product end-to-end and deliver real measurable value. Understand why your challenges persist and what must change.
Why this Masterclass?
Using the Product Leaders Compass you'll expand your competencies far beyond basic product ownership by working on your own product or with real world case studies.
For Product Owner
Every Product Owner is a leader, even without formal authority! This class teaches you "lateral leadership", leading a development team to create great products that users love.
Knowledge to Compentency
Fulfill your role with confidence and competence: Learn to apply your knowledge in your real world challenges.
Product Owner to Product Leader
Discover all core competencies needed to create great products that customers love. Develop new skills and grow vertically.
Immersive
Stand out: Commit to going the deep learning path to mastery and invest in your personal growth. This certainly takes more than two days.
Guided by Professional Coaches
Professional coaching and mentoring along your journey is an essential part of this program for your vertical grwoth.
Lead with Clarity
Gain clarity and direction about your development path. Diagnose root causes of your organizational & leadership blockers.
Leverage potential
Get unstuck and leverage your teams untapped potential. Learn how to co-create outstanding products with agile teams.
Learning outcomes
Leading product development with confidence
CPL-1 is a guided journey that builds the core competencies every Product Leader needs. After successful completion of this training, you will be able to:
- Generate value for your customers earlier
- Create a product vision and set product goals
- Set clear goals and plan realistically with your team
- Lead product development with confidence and transparency
- Define, co-design and communicate product features effectively
- Collaborate effectively with agile team to deliver valuable software
- Maintain a well organized Product Backlog
- Deepen your understanding of users and requirements
Beyond Product Ownership
You leave the program with the ability to lead where basic product ownership ends. When decisions must be made under pressure, regardless of formal authority, you understand the importance of leading through clarity, stance and with a strong focus on value creation.
Stand Out
Technical product skills are now the baseline. What truly drives career progression is leadership impact, and this is exactly what organizations need to succeed in today's complex environments. This program closes that gap by developing the capabilities that distinguish professionals from true Product Leaders and prepares you for your next level of responsibility and influence.
What you'll learn
You are able to fulfill your role with confidence, take real responsibility for a product and work effectively with an agile team to deliver value.
Defining & Communicating Product Features
- User Modeling
- Creating User Stories
- Documenting product development assets
- Non-functional requirements
- Understanding Design
- Managing the Product Backlog
Working with Agile Teams
- Refining the Product Backlog
- Support iteration planning
- Setting iteration goals
- Understanding working software
- Managing technical debt
- Acceptance testing
- Effort estimation
- Lateral Team Leadership Essentials
Delivering Products
- Prioritizing product features
- Scoping
- Planning beyond iteration scope
- Basic flow metrics
- Differentiating input, output & outcome
- Setting Product Goals
- Basic forecasting
Working strategically
- Managing constraints
- Product Vision
- Setting strategic goals
Self-Leadership/Management
- Understanding the core competencies
- Tools that support your work
- Using AI to improve your productivity
- Self Management (Time/Focus)
- Self Leadership Frameworks
- Reflective Action
- Cognitive Biases
- Supportive Mindset
- Emotional Intelligence
Leading Teams & Organizations
- Differentiating to other roles
- Product Leader and the organization
- Leadership Essentials
- Solution Focused Communication
- Understanding Psychological Safety
Managing Stakeholders
- Transparency & progress reporting
- Using suitable metrics
- Stakeholder segmentation
- Understanding constraints
Online courses
- Agile Foundations
- Scrum Foundations
- Kanban Foundations
- Product Owner Essentials
- CPL-1 Self Study Online Course
- Leadership Essentials
- Solution Focused Communication
Upcoming classes
Cohorts start every month in alternating forms of 8-week bootcamps and 3-day live training.
Mar 25 - May 20, 2026
Few Seats Left
8-Week Bootcamp
- Live Online (via Zoom)
- German
- Wednesdays, 4pm - 6pm (9x)
Apr 27 - Apr 29, 2026
Planned
Live Training
- Wien, Austria
- German
- Monday-Wednesday, 9am - 6pm (3x)
May 19 - Jul 14, 2026
Guaranteed
8-Week Bootcamp
- Live Online (via Zoom)
- German
- Tuesdays, 4pm - 6pm (9x)
Jun 16 - Jun 18, 2026
Planned
Live Training
- Wien, Austria
- German
- Tuesday-Thursday, 9am - 6pm (3x)
Sep 1 - Nov 3, 2026
Planned
8-Week Bootcamp
- Live Online (via Zoom)
- German
- Tuesdays, 4pm - 6pm (10x)
Nov 10 - Nov 12, 2026
Planned
Live Training
- Wien, Austria
- German
- Tuesday-Thursday, 9am - 6pm (3x)
Schedule
Cohorts start every month (alternating Mondays or Wednesdays).
Duration: 8 weeks. Select a corhort to see specific dates.
8-week Bootcamp Cohorts
Monday
16:00 - 17:00
Cohort Kickoff
Only first weekWelcome & Introduction: get together and team building. Details about the program, schedules, learning materials and organizational topics. Introducing goals and learning objectives for the first week; Questions and answers.
Monday
18:00
Weekly Learning Objective
Via EmailYou receive this week's learning objectives via email and a video message in the learning portal. We introduce you to the learning material and content. You'll get case studies and workbook exercises.
Monday
16:00 - 17:00
Group Mentoring & Coaching
A live facilitated peer group coaching and mentoring to deepen the learning objectives, reflect and share insights.
Moday
17:00 -18:00
Facilitated Group Review
Reviewing learning objectives and results of the week. Shared learning reflection, open questions and peer group discussions.
Thursday
17:30 - 18:00
Office hour | Ask me anything
OptionalMondays to Thursdays, hosted by a professional coach and Product Leadershp trainer. Come with any question you have and receive help reaching your current learning objective. RSVP required.
Scheduled indvidually
Individual Mentoring (1:1)
2x in totalJoin your very personal mentoring or coaching session with a professional coach and Product Leadershp trainer to leverage your individual growth and discuss any topic related to your Product Leadership development.
Monday
16:00 - 18:00
Capstone Event
Only last weekLast review. Closing the cohort with joint reflection and showcasing results. Certification and celebration event.
3-days live training
ca. 3 weeks
before start
Preparation
Via EmailYou receive an invitation to our learning platform, where you start your preparation for the training in your own pace. Most of this is taking an online course with mainly short video lessions, but also some work to do for your own. Depending on your previous experience and knowledge, you can take also some introductory courses.
Training days
09:00 - 12:30
13:15 - 18:00
Live Training Session
We will work in a live training setup in small table groups. The training is very much like a workshop with highly interactive exercises and discussions. We deepen and reflect our shared learning about the topics.
Every day
10:30 - 10:45
14:45 - 15:00
16:30 - 16:45
Tea and Coffee break
Open discussions and networking wtih snacks and hot/cold beverages
Every day
12:30 - 13:15
Lunch Break
We enjoy a warm meal and drinks, and continue networking and other discussons during lunch.
Last day
17:30 -18:00
Homework & next steps
You have learned a lot in the three days and are required to put your newly gained knowledge into practice. We expect you to work on your own product or a case study.
ca. 4 weeks
after end
2 hrs
Capstone Event
Virtual live (remote)Reviewing learning objectives and results of your assignment. Closing the cohort with joint reflection and showcasing results. Certification and celebration event.
Become a Certified Product Leader.
Finishing this masterclass including assignments and quizzes awards you the "Certified Product Leader CPL-1®" designation.
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