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May 15, 2024

Wondering if POPM is for you? Here's why it's a must for Project/Product leaders!

Excited to know about the SAFe POPM course and who should take the course and why you should get certified? Let me take you to some personas.

You have been in the industry for a while and have some agile experience. You want to make your mark by your hard work and diligence. You want to add value as a remarkable contributor in your organization and look forward to meaningful roles. Roles where your contribution will move your organization to success.

You are a Project / Program Manager and controlling and monitoring projects / programs to meet the cost/schedule/scope with least variances. However, you find that your customers are never satisfied. Your organization decides to shift from a project to product approach to delight customers by focusing on value delivery. You need to have the skills to upgrade yourself to the emerging roles.

You are a Product Owner / Manager and bogged down by the challenges day in and day out. You are unable to see the forest for the trees. Your backlog keeps piling, your stakeholders keep demanding and you are unhappy with the team not able to deliver anything of value. However, you are supposed to maximize value delivery.

Your organization needs to survive, forget thriving in this digital age. As the rapid pace of the evolving technology landscape demands more than meeting vanity metrics, your organization moves to the tipping point and decides to embrace SAFe to gain business agility. You need to continue to be the ‘Go-to’ person in your organization.

You have been working since long as an individual contributor or as a developer. You are ambitious and feel that you could pivot the downfall of your organization by connecting with the customer, supporting teams in delivering value, create and communicate the vision and present roadmaps that glue strategy to execution.

If you resonate with any of the above cases, you should take the SAFe POPM course. It will equip you with the right blend of knowledge, skills, and practices to take extreme ownership of product roles. Whether it is about vision, roadmaps, prioritization, design thinking, PI Planning or supporting teams, you would learn the art and science of how product folk transit from the ordinary to good and great. You will learn to adopt a customer-centric approach to build products that delight your customer.

With a certification that enables you to navigate in the SAFe domain as well as empowers you to excel in product field across industries, you would not want to miss this opportunity. You would be energized to take the CEO stance and lead whatever your organization to success with best possible customer and business outcomes.

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Written by Vaibhav Patki, Approved SPC (SAFe Practice Consultant)