POPM
SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager study plan
3 sessions, about 2.2 hours in total. Each one ends at 80% — the mark SAFe POPM actually requires — so you find out you have not understood something while it is still cheap to fix.
SAFe Foundations and the Agile Release Train
The structures a Product Owner works inside: the train, its cadence, and who decides what at which level.
- Time
- about 20 minutes
- Read
- The Agile Release Train · Product Owner and Product Manager · PI Planning · Iterations, IP Iteration and the Cadence
- Practise
- 10 questions on Continuous Exploration & Vision, PI Execution & Delivery, Product Manager Accountabilities
- Move on at
- 80%
Backlogs, Value and Prioritisation
How work is described and ordered at team and program level, and the economics SAFe uses to decide.
- Time
- about 20 minutes
- Read
- Epics, Capabilities, Features and Stories · Weighted Shortest Job First · Writing and Accepting Stories · PI Objectives and Business Value
- Practise
- 10 questions on Backlog Definition & Prioritisation, Product Owner Accountabilities, Customer Centricity & Design Thinking
- Move on at
- 80%
Final Assessment
- Time
- about 90 minutes
- Practise
- 45 questions on Product Owner Accountabilities, Product Manager Accountabilities, Customer Centricity & Design Thinking, Continuous Exploration & Vision, Backlog Definition & Prioritisation, PI Execution & Delivery
- Move on at
- 80%