Leading SAFe with Certified SAFe Agilist (SA)
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.
Retail Price: $795.00
Next Date: 10/22/2025
Course Days: 2
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In this class you will learn how to
- 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
Audience / prerequisites
This course will benefit anyone who seeks to drive the adoption of scaled and organisational agility in a large company or enterprise. All are welcome to attend the course, regardless of experience. However, the following prerequisites are highly recommended for those who intend to take the SAFe® Agilist (SA) certification exam:
- 5+ years’ experience in software development, testing, business analysis, product, or project management
- Experience in Scrum
Course outline
Digital Age & Business Agility
- Thriving in the digital age
- SAFe© as an Operating System for Business Agility
- Core competencies of Business Agility
Lean-Agile Leaders
- Lean-Agile Mindset
- SAFe Core Values
- SAFe Lean-Agile Principles
Team and Technical Agility
- Cross-functional Agile Teams
- Built-in Quality
- Organizing around value with ARTs
Agile Product Delivery
- Customer-centric culture
- Design Thinking
- ART Backlog and WSJF
- PI Planning
- Develop on Cadence; Release on Demand
- Continuous Delivery Pipelines with DevOps
Lean Portfolio Management
- SAFe Portfolio
- Strategic Themes
- Portfolio canvas
- Epic hypothesis statements
- Traditional and Lean budgeting approaches
- Portfolio Kanban
Leading the Change
- Lead by example
- Lead the change
- SAFe Implementation Roadmap
