SAFe® Agile Product Management (APM)

The Agile Product Management course allows you to discover the right mindset, skills, and tools you need to create successful products and solutions using Agile techniques.

Learn how to use Design Thinking to create products and solutions that are:

• Desirable – what customers want

• Viable – profitable for you to build and sell

• Feasible – something you can realistically deliver

• Sustainable – something you can proactively manage to realize ROI

Attendees will recognize how Continuous Exploration fuels innovation and helps you define a vision, strategy, and roadmap to tap into new markets.

Find out how to accelerate the product lifecycle to get fast feedback and quickly deliver exceptional products and solutions that delight customers – all while aligning with your organization’s strategy, portfolio, evolving architecture, and solution intent.

Who should attend

• Product managers and directors of product management

• Product marketing managers, project managers, Product Owners

• VP of Product Management, Business Owners, Business Analysts

• Product leaders collaborating with product management, architects, subject matter experts, and business line managers

Prerequisites

The following prerequisites are highly recommended:

• Attended at least one SAFe course

• Background in Product or Solution Management

Course Objectives

• 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

Course Content

• 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

Exam Details

Completion of this course gives you access to the exam and all related study materials as part of your Learning Plan in the SAFe Community Platform.

Exam Requirements

The first step toward becoming an Certified SAFe® Agile Product Manager is to attend the Agile Product Management course. This is a requirement, because attending the course provides access to all the study materials and the exam. Note that attending the course does not guarantee passing the exam.

Details

• Exam name – SAFe® 6 Agile Product and Solution Manager Exam

• Exam format – Multiple choice; Multiple select

• Exam delivery – Web-based (single-browser), closed book, no outside assistance, timed

• Exam access – Candidates can access the exam within the SAFe Community Platform upon completion of the Agile Product Management course

• Exam duration – Once the exam begins, candidates have 120 minutes (2.0 hours) to complete the exam

• Number of questions – 60

• Passing score – 45 out of 60 (75%)

• Language – English

• Exam cost – First exam attempt is included as part of the course registration fee if the exam is taken within 30 days of course completion. Each retake attempt costs US$?50.—.

• Retake policy – Second attempt on exam (first retake) can be done immediately after first attempt. Third attempt requires a 10-day wait. Fourth attempt requires a 30-day wait.