Summary

Discover and apply the mindset, skills, and tools you need to create successful products and
solutions that are desirable, viable, feasible, and sustainable.

The Agile Product and Solution Management course harnesses the power of Design Thinking to
develop innovative solutions with proven SAFe capabilities to execute on those visions. Learn
the right mindset, skills, and tools to create successful products—from inception to retirement
using Agile techniques. 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 life cycle 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 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

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

Prerequisites

You should be familiar with Agile principles and practices and have attended at least one SAFe
course prior to attending. A background in product or solution management is highly
recommended.

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:

• Printed workbook
• Preparation and eligibility to take the SAFe® 5 Agile Product AND Solution Manager (APSM)
  exam
• One-year membership to the SAFe Community Platform
• Certification of completion

Attendees must attend both days of the course in order to qualify for the exam.

Annual Renewal

Certifications expire one year from the date of certification is earned.

Renewal fee: $295/year

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