Seventy percent of Fortune 100 companies actively employ the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) and a large number of the Global 2000 have certified SAFe professionals and on-site consultants. According to Scaled Agile, over one million practitioners have been trained to date. SAFe® continues to be the most popular scaling method per the State of Agile report.

SAFe has outpaced the number two choice, Scrum@Scale, by a good 19 percent. Many top brands from across the world – including Bosch, Lockheed Martin, PepsiCo, Anthem, Cisco, Standard Chartered, CapitalOne, Thales, FitBit and AstraZeneca - leverage SAFe to improve time-to-market, increase productivity, boost quality, and improve employee engagement and job satisfaction. With the average salary of a SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (SPOPM) ranges from $83,865 to $124,613, the demand for SAFe expertise is growing rapidly, the need forProduct Owners and Product Managers who can deliver continuous value at the enterprise level is at an all-time high.

SAFe Product Owner (PO) serves as the customer proxy for the team and works with Product Management and other stakeholders—including other Product Owners—to define and prioritize stories in the Team Backlog so that the system or solution effectively addresses program priorities while maintaining the technical integrity of the features or components the team is responsible for creating. The PO has a significant role in quality and is the only team member empowered to accept stories as done.

A SAFe Product Manager (PM) serves as the internal voice of the customer for the Agile Release Train (ART) and works with Product Owners to continually develop and communicate the customer vision to the development teams. The Product Manager provides an economically prioritized backlog for the ART, defines the features of the system to ensure that the solution meets relevant standards and other system quality requirements, and participates in the validation of the proposed feature benefit hypotheses.

During this two-day course, attendees of SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager will gain an in-depth understanding of the Agile Release Train (ART), how it delivers value, and what they can do to effectively perform their role.

They will also learn how to apply Lean thinking to write Epics, break them down into Features and Stories, plan and execute Iterations, and plan Program Increments. Finally, attendees learn about the Continuous Delivery Pipeline and DevOps culture, how to effectively integrate as Product Owners and Product Managers, and what it takes to relentlessly improve the ART.

Attending the class prepares individuals to take the exam and become a certified SAFe® 6 Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM).