SAFe® Product Owner/Product Manager (PO/PM)
Official SAFe® 6.0 course with SAFe®6 Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM) certification. Delivered by Estratecno, Scaled Agile GOLD Transformation Partner, Inc.
Introduction
What skills do you need to deliver value in an Agile enterprise? The SAFe® Product Owner and SAFe® Product Manager (POPM) course covers the tactical responsibilities of these roles in the Agile Release Train (ART). The course and resulting certification give you the guidance and tools to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams.
Learn how product owners and product managers should work together to achieve the best possible customer and business outcomes. The SAFe POPM course will teach you how to adopt a customer-centric approach to building products, using the Scaled Agile Framework® to deliver more value, faster. Topics covered in this course include the daily role of POs and PMs; collaborating with engineering teams and business stakeholders; how to write epics, features, and stories; and how to design, prioritize, build, test, and deliver products with increased productivity and higher quality.
Includes the certification exam for the SAFe® Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM) certification.
The following individuals will benefit from this course:
- Product Owners, Product Managers, Product Line Managers, Business Owners, and BusinessAnalysts
- Solution Managers, Portfolio Managers, Program Managers, and members of the LACE
- Enterprise, Solution, and System Architects
- How to perform the role of a PO and a PM on a daily basis
- How to put the customer at the center of your design, build, and test process
- How to prepare for and lead PI Planning
- How to decompose Epics to Features and Features to Stories
- How to collaborate with Agile teams to forecast work
- Course workbook and SAFe Studio access to help you prepare to take the certification exam, claim your digital badge, and tools to get started in your SAFe role
- Remote learning via SAFe® Virtual Classrooms
- One-year membership to SAFe Studio with your first class attendance
- Product Management Video playlist and customer research tools to support product owners in their role
- Platform access to e-learning modules and curated members-only content to support your SAFe transformation
- Member discussion forms to engage in ongoing conversations on the SAFe framework or how to better perform as part of an Agile Team
- Curated content-playlists based on your interests and roles, including templated resources and facilitation guides to get you started
- Access to content, tools, and resources you need to practice SAFe every day
- SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager certification exam
- Live virtual classroom.
- Expert trainers and facilitators in online training.
- Breakout rooms for teamwork.
- Virtual Campus with LMS (Learning Management System) platform for the study material, tests, forums, and complementary materials.
- Collaborative tools for exercises, practices and simulations. Each of them is carefully selected and adapted to the course using:
- Miro
- SAFe Collaborate
- Easyretro
- Trello…
The infrastructure and software are provided by Estratecno. Having a stable and high-speed internet connection and a computer with a microphone and a camera is enough. During the course, you will practice and learn to optimize work in distributed environments.
Lesson 1: Exploring Product Owner and Product Management Roles and Responsibilities
- Introducing SAFe for Product Owners and Product Management
- The Lean-Agile Mindset
- Value Streams
- Responsibilities of Product Owners and Product Management
Lesson 2: Preparing for PI Planning
- PI Planning
- The Solution Vision
- Solution and PI Roadmaps
- Customer-centric Features
- ART Backlog and Kanban
Lesson 3: Leading PI Planning
- Communicate the Vision
- Establish PI Objectives
- Manage dependencies
- Manage risks
Lesson 4: Executing Iterations
- Stories and Story maps
- Iteration Planning
- The Team Kanban
- Backlog refinement
- Iteration Review and Iteration Retrospective
- DevOps and Release on Demand
Lesson 5: Executing the PI
- The PO Sync
- The System Demo
- The Innovation and Planning Iteration
- Inspect and Adapt
Lesson 6: Practicing SAFe
All are welcome to attend the course, regardless of experience. However, the following prerequisites are highly recommended for those who intend to take the SAFe® 6 Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM) certification exam:
- Attend a Leading SAFe® course
- Experience working in a SAFe environment
- Experience with Lean, Agile, or other relevant certifications
- Format: web based, timed exam. Questions are structured in a multiple-choice, single-select format
- Access: Through the SAFe Community Platform after the attendee has completed the SAFe® PO/PM course
- Duration: 90 minutes
- Number of questions: 45
- Passing score: 80% pass rate
- Language: English, Spanish
- Second attempt cost: 50 USD
