Leading SAFe®
Thriving in the Digital Age with Business Agility
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Leading SAFe® offers you an introduction to the foundations of SAFe, and provides the principles and practices to drive your Lean-Agile transformation with confidence.
The course also offers the guidance and tools you need to lead effectively in remote environments with distributed teams. Take a Leading SAFe course to discover how companies can build business agility, and how to make SAFe work inside your organization.Learn how SAFe helps you improve quality, productivity, employee engagement, and time-to-market.
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. Understand what makes companies more customer-centric and how to run key SAFe alignment and planning events, like PI planning.Leading SAFe® answers the questions:
1- What is SAFe?
2- What is business agility and how does SAFe support it?
3- How does an organization get started Scaled Agile Framework® ?
What’s included:
Course materials
– Remote learning via SAFe® Virtual Classrooms
– Access to SAFe® Collaborate, a visual online workspace
– One-year membership to the SAFe® Community Platform
– SAFe Agilist certification exam
Attendees learn:
How to realize the benefits of SAFe, including:
– Boosting productivity.
– Improving product quality.
– Decreasing time to market.
– Increasing employee engagement.
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.
Adapted for interactive remote learning with SAFe® Virtual Classrooms
Course and Exam Details
Languages Available
English or Spanish
| Duration | 90 minutes |
| Number of questions | 45 |
| Passing score | 35/45 (77%) |
| Competency level | Foundational; Competent, some knowledge or experience; can perform tasks with assistance |
| Question format | Multiple choice (one answer) or multiple select (2-3 answers) |
| Delivery | Web-based, closed book, no outside assistance, timed |
| Access | Community Platform upon completion of the course |
| Languages offered | English, Japanese (5.1), Simplified Chinese (5.1), Korean (5.1), Brazilian Portuguese (5.1.1), French (5.1.1) |
| Cost | First attempt included in the course registration fee if taken within 30 days of course completion. Each retake or attempt past the 30-day window is $50 |
| Exam Sections and Percentages | References |
| Thriving in the digital age with business agility (13%)Recognize the Problem to be SolvedDescribe SAFe as an operating system for Business AgilityExplain the Seven Core Competencies for achieving Business Agility | Leading SAFe Student Workbook: materials and exercises from Lesson 1 www.scaledagileframework.com/implementation-roadmap/ www.scaledagileframework.com/business-agility/ www.scaledagileframework.com/lean-agile-leadership/ www.scaledagileframework.com/organize-around-value/ |
| Becoming a Lean-Agile leader (29%)Embrace the Lean mindsetApply Lean and Agile at Scale with the SAFe Principles | Leading SAFe Student Workbook: materials and exercises from Lessons 2 and 3 www.scaledagileframework.com/safe-core-values/ www.scaledagileframework.com/lean-agile-mindset/ www.scaledagileframework.com/safe-lean-agile-principles/ www.scaledagileframework.com/assume-variability-preserve-options/ www.scaledagileframework.com/visualize-and-limit-wip-reduce-batch-sizes-and-manage-queue-lengths/ www.scaledagileframework.com/apply-cadence-synchronize-with-cross-domain-planning/ www.scaledagileframework.com/unlock-the-intrinsic-motivation-of-knowledge-workers/ www.scaledagileframework.com/decentralize-decision-making/ www.scaledagileframework.com/organize-around-value/ |
| Establishing team and technical agility (9%)Form Cross-Functional Agile teamsBuild Quality inOrganize Agile Release Trains Around the Flow of Value | Leading SAFe Student Workbook: materials and exercises from Lessons 3 and 4 |
| Building solutions with Agile product delivery (33%)Focus on Customer Centricity with Design ThinkingPrioritize the Program BacklogExperience PI PlanningDevelop on Cadence; Release on DemandBuild a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with DevOps | Leading SAFe Student Workbook: materials and exercises from Lessons 4 and 5 www.scaledagileframework.com/business-owners/ www.scaledagileframework.com/customer-centricity/ www.scaledagileframework.com/design-thinking/ www.scaledagileframework.com/continuous-integration/ www.scaledagileframework.com/DevOps/ www.scaledagileframework.com/solution-demo/ |
| Exploring Lean Portfolio Management (11%)Define a SAFe PortfolioConnect the Portfolio to Enterprise StrategyMaintain the Portfolio VisionEstablish Portfolio FlowFund Value Streams | Leading SAFe Student Workbook: materials and exercises from Lessons 5 www.scaledagileframework.com/Portfolio-SAFe/ www.scaledagileframework.com/value-streams/ www.scaledagileframework.com/strategic-themes/ www.scaledagileframework.com/guardrails/ |
| Leading the change (4%)Lead by ExampleLead the Change | Leading SAFe Student Workbook: materials and exercises from Lessons 2 and 6 www.scaledagileframework.com/lean-agile-leadership/ |
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Questions are structured in multiple choice or multiple response format.Questions will require either one answer or multiple.
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Client Testimonials
Don’t take our word for it – here’s what our clients say:
I found Melvyn to be a really excellent all round trainer of SAFe, plus he had lots of great experience of other Agile frameworks so was able to represent SAFe with comparisons when questioned by the students.
Melvyn has great business and practical experience to talk about in sessions
Very easy to follow, practical and with good real examples