Leading SAFe®
(SAFe Agilist certification)
Understanding SAFe
Learning Objectives - Leading SAFe 6.0
#1 Thriving in the Digital Age with Business Agility
- Describe what is necessary to thrive in the digital age
- Recognize SAFe as an operating system for Business Agility
- Summarize the seven core competencies of Business Agility
#2 Becoming a Lean-Agile Leader
- Embrace the Lean-Agile Mindset
- Apply the Ten SAFe Lean-Agile Principles:
- Take an economic view
- Apply systems thinking
- Assume variability; preserve options
- Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
- Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems
- Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths
- Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning
- Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
- Decentralize decision-making
- Organize around value
#3 Establishing Team and Technical Agility
- Prepare to form cross-functional Agile Teams
- Describe Built-in Quality practices
- Recommend organizing around value with Agile Release Trains (ARTs)
#4 Building Solutions with Agile Product Delivery
- Express the benefits of a Customer-centric culture
- Practice applying Design Thinking
- Prioritize the Program Backlog with weighted shortest job first (WSJF)
- Participate in a PI Planning event
- Explain the need to Develop on Cadence; Release on Demand
- Justify the need to build and maintain a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with DevOps
#5 Exploring Lean Portfolio Management
- Describe the purpose and elements of a SAFe portfolio
- Construct well-written strategic themes
- Employ the portfolio canvas to describe the current and future state
- Create Epic hypothesis statements to inform the Vision
- Distinguish traditional and Lean budgeting approaches
- Construct a Portfolio Kanban
#6 Leading the Change
- Explain the behaviors necessary to lead by example
- Discuss techniques for leading successful change
- Recognize the steps in the SAFe Implementation Roadmap
#7 Practicing SAFe
- Review SAFe Community, resources and tools
Is Leading SAFe the Right Course For Me?
Leading SAFe answers the questions:
- Boosting productivity.
- Improving product quality.
- Decreasing time to market.
- Increasing employee engagement.
Course Chapters:
- Thriving in the Digital Age with Business Agility
- Becoming a Lean-Agile Leader
- Establishing Team and Technical Agility
- Building Solutions with Agile Product Delivery
- Exploring Lean Portfolio Management
- Leading the Change
- Practicing SAFe (SAFe Community, resources and tools overview)
Scaled Agile Certified Training
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SA Credential
What’s included:- Course materials
- Remote learning
- Access to SAFe® Studio, a visual online workspace
- One-year membership to the SAFe® Studio Platform
- SAFe Agilist certification exam
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Pre-Requisites
All experience levels are welcome! No previous SAFe training or experience is required.