SAFE POPM CERTIFICATION 2026 UPDATED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Vision - ✔✔A description of the future state of the solution under development. It
reflects customer and stakeholder needs, as well as the features and capabilities
proposed to meet those needs
✔✔Roadmap - ✔✔A schedule of events and milestones that communicate planned
Solution deliverables over a timeline. It includes commitments for the planned Program
Increment (PI) and offers visibility into the deliverables forecasted for the next few PIs.
✔✔Product Management - ✔✔Responsible for defining and supporting the building of
desirable, feasible, viable, and sustainable products that meet customer needs over the
product-market lifecycle
✔✔Story - ✔✔Short descriptions of a small piece of desired functionality, written in the
users language
✔✔3Cs - ✔✔Card, conversation, confirmation
✔✔INVEST in good stories - ✔✔Independent, negotiable, valuable, estimable, small,
testable
✔✔Enabler - ✔✔Supports the activities needed to extend the architectural runway to
provide future business functionality
✔✔Release on Demand - ✔✔The process by which features deployed into production
are released incrementally or immediately to Customers based on market demand.
✔✔Core Values - ✔✔Built-in quality, program execution, alignment, transparency
✔✔Agile Manifesto Principles - ✔✔1. Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer
through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
2. Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness
change for the customer's competitive advantage
3. Deliver working software frequently, from a couple weeks to a couple of months, with
a preference for the shorter timescale
4. Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
5. Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support
they need, and trust them to get the job done
6. The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a
development team is face-to-face conversation
7. Working software is the primary measure of progress
8. Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and
users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely
, 9. Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
10. Simplicity- the art of maximizing the amount of work not done- is essential
11. The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing
teams.
12. At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes
and adjusts its behavior accordingly
✔✔Program events - ✔✔PI planning, scrum of scrums and PO sync (ART sync),
system demo, prepare for PI planning, inspect and adapt
✔✔Team events - ✔✔Iteration planning, daily stand up, iteration review, backlog
refinement, iteration retro
✔✔Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) - ✔✔Cost of delay/Job size
✔✔Cost of Delay - ✔✔User-Business Value + Time Criticality + Risk Reduction and/or
Opportunity Enablement
✔✔Iteration Planning best approaches - ✔✔Maintain timebox
Ensure that the team commits to the iteration goals
Verify that the PO or other managers don't influence the team to overcommit
Challenge the team to exceed their previous accomplishments
Ensure that improvements items from the retrospective are put into effect
Ensure time is allocated for technical debt activities
✔✔Iteration planning common anti-patterns - ✔✔Delving too deep into technical
discussions
Commitment is unrealistic
Capacity and load are exactly the same
Scrum master is more focused on a technical role than a facilitators role
The team under commits due to fear of failure
No time is reserved for support activities
✔✔Backlog refinement best approaches - ✔✔Maintain timeboxes
Maintain the right level of a deep backlog vs ready backlog for two iterations
Make sure all the team members participate
Invite the right subject matter experts
Hold the event at regular intervals
✔✔Backlog refinement common anti-patterns - ✔✔Arriving to the iteration with non-
ready stories
Not doing the backlog refinement consistently
Team sees stories for the first time during iteration or PI planning
Feature estimations impact story estimation
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Vision - ✔✔A description of the future state of the solution under development. It
reflects customer and stakeholder needs, as well as the features and capabilities
proposed to meet those needs
✔✔Roadmap - ✔✔A schedule of events and milestones that communicate planned
Solution deliverables over a timeline. It includes commitments for the planned Program
Increment (PI) and offers visibility into the deliverables forecasted for the next few PIs.
✔✔Product Management - ✔✔Responsible for defining and supporting the building of
desirable, feasible, viable, and sustainable products that meet customer needs over the
product-market lifecycle
✔✔Story - ✔✔Short descriptions of a small piece of desired functionality, written in the
users language
✔✔3Cs - ✔✔Card, conversation, confirmation
✔✔INVEST in good stories - ✔✔Independent, negotiable, valuable, estimable, small,
testable
✔✔Enabler - ✔✔Supports the activities needed to extend the architectural runway to
provide future business functionality
✔✔Release on Demand - ✔✔The process by which features deployed into production
are released incrementally or immediately to Customers based on market demand.
✔✔Core Values - ✔✔Built-in quality, program execution, alignment, transparency
✔✔Agile Manifesto Principles - ✔✔1. Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer
through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
2. Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness
change for the customer's competitive advantage
3. Deliver working software frequently, from a couple weeks to a couple of months, with
a preference for the shorter timescale
4. Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
5. Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support
they need, and trust them to get the job done
6. The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a
development team is face-to-face conversation
7. Working software is the primary measure of progress
8. Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and
users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely
, 9. Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
10. Simplicity- the art of maximizing the amount of work not done- is essential
11. The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing
teams.
12. At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes
and adjusts its behavior accordingly
✔✔Program events - ✔✔PI planning, scrum of scrums and PO sync (ART sync),
system demo, prepare for PI planning, inspect and adapt
✔✔Team events - ✔✔Iteration planning, daily stand up, iteration review, backlog
refinement, iteration retro
✔✔Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) - ✔✔Cost of delay/Job size
✔✔Cost of Delay - ✔✔User-Business Value + Time Criticality + Risk Reduction and/or
Opportunity Enablement
✔✔Iteration Planning best approaches - ✔✔Maintain timebox
Ensure that the team commits to the iteration goals
Verify that the PO or other managers don't influence the team to overcommit
Challenge the team to exceed their previous accomplishments
Ensure that improvements items from the retrospective are put into effect
Ensure time is allocated for technical debt activities
✔✔Iteration planning common anti-patterns - ✔✔Delving too deep into technical
discussions
Commitment is unrealistic
Capacity and load are exactly the same
Scrum master is more focused on a technical role than a facilitators role
The team under commits due to fear of failure
No time is reserved for support activities
✔✔Backlog refinement best approaches - ✔✔Maintain timeboxes
Maintain the right level of a deep backlog vs ready backlog for two iterations
Make sure all the team members participate
Invite the right subject matter experts
Hold the event at regular intervals
✔✔Backlog refinement common anti-patterns - ✔✔Arriving to the iteration with non-
ready stories
Not doing the backlog refinement consistently
Team sees stories for the first time during iteration or PI planning
Feature estimations impact story estimation
