Safe 5.0 Product Owner Product
Manager Popm 2025
Core Values of SAFe - ANSWER ✔️ - Built-in Quality
- Program Execution
- Alignment
- Transparency
Value Streams - ANSWER ✔️ - series of steps an organization
uses to implement Solutions that provide a continuous flow of
value to a Customer
- used to define and realize portfolio-level business objectives and
organize Agile-team to deliver value more rapidly
- contains the system, the people who do the works, and the flow
of information and materials
Operational Value Stream - ANSWER ✔️ Contains the steps and
the people who deliver end-user value using the business
Solutions created by the development Value Stresms
Development Value Streams - ANSWER ✔️ Contains the steps
and the people who develop the business Solutions created by
the Operational Value Streams
Solution - ANSWER ✔️ may be a product, product line, a set of
systems or a service that enables an Operational Value Stream
House of Lean - ANSWER ✔️ - Goal: Value
,- Foundation: Leadership
- Pillars Respect for People and Culture, Development Flow,
Innovation, Relentless Improvement
Agile Manifesto - ANSWER ✔️ - Individuals and interactions over
processes and tools
- Working software over comprehensive documentation
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Responding to change over following a plan
SAFe Lean-Agile Principles (#1-#5) - ANSWER ✔️ #1 Take an
Economic View
#2 Apply System Thinking
#3 Assume variability, preserve options
#4 Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
#5 Base milestones on objectives evaluation of working systems
SAFe Lean-Agile Principles (#6-#10) - ANSWER ✔️ #6 Visualize
and limit WIP, reduce batch size, and manage queue lengths
#7 Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning
#8 Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
#9 Decentralize decision-making
#10 Organize around value
PI Planning - ANSWER ✔️ -cadence-based are the heartbeat of
the Agile Enterprise
- 2 days every 8-12 weeks (10 weeks is typical)
- attend in person (if possible)
- PM owns Feature priorities
, - Agile teams own Stroy planning and high-level estimates
- architect/engineering and UX work as intermediaries for
governance, interfaces, and dependencies
PI Planning Preparation - ANSWER ✔️ - Create/update Vision
and Roadmaps
- Socialize the Top 10 Features and Enablers to set expectations
for the PI Planning meeting
- too much preparation can inhibit exploration, interaction, and
emergent designs/solution during PI Planning
NFR - ANSWER ✔️ Non-functional requirements are key
architecture concerns and system qualities that are sometimes
known as "ilities" - reliability, usability, scalability, etc
Product Manager's Role in PI - ANSWER ✔️ Negotiate scope
Daily Stand Up (timebox) - ANSWER ✔️
Value at the Portfolio Level described - ANSWER ✔️ as Business
and Enabler Epics
Product Manager area of focus - ANSWER ✔️ - Owns Program
Backlog
- Defines features, PIs, and Release
- Owns Vision, Roadmap, pricing, licensing, ROI
- Collaborates on Enablers
- Establishes Features acceptance criteria (benefit hypothesis)
- prioritize Features for optimum economic value
Manager Popm 2025
Core Values of SAFe - ANSWER ✔️ - Built-in Quality
- Program Execution
- Alignment
- Transparency
Value Streams - ANSWER ✔️ - series of steps an organization
uses to implement Solutions that provide a continuous flow of
value to a Customer
- used to define and realize portfolio-level business objectives and
organize Agile-team to deliver value more rapidly
- contains the system, the people who do the works, and the flow
of information and materials
Operational Value Stream - ANSWER ✔️ Contains the steps and
the people who deliver end-user value using the business
Solutions created by the development Value Stresms
Development Value Streams - ANSWER ✔️ Contains the steps
and the people who develop the business Solutions created by
the Operational Value Streams
Solution - ANSWER ✔️ may be a product, product line, a set of
systems or a service that enables an Operational Value Stream
House of Lean - ANSWER ✔️ - Goal: Value
,- Foundation: Leadership
- Pillars Respect for People and Culture, Development Flow,
Innovation, Relentless Improvement
Agile Manifesto - ANSWER ✔️ - Individuals and interactions over
processes and tools
- Working software over comprehensive documentation
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Responding to change over following a plan
SAFe Lean-Agile Principles (#1-#5) - ANSWER ✔️ #1 Take an
Economic View
#2 Apply System Thinking
#3 Assume variability, preserve options
#4 Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
#5 Base milestones on objectives evaluation of working systems
SAFe Lean-Agile Principles (#6-#10) - ANSWER ✔️ #6 Visualize
and limit WIP, reduce batch size, and manage queue lengths
#7 Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning
#8 Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
#9 Decentralize decision-making
#10 Organize around value
PI Planning - ANSWER ✔️ -cadence-based are the heartbeat of
the Agile Enterprise
- 2 days every 8-12 weeks (10 weeks is typical)
- attend in person (if possible)
- PM owns Feature priorities
, - Agile teams own Stroy planning and high-level estimates
- architect/engineering and UX work as intermediaries for
governance, interfaces, and dependencies
PI Planning Preparation - ANSWER ✔️ - Create/update Vision
and Roadmaps
- Socialize the Top 10 Features and Enablers to set expectations
for the PI Planning meeting
- too much preparation can inhibit exploration, interaction, and
emergent designs/solution during PI Planning
NFR - ANSWER ✔️ Non-functional requirements are key
architecture concerns and system qualities that are sometimes
known as "ilities" - reliability, usability, scalability, etc
Product Manager's Role in PI - ANSWER ✔️ Negotiate scope
Daily Stand Up (timebox) - ANSWER ✔️
Value at the Portfolio Level described - ANSWER ✔️ as Business
and Enabler Epics
Product Manager area of focus - ANSWER ✔️ - Owns Program
Backlog
- Defines features, PIs, and Release
- Owns Vision, Roadmap, pricing, licensing, ROI
- Collaborates on Enablers
- Establishes Features acceptance criteria (benefit hypothesis)
- prioritize Features for optimum economic value
