Develop a skill set that’s in demand worldwide —and empower your enterprise to succeed in a disruptive marketplace— when you become a SAFe 5 Certified Product Owner (POPM). During this two-day course, you’ll learn the principles and practices of the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe), how to execute and release value through Agile Release Trains, and what it means to lead a Lean-Agile transformation at enterprise scale.

Learn how product owners and product managers should work together to achieve the best possible customer and business outcomes. The SAFe POPM course will teach you how to adopt a customer-centric approach to building products, using Scaled Agile Framework^® to deliver more value, faster. Topics covered in this course include the daily role of POs and PMs; collaborating with engineering teams and business stakeholders; how to write epics, features, and stories; and how to design, prioritize, build, test, and deliver products with increased productivity and higher quality.

SAFe® POPM answers the questions:

• How do POs and PMs plan and execute work during a PI?
• How do you integrate a customer-centric mindset to deliver products customers want?
• How do you connect SAFe Lean-Agile principles and values to the PO/PM roles?

Attendees learn:

• How to perform the role of a PO and a PM on a daily basis.
• How to put the customer at the center of your design, build, and test process.
• How to prepare for and lead PI Planning.
• How to decompose Epics to Features and Features to Stories.
• How to collaborate with Agile teams to forecast work.

What’s included:

• Course materials
• Remote learning via SAFe® Virtual Classrooms
• Access to SAFe® Collaborate, a visual online workspace
• One-year membership to the SAFe® Community Platform
• Access to content, tools, and resources you need to practice SAFe every day
• SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager certification exam

Eric is an Enterprise Agility Strategist, Coach and Trainer with +20 years working large, complex business transformation initiatives across multiple sectors and industries. Has deep experience in coaching & mentoring executive teams, change leaders across all levels of the organization.

Has also served as enterprise lean portfolio team coach; leading transformation strategy development, & implementation teams in the technology, transportation, telcom, financial services & banking.

With extensive experience working in the Latin American banking sector helping top executives organize and prepare for company wide change programs.  And pursue key benefits around organizational effectiveness, operational efficiency and leverage innovation to build a differentiated competitive advantage.

His passion for coaching and teaching stems from his background in people and team development which is now rooted as a guiding principle in his company "SendoAgil" founded nearly 10 years ago with the mission of transforming the way we work through sparking the "excellence in people".

Eric has a vast experience in setting up organisations on the agile learning path. His approach in achieving transformations is holistic – and believes in challenging the established processes, mental models and thereby culture. "Disrupting from within".