
SAFe® 5.1 Product Owner Product Manager Certificate (POPM)
The SAFe® Scrum Master certification exam is a closed-book test taken online.
The test comes with 45 multiple-choice questions which you are required to answer within 90-minutes (exam duration).
You need to get 33 out of 45 questions right to pass the SSM 4 Product Owner / Product Manager exam and 34 out of 45 questions right to pass the SSM 5 Product Owner / Product Manager exam.
SAFe PO/PM Training FAQs
The SAFe® Scrum Master certification helps you:
Validate your commitment to continued excellence and quality
Demonstrate your proficiency in SAFe® and apply Scrum at the enterprise-level
Grow your career in SAFe® with confidence.
Get noticed at interviews or for promotions at your current job.
Command higher salaries than your non-certified peers.
Network with industry leaders and Agile professionals
Begin your scaling agile journey to your Advanced Certified SAFe® Scrum Master Certification
The success of Agile at the project and team levels has sparked off its adoption at the enterprise level too. However, implementing Agile at the team level is quite different from scaling it at the enterprise level. By the end of SAFe 5 Product Owner/ Product Manager workshop and certification program:
You will be able to ensure proper implementation of SAFe® to bring about continuous improvement in addition to maximum ROI generation.
You will have the skills necessary to write Features, Epic, User stories in SAFe® Framework.
You will understand your POPM roles and responsibilities at the enterprise level.
Once you have completed the SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager certification, you can take on the SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager role in leading organizations. You can further enhance your SAFe® skills by pursuing the following credentials:
SAFe® Scrum Master
SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master
SAFe® Agile Product Manager
SAFe® Product Manager
SAFe® Release Train Engineer
SAFe® Lean Portfolio Manager
SAFe® DevOps Practitioner
SAFe® Practitioner
SAFe certification is provided by the reputed Scaled Agile.
Here are the steps to get SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager certified:
Get trained by an authorized training partner of Scaled Agile, Inc. (Scaled Agile). Attend the two-day training delivered by a SAFe® Program Consultant (SPC) who’s also an expert practitioner.
On successful completion of the two-day training, you will receive information on the exam along with your login credentials, directly from Scaled Agile.
Log in using your credentials and take the 90-minute, 45-MCQ online closed-book exam.
Clear the exam and get 33 out of 45 questions right (73%) to pass the SAFe 5 Product Owner / Product Manager exam.
On passing the exam, you become a Certified SAFe 5 Product Owner / Product Manager. You will receive your SAFe 5 Product Owner / Product Manager PDF Certificate and Digital Badge within 5-7 working days.
Ready to get started with your Certified SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager certification? Click here.
Certifications from Scaled Agile, Inc. have a validity of one year. To renew your SAFe certification you will need to purchase the bundled product which includes Membership and Certification. This comes at a price of $295 ($100 for renewal and $195 for membership).
If you possess more than one certification from Scaled Agile, you can renew all of them together at this cost. For example, if you have a Leading SAFe certification expiring on 6 Mar 2022 and a SAFe PO/PM certification expiring on 10 October 2022, when you pay $295, both certifications will get renewed and will have the same expiry of 10 October 2023 or whichever is the later date.
Here are the steps to renew your certification:
– Log in to the SAFe Community platform using your credentials.
– Click on the “Renew” button next to your certification (located at the top of the homepage)
– You will then be presented with the payment Screen (Shopping Cart), allowing you to complete the renewal process.
Our SAFe® Program Consultants (SPCs) are:
Professionals licensed by Scaled Agile, Inc. to teach the official curriculum
Masters in SAFe® who have immense experience in leading, applying, coaching, and implementing the SAFe
Skilled in SAFe® framework and Agile software development
Subject matter experts and experienced practitioners who are active in software development and local Agile communities, along with the broader global SAFe and Agile movements.
Our SAFe POPM course focuses on engaging interaction. Most of the class time is dedicated to fun exercises, lively discussions, and team collaboration, all facilitated by the SAFe® trainer who is an experienced Scrum practitioner. The workshop focuses on practical solutions to real-world, Scrum Master challenges drawn from decades of experience as product managers, Agile coaches, and Product Owners in Agile environments.
Yes. The certification and evaluation fees are included in the cost of this course, along with the costs of course materials and learning aids.
The course material comprises the course schedule or study plan, workbooks and all relevant assignments, assessments, and case studies.
PDUs are Professional Development Units issued by the Project Management Institute®. They can be earned by completing educational training or learning opportunities, which serve to validate your participation and continued proficiency in the principles and practices of project management.
PDUs are the measuring unit used to quantify your project management professional development as part of the PMI’s Continuing Certification Requirements (CCR) program. 1 PDU = 1 hour of learning/activity.
A Scrum Education Unit® (SEU®) is a credit issued by Scrum Alliance®, validating your participation and continued proficiency in the fundamental principles of Scrum. SEUs demonstrate that you are furthering your proficiency as a Scrum practitioner. SEUs follow a 1:1 ratio, where one hour of participation or preparation towards increasing your proficiency in Scrum is equal to one SEU.
The latest release of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is version 5, update 5.1. KnowledgeHut’s Leading SAFe 5 Certification course is aligned with the latest version of SAFe.
This course is conducted by highly qualified and certified instructors with 20+ years of experience deliver the classroom training.
The latest update 5.1 was rolled out to the latest version, SAFe 5 on February 10, 2021. The key updates are as follows:
An updated Big Picture (now at version 5.1)
New guidance for operational and development value streams to support organizing around value, the #1 request from our customers
ART and Team Topologies, patterns for organizing teams and ARTs to improve flow.
New guidance around DevSecOps technical skills and tools that power the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.
Integrated Participatory Budgeting, a dynamic and collaborative process of allocating funding to value streams.
Specific guidance for applying Lean-Agile practices to business and technology domains, including a new SAFe for Hardware article.
More information can be found on Scaled Agile.
A digital badge is an online image of your SAFe® Certification that enables you to verify, share, post, and manage your SAFe expertise real-time, via any platform. The Digital Badge, issued by Acclaim, the exclusive certifying entity for Scaled Agile, Inc. Your digital badge authenticates your certification and demonstrates your expertise in SAFe® and commitment to professional excellence.
You will receive an e-mail from [email protected] with the instructions to claim your badge. The mail will also have information on setting-up your account for certification management and sharing. To know more, please visit http://support.youracclaim.com.
The Product owner’s (PO) roles are to oversee the scrum project and he does not necessarily involve in the scrum master’s job of team making, scrum coaching, and ensuring that the scrum process is going on well. Product Owner generally makes the user stories and prioritize them in the backlogs. Whereas the scrum master sees that the scrum processes are working well and builds the scrum team to work on the agile scrum projects as well as oversees the scrum developments in the team are understood well.
SHRIRAM KUMAR (SPC) - Certified SAFe Consultant/ Trainer

- 18 years of experience in Agile and SAFe Coaching and Consulting.
- Worked as corporate trainer for SAFe and Agile over 4 years with ZaranTech.
- Expertise in Technical Skills and tools like GitHub, Maven, Jenkins and Programming languages, Database management tools.
- Proven track record of successful Lean/Agile, SAFe transformation of large scale, complex federal systems.
- Hands-on experience working as a agile/SAFe coaches/consultants to tailor transformation effort for lean product/solution delivery in large, complex corporates in USA and India
- Well reputed with coaching teams to learn & implement Agile values
- He firmly believes that learning is a lifelong journey and strives to keep himself updated with the latest technological trends.
AISHWARYA RADHAKRISHNAN - Certified SAFe Consultant/ Trainer

- She is a Certified Trainer for Scaled Agile Framework.
- Master's in Software Engineering from BITS, Pilani.
- She has worked with companies like Microsoft, Wipro Technologies, Happiest Minds, PWC, International Government Organizations. And played different roles like Scrum Master, Agile Coach, SAFe Coach, SAFe program consultant.
- Associated with Zarantech for over 4 years and delivering Corporate Training, Workshops, Consultation to build Agile teams and to scale them.
- Thrive to provide world-class training to result in 100% satisfaction.
Description
The POPM (Product Owner/Product Manager) training covers a range of processes, mechanics, and tools utilized to manage programs and address backlogs. It will help you become an integral part of the product development process—and, an expert capable of furthering business objectives through Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe).
Seventy percent of Fortune 100 companies actively employ the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) and a large number of the Global 2000 have certified SAFe professionals and on-site consultants. According to Scaled Agile, 800,000 practitioners have been trained to date.
SAFe® continues to be the most popular scaling method, at the top of the list of the various Agile scaling frameworks, cited by 35 percent of respondents in the latest 14th State of Agile survey report. Its popularity has increased by 5 percent over last year and it has outpaced the number two choice, [email protected], by a good 19 percent.
Many top brands from across the world – including Bosch, Lockheed Martin, PepsiCo, Anthem, Cisco, Standard Chartered, CapitalOne, Thales, FitBit, and AstraZeneca – leverage SAFe to improve time-to-market, increase productivity, boost quality, and improve employee engagement and job satisfaction. With the average salary of a SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (SPOPM) ranging from $83,865 to $124,613, the demand for SAFe expertise is growing rapidly, the need for Product Owners and Product Managers who can deliver continuous value at the enterprise level is at an all-time high.
The SAFe® 5.1 Product Owner / Product Manager is a designation offered by Scaled Agile, Inc. to practitioners who complete a two-day training by a SAFe® Program Consultant and demonstrate their understanding of the Scaled Agile, Framework® (SAFe®) bypassing the Certified SAFe® 5.1 Product Owner / Product Manager (POPM) certification exam.
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Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites to attending this course.
- Prior work experience in a SAFe environment is recommended, though not mandatory.
- Prior experience with Lean, Agile, or other relevant certifications would be beneficial, though not mandatory.
Who can attend leading SAFe Training
- Program or Project Managers
- Scrum Masters
- Release Train Engineers
- Business Analysts
- Agile Coaches
- SAFe Program Consultants
- Development Managers
- CTOs
- Consultants
- Architects
- Engineers
- Directors
- Product Managers
- Product Owners
- Delivery Managers
- Solution Train Engineers
- Software Developers
Skills you’ll gain in the Certified SAFe PO/PM course
- Relentless improvement of Agile Release Train (ART)
- Identifying customer needs
- Guiding teams for enhanced productivity and performance
- Writing epics, capabilities, features, and stories
- Prioritizing product and team backlogs
- Delivering the maximum business value at scale
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