Cart is empty Course: SAFe® Product Owner and Product Manager (POPM)
Dates: 30 Sep – 1 Oct 2025
Location: JHB
Time: 8:30 to 16:30
Price: R12 900 excl VAT (10% discount for 5 or more)
SAFe® Product Owner and Product Manager (POPM) content: Learn how product owners and product managers should work together to achieve the best possible customer and business outcomes. The SAFe POPM course will teach you how to adopt a customer-centric approach to building products to deliver more value, faster. Topics covered in this course include the daily role of POs and PMs; collaborating with engineering teams and business stakeholders; how to write epics, features, and stories; and how to design, prioritize, build, test, and deliver products with increased productivity and higher quality.
Vanessa Martens
Business Agility Coach (SPCT Candidate)
Vanessa Martens is passionate about creating meaningful work environment where people and businesses thrive. She is a Agile Transformation Coach that has launched12 Agile Release Trains in 7 years for clients such as BMW, Vodafone, large banks and insurance companies. Vanessa has trained over 1000 people and consulted on Agile and change initiatives on a SAP implementation, an Online Banking Channel and numerous Retail Apps. She has a Honours degree in Business Psychology, a Management Advancement Diploma and is an SPCT Candidate (2023). Her team describes her as a Star Wars nerd that loves a Gin and Tonic when not doing CrossFit. She will never pass up an adventure and has seen 64 countries and she likes a challenge.
Glenn Smith (SPCT)
SPCT - Business Agility Consultant
Glenn's mission is to help organisations bring better products to market faster. He spends most of his time working with clients to achieve that goal with fantastic results. His proven successes and high standards earned him the SPCT certification from Scaled Agile.
He is an active contributor to the agile and SAFe body of knowledge. As a SAFe framework contributor, you will find his words of wisdom on the framework website and in tooling in various toolkits available to SAFe-certified individuals.
Combined with his hands-on delivery experience, starting as an embedded software engineer with Motorola and then many enterprises, his knowledge and 'war-stories' make for an enjoyable and informative learning experience.