AI-EMPOWERED SAFe®
SAFe for Teams
Become a SAFe Certified Practitioner
Build the foundational skills to thrive on a high-performing Agile team within your organization. This certification empowers you to collaborate seamlessly across the Agile Release Train, driving high-value results through proven SAFe practices and modern workflows.
Secure a competitive edge by integrating responsible AI into your daily tasks. You’ll plan, execute, and deliver faster while adopting the Lean-Agile mindset required to succeed in a modern, AI-driven organization.
Foundational Level
New to SAFe
Exam
90 minutes, 45 questions
Passing score
76% to pass
Certification
Accreditation upon passing exam
The value of your SAFe Certified Practitioner Certification
Earning a SAFe certification is a strategic investment in your professional future, signaling a mastery of Agile principles that is recognized globally. Beyond a simple credential, it represents a long-term achievement that validates your ability to support enterprise-scale transformations and execute complex solutions. By holding this certification, you demonstrate job-ready expertise and a commitment to continuous growth, unlocking advanced career paths and high-impact opportunities within the Agile landscape.
Benefits of earning your SAFe Certified Practitioner Certification
Achieving your certification unlocks exclusive access to additional resources to deepen your understanding of the SP role, including insights into daily responsibilities and practices.
Career Development & Community
• Access to the SAFe community forums for career advancement, learning and mentorship opportunities, job boards, and more.
• Invitations to role-based networking circles.
• Exclusive webinars on emerging professional development and SAFe topics tailored to your role.
Continuous Learning
• Full access to the SAFe Framework articles.
• SAFe Skills Library for professional development in agile practices.
• Certification upgrade learning series.
• Continued learning through SAFe experts and partners.
SAFe Resources
• Value stream mapping and other selected workshops.
• On-demand access to all recorded keynotes, breakout sessions, and other content from SAFe Summits.
• SAFe assessments to measure and improve business agility and other core competencies.
Studio Toolkits & Applications
• Access to SAFe CoPilot AI assistant.
• Role-specific training videos and content.
• Toolkits to help prepare and execute PI Planning.
Who Is This Certification For?
AI-Empowered SAFe for Teams is an ideal course for individual team members and expert contributors who work on an Agile Team at an organization practicing SAFe and want to become Agile certified practitioners. It is designed for professionals seeking to strengthen real-world experience and gain expertise in how Agile ways of working drive value.
Agile Team Members
Gain a shared language and clear understanding of how your role contributes to the ART, enabling you to synchronize with other teams and deliver consistent value.
Team Managers
Upskill your team to become a high-performing unit with SAFe knowledge and the ability to leverage AI to analyze flow metrics, remove department silos, and foster a culture of relentless improvement.
Software Developers
Enhance coding collaboration and alignment with Agile principles, deliver value faster, and gain practical AI skills to participate effectively in SAFe events and cross-functional activities.
Project Managers
Transition traditional oversight into Lean-Agile facilitation, utilizing AI to track progress across the ART and improve predictability in complex, multi-team environments.
Why Choose SAFe?
#1 Framework for Scaling Agile
Trusted by over 20,000 organizations worldwide and recognized as the most considered and adopted framework globally, SAFe is the proven standard for business agility. It provides a configurable bridge to a new way of working, allowing you to scale effectively regardless of your organization’s size, industry, or complexity. Choose the framework that delivers demonstrated results.
Access a Global Standard
Join over 2 million trained professionals in the world’s largest agile community. SAFe training moves beyond theory with role-based simulations and a comprehensive library of collaboration templates used by top enterprises. You won’t just learn a methodology; you will master the specific tools and practices that define modern business agility.
Learn from Proven Consultants
SAFe training is exclusively delivered by certified SAFe Practice Consultants (SPCs)—change agents who have demonstrated real-world expertise in scaling agile. Unlike generic trainers, SPCs provide deep practical insights into how the framework succeeds in complex environments, ensuring your learning is directly applicable to your career.
Stand Out in the Market
In a competitive job market, SAFe certification validates your expertise in the world’s leading Framework for business agility. Earning your certification proves your value to employers, enhances your professional credibility, and opens doors to new career opportunities and higher earning potential.
What You Will Learn: High-Performance Team Foundations
The AI-Empowered SAFe for Teams course explores the critical role of a practitioner in a Agile environment. You will learn to execute iterations, collaborate across teams, and leverage AI to optimize your personal and team productivity.
Apply Lean-Agile Principles
Leverage foundational concepts like flow and customer-centricity to achieve meaningful results and develop a mindset that fosters adaptability and continuous improvement across the organization.
Execute Iterations and Planning
Learn how to size and plan work in cadence with other teams, enabling you to streamline productivity and optimize performance through synchronized planning intervals.
Sync Across the ART
Discover how Agile Teams work together on an ART and how you can coordinate across teams to deliver value within the organizational structure.
Optimize Workflows with AI
Integrate specialized AI prompting techniques to streamline your daily tasks, allowing you to solve complex technical problems faster and increase your individual contribution to the team’s success.
Languages Available
*All listed languages are available for this course.
However, the AI-Empowered SAFe update is currently available in select languages only.
Leverage AI to Accelerate Strategic Value
Build your personal AI integration plan with role-specific templates for sizing work, automating routine workflows, and coordinating effectively across the Agile Release Train.
Utilize the SAFe CoPilot AI assistant to quickly navigate Framework guidance, synthesize team-level data, and streamline the creation of user stories and technical documentation.
Accelerate PI Planning preparation and streamline iteration execution by using AI tools to identify patterns and improve cross-team collaboration.
Evaluate AI-generated strategic insights to ensure alignment with Lean-Agile principles, maintaining human-in-the-loop oversight for ethical and high-quality outcomes.
Watch the SAFe for Teams video to learn more about the course
Certification Process Includes
Perpetual access to the course workbook and Studio™ for additional preparation
An unlimited practice test with question-level feedback and coaching report that acts as a simulation and study tool
Customer support team for service requests
A timed, multiple-choice exam with a coaching report
Certified Professionals Earn
Industry-leading AI-Empowered SAFe certification, renewed yearly
Digital badge with social media share capability to grow your network
PMI PDUs, Scrum CEUs
Exam Guidelines
Domain
Topics
Introducing SAFe (10-12%)
- SAFe Disciplines (TTA)
- SAFe Foundations
- AI-Empowered SAFe
Forming Agile Teams as an Agile Release Train (15-17%)
- Agile team characteristics
- Operating as an Agile team
- Scrum and Kanban
- Operating in an ART
Connecting to the Customer (19-21%)
- Customer-centric mindset
- Product vision and roadmap
- Story and Feature components
- Creating team backlogs
- Crafting AI Prompts
Planning the Work (11-14%)
- Participating in PI Planning
- Team Planning
- Refining the Backlog
Delivering Value (17-19%)
- Continuous Delivery Pipeline
- Sync events
- Built-in quality
- Responsible AI
Getting Feedback (7-9%)
- Feedback techniques
- Team and System demo
Improving Relentlessly (12-14%)
- Reviewing the Iterations
- Accelerating Flow
- Measure and Grow
Resources for Scaled Agile Certified Practitioners
Learn more about the process of earning a SAFe certification and discover SAFe guidance for teams and ARTs.
Getting Certified with Scaled Agile
If you’re considering SAFe certification, this guide is for you. We go in-depth on the most frequently asked questions about SAFe certification, including what it is, why it’s valuable for professionals and teams, and how to earn one.
Lean-Agile Leadership
The Lean-Agile Leadership competency describes how leaders drive organizational change and operational excellence by empowering individuals and teams and unlocking intrinsic motivations.
Business Agility Podcast
Get personal, expert perspective on a range of SAFe topics from interviews on the Business Agilist Now podcast. With new episodes releasing every week, it’s the easiest way to learn from other practitioners and professionals on what works in SAFe, and why.