What topics get covered in Leading SAFe Training?

Leading SAFe course with SAFe Agilist Certification is specifically designed to enable leaders and managers with SAFe Knowledge to lead the SAFe Implementation in their organization. The Program consist of seven lessons, each focusing on a different aspect of SAFe.

Lesson 1: Thriving in the Digital Age with Business Agility

This inaugural lesson lays the groundwork for understanding the attainment of business agility through the application of SAFe. It underscores the necessity of developing innovative, digital-centric products and services to prosper in today’s digital era. A dual operating system approach, blending both network and hierarchical structures, collaboratively works towards a unified strategy and vision, thereby enhancing customer engagement.

Lesson 2 – Building a Foundation with Mindset, Values, and Principles

The second lesson delves into the vital components required for scaling Agile practices. It highlights the significance of cultivating a Lean-Agile mindset and introduces the core values of SAFe, essential for establishing a SAFe-specific belief and value system. The ten SAFe principles, serving as the bedrock of SAFe roles and practices, amalgamate Agile, Lean Product Development, DevOps, and systems thinking to inform and inspire.

Lesson 3 – Establishing Team and Technical Agility

This lesson emphasizes the formation of cross-functional Agile Teams, detailing the roles and responsibilities of SAFe Scrum Masters/Team Coaches and Product Owners in facilitating team events, improving workflow, maximizing delivered value, and managing team backlogs. It also introduces SAFe Scrum, an Agile method used by teams within an Agile Release Train (ART) for incremental development, delivery, and operation of solutions. Explaining the use of iterations, Scrum events, and Kanban systems, the lesson highlights how Agile Teams employ defined Agile practices for quality assurance. Finally, it demonstrates the process of organizing multiple Agile Teams into an Agile Release Train for efficient value stream operations.

Lesson 4 – Building Solutions with Agile Product Delivery

This lesson delves into achieving equilibrium between solution execution and customer focus. It accentuates a customer-centric approach for continuous product and service delivery. It covers aspects like Design Thinking, which ensures desirable, feasible, and sustainable solutions, employing tools like user personas and empathy maps for a deep customer understanding.

It then navigates through ART Backlog prioritization, where features are ranked using the WSJF technique for optimal ROI. PI Planning is addressed as a structured meeting for aligning all ART teams towards a shared goal. The lesson also highlights the need for separating solution development and value release, enabling customers to access what they need when needed, thus enhancing business agility.

Lesson 5 – Exploring Lean Portfolio Management 

This lesson harmonizes strategy and execution by employing Lean and systems thinking to strategy funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance. It covers the definition of a SAFe portfolio, a collection of development value streams and its alignment with business strategy. The lesson highlights the crucial connection between the portfolio and the enterprise strategy, ensuring built solutions support overall business objectives.

Lesson 6 – Leading the Change: 

This section explores the key principles of leading successful change, including creating a sense of urgency, building a guiding coalition, forming a strategic vision, enlisting a volunteer army, communicating the change vision, empowering others to act on the vision, creating short-term wins, consolidating gains and producing more change, and anchoring new approaches in the organization’s culture. It also covers the importance of effective change leadership in driving organizational transformation and the potential obstacles that can arise during the change process.

Lesson 7 – Practicing SAF: 

This lesson explains that attending the SAFe Agilist course provides learners with access to the SAFe Agilist exam and relevant preparation materials, which enables them to become certified SAFe Agilists and apply SAFe in real-world scenarios.

Overall, the Leading SAFe/SAFe Agilist training program provides a comprehensive understanding of the SAFe framework, from its values and principles to its implementation and governance. Participants who complete the course will have a solid foundation for working with SAFe and can use