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Description
Leading SAFe® offers an introduction to the foundations of SAFe and provides the principles and practices to confidently drive your Lean-Agile transformation. The course and resulting certification equip you with the guidance and tools to build a culture of resiliency and a shared language that engages employees and focuses on customers so that organizations can work with agility at scale.
During a Leading SAFe course you will 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.
In this class you will 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
Course Outline:
Digital Age & Business Agility
- Thriving in the digital age
- SAFe© as an Operating System for Business Agility
- Core competencies of Business Agility
Lean-Agile Leaders
- Lean-Agile Mindset
- SAFe Core Values
- SAFe Lean-Agile Principles
Team and Technical Agility
- Cross-functional Agile Teams
- Built-in Quality
- Organizing around value with ARTs
Agile Product Delivery
- Customer-centric culture
- Design Thinking
- ART Backlog and WSJF
- PI Planning
- Develop on Cadence; Release on Demand
- Continuous Delivery Pipelines with DevOps
Lean Portfolio Management
- SAFe Portfolio
- Strategic Themes
- Portfolio canvas
- Epic hypothesis statements
- Traditional and Lean budgeting approaches
- Portfolio Kanban
Leading the Change
- Lead by example
- Lead the change
- SAFe Implementation Roadmap
Attending the class prepares you to take the exam and become a certified SAFe 5 Agilist (SA)
The class registration includes:
- Attendee workbook
- Preparation and eligibility to take the SAFe 5 Agilist exam
- One year membership to the SAFe Community Platform
- Course certificate of completion
- Attendees must attend both days of the course to be eligible for the exam.
