
Leading SAFe®
Take a Leading SAFe course to discover how companies can build business agility, and how to make SAFe work inside your organization. You’ll come away with an understanding of how to align your entire organization around the same clear objectives, and how to improve the flow of value and work from strategy to delivery. You’ll learn what makes companies more customer-centric and how to run key SAFe alignment and planning events, like PI planning.
Attendees learn:
- How to realize the benefits of SAFe, including:
- How to establish Team and Technical Agility and organize around the flow of value
- How to align massive organizations around clear, common objectives
- How to participate successfully in critical SAFe events, such as PI Planning
- How to adopt a customer-centric mindset
Leading SAFe® answers the questions:
- What is SAFe?
- What is business agility and how does SAFe support it?
- How does an organization get started with the Scaled Agile Framework®?
What’s included:
- Course workbook and SAFe Studio access to help you prepare to take the certification exam, claim your digital badge, and tools to get started in your SAFe role
- Remote learning via SAFe® Virtual Classrooms
- One-year access to SAFe® Studio with your first class attendance
- Platform access to e-learning modules and curated members-only content to support your SAFe transformation
- Member discussion forms to engage in ongoing conversations on the SAFe framework or how to better perform as part of an Agile Team
- Curated content-playlists based on your interests and roles, including templated resources and facilitation guides to get you started
Curriculum
- 9 Sections
- 27 Lessons
- 16 Hours
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- Introduction to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®)3
- Lean-Agile Leadership Principles3
- Creating Agile Release Trains (ARTs)3
- Leading Agile Transformation3
- 4.1Strategies for leading Agile transformations within organizations
- 4.2Creating a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) and establishing communities of practice to support Agile initiatives
- 4.3Overcoming resistance to change and fostering a culture of collaboration, experimentation, and continuous improvement
- Agile Portfolio Management3
- Continuous Learning and Improvement3
- 6.1Embracing the Agile principle of continuous improvement and adapting strategies based on feedback and changing market conditions
- 6.2Techniques for measuring progress, identifying opportunities for improvement, and fostering a culture of innovation and experimentation
- 6.3Leading by example and empowering teams to drive organizational change and deliver value incrementally
- SAFe® Implementation Roadmap3
- 7.1Developing a SAFe® implementation roadmap tailored to the organization’s goals, culture, and context
- 7.2Understanding the steps involved in adopting SAFe®, including training, coaching, and organizational change management
- 7.3Leveraging Lean-Agile principles and practices to achieve business agility and sustainable growth
- Leading SAFe® Exam Preparation3
- Conclusion and Next Steps3
This course is ideal for executives, managers, change agents, Agile coaches, Scrum Masters, and anyone involved in leading or participating in Agile transformations within organizations.
While prior Agile experience is helpful, it is not mandatory. This course is designed to provide foundational knowledge of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) and principles of Lean-Agile leadership, making it accessible to individuals with varying levels of experience.
Yes, there is a certification exam at the end of the course. The exam tests your understanding of the SAFe® framework, Lean-Agile principles, and your ability to apply them in real-world scenarios.
Yes, course materials, including presentations, handouts, and case studies, will be provided to all participants. Additionally, you will gain access to online resources to support your learning journey.