The Implementing SAFe® Exemplar course, offered by Scaled Agile, Inc., stands out as a distinctive learning experience. It is taught by the world’s most seasoned SAFe® Fellows and members of the Scaled Agile Framework team. This is your golden chance to learn directly from the architects of the framework, those at the cutting edge of pressing business challenges. Bring your toughest questions and get insights straight from the experts. You won’t want to miss this unparalleled opportunity with the Implementing SAFe® Exemplar.
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Want to become SPCT certified? Learn more about the SAFe® Practice Consultant-T (SPCT) certification here.
What makes this an Exemplar?
Taught by SAFe Framework team members and SAFe Fellows
Testbed for new IP
SPCT Immersion week
Event Overview
Ready to lead a Lean-Agile transformation?
Need a deeper understanding of the Scaled Agile Framework?
Looking to teach SAFe courses yourself?
Implementing SAFe® offers attendees the broadest level of insight into each layer of a SAFe implementation. This course is for those who want to be a leader in a Lean-Agile transformation. This course and resulting certification will help you understand the roles of each person in SAFe organization and then plan and guide a SAFe transformation.
You’ll learn how to identify value streams, launch agile release trains, optimize flow, and apply OKRs to Strategic Themes that define the targeted outcomes for the SAFe transformation. You’ll also practice the principles of Agile product management and product delivery. If you’re looking for a comprehensive and practical understanding of how to help an organization achieve business agility effectively, Implementing SAFe® is the right course for you.
Instructors
Dean Leffingwell Co-Founder and Chief Methodologist (Scaled Agile, Inc.)
Recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Lean-Agile best practices, Dean Leffingwell is an author, entrepreneur, and software and systems development methodologist. His two best-selling books, Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise and Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises, form much of the basis of modern thinking on Lean-Agile practices and principles. Founder of several successful startups, including Requisite, Inc., makers of RequisitePro (acquired by Rational), Mr. Leffingwell also served as Chief Methodologist to Rally Software, and prior to that, as a Sr. Vice President at Rational Software (now part of IBM). He currently serves as Chief Methodologist to Scaled Agile, Inc., which he co-founded in 2011.
Andrew Sales Chief Methodologist and SAFe Fellow (Scaled Agile, Inc.)
Andrew Sales is an experienced Agile Consultant and previously led the Agile Services Practice across EMEA for CA Technologies (formerly Rally). Drawing on his diverse range of skills and experiences from project management, software development, product management and sales, Andrew has worked with many organizations to help them successfully establish better ways of working. He is passionate about continuous improvement and provides coaching to teams and leaders, supporting them in achieving improved outcomes for their business and their customers.
Rebecca Davis SAFe Methodologist and SAFe Fellow (Scaled Agile, Inc.)
Rebecca Davis has been leading Agile teams, trains, and leaders for over 15 years within startups, mid-size, and Fortune 100 enterprises. Davis brings her experience as a former Release Train Engineer, Scrum Master, Portfolio Lead, Quality Director, and LACE Director into her current activities. Rebecca is a SAFe Fellow, Methodologist, and SPCT on the Scaled Agile Framework Team who highlights joy and energy within her work. Most recently, Rebecca led the Agile Transformation as Director of Scaled Agile Practices and Leader of the Digital LACE within the Fortune 4 and Global 7, where over 4 years, she expanded Scaled Agile Practices from 300 to over 10k working within a Scaled Agile model across the organization, including IT, Marketing, Digital experiences, and Retail business
Agilists have been talking about business and technology alignment since the beginning of the Agile movement. Many experience challenges with integrating POs and PMs from the business onto the delivery ARTs, especially if the ARTs are in technology organizations. What’s the career incentive and path? What skills are needed? And how to create high-performing teams including the business members. Join this expert panel of Mark Saymen and Vikas Kapila to discuss why this is important and tips to help overcome these challenges.
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Speakers
Deema Dajani
SAFe® Fellow, Product Director (Scaled Agile, Inc.)
Draws on a Startup background and an MBA from Kellogg Deema helps established enterprises create the environment to shape disruption with business agility and Lean Portfolio Management (LPM). Started her Agile journey in the early 2000’s as a Product Manager, Director of Strategy, and pre-IPO turn around specialist. Deema transitioned to advisory where she led some of the largest transformations to Lean-Agile with SAFe in Financial Services and Insurance. Deema currently serves as a Scaled Agile Product Manager focused on LPM and Leadership. Co-founder of the Women in Agile, a non-profit organization focused on breaking barriers and inclusivity in the agile community.
Vikas Kapila
CEO (Enterprise Agility Consulting)
Vikas is a business transformation practitioner with a passion for applying Lean-Agile principles, behaviors and practices to enable delivery of highest business value with built-in quality at the earliest in a predictably and sustainable cycle. He excels at quickly delivering business value, simplifying the seemingly complex, and delighting customers. He is able to achieve these results by consistently building radically prolific, high performing teams by believing to look listen & learn before initiating collaboration, coaching, training and facilitation.
Mark Saymen
Title (Agile Agilist)
A career story from Developer to Partner has taken me around the world implementing digital transformation, training, and implementing SAFe. Mark thrives with ambiguity and challenges. Mark welcomes tough questions and complex challenges leveraging the power of Digital to help organizations create a culture of innovation and increase team happiness, fulfillment, and engagement. Some of my tools are Resilience Engineering, DevOps, Coaching, Agile at Scale, Training, and Mindset.
Using Design Thinking to Create Value Products in the Lean Enterprise
In SAFe®, product managers play a key role in the trio of leaders, including architects and the Release Train Engineer. These roles work together to lead the Agile Release Trains (ARTs) in continuously delivering value.
In the Agile Product Management course, you’ll explore how to use design thinking to put your customers at the center and create products that are desirable, feasible, and sustainable. You’ll discover how continuous exploration fuels innovation. And you’ll explore how to define a vision, strategy, and roadmap to satisfy existing customers and attract new ones.
Attendees learn:
How to create innovation in the value stream
How to use design thinking to achieve desirable, feasible, and sustainable products
How to use product strategy to set clarity and direction for the ART
How to develop and evolve short-term roadmaps that result in long-term value
Agile Product Management answers the questions:
How can I use design thinking to achieve customer centricity?
How do I prepare a product strategy, vision, and roadmap for my ART?
What are the right mindsets, skills, and tools to create successful products?
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
One-year access to SAFe Studio with your first class attendance
Access to the latest Framework guidance
Member discussion forums 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
Access to content, tools, and resources you need to practice SAFe every day
SAFe® Agile Product Manager certification exam
What people say about Agile Product Management
“Course well organized and presented very well … group activities were good.”
What people say about Agile Product Management
“Course was well organized and explored various examples out of the standard study material. Study material is helpful to understand the integrities.”
Advancing Scrum Master Servant Leadership with SAFe
Our new offering for Scrum Masters to advance their skills and achieve certification is Advanced Scrum Master; available on October 22, 2024. The SAFe Advanced Scrum Master class (SASM) will begin sunsetting on December 19, 2024 and become completely unavailable on February 27, 2025.
As a practicing scrum master in a SAFe organization, you have the tactical skills to coach Agile teams to deliver business value. Build on that solid foundation in the SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master course and discover how to facilitate success for Agile teams, Agile Release Trains (ARTs), and the organization. And get the guidance and tools you need to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams.
Take your leadership skills to the next level. The SAFe® Advanced Scrum Mastercourse will give you the tools to improve your coaching and facilitation skills, avoid common missteps, and encourage relentless improvement. You’ll learn how to apply Lean, Kanban, DevOps, and SAFe principles to improve team and business outcomes. You’ll up-level your facilitation skills for key Agile and SAFe events, whether they’re in person or across teams and time zones. And you’ll discover how communities of practice can support continuous improvement.
Attendees learn:
How to apply SAFe principles to facilitate, enable, and coach in a multi-team environment
How to adopt scalable engineering practices, Kanban, DevOps, and Agile architecture to optimize flow
How to advance your facilitation skills for ART and team event planning, execution, and delivering end-to-end value
How to build communities of practice to support high-performing teams and ART efficiency
How to lead distributed teams effectively in remote environments
SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master answers the questions:
What’s the next step in my learning as a SAFe Scrum Master?
How can I improve my coaching and facilitation skills to support my team?
What are common anti-patterns to avoid when encouraging relentless improvement at scale?
Course workbook and SAFe Studio access to help prepare you to take the certification exam, claim their 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
Team Event Facilitator Guides
Online collaboration templates for all SAFe team events
Toolkits to help prepare and execute PI Planning
Access to content, tools, and resources you need to practice SAFe every day
SAFe Advanced Scrum Master certification exam
Adapted for interactive remote learning with SAFe® Virtual Classrooms
What people say about SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master
“Good content and great training for the aspirants who are moving towards an Agile Coach from a Scrum Master.”
What people say about SAFe Advanced Scrum Master
“I liked the team assignments and interactions in our training group the most.”
Earn your SAFe® RTE Certification and help lead Agile Release Trains
Unique to SAFe®, the Release Train Engineer (RTE) is part of the trio of leaders, including product managers and system architects. This is critical in leading Agile Release Trains (ARTs) to deliver value. The RTE must create the right environment, have the right conversations, facilitate the right meetings, and gather the right people to make decisions based on the right data.
In the SAFe® RTE course, you’ll learn to execute SAFe and continuously improve PI Planning and other vital SAFe events. You’ll discover how to coach leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in new processes and mindsets. And you’ll get the guidance and tools you need to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams.
Attendees learn:
How to lead ARTs and large solutions in a SAFe organization
How to apply Lean-Agile knowledge and tools to release value
How to foster relentless improvement
How to build a high-performing ART by becoming a servant leader and coach
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
One-year access to SAFe® Studio with your first class attend
Access to the latest Framework guidance
Access to RTE Essentials Online Learning Series
Facilitation Guides for all ART events
Online collaboration tools for facilitating SAFe ART events, like PI Planning and System Demo
Access to content, tools, and resources you need to practice Scaled Agile Framework every day
SAFe® Release Train Engineer certification exam
What people say about SAFe® Release Train Engineer
“Mastering the role definitely comes with practical experience, however, this was certainly a 100% life skill foundation.”
What people say about SAFe Release Train Engineer
“I really appreciate the RTE role and how SAFe takes the best of Agile and Lean methodology.”
What people say about SAFe Release Train Engineer
“The course exercises were relevant and well paced to provide input and supplement our learning.”
What people say about SAFe Release Train Engineer
“It reminds RTEs of the importance of coaching, how to manage conflicts, and building high performing teams.”
Earn your SAFe® Practitioner Certification and establish team agility
What does it mean to be part of an Agile team on an Agile Release Train (ART) that delivers value to customers? SAFe® for Teams covers the tactical skills to be a high-performing member of an ART. The course also gives you the guidance and tools to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams. Get the most out of your learning experience by taking it in context with your team and other teams on your ART.
SAFe for Teams will teach you how to plan and execute work, how to apply Scaled Agile Framework® and Agile principles, and how to continuously improve. Taking Scaled Agile Framework® for Teams gives your team the collective knowledge to collaborate effectively, do the best possible work, and hit the ground running before your next planning event.
Attendees learn:
Your role on the team and your team’s role on the ART
How to apply SAFe principles to scale Lean-Agile delivery
How to plan and execute iterations and PIs
How to continuously improve the ART
SAFe® for Teams answers the questions:
How does an Agile team function inside of an ART?
How do we as an Agile team plan and execute iterations and the PI?
How do we work with other teams on the ART to effectively deliver value?
Course workbook and SAFe Studio access to help prepare you to take the certification exam, claim their digital badge, and tools to get started in your SAFe role
One-year access to SAFe® Studio with your first class attendance
Access to the latest Framework guidance
Member discussion forums 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
Access to content, tools, and resources you need to practice SAFe every day
SAFe® 6.0 Practitioner certification exam
What people say about SAFe® for Teams
“I really enjoyed the course. It’s changed my perception on ways of working for the better.”
What people say about SAFe for Teams
“The course provided me with invaluable knowledge to excel in my day-to-day job activities.”
What people say about SAFe for Teams
“I loved every single minute of it. Outstanding.”
What people say about SAFe for Teams
“I found the course to be very helpful and interesting, I can see and understand the need for SAFe after taking this course.”
What people say about SAFe for Teams
“This curriculum and training program were very well organized for those already knowledgeable and practicing Agile, as well as beginners.”
Aligning Strategy with Execution using the Scaled Agile Framework
Aligning strategy with execution is critical to any organization’s success and a key aspect of Scaled Agile Framework®. With a Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) approach, you can collaborate across silos, empower teams, and organize around value to adapt to what customers want, faster.
The Lean Portfolio Management course helps executives, project management officers (PMOs) and other key stakeholders plan dynamically and be flexible enough to adjust initiatives and budgets as the market changes. The LPM course provides the guidance and tools attendees need to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams. You’ll learn how to connect portfolio strategy and initiatives to the agility planning and execution of work, how to integrate feedback from participatory budgeting, and how to adapt to change while maintaining your funding vision and roadmap.
Attendees learn:
How to connect the portfolio to the enterprise
How to maintain portfolio vision and roadmap
How to establish Lean budgets and guardrails
How to create portfolio flow
Lean Portfolio Management answers the questions:
How do I connect strategy to execution?
How do I manage flow and solve perpetual overload?
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 attend
Access to the latest Framework guidance
Complete LPM Practice Guide to help plan and execute a successful LPM adoption
Member discussion forums to engage in ongoing conversations on the SAFe Framework or how to perform better as part of an Agile Team
Lean Portfolio Manager certification exam
Access to the optional Getting Started with LPM Workshop
What people say about Lean Portfolio Management
“A vastly different viewpoint to the rest of the SAFe content … LPM focuses on the mostly invisible funding and governance. Not many other Agile frameworks address this vital component.”
What people say about Lean Portfolio Management
“Enjoyed LPM considerably.”
What people say about Lean Portfolio Management
“This course is very appropriate for my job and will guide me to make better decisions.”
Delivering Value through Effective Planning Interval Execution
What skills do you need to deliver value in an Agile enterprise? The SAFe® Product Owner and SAFe® Product Manager (POPM) course covers the tactical responsibilities of these roles in the Agile Release Train (ART). The course and resulting certification give you the guidance and tools to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams.
Learn how product owners and product managers should work together to achieve the best possible customer and business outcomes. The SAFe POPM course will teach you how to adopt a customer-centric approach to building products, using the Scaled Agile Framework® to deliver more value, faster. Topics covered in this course include the daily role of POs and PMs; collaborating with engineering teams and business stakeholders; how to write epics, features, and stories; and how to design, prioritize, build, test, and deliver products with increased productivity and higher quality.
Attendees learn:
How to perform the role of a PO and a PM on a daily basis
How to put the customer at the center of your design, build, and test process
How to prepare for and lead PI Planning
How to decompose Epics to Features and Features to Stories
How to collaborate with Agile teams to forecast work
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
One-year access to SAFe Studio with your first class attendance
Access to the latest Framework guidance
Product Management Video playlist and customer research tools to support product owners in their role
Member discussion forums 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
Access to content, tools, and resources you need to practice SAFe every day
Implementing SAFe® offers attendees the broadest level of insight into each layer of a SAFe implementation. This course and resulting certification will help you understand the roles of each person in a SAFe organization and then plan and guide a SAFe transformation. It’s also the first step toward becoming a certified SAFe Practice Consultant.
You’ll learn how to identify value streams, launch agile release trains, optimize flow, and apply OKRs to Strategic Themes that define the targeted outcomes for the SAFe transformation. You’ll also practice the principles of Agile product management and product delivery. If you’re looking for a comprehensive and practical understanding of how to help an organization achieve business agility effectively, Implementing SAFe® is the right course for you.
Attendees learn:
How to coach a SAFe transformation
How to launch Agile Release Trains
How to Organize around Value Streams
How to build solutions with Agile Product Delivery
How to empower a Lean portfolio
How to understand each role within a SAFe implementation
Implementing SAFe® answers the questions:
How do I plan and coach a SAFe transformation?
How can I demonstrate your expertise in and promote business agility?
How do I build successful solutions using Agile product management principles and skills?
Languages available:
Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, German, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese
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
One-year access to SAFe Studio with your first class attendance
Access to the latest Framework Guidance
All the materials that you need to get started as a SAFe Trainer including complete trainer guidance and online enablement
Downloadable toolkits to help you prepare, facilitate and take action from key SAFe activities like Organizing Around Value
Member discussion forums to engage in ongoing conversations on the SAFe Framework or how to better perform as part of an Agile Team
SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) Certification Exam
What people say about Implementing SAFe
“It was a very qualitative, successful training! I had some fears upfront about the ‘online’ formula but that didn’t bother me after all!”
What people say about Implementing SAFe
“Terrific and challenging course that provides all the theoretical and practical knowledge required to build mastery in this domain. Delighted to join the club of SPCs.”
What people say about Implementing SAFe
“Enjoyed the course and the learning journey! Refreshed a lot of knowledge on agile development and added a lot of knowledge of its scaling potential. I am eager to apply my knowledge!”
What people say about Implementing SAFe
“I loved this class. Highly recommended to progress in your journey.”
Join our virtual event on Wednesday, March 15, at 12:00 PM MDT/6:00 PM GMT to see the full launch and learn what it means for your organization. Sign up to receive a reminder one hour before the event to ensure you don’t miss it.
