SAFe® 6.0 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

Attendees Learn:
• How to perform the role of a PO and a PM on a daily basis
• How to put the customer at the centre 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

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

Preparing for PI Planning

• PI Planning
• The Solution Vision
• Solutions and PI Roadmaps
• Customer-centric Features
• ART Backlog and Kanban

Leading PI Planning

• Communicate the vision
• Establish PI Objectives
• Manage dependencies
• Manage risks

Executing Iterations

• Stories and Story Maps
• Iteration Planning
• The Team Kanban
• Backlog refinement
• Iteration Review and Iteration Retrospective
• DevOps and Release on Demand

Executing the PI

• The PO Sync
• The System Demo
• The Innovation and Planning Iteration
• Inspect and Adapt

There is no prerequisite course or certification. Pre-reading suggestions are issued in a welcoming email to those registered for a course.

While not a prerequisite, attendees may consider attending the SAFe for Teams course with their teams.

The course is intended for anyone working as a product owner on an Agile team that is part of an Agile Release Train. Business Analysts working on Agile Teams can also benefit greatly from this course.