Agile Product Management Certification
APM Training Overview
Earn the SAFe Agile Product Manager (APM) certification and gain recognition as a leader in modern product management.
Develop product strategies and roadmaps that align with business goals and customer needs.
Learn how to use design thinking to build products that are valuable, feasible, and sustainable.
Foundational Level
Suggested Pre-requisite: POPM Certification.
Course Duration
3 Days.
Instructor-led
Remote or in-person training.
APM Certification
Accreditation upon passing the exam.
What You Will Learn
Applying Design Thinking
Use design thinking to create products that solve real customer problems and deliver lasting business value. Learn how to balance desirability, feasibility, and sustainability in every solution you build.
Understanding Customer Needs
Discover how continuous exploration fuels innovation. Learn how to segment markets, analyze competition, size opportunities, and apply empathy-driven design to deliver solutions that customers want.
Defining Product Strategy
Develop the skills to shape product vision and strategy, prioritize initiatives, and build roadmaps that guide development across Agile Release Trains (ARTs) while aligning with broader enterprise goals.
Delivering Value at Scale
Connect product decisions to value streams. Learn how to set pricing and licensing strategies, accelerate time-to-market, and use SAFe to coordinate development and release activities.
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Who Is This Certification For?
This course is designed for experienced product professionals who want to lead agile product development at scale. If you’re already working in product or solution management and want to strengthen your strategy, design, and execution skills—or you’re looking to step into a broader product leadership role—this course is for you.
Product Managers
Product Owners
Product Marketers
Business Owners
Solution Managers
Project Managers
Why Choose Scaled Agile for your Agile Product Management Certification?
Enterprise-Level Focus:
The course helps you connect customer insights to strategy and delivery across the organization. You’ll learn how Product Managers work in collaboration with Architects (ARCH) and Release Train Engineers (RTE’s) to lead product vision and deliver continuous value.
Practical Application:
You’ll learn and apply the concepts taught in this course. Through hands-on exercises and guided activities, you’ll build out product strategies, explore customer personas, evaluate pricing models, and design roadmaps that you can bring back to your teams.
Flexible Delivery:
Join a virtual or in-person session led by a certified SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC). Courses are interactive and designed to support real-world application, including for teams working in distributed environments.
Comprehensive Curriculum:
This course covers advanced product management topics including your role in a lean enterprise, applying design thinking, developing product strategy and vision, building roadmaps, managing value stream economics, and accelerating innovation through SAFe practices.
Get SAFe Certified
By attending the course and passing the exam, you’ll earn your SAFe Agile Product Manager (APM) certification along with a shareable digital badge. This certification clearly signifies your ability to lead product development in a SAFe enterprise and deliver solutions that drive business growth.
Certification Process Includes:
Perpetual access to course workbook and online learning platform for additional preparation.
An unlimited attempt practice test with question-level feedback and coaching report that acts as a simulation and study tool.
Customer support for learning and certification questions.
A timed, multiple-choice, 60-question exam with a coaching report.
Certified Professionals Earn:
Industry-leading SAFe Agile Product Manager certification, renewed yearly.
Digital badge with social media share capability to grow your network.
Course certificate of completion.
PMI PDUs, Scrum Alliance SEUs.
Agile Product Management Certificate of Completion
After finishing the APM course, you’ll get access to the certification exam, a digital badge, and one-year SAFe Studio access with study materials, toolkits, and resources. Agile experience and prior SAFe POPM training are recommended to succeed on the exam.
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Benefits of Earning your SAFe APM Certification
Earning your SAFe APM certification and keeping it active unlocks access to selected workshops and additional SAFe+ benefits like SAFe Skills, in addition to SAFe knowledge articles, community forums, exclusive content, and more.
Career Development & Community
Exclusive webinars on emerging SAFe topics.
Access to the SAFe community forums for career advancement, learning and mentorship opportunities, job boards, and more.
Participation in certified-exclusive events for additional networking, learning, and development.
Continued Learning
Full access to the Scaled Agile Framework articles.
SAFe Skills Library.
Certification upgrade learning series.
Continued learning with live and recorded webinars from SAFe experts and partners.
SAFe Training Resources
Value stream mapping and other selected workshops.
On-demand access to all recorded keynotes, breakout sessions, and other content from SAFe Summits.
SAFe assessments to measure and improve business agility and other core competencies.
Studio Toolkits and Applications
Limited access to SAFe CoPilot AI assistant.
Role-specific training videos and content.
Toolkits to help prepare and execute PI planning.
Resources for Future Agile Product Managers
Learn more about agile product management, including how to fulfill product roles successfully.
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