Leading SAFe

Thriving in the digital age with Business Agility

with Certified SAFe® Agilist

During this two-day course, attendees learn the importance of mastering Business Agility in order to thrive in the digital age and gain insights they can use to lead a Lean-Agile enterprise by leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®).

The course begins by exploring the SAFe principles, derived from Lean product development, Agile development, DevOps and systems thinking. Following this, the attendees will discuss how to establish Team and Technical Agility and organize around the flow of value. The course then focuses on the importance of adopting a customer-centric mindset and applying Design Thinking as part of the Agile Product Delivery core competency, and provides an opportunity to experience a PI Planning event.

Attendees also gain insights and recommendations for building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline and instilling a DevOps culture. Finally, the attendees will gain an understanding of Lean Portfolio Management and the steps needed for implementing this function in their Enterprise.

Learning Goals

• Lead the transformation to Business Agility with SAFe
• Become a Lean-Agile Leader
• Understand customer needs with Design Thinking
• Enable Agile Product Delivery
• Implement Lean Portfolio Management

Students Receive:

• Two days of immersive, remote instruction
• One attempt for the Certified SAFe Agilist exam
• One year of access to the Scaled Agile Framework online community
• A digital student workbook for all students
• Testing support and on-demand mentoring

Your Instructors

Your instructor is Jim Fowler, SPCT Candidate. Jim has extensive experience leading remote trainings and events as well as helping leaders drive agile at scale transformations in their organizations.

Jim Fowler – SPCT Candidate

Refund Policy

If you must cancel your registration, full refunds will be issued up to 21 days before the event, less a $150 processing fee.  After that date, you may choose between receiving a 50% refund or moving your registration to a future class. Student substitutions are accepted at any time up to the start of class.  Agile Rising strives to make all of our classes guaranteed to run, but if Agile Rising is forced to cancel a class for any reason, your registration fee will be returned in full immediately.