Scrum & SAFe Product Owner | Product Manager for Beginners (Udemy.com)
Exploring the day-to-day of Product Owners, Business Analysts, Product Managers, incl. CPSO and POPM cert prep
Created by: Brian Culp
Last updated November 2023
What you will learn
- Understanding Role and Responsibilities of a modern Product Manager
- How to Manage and Prioritize the Backlog
- Effective Stakeholder Engagement
- Next steps for those who want to become Certified Product Owners (and Project Managers)
- Deeper Understanding of Agile Frameworks like Scrum and SAFe
- Differentiating Between Product Owner and Product Manager Roles (and Others)
How it compares
Against the other 133 rated Udemy courses in Agile & Scrum on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 59% of them
- Reviews1,084#92 of 134 by number of reviews
- Length3.4 hoursshorter than 54% of them
- Last updatedNovember 2023earlier than 78% of them
Course Description
The Scrum & SAFe Product Owner | Product Manager for Beginners course explores the intricate world of the Product Owner and Product Manager roles within the Scrum and SAFe Agile frameworks, and is designed as a launching pad for newcomers to this field.
Join industry professionals Brian Culp (CPSO, SAFe SA) and Steve Martin (CPSO, CST) for this tour of the Product Onwer job function. Brian and Steve draw on a combined 40 years of real-world experience leading and coaching scrum teams, making this course a perfect fit for those who are complete noobs to the Product Owner world.
Here's what you'll learn:
Define the role of the Product Manager. The course begins with an overview of the Product Manager role, and especially focuses on what can be expected from a PM in a typical company/department with a focus on Information Technology.
Manage and Prioritize the Product Backlog. Spoiler alert! One of your most essential duties as a Product Manager will be to manage the team's Backlog. The course explores several real-world methods to help you align the teams work with the demands of customers and the business. You'll learn practical techniques for stakeholder management, backlog grooming, prioritization, and more.
Understanding Product Manager duties at Scale. The course then tackles the question of how Product Managment responsibilities tend to operate in large organizations.
Along the way, you'll also be developing a deeper understanding of Agile principles and practices, while also enhancing your understanding of the Scrum framework.
Enroll now, and be better prepared to navigate the sometimes rocky terrain of a career in Product Management. See you in class!
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
1,084 Reviews
Brian Culp
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Reviews
By Andrei Costin Ionescu on 8/7/2026
Great course. Great examples - I would have liked more templates and examples for the ceremonies - I would have expected more emphasis as challenges on the hierarchical pressures that come during the sprint planning and can even shift the goals or at least affect that sprint, I mean shift actually happens in VUCA and these are not rare examples
By Adriana Glváčová on 2/24/2026
Amazing course, focused on realistic daily execution. I especially liked the product backlog refinement techniques - something extremely useful and easily applicable in real life. Thanks to the instructors!
By RATNESH SONAWANE on 2/20/2025
This course gives you a good overview of responsibilities of Product Owner. Topics from both the instructors help you to get into the mindset of Product Owner. Recommended for anyone aspiring to be a Product Owner
By Anonymized User on 8/20/2024
This was a great module. Both gentlemen broke the information down as to where it was easy to understand. This gave me even more confidence that I can do this role. Thank you for including tips and tricks also.
By Richard Silvers on 5/2/2024
So far so good -- I have been a PO in the past and now again on a larger team so it is a good refresher on things I know and also an opportunity to learn new skills in a structured, self paced format!
By Diaco on 4/16/2024
This is a real course with a real speaker on video and guest interviews, the course drives through mainly the principles and roles of product ownership rather product management (very softly) in a scaled agile environment. The content is high-level and indeed targeting agile beginners.
By George Octavian Costache on 3/29/2024
I work as a Business Analyst and, for a few years now, in an Agile framework. Great course for explaining the overall approach of this methodology and for better understanding the role of Product Owner and/or Manager; helpful for future projects.
By Alain Machu on 2/14/2024
Loved it and I'm a very experienced agile practitioner. Not only I'm a certified Scrum Master (CSM), a Certified Scaled Agile Scrum Master and a Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM). The lessons are rich in contents, active, dynamic and very informative.
By Suresh Kutty on 1/31/2024
One of the best courses I have learned on Product Owner! The course not only clears the concepts but also tells us what a PO should do in his/her daily job. Highly recommended for beginners who want to take up the PO career path.
By Brendan Bailey on 1/9/2024
Interesting introduction, provides a broad context for the topic as a beginner, and offers great advice for the next steps. Found the instruction a bit slow, but having it set to 1.5x Speed was an easy fix.
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