Scaled Agile Training

Advanced Facilitator: Value Stream Mapping

Micro-credential: Advanced Facilitator: Value Stream Mapping 

Gain the experience to facilitate Value Stream Mapping workshops effectively, unlocking the full potential of your organization’s value streams. 

Master the art of facilitating Value Stream Mapping workshops 

The SAFe Micro-credential Course “Advanced Facilitator: Value Stream Mapping” is a blended learning experience designed to equip participants with the knowledge and confidence to facilitate Value Stream Mapping workshops effectively. It is a part of our Advanced Facilitator series of SAFe Micro-credential courses. 

Through immersive facilitated sessions, participants will learn the principles and techniques of Value Stream Mapping, explore real-world case studies, and practice facilitation skills under the guidance of experienced facilitators. 

What you’ll learn: 

• Practical experience and strategies to facilitate successful Value Stream Mapping workshops 

Who it’s perfect for: 

• All agilists from beginner Scum Master/Team Coaches to experienced SPCTs 

Details 

• Time to Complete: 240 minutes 
• Languages: English 

The SAFe Micro-credential Course Experience: 

• Live sessions with industry experts and peers, fostering engaging discussions and deepening your understanding of concepts 
• Master tangible, agile-specific skills in less than half a day 
• Engage with real-world scenarios, interactive modules, and practical exercises to deepen your understanding 

What you’ll leave with: 

• SAFe Micro-credential to share with your network

Advanced Facilitator: Conflict and Collaboration 

Micro-credential: Advanced Facilitator: Conflict & Collaboration 

Master the art of navigating conflicts and fostering collaborative decision-making within your teams and across the enterprise. 

 Develop advanced facilitation skills to navigate conflict and foster collaboration within SAFe implementations. 

The SAFe Micro-credential Course “Advanced Facilitator: Conflict & Collaboration” empowers enterprises and teams implementing SAFe with the essential skills and techniques for effectively navigating conflict and promoting collaborative decision-making. It is a part of our Advanced Facilitator series of SAFe Micro-credential courses. 

Through immersive facilitated sessions, participants will explore the sources of conflict, learn strategies for managing conflict resolution, and practice tools and techniques to enhance collaboration within their organizations. 

What you’ll learn: 

• Practical insights and strategies to address conflict challenges and promote collaborative decision-making essential to successful SAFe implementations

Who it’s perfect for: 

• All agilists from beginner Scum Master/Team Coaches to experienced SPCTs 

Details 

• Time to Complete: 240 minutes 
• Languages: English 

The SAFe Micro-credential Course Experience: 

• Live sessions with industry experts and peers, fostering engaging discussions and deepening your understanding of concepts 

• Master tangible, agile-specific skills in less than half a day 
• Engage with real-world scenarios, interactive modules, and practical exercises to deepen your understanding

What you’ll leave with: 

• SAFe Micro-credential to share with your network 
• Conflict Analysis & Strategy Design Framework

Achieving Responsible AI Micro-credential 

Explore ‘responsible AI’ practices that early adopters implement to mitigate risks. We’ll detail how SAFe accelerates the implementation of responsible AI, unlocking the value of this technological revolution.  

Understand the importance of Responsible AI 

Achieving Responsible AI with SAFe involves a blended learning approach in which learners complete a one-hour e-learning and attend a half-day facilitated session. Additionally, they are invited to review and contribute to a discussion forum on SAFe Studio dedicated to this topic. 

The main focus of the facilitated session is to allow learners to practice their learning. They review RAI policies and guidelines, prepare to communicate with stakeholders about RAI, develop an Epic hypothesis statement for an RAI initiative and create an action plan to progress their initiatives while deepening their understanding of RAI. 

What you’ll learn: 

• How to evaluate RAI policies and guidelines 
• Communicate the need for RAI 
• Write an RAI Epic hypothesis statement 
• Develop an RAI action plan 

Who it’s perfect for: 

• All agilists from beginner Scum Master/Team Coaches to experienced SPCTs 

Details 

• Time to Complete: 240 minutes 
• Languages: English 

The SAFe Micro-credential Course Experience: 

• Live sessions with industry experts and peers, fostering engaging discussions and deepening your understanding of concepts 
• Master tangible, agile-specific skills in less than half a day 
• Engage with real-world scenarios, interactive modules, and practical exercises to deepen your understanding

What you’ll leave with: 

• SAFe Micro-credential to share with your network 
• Conflict Analysis & Strategy Design Framework

Leading SAFe® 

Certified SAFe Agilist

For leaders of a Lean-Agile change initiative to develop a Lean-Agile Mindset, and apply the principles and practices of the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe). Learn how to lead enterprise transformation that accelerates the flow of value and delivers measurable business outcomes at scale. 

Thriving in the digital age with business agility

New to the Scaled Agile Framework?  Leading SAFe  offers an introduction to the foundations of SAFe and provides the principles and practices to confidently drive your Lean-Agile transformation. The course and resulting certification equip you with the guidance and tools to build a culture of resiliency and a shared language that engages employees and focuses on customers so that organizations can work with agility at scale. 

Take a Leading SAFe course to discover how companies can build business agility, and how to make SAFe work inside your organization. You’ll come away with an understanding of how to align your entire organization around the same clear objectives, and how to improve the flow of value and work from strategy to delivery. You’ll learn what makes companies more customer-centric and how to run key SAFe alignment and planning events, like PI planning. 

Attendees learn: 

• How to realize the benefits of SAFe, including: 
• How to establish Team and Technical Agility and organize around the flow of value 
• How to align massive organizations around clear, common objectives 
• How to participate successfully in critical SAFe events, such as PI Planning 
• How to adopt a customer-centric mindset 

Leading SAFe answers the questions: 

• What is SAFe? 
• What is business agility and how does SAFe support it? 
• How does an organization get started with the Scaled Agile Framework? 

What’s included: 

• 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 attendance 
• Platform access to e-learning modules and curated members-only content to support your SAFe transformation 
• 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 
• SAFe Agilist certification exam 

Lean Portfolio Management 

Certified SAFe® Lean Portfolio Manager 

This is a two-day interactive course that includes an additional one-day Getting Started with LPM workshop. In this course, attendees gain the practical tools and techniques necessary to implement the Lean Portfolio Management functions of Strategy and Investment Funding, Agile Portfolio Operations, and Lean Governance. 

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? 
• How can I fund and govern dynamically? 
• How does Lean Portfolio Management fit into SAFe? 

What’s included: 

• 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 attendance 

• Complete LPM Practice Guide to help plan and execute a successful LPM adoption 
• Platform access to e-learning modules and curated members-only content to support your SAFe transformation 
• Member discussion forms 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

SAFe® DevOps 

Certified SAFe DevOps Practitioner 

The two-day, interactive SAFe DevOps course helps people across technical, non-technical, and leadership roles work together to optimize their value stream from end to end. Attendees will learn what DevOps is, why it is important to every role, and design a continuous delivery pipeline that is tailored to their business. 

Optimizing your value stream 

Delivering valuable solutions faster doesn’t involve just engineers developing software. It involves introducing a shared DevOps mindset among all the people who define, build, test, deploy, and release software-driven products. 

The SAFe DevOps course helps people in technical, non-technical, and leadership roles optimize their development value stream from end to end. Take this course with your entire cross-functional team to map your current value stream from concept to cash. Design a Continuous Delivery Pipeline that’s relevant to your business. And get the guidance and tools you need to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams. 

SAFe DevOps attendees learn: 

• How to incorporate continuous testing and continuous security into the delivery pipeline 
• How to integrate continuous exploration, integration, and deployment, and release value to end users on demand 
• How to design and implement an actionable DevOps transformation plan tailored to your organization 
• How to evaluate and improve your current state using tools like the DevOps Health Radar and Transformation Canvas 

SAFe DevOps answers the questions: 

• What is DevOps and how does it enable strategic business objectives? 

• What are the mindset, culture, and technical practices to successfully define, build, test, deploy, and release? 
• How do I use value stream mapping to measure flow and spot bottlenecks in the delivery pipeline? 

What’s included: 

• 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 attendance 

• Value Stream Mapping workshop 
• Platform access to e-learning modules and curated members-only content to support your SAFe transformation 
• Member discussion forms 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 DevOps certification exam

SAFe® Release Train Engineer 

Certified SAFe Release Train Engineer 

For SAFe Release Train Engineers (RTEs) to enhance their knowledge and skills as a servant leader and coach, effectively plan and execute a PI Planning event, foster relentless improvement in their enterprise, and continue their learning journey. 

SAFe RTEs can facilitate and enable end-to-end value delivery through ARTs and large solutions in an enterprise SAFe environment. 

Facilitating 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 

SAFe Release Train Engineer answers the questions: 

• How do I plan for and execute a PI? 
• How do I create an environment of relentless improvement? 
• How do I lead and serve my ART? 

What’s included: 

• 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 attendance 

• 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

SAFe® Scrum Master 

Certified SAFe Scrum Master 

For Scrum Masters learning about their role in a SAFe enterprise context. Learn to facilitate Team and ART Level events for successful agile execution, explore Scrum in the context of the entire enterprise, and become a servant leader and coach. SAFe Scrum Masters help Agile Teams to deliver the maximum business value that is achievable through SAFe. 

Applying the Scrum Master Role within a SAFe Enterprise 

The SAFe Scrum Master course equips attendees to coach Agile teams to deliver business value at scale. The course teaches you the tactical skills needed to be an effective Scrum Master in a SAFe organization. It also gives you the guidance and tools necessary for working in remote environments with distributed teams. 

If you want to become a certified scrum master with the skills to help leading companies succeed with Agile and scrum, the SAFe Scrum Master course is for you. Learn how scrum masters empower and lead Agile teams. Understand how to facilitate Agile events like iteration planning, team sync, and iteration retrospectives. And discover how to help teams plan and complete their work using SAFe Scrum and SAFe Kanban. You’ll also learn the principles of servant leadership, so you can help develop high-performing, engaged, continuously improving teams in your own organization. 

After taking the course, you’ll know how to: 

• Empower and lead an Agile team 
• Facilitate Agile events like iteration planning, team sync, and iteration retrospectives 
• Help teams plan and complete their work 
• You’ll also learn the principles of servant leadership, which are crucial for key SAFe team roles. These skills will enable you to develop high-performing, engaged, and continuously improving teams in your own organization

Attendees learn: 

• How to facilitate Scrum events 
• How to support PI execution 
• How to coach teams to improve constantly 
• How to implement DevOps for continuous flow and delivery 

SAFe Scrum Master answers the questions: 

• How do Scrum Masters facilitate planning and execution of work during a PI? 
• How do you coach and lead Agile teams inside a SAFe enterprise? 
• How do you become a servant leader to build a high-performing team? 

What’s included: 

• 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 Scrum Master certification exam

SAFe® Product Owner/Product Manager 

Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager 

For Product Management professionals to apply Lean-Agile values and principles and economic prioritization, and develop skills in writing epics, Capabilities, Features, and user stories within the context of SAFe. 

SAFe PO/PMs enable product development flow, drive ART execution, and operate in the enterprise to drive the continuous delivery of value. 

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 

SAFe POPM answers the questions: 

• How do POs and PMs plan and execute work during a PI? 
• How do I integrate a customer-centric mindset to deliver products customers want? 
• How do you connect SAFe Lean-Agile principles and values to the PO/PM roles? 

What’s included: 

• 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 attendance 

• Product Management Video playlist and customer research tools to support product owners in their role 
• Platform access to e-learning modules and curated members-only content to support your SAFe transformation 
• Member discussion forms 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 Product Owner/Product Manager certification exam