Course description

The digital age sets continuous demands for product development and product management to develop and deliver innovative products and increased value at a higher speed. Agile product management is an adaptive approach to product planning, where learning from the customer throughout the product’s lifecycle becomes a key component.

Learning 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

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

  • Managing value stream economics

  • Creating innovation in the value stream

Target group

Product Managers PMs, Business Owners BOs, consultants, agile coaches, Product Owners POs, release planning, Epic Owners EOs, Solution Managers SMs

To fully benefit from this training, it’s recommended that you have one current SAFe Certification and that you have already used agile methods in your daily work.

Group size

  • Minimum number of participants: 8

  • Maximum number of participants: 20

Business benefits and outcomes of training

  • Clear vision and strategy: Participants learn to define a clear product vision and strategy, aligning with business goals.

  • Faster feedback loops: Training helps teams gather customer feedback quickly, allowing for faster adjustments and innovations to products.

  • Improved collaboration: It fosters better communication between product teams and stakeholders, enhancing teamwork intelligence.

  • Increased value delivery: Teams learn to prioritize work effectively, ensuring that the most valuable outcomes are delivered first.

  • Enhanced market responsiveness: Training equips teams to respond quickly to market changes and customer needs.

These benefits contribute to the overall success of organizations implementing SAFe practices.

Relevance in mature Nordics markets of training

  • Customer focus: The training emphasizes understanding customer needs, which is crucial in competitive markets.

  • Alignment with strategy: It helps product managers align their work with the organization’s overall goals and vision.

  • Faster adaptation: Teams learn to respond quickly to market changes, ensuring they stay relevant and competitive.

  • Collaboration: The training fosters better communication between product teams and stakeholders, improving teamwork and delivery outcomes.

These factors make SAFe APM training a valuable investment for organizations in mature Nordic markets.

Nitor is Scaled Agile Framework SAFe® expert contributor

Learn the SAFe -framework from its contributors! Our coaches have long practical experience in applying the framework to different business contexts. Since its development, many nitoreans have contributed to the SAFe framework evolution since version 0.93, and we have received the rare SAFe Fellow -recognition. By the end of 2024, Nitor has trained over 11 000 private and public participants on scaled agility, with high customer satisfaction reviews. Most of these SAFe training participants made the included but optional online exam and earned globally recognized SAFe badge which they proudly shared in CVs and social media.

Evolution continues. Nitoreans keep the deep expertise so that your organization can benefit from working with SAFe® and us.

Don't miss out! View the public training calendar or ask for a private training session and secure your spot now to make a significant impact in your organization.