SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager Exam Prep

What you will be able to do

• You will be able to explain business agility, the seven core competencies of the SAFe 6.0 model, and how the Product Manager and Product Owner roles differ in scope and responsibility.
• You will be able to apply customer centricity and design thinking, including personas, empathy, and the desirable, feasible, viable, and sustainable lenses, to frame the right problems.
• You will be able to craft a compelling Vision and Roadmap and order an ART Backlog of Features using Weighted Shortest Job First.
• You will be able to write Features with a benefit hypothesis, split them into Stories using INVEST, and author clear acceptance criteria.
• You will be able to prepare for, facilitate, and participate in PI Planning, including PI objectives, business value, the ART planning board, ROAM risks, and the confidence vote.
• You will be able to execute the Program Increment through iteration events, backlog refinement, story acceptance, the System Demo, and the Innovation and Planning iteration.
• You will be able to describe the Continuous Delivery Pipeline, DevOps and CALMR, Release on Demand, and the Inspect and Adapt event that drives relentless improvement.
• You will be able to reason through scenario, BEST, and MOST style exam items by applying SAFe principles and Lean-Agile values rather than relying on rote recall.

What is inside

7 modules, 7 lessons. Each module ends in a graded quiz.

1. 01

   Business Agility and SAFe for Product Managers and Product Owners

   Covers business agility and the seven core competencies, the Lean-Agile mindset and SAFe principles, and how the Product Manager and Product Owner are positioned across the Agile Release Train and the Agile Team.

   1 lessons · 5 quiz questions

2. 02

   Customer Centricity and Design Thinking

   Explains customer centricity as a mindset and design thinking as a practice, including the desirable, feasible, viable, and sustainable lenses and tools such as personas, empathy maps, and journey maps.

   1 lessons · 5 quiz questions

3. 03

   Vision, Roadmap, and the Program Backlog

   Covers creating and communicating a Vision, building a Roadmap of milestones and forecasts, and maintaining an ART Backlog of Features prioritized economically with Weighted Shortest Job First.

   1 lessons · 5 quiz questions

4. 04

   Writing Features, Stories, and Acceptance Criteria

   Explains how to write Features with a benefit hypothesis, author user and enabler Stories using INVEST and the user-voice form, split large items, and define acceptance criteria, including behavior-driven development.

   1 lessons · 5 quiz questions

5. 05

   Preparing for and Participating in PI Planning

   Covers how to prepare for and participate in PI Planning, including readiness and inputs, the standard two-day agenda, PI objectives and business value, the ART planning board, ROAM risk management, and the confidence vote.

   1 lessons · 5 quiz questions

6. 06

   Executing the Program Increment

   Covers executing the PI through iteration events, backlog refinement and just-in-time story elaboration, story acceptance, ART synchronization, the System Demo, and the Innovation and Planning iteration.

   1 lessons · 5 quiz questions

7. 07

   Continuous Delivery and Relentless Improvement

   Covers the Continuous Delivery Pipeline, DevOps and the CALMR mindset, Release on Demand and decoupling deploy from release, and the Inspect and Adapt event that drives relentless improvement.

   1 lessons · 5 quiz questions