Certified SAFe® Product Owner/Product Manager

Delivering Value through Effective Planning Interval Execution

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.

Attendees learn:

• 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

SAFe® POPM answers the questions:

• How do POs and PMs plan and execute work during a PI?

• How do I integrate a customer-centric mindset to deliver products customers want?

• How do you connect SAFe Lean-Agile principles and values to the PO/PM roles?

Languages available:

• Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish

What’s included:

• 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 access 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 forums 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

Adapted for interactive remote learning with SAFe® Virtual Classrooms

What people say about SAFe® POPM:

• “Much better context in how POs and PMs should work together as well as align on value delivery outcomes when implementing SAFe.”

• “Enjoyed the course. Thought I knew a lot about Agile but went to a whole new level.”

• “Best training and we had lots of discussions about practical scenarios during this training.”

Course Outline

Module 1: Exploring Product Owner and Product Management Roles and Responsibilities

• Introducing SAFe® for Product Owners and Product Management

  • Product Owner (PO) Areas of Responsibility

  • Product Management Areas of Responsibility

• Lean-Agile Mindset

  • Embrace the Lean-Agile Mindset

  • Agile Manifesto Principles

  • SAFe® Lean-Agile Principles

• Value Streams

  • What is a Value Stream?

  • Operational Value Streams

  • Development Value Streams

  • What is a Solution?

  • Operational Value Streams for TTC

  • What is an Agile Release Train (ART)?

  • What is an Agile Team?

  • Areas of Responsibility of the Agile Team

• Responsibilities of Product Owners and Product Management

  • Product Management, PO, and Agile Team Partner

  • PO Areas of Responsibility

  • Connecting with the Customer

  • Contributing to the Vision and Roadmap

  • Managing and Prioritizing Team Backlog

  • Supporting the Team in Value Delivery

  • Getting and Applying Feedback

Module 2: Preparing for PI Planning

• PI Planning

  • What is a Planning Interval (PI)?

  • What is PI Planning?

  • POs and Product Management are Essential to PI Planning

  • Benefits of PI Planning

• Solution Vision

  • What is a Solution Vision?

  • Influence of Strategic Themes

  • Express the Future State as a Vision

• Solution and PI Roadmaps

  • Market Dynamics Influence Solution and PI Roadmaps

  • Market Rhythms are Cyclical and Predictable

• Customer-Centric Features

  • Summary of SAFe® Requirements

  • Creating Epics to Fulfil the Vision

  • Personas Help Understand Customers

  • Relative Estimating

  • Features are Implemented by Stories

• ART Backlog and Kanban

  • Features are Managed Through the ART Backlog

  • Partner with System Architects

  • Capacity Allocation

  • Kanban Summarized

  • Prioritize Features for Optimal ROI

  • Prioritization Anti-Patterns

  • Components of Cost of Delay

  • Calculate WSJF with Relative Estimating

Module 3: Leading PI Planning

• Communicate the Vision

  • What POs and Product Management Do During PI Planning?

  • Communicate the Vision

  • Communicate the PI Roadmap

  • PI Roadmap for the TTC Van Program

  • Support Team Breakouts

• Establish PI Objectives

  • PI Objectives

  • Why Do We Use PI Objectives?

  • Distinguish Features from PI Objectives

  • Tips for Writing Effective Team PI Objectives

  • Create Alignment with PI Objectives

  • Maintain Predictability with Uncommitted Objectives

  • Considerations When Assigning Business Value

• Manage Dependencies

  • Using an ART Planning Board to Visualize Work

  • Strategies for Managing Dependencies

  • PI Planning Can Reveal Opportunities to Release Value Sooner

• Manage Risks

  • Types of Risks

  • Building the Final Plan

  • Addressing ART PI Risks

  • Confidence Vote

Module 4: Executing Iterations

• Stories and Story Maps

  • Features are Split into Stories

  • What are Stories?

  • When is a Story Complete?

  • Use Story Maps to Capture Workflows

  • Integrating User Experience and Interface Design

• Iteration Planning

  • Product Owners Lead Iteration Planning

  • Sequencing Stories

  • Iteration Planning Agenda

  • Establishing Capacity

  • Capacity Allocation for a Healthy Balance

  • Using Velocity to Establish Capacity

  • Estimate Stories with Relative Story Points

  • Iteration Goals

  • Tips for Effective Iteration Planning

• Team Kanban

  • Team Kanban Promotes Collaboration and Facilitates Flow

  • POs and the Team Sync

  • Backlog Refinement

• Tips for Effective Backlog Refinement

• Iteration Review and Iteration Retrospective

  • Iteration Review

  • Iteration Review guidelines

  • Scalable Definition of Done

  • Relentless Improvement

  • Iteration Retrospective

• DevOps and Release on Demand

  • Building the Continuous Delivery Pipeline with DevOps

  • Continuous Exploration (CE) – Understand Customer Needs

  • Continuous Integration (CI) – A Critical Technical Practice of the ART

  • Continuous Deployment (CD) – Getting to Production Early

  • Decouple Release Elements from the Total Solution

Module 5: Executing the PI

• Product Owner (PO) Sync

  • PO Sync helps ARTs Respond to Change

• System Demo

• Innovation and Planning Iteration

  • SAFe® Core Values

  • Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration

  • IP Iteration

  • Organize a Hackathon

  • Organize a Supplier Showcase

  • Spikes

• Inspect and Adapt

  • Improve Results

  • PI System Demo

  • Review Relevant Metrics

  • Competency Assessments

  • Flow Metrics

  • Eight Flow Accelerators

  • Program Performance Reporting

  • Measure ART Predictability

  • Team Performance Assessment

  • Program Performance Metrics

Module 6: Practicing SAFe®

• SAFe® Toolkits

• Community Video Hub

• Online Learning Resources

• SAFe® Collaborate

• SAFe® Assessments

• SAFe® Forums