SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager (POPM)

What skills do you need to deliver value in a Lean enterprise? The SAFe® Product Owner / Product Manager (POPM) course covers the tactical responsibilities of these roles in the Agile Release Train. The course also gives you the guidance and tools you need 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 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 you 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?

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 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

Meet Your Trainer

Brian Schweickert - Principal Coach & Trainer - Advanced SPC6

With over 30 years of professional experience, Brian is a recognized SAFe Premier Trainer and highly skilled SAFe/Agile Trainer and Enterprise Transformation Coach. He has assisted numerous enterprises through their transformation toward continuous delivery of high-quality releases that achieve superior customer value. As an instructor, Brian looks to bring in real world examples to support SAFe concepts that allow students to connect the dots between theoretical and practical. Learn more about Brian on Linkedin @ www.linkedin.com/in/brianschweickert-agilecoach-spc

Additional Information

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