SAFe® 5.0 Product Owner / Product Manager with POPM Certification

The faster the world changes all around, the more important it becomes to have the ability to react fast, but in organised manner, to those changes. When organisations internalise the principles and practices of agility, they can react faster to unexpected situations. During this pragmatic two-day course, the participants will learn agile values and principles and how they are applied to the roles of Product Manager and Product Owner in the Scaled Agile Framework.

After the training, you are able to apply SAFe in the Lean Enterprise and effectively collaborate with needed stakeholders to prepare and execute the Program Increment and Iterations. You will understand the significance of creating product development flow and continuous delivery of value. You know how to apply Lean thinking to write Epics and ways to break them down into Features and Stories. You will also understand how to support the change towards Lean Agile organisation by utilising continuous improvement of Lean Product Management. You will gain concrete tools for Product Manager and Product Owner roles and practical skills to write and prioritise Epics, Capabilities, Features and User Stories

Course topics:

• LESSON1: Becoming a Product Owner / Product Manager in the SAFe Enterprise
  • SAFe for Lean Enterprises
  • Value Streams
  • Lean-Agile Mindset decision-making
  • Product Owner / Product Manager responsibilities
• LESSON2: Preparing for PI Planning
  • Program Increment
  • The Vision
  • Forecasting work through Roadmaps
  • Creating beneficial Features
  • Managing Program Backlog and Kanban
• LESSON3: Leading PI Planning
  • Communicating the Vision
  • Establishing PI Objectives
  • Managing dependencies and risks
• LESSON4: Executing Iterations
  • User Stories
  • Planning the Iteration
  • Managing flow with the Team Kanban
  • Refining the Backlog
  • Iteration Review and Retrospective
  • DevOps and Release on Demand
• LESSON5: Executing the PI
  • PO Sync
  • System Demo
  • Innovation throughout the PI
  • Inspect & Adapt
• LESSON6: SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager (POPM)
  • Preparing for the certification test

Attending the class prepares individuals to take the exam and become a certified SAFe® Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM). For more information, goto Scaled Agile Inc.

Who will benefit

The training is suitable for anyone interested how backlogs and programs are managed to deliver value in SAFe. From the trainings provided by SAFe, the SAFe PO/PM is especially suitable for Product Owners and Business Analysts as well as Product Managers who wish to gain better understanding on PI and Iteration execution. In general the training is beneficial for many roles who are working with product requirements and clarifying business needs and need to create steady product development flow and continuous delivery of value.

Although some basic knowledge from Lean, Agile and SAFe or management of  projects and products are considered beneficial, they are not compulsory. The training is suitable for personnel from private organisations as well as from public administration. 

About the trainers

All our trainers are experienced experts of Lean&Agile and they have gained excellent feedback from their training skills and content knowledge. Our trainers have gained years of practical experience from different projects and roles as well as from agile teams and organisations. We have trained hundreds of people and teams to agile methodology and the participants have felt they gained  concrete benefits to their agile implementations. To know more about our trainers, check here