SAFe Agile Product Management (APM)
Why SAFe™
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) is a widely adopted methodology that enables organizations to implement Agile practices across multiple teams and departments. This fosters alignment, collaboration, and efficient value delivery. Gartner has recognized SAFe as the most considered and adopted framework for scaling Agile.
Why Invest in SAFe Agile Product Management (APM) Training:
Someone should take the SAFe Agile Product Management (APM) course to gain the skills and mindset needed to create innovative, customer-centric products that deliver exceptional value while aligning with organizational objectives.Here are the key reasons:
- Master Customer-Centric Design: Learn to apply Design Thinking principles to uncover customer needs and design products that are desirable, feasible, and sustainable. This approach ensures products meet real-world demands and enhance customer satisfaction.
- Drive Innovation: The course provides tools to foster innovation through Continuous Exploration, enabling product managers to define a vision, strategy, and roadmap that open new market opportunities and create competitive advantages.
- Align Strategy with Execution: Gain the ability to align product development with business objectives, ensuring that the product strategy supports organizational goals and maximizes value delivery.
- Accelerate Time-to-Market: Learn how to leverage SAFe’s Lean-Agile principles and the Continuous Delivery Pipeline to shorten product lifecycles and respond quickly to market changes and customer feedback.
- Enhance Career Opportunities: Earning the SAFe Agile Product Management certification demonstrates expertise in Lean-Agile product management, boosting professional credibility and opening doors to advanced roles in Agile organizations.
- Optimize Value Delivery:Acquire skills to define clear product visions, prioritize features using tools like Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF), and manage backlogs effectively, ensuring that the most valuable work is delivered first.
- Collaborate Effectively Across Teams: Learn how to work seamlessly with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and leadership to ensure alignment and coordination throughout the product lifecycle.
Description
The SAFe® Agile Product Management (APM) course equips participants with the mindset, skills, and tools to create successful products—from inception to retirement—using Agile techniques. Leveraging Design Thinking, attendees learn to develop innovative solutions that are desirable, feasible, and sustainable. The course emphasizes continuous exploration to fuel innovation, helping define a vision, strategy, and roadmap that tap into new markets. Participants discover how to accelerate the product lifecycle to receive fast feedback and quickly deliver exceptional products and solutions that delight customers, all while aligning with their organization's strategy, portfolio, evolving architecture, and solution intent.
Upon course completion, participants will be eligible to take the SAFe® APM exam to earn their certification, validating their expertise in SAFe Agile Product Managment.
Objectives
- Leverage Design Thinking: Learn how to apply Design Thinking to create products and solutions that are desirable, feasible, and sustainable.
- Practice Continuous Exploration: Understand how to use continuous exploration to align customer needs with product strategies and innovation.
- Define a Product Vision and Strategy: Develop a compelling product vision and strategy that aligns with organizational objectives and market opportunities.
- Create Roadmaps and Prioritize Work: Build roadmaps to communicate intent and use prioritization techniques such as Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) to optimize value delivery.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Foster collaboration between teams, stakeholders, and leadership to align execution with strategic goals.
- Accelerate Time-to-Market: Utilize Agile practices and SAFe principles to reduce time-to-market and improve customer satisfaction.
- Measure Success: Implement metrics to track product performance and support continuous improvement initiatives.
Outline
- Introduction to the course and its objectives.
- Overview of SAFe and the importance of Product Management
- Key learning outcomes and certification details.
- Understanding how to apply Design Thinking to create products that are desirable, viable, feasible, and sustainable.
- Learning how continuous exploration fuels innovation and helps define a vision, strategy, and roadmap to tap into new markets.
- Developing a compelling product vision and strategy that aligns with business objectives and customer needs.
- Building and aligning product roadmaps with business goals to effectively communicate intent and direction.
- Understanding how to accelerate the product lifecycle to receive fast feedback and quickly deliver exceptional products and solutions that delight customers.
- Ensuring that product development aligns with the organization's strategy, portfolio, evolving architecture, and solution intent.
- Gaining the knowledge necessary to take the SAFe® Agile Product Manager exam and earn certification.
Who Should Attend
- Product Owners
- Product Managers
- Business Analysts
- Program Managers
- Project Managers
- Executive and Leaders driving product strategy
- Portfolio Managers
- Agile Coaches
- Executives and Leaders involved in an Agile transformation
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