SAFe® 6.0 Product Owner / Product Manager (POPM)

Discover how SAFe enables business agility and value streams. Learn roles, events, artifacts, and configurations for product management and owner collaboration, with cadence based development practices and releasing on demand.

SAFe configurations outline four out-of-the-box levels: essential, large solution, portfolio, and full, designed to scale agile, align strategy with execution, and coordinate multiple art trains.

Align product managers and product owners to deliver value across programs in SAFe. Owners translate upstream vision into clear, prioritized backlogs and user stories.

Explore SAFe essential events in an agile release train, including iteration planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, reviews, PI planning, system demos, and Inspect and Adapt.

Explore the SAFe portfolio, large solution, and full configurations, detailing how epics, capabilities, and features flow through the portfolio backlog and solution trains to deliver strategic value.

Assess planning horizons across Pi, solution, and portfolio roadmaps to align milestones, epics, and investments for coordinated, adaptive health tech transformation.

Product owners and product managers drive pi planning success through preparation, vision, and collaborative guidance, aligning strategy with execution and converting planning into a committed agile release train.

Use an empathy map to reveal what users think, feel, see, say, and do. Collaborate to turn insights into customer-centric solutions and empathy-driven design.

Translate vision into investment through the portfolio backlog, guiding business and enabler epics with lean portfolio management, portfolio Kanban, and strategic themes toward measurable value.

Navigate the feature flow in the SAFe framework from idea to value delivery, including funnel, review, analysis, implementation, governance gates, and in use validation.

Visualize work with an art kanban board to reveal flow and bottlenecks. Apply pull-based policies and WIP limits to drive continuous improvement and faster value delivery.

Explore how the architectural runway in SAFe 6.0 provides a technical foundation for upcoming features. See how capacity allocation balances features, enablers, and tech debt to sustain agility and delivery.

Estimate work in agile with story points as a relative measure of effort. Apply four factors—work amount, complexity, familiarity, and uncertainty—and use Fibonacci sizing and estimation poker for planning velocity.

Apply lean economics with WSJF to prioritize features by cost of delay, impact, and duration, enabling decentralized, value-driven prioritization and flow improvements.

Discover how day one of Pi planning aligns strategy with execution through business context, product and architecture visions. Teams break out to refine draft plans, identify risks and dependencies.

Pi objectives create alignment and predictability by turning work into outcomes that matter for business and delivery, including 5-10 objectives with uncommitted items balancing ambition and risk.

Measure and report ART predictability by aligning Pi objectives with business value scores and distinguishing committed from uncommitted work, using the Pi System demo to review planned versus actual value.

Use flow metrics and the Art Kanban backbone to reveal how value moves from concept to done, track work in progress, and guide improvements in speed, quality, and reliability.

Lead Pi planning with intent by aligning teams, shaping objectives for outcomes over features, surfacing dependencies early, and owning tradeoffs through actions you can apply at the next planning event.

Explore how features flow from the art backlog into stories, split via ten patterns for incremental, value-driven delivery, guided by the product backlog, user stories, and enabler work.

Backlog refinement, timeboxed to 1–2 hours per iteration, surfaces dependencies, blockers, and acceptance criteria, guided by the product owner and scrum master to keep planning focused.

Plan early, follow best practices, invite the right participants, avoid anti-patterns, and coordinate with the system team to deliver a value-focused system demo that reinforces alignment and morale.

Explore the innovation and planning iteration, driving creativity, backlog readiness for the next Pi planning, learning and growth, and inspect and adapt, while buffering sustainable delivery and continuous improvement.

Showcase the inspect and adapt Pi system demo as the full story of value, aligning business outcomes for stakeholders and customers, while timeboxing to an hour or less.

Measure progress toward business agility using outcomes, flow, and competency within the SAFe value stream. Foster rapid sensing, MV funding, and value-driven delivery to pivot or persevere with learning.

Assess and report ART predictability by assigning business value to PI objectives, distinguishing committed and uncommitted work, and comparing planned versus actual value through the PI system demo and inspect-and-adapt.

Adopt agile software development as a mindset and set of principles that drive collaboration, flexibility, embracing change, and delivering working software that adds customer value.

Explore lean software development principles: eliminate waste, amplify learning, decide as late as possible, deliver as fast as possible, empower the team, build integrity in, and see whole value stream.

Explore Scrum fundamentals and adopt a mindset that reshapes how teams collaborate. Learn core values, roles, artifacts, events, and the sprint lifecycle from planning to delivery with practical tips.

Discover how scrum uses empirical process control, short sprints, and continuous feedback to deliver value early, reduce risk, and compare favorably with waterfall for stakeholder involvement and adaptability.

Discover Scrum values: commitment, focus, openness, respect, and courage, and how transparency, inspection, and adaptation guide teams through product backlog, sprint backlog, and increments toward continuous improvement.