SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager provides detailed understanding of how to deliver value with a team of agile teams, called an agile release train, who are working collaboratively. It covers how ideas progress from the portfolio level through to becoming user stories for the agile teams to work on. Delegates learn about continuous exploration, continuous integration and continuous deployment. Release on demand and the DevOps culture is also covered.

This Scaled Agile Framework certified class prepares the delegates to take the associated exam and become a SAFe 5 Product Owner / Product Manager (POPM). At the end of the course, the delegates will be sent the materials necessary to take the online exam; including copies of the slides, a study guide and access to the practice exam.

Learning Objectives

This course is designed so that delegates will be able to:

1. Apply SAFe values and principles to their product owner or product manager roles.
2. Work effectively with the lean portfolio management function.
3. Explore and deliver continuous value to the organisation.
4. Fully understand and be able to articulate their role within the Scaled Agile Framework.
5. Create a plan of action for their role.

Course Content

Applying SAFe in the Lean Enterprise
This lesson covers the five core competencies of the lean enterprise and introduces the SAFe core values. It also introduces the four configurations of SAFe.

Relating the Lean-Agile Mindset to the PO/PM role
This lesson explores differences between the product manager and product owner role, and how each of these collaborate with other roles in the Scaled Agile Framework. It also looks at a traditional, predictive approaches versus an empirical agile approach. This lesson then covers the lean mindset, the agile manifesto, and the SAFe values. It goes on to steps through each of the nine SAFe principles with activities and discussions to make the materials interesting and interactive.

Collaborating with Lean Portfolio Management
In this lesson delegates learn about the lean portfolio management function, including lean governance, strategy and Investment funding, and agile portfolio operations. The lesson then covers the process for taking ideas through to production of a lean business case. The last section in this lesson looks at the lean startup cycle and how it can be applied to these ideas within an organisation that uses SAFe.

Continuously Explore Customer Needs
This lesson looks at using lean UX to explore customer needs. It looks at the inputs used to create a vision and a roadmap of features. It then covers prioritisation techniques, estimating and forecasting.

Execute the Programme Increment
This lesson discusses the purpose and benefits of programme increment (PI) planning. It also covers how features are broken down into user stories before, during and after the PI planning event.

The lesson then discusses the regular team and programme level events, such as iteration planning, iteration review and system demos, that follow on from PI planning. The lesson moves on to look at the activities that take place at the end of each programme increment.

Defining PO/PM Roles and Responsibilities
This lesson discusses the main attributes and responsibilities of a product owner in an organisation using SAFe and the background of possible candidates for this role. This is followed by looking at the main attributes and responsibilities of a product manager, and the background of possible candidates for this role.

It also covers other roles an organisation using SAFe, with whom the PO or PM will need to collaborate effectively.

Creating your PO/PM Action Plan
This lesson asks the delegates to create their own action plan for applying what they have learnt and to commit to this.

About the Exam
The final lesson covers the SAFe community platform, how it is accessed and how to prepare for the SAFe 5 Product Owner / Product Manager examination.

SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager Course Outcomes

Delegates will leave with a comprehensive understanding of their role in delivering value to the organisation. They will understand the different teams that they will interact with and how to work collaboratively with them to maximise the value delivered. They will also become eligible to sit the SAFe 5 Product Owner / Product Manager examination.