Find out how to apply Lean-Agile mindset, skills, and tools you need to create desirable, viable, feasible, and sustainable products and solutions.

This course is designed to help participants develop innovative solutions using SAFe® capabilities to realize their visions through the use of Design Thinking and Agile Product Management techniques.

During the course of this three-day program, I will provide you with the mindset, skills, and tools necessary to build your own successful product using Lan-Agile methods, from conception to retirement. It is important that you explore how Continuous Exploration drives innovation, enables you to develop a vision and strategy for tapping into new markets, and helps you develop a roadmap and strategy to tap into these markets. Discover how to keep up with the rapidly evolving technology, architecture, and solution goals of your organization, while at the same time accelerating the product life cycle to get quick feedback and deliver exceptional products and solutions that delight your customers -all while aligned with your organization’s strategy, portfolio, and evolving architecture.

When individuals attend the SAFe® Agile Product Manager course, they will be prepared to take the exam and become a Certified SAFe® Agile Product Manager.

Become a Lean-Agile Product Leader.

The management of products is at the heart of almost every business in the world. Product managers are responsible for all of the things that go into optimizing business outcomes, from building the right products, getting them off the shelf, exploring new markets, and making sure that financial choices maximize business value. Today we face new challenges in managing the product lifecycle due to disruptive technologies, fast-moving competitors, and increasingly complex supplier networks. The first step towards putting your Agile Product Development Team (APD) in a position of success is to understand why and how SAFe® Agile Product Management (APM) works in order to build the product the right way There are a number of courses available to help build the product the right way, but this course will take you one step further, focusing on helping Product Managers build the right product.

In spite of the fact that over 70% of digital transformations fail, industry leaders agree that the instructor you choose to teach such an advanced class makes all the difference in the world. In my role as a SPCT, I have been on site implementing Scaled Agile Framework, launching Agile Release Trains (ARTs), and building valuable products, all of which I have proven to be successful in overcoming transformation challenges. As a former Project and Product Manager, I have helped many PMs to understand what it takes to deliver a Lean-Agile product that is successful, as well as how to avoid the common pitfalls. This course is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of the implementation of SAFe, with examples from my own experience and focusing on real-world situations, as well as an opportunity to share and analyze your unique context.

In order to ensure your organization’s sustainable success, you need to learn a variety of tools, techniques and gain experience in order to take your product to the next level. This will ensure your organization is able to achieve sustainable business agility now and in the future. Become a SAFe® Agile Product Manager with me and I’ll help you achieve your product’s success in a sustainable way.

Course Summary.

Learn how to design products and solutions that are desirable, viable, feasible, and sustainable by developing the mindset, skills, and tools you need to create them.

As part of the three-day Agile Product Management course, you will learn how to harness the power of Design Thinking in order to develop innovative solutions and how to execute them using proven SAFe® techniques.

With this course, you will be able to learn how to develop successful products using Agile techniques that will align with your business goals—from inception to retirement—with the correct mindset, skills, and tools. Learn how Continuous Exploration can fuel innovation, and how it can help you develop a vision, strategy, and roadmap to reach out to new markets. Finally you’ll discover how the product life cycle can be accelerated in order to create valuable, customer-centric products and solutions faster, while aligning with your organization’s strategy, portfolio, architecture, and solution intent so the product delivers what customers expect, on time and on budget.

What you’ll learn?

After completing the class, you should be able to:

  • Use Design Thinking to achieve desirable, feasible, and sustainable outcomes.
  • Explore market needs, segmentation, sizing, and competitive landscape.
  • Manage value stream economics, including pricing and licensing.
  • Use empathy to drive design.
  • Apply product strategy and vision.
  • Develop and evolve roadmaps.
  • Execute and deliver value using SAFe®.
  • Explore innovation in the value stream.

What you get?

Class registration includes:

  • Attendee workbook.
  • Eligibility to take the SAFe® Agile Product Manager (APM) 6.0 certification exam.
  • One–year membership to SAFe Studio.
  • Course certificate of completion.

SAFe Certification Kit.

Attendees who pass the certification exam will receive:

  • SAFe® 6.0 Agile Product Manager certificate.
  • A SAFe® 6.0 Agile Product Manager digital badge to promote your accomplishment online.
  • A one-year certified membership as a SAFe® 6.0 Agile Product Manager, which includes access to the APM Community of Practice.
  • A SAFe® 6.0 Agile Product Manager certification usage guide with APM certification marks.
  • Access to a variety of learning resources to support certified professionals during their SAFe® journey.

Topics Covered.

  • Analyzing your Role as a Product Manager in the Lean Enterprise.
  • Continuously Exploring Markets and Users.
  • Driving Strategy with Market Segmentation.
  • Using Empathy to Drive Design.
  • Defining Product Strategy and Vision.
  • Creating Roadmaps to Build Solutions.
  • Delivering Value.
  • Managing Value Stream Economics.
  • Creating Innovation in the Value Stream.

Who will benefit?

  • Product Management teams.
  • Product marketing managers, project managers, Product Owners.
  • VP of Product Management, Business Owners, Business Analysts.
  • User experience and customer experience professionals.
  • Product leaders collaborating with Product Management, architects, subject matter experts, and business line managers.

Professional Development Units (PDUs) and Scrum Education Units (SEUs).

  • Attendees may be eligible to apply for 24 PDUs toward their continuing education requirements with the Project Management Institute (PMI) for PMP, PgMP, and PMI-ACP certifications.
  • Attendees may be eligible to apply for SEUs under category C, toward earning or renewing their CSP through Scrum Alliance.