Scaled Agile for Product Owner / Product Manager (SAFe 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.

Develop business agility to respond quickly to evolving customer needs and new technologies, leveraging AI, big data, cloud, and DevOps to deliver value at speed.

Explore how SAFe 6.0 combines a stable hierarchy with an agile entrepreneurial network through value streams and agile release trains to deliver faster, higher quality value for customers.

SAFe solves misalignment and coordination problems in large organizations by aligning teams through agile release trains and lean portfolio management, enabling decentralized decisions, built-in quality, and faster value delivery.

Learn to accelerate digital transformation by implementing the business agility value stream, enabling rapid sensing, learning, and responding to market changes with digitally enabled solutions.

The business agility value stream enables rapid sensing of market changes, funding MVPs, organizing around value, and delivering customer value through cross-functional teams, agile release trains, and continuous learning.

Explore SAFe lean‑agile principles that guide teams toward the shortest sustainable lead time with high quality and value, using economic thinking, systems thinking, and incremental integration.

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.

Empower cross-functional agile release trains to dissolve silos and accelerate value flow through a continuous delivery pipeline of exploration, integration, deployment, and release on demand, planning in intervals.

Identify operational and development value streams to map how value flows from customers to solutions, then align teams and ARTs for continuous, predictable delivery.

Identify how Ethereum HealthTech maps operational and development value streams to deliver patient-centered care, from onboarding and telehealth to diagnostics analytics and EHR integration, powered by agile release trains.

Map scrum terms to safe equivalents, like sprint planning to iteration planning and daily scrum to team sync, aligning multiple teams on a shared mission while preserving value delivery.

Discover how SAFe scrum enables cross-functional teams to plan, execute, and deliver value in two-week iterations through backlog refinement, PI planning, and continuous inspect-and-adapt.

Explore how scrum connects the product owner, scrum master, and development team to deliver value incrementally through backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily scrum, and sprint review.

Agile teams relentlessly improve, connect with customers, plan through iteration planning, backlog refinement, PI planning, and deliver incremental value with frequent feedback to enable continuous improvement.

Lead by servant leadership, the safe scrum master facilitates pi planning, supports iteration execution, improves flow, builds high performing teams, and drives agile release train improvement.

Align vision with execution as a strategic product owner within the agile team. Master responsibilities: connecting with customers, shaping the roadmap, prioritizing the backlog, enabling value delivery, and feedback-driven improvement.

Explore how safe essential configuration connects product management, system architects, and release trains to deliver features and stories within a PI cadence, guiding the transition from products to integrated solutions.

Explore SAFe essential roles and how agile teams deliver value. Learn how release train engineer, product management, and system architect collaborate with product owner and customers to plan and deliver.

Product managers explore markets and users to uncover customer needs and market shifts. They prioritize the backlog to reflect the voice of the customer and align delivery with strategy.

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

Apply the product owner responsibilities to your own context using a mind map and real, concrete examples from your role today, then share one strong and one challenging aspect.

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 SAFe essential artifacts used to plan and track work at team levels, from team stories and enabler stories to features, architectural runway, epics, and vision and solution artifacts.

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.

Explore the full Pi cycle in SAFe 6.0, from Pi planning and two-week iterations to art level events, system demos, and continuous improvement across an agile release train.

Identify one concrete action you will apply immediately as a product owner or product manager, outlining one behavior, one conversation, and an action plan for value flow and decision making.

Connect enterprise strategy and portfolio vision to PI planning, shaping solution and roadmaps into direction; apply design thinking and product thinking to estimate, prioritize, and guide value flow through kanban.

Connect the portfolio to enterprise strategy by aligning investments with mission and vision through a leadership loop of executives, business owners, and architects, translating strategy into lean budgets and guardrails.

Strategic themes align lean portfolio management with enterprise strategy through collaborative, customer-centered, outcome-driven objectives that guide investments, guardrails, and the flow of value across value streams.

Identify three strategic themes that translate enterprise vision into portfolio outcomes, leveraging lean agile mindset to differentiate value, not projects, and align with your team.

Identify strategic themes to guide portfolio decisions and investments in healthcare tech, from proactive care and predictive insights to interoperability, data trust, and patient-centric experiences.

Learn how a customer-centric, future-oriented product vision guides value delivery within SAFe by converting ideas into epics and enabler epics, features and enabler features through portfolio backlog, ARTs, PI planning.

Navigate enterprise solution delivery through multiple planning horizons, from portfolio and solution roadmaps to pi, iteration, and daily plans, aligning milestones with strategy and execution.

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.

Apply design thinking to uncover user needs, define problems, and deliver value, using personas, empathy mapping, and a story map to explore the customer journey from discovery to post-purchase.

Explore how a six-stage customer journey map for an online grocery service reveals awareness, consideration, decision, delivery and use, loyalty, and advocacy, with metrics like reach, traffic, conversions, and NPS.

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.

Apply empathy mapping to unveil how a hospital clinician interacts with patient monitoring tools, focusing on data trust, alert logic, and dashboard simplicity to inform patient-centric product decisions.

Master whole-product thinking to deliver complete customer experiences from the generic to potential product, delight customers, differentiate in market, and inspire loyalty through proactive value delivery.

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.

Explore how art backlog features and enablers drive value delivery on the agile release train, guided by benefit hypotheses, acceptance criteria, pi sizing, and architectural runway.

Describe three features for your project that deliver the most value, then select one to define its benefit hypothesis, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes.

Explore Ethereum's Connected Health Initiative features—Unified Patient Data Dashboard, Predictive Care Insights Engine, and Secure Telehealth Access Module—that connect strategy to impact via real-time data and predictive insights.

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.

Develop a capacity allocation policy that makes trade-offs explicit between new features and enablers, protects balance over time, and guides stakeholder conversations toward sustainable flow.

Deliberately allocate capacity to balance clinical outcomes, user experience, and regulatory work. This policy ensures sustainable delivery, guides trade-offs, and protects flow and trust amid spikes in regulatory demand.

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.

Prioritize features by balancing cost of delay with time to implement in lean, agile environments to maximize return on investment and deliver value to customers at the right time.

Learn weighted shortest job first (wsjf) for economic prioritization across portfolio, art, and team levels, balancing cost of delay, job size, and user value to maximize outcomes.

Explore the wsjf formula, where cost of delay equals user business value, time criticality, and risk reduction or opportunity enablement, divided by job size for weighted shortest job first prioritization.

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

Balance prep to prevent ambiguity and chaos in pi planning; avoid overpreparation that stifles creativity, and keep socialization, refinement, and collaboration when tackling new features or building the architectural runway.

Balance preparation and emergence for PI planning by weighing benefits like clarity and risk reduction against drawbacks such as reduced flexibility, then identify the healthiest prep level for alignment.

Invest enough preplanning to clarify intent, scope, constraints, dependencies, and regulatory risks, while keeping space for collaboration and exploration during pi planning.

Lead teams through PI planning by outlining two days of sessions, risk roaming, confidence voting, and aligning vision, PI objectives, value delivery, and dependencies.

Coordinate a cadence-based Pi planning session with all agile release train teams to align on a shared mission for the next Pi and commit objectives on the planning board.

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.

Day 2 of Pi planning aligns teams with management updates and breakout sessions to finalize pie plans, assign business value, and complete the roaming risk exercise with confidence.

Product owners and product managers shape the vision for Pi planning, align with the top ten features, and guide team breakouts to turn high-level features into actionable plans.

Create Pi objectives from the bottom up during program increment planning to align business value with technical outcomes across the art, enabling visibility and commitment.

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.

Prioritize features using five value types: regulatory, commercial, market, efficiency, and future value. These guide Pi planning by balancing compliance risks, revenue potential, competitiveness, cost savings, and long-term innovation.

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.

Shift from measuring activity to measuring flow by evaluating metrics, analyzing what they measure, and applying flow metrics to show how value moves through the system in the art Kanban.

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.

Explore the art planning board in pi planning, align features, dependencies, milestones, and the ip sprint with ux and architecture help to maximize value across teams.

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 agile teams and product owners execute iterations, splitting features into stories with value-driven acceptance criteria and using story maps and backlog refinement to deliver value rapidly and reliably.

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.

Learn to write clear user and enabler stories using the card, conversation, and confirmation framework, and invest principles, linking personas like Janelle to tangible business value.

Practice splitting a feature into user stories that deliver value in small, clear slices, focusing on the user and outcome, with ten minutes to capture stories.

Anchor future intent of the unified patient data dashboard by splitting the feature into stories that deliver incremental clinical value and bring the right data together at the right time.

Define the DoD (definition of done) and acceptance criteria, show how given when then tests and behavior driven development validate completion with product owner acceptance and automated tests.

Turn intent into clarity by converting user stories into testable acceptance criteria. Use the when-then format to reveal edge cases and observable behavior and outcomes.

Turn user stories into testable acceptance criteria using given when then, ensuring observable behavior, clarity, and shared understanding in healthcare product development.

Learn how to split large stories in SAFe using ten patterns, including workflow steps, data variations, and spikes, to enable incremental delivery and reduce risk.

Explore story maps as a design thinking tool to capture user workflows, connect actions to stories, and manage product improvement over time while validating the backlog.

Product owner leads iteration planning, refining the team backlog and clarifying PI objectives, while the team aligns on deliverables, estimates, dependencies, and iteration goals for value delivery.

In iteration planning, the team turns vision into actionable work by establishing capacity allocation, analyzing and estimating stories, crafting iteration goals, and committing to a team-owned plan within four hours.

Estimate work with story points as a relative measure of effort, not exact hours, comparing size and complexity across stories using planning poker and the Fibonacci sequence.

Iteration goals establish shared purpose, alignment, and visibility, guiding the team toward outcomes that deliver value this sprint, not just completed stories, and align with the broader pie objectives.

Plan with sacred timeboxing and commit to meaningful iteration goals that align with the pie objectives, shield the team from pressure, address technical debt, and avoid anti-patterns that derail facilitation.

The team sync is the heartbeat of agile team, a brief sync plus a meet-after that surfaces impediments, clarifies story intent and acceptance criteria, and sustains alignment, ownership, and collaboration.

Coach teams to limit work in progress and optimize flow with a visual board that reveals bottlenecks and risk, enabling inspection, adaptation, and continuous learning.

Learn how a product owner sustains team progress during a two-week absence by clarifying decisions in advance, protecting priorities, and staying connected without disrupting flow, fostering continuity and trust.

In a regulated health tech setting, the product owner's absence requires a crystal-clear backlog and defined decision boundaries to enable autonomous delivery and continuity.

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.

Demonstrates real working increments each iteration—software, hardware, spikes, and refactors—to demonstrate completed work, inspect progress with stakeholders, and adjust the backlog in a timeboxed, collaborative review.

Define and scale the definition of done to ensure every backlog item is tested, reviewed, and meets acceptance criteria across team, system, solution, and release increments.

Identify 1–2 concrete improvements in a timeboxed 30–60 minute iteration retrospective and surface ideas for the team backlog while aligning reflections with agile values.

DevOps unites development and operations to maximize speed and stability through culture, automation, lean flow, and fast recovery. Collaborative teams embrace warm handoffs to deliver value faster and reliably.

Learn how SAFe's continuous delivery pipeline accelerates value from idea to customer through continuous exploration, integration, deployment, and release on demand, emphasizing automation, visibility, and collaboration across agile release trains.

Execute iterations with deliberate ownership by shaping stories, aligning the team, and applying feedback through story mapping and planning, review, and retrospective. Build small, specific actions for the next iteration.

Shift into delivery mode and execute the program increment by aligning with the Po sync, demonstrating value at the system demo, and applying eight flow accelerators for faster delivery.

Leverage Po sync and Koch Sync to align the agile release train toward pi objectives, review progress, backlog, scope, and priorities, and address impediments in timeboxed sessions.

Use the system demo as a transparent, value-driven checkpoint, continuously integrating and demonstrating progress in a staging environment, guided by an agenda that covers business context, features, risks, and discussion.

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.

Learn to use sync events as deliberate alignment mechanisms in safe sync from a product owner perspective, surface risks early, and guide the ART toward shared objectives.

Discover how sync events enable ART alignment at Ethereum HealthTech, surfacing dependencies, data security, and risks for team sync and coach sync. This helps ensure compliance, safe, and predictable delivery.

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.

Inspect and adapt drives continuous improvement across the agile release train by evaluating progress, addressing challenges, and identifying opportunities through the Pi System Demo, Measurement Review, and Problem Solving Workshop.

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.

Assess quantitative and qualitative measurements during Inspect and Adapt to evaluate the business value delivered by each Pi, using velocity, deployment frequency, team reflections, and customer feedback to drive improvement.

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.

Measure outcomes to verify we meet customer and business needs by using KPIs and OKRs that define current performance and guide future improvement.

Assess seven core competencies to quantify progress, gain actionable insights, and drive continuous improvement that aligns technical and business practices for sustained business agility.

Explore the flow framework and its five metrics: flow distribution, velocity, flow time, flow load, and flow efficiency, and how they drive value delivery in Safe's flow-based system.

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.

Discover critical success factors for effective measurement that drive business agility through thoughtful data interpretation, direct observation, and metrics that support smarter decisions.

Use metrics as a learning tool to reveal how value flows, expose bottlenecks and outcome metrics, and show whether you deliver value, not just output, capturing insights in the workbook.

Discover the eight SAFe flow accelerators to optimize value flow, reduce bottlenecks, and deliver faster, higher quality outcomes through visualizing and limiting WIP, bottleneck management, and small batches.

Identify root causes using retrospectives, five whys, and fishbone diagrams, then apply Pareto analysis to target top defects. Translate findings into actionable backlog items with clear ownership for continuous improvement.

Define a well-defined problem by outlining what, when, where, and impact; show mobile app order delays during peak hours causing 30-minute delays and up to $50,000 monthly revenue loss.

Engage actively in the program increment by leveraging Po Sync and system demos to align, learn, and improve, while capturing actions in your workbook as commitments for the next PI.

Master the dual roles of product owner and product manager within the SAFe framework, align features with strategic vision and customer needs, and drive value through effective backlog management.

Explore the Agile Manifesto and lean software development to grasp the mindset, reduce waste, improve flow, and continuously deliver value to customers.

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.

Embrace lean software development as a value-driven mindset that eliminates waste, streamlines workflow, and delivers high-quality software through continuous improvement, agile integration, and customer-focused innovation.

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 lean thinking and a lean agile mindset to maximize value delivery. Master five principles: define value for a specific product, map the value stream, enable flow, pull, and perfection.

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.

Discover the scrum sprint lifecycle with 2 to 4 weeks timebox sprints delivering value. Visualize planning, execution, review, and reflection in iterative loop guided by feedback to ship software quickly.

Explore the scrum roles, with the product owner translating customer needs into features and ROI-driven priorities, and the scrum master protecting the team and fostering cross-functional, self-organizing collaboration.

Prioritize product backlog to form the sprint backlog, guiding the team toward a tangible increment. Track progress with the sprint burndown chart to ensure transparency and alignment toward sprint goal.

Explore scrum events that drive teamwork and value: fixed-length sprints, planning with backlog and goals, daily scrums, reviews with working software, and retrospectives with start-stop-continue.