TRAINING

SAFe 5.0

Thrive in the digital age with Business Agility during this two-day course, attendees gain the knowledge necessary to lead a Lean-Agile enterprise by leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) an its underlying principles derived from Lean, systems thinking, Agile development, product development flow, and DevOps.
Develop a skillset that’s in demand worldwide—and empower your enterprise to succeed in a disruptive marketplace—when you become a SAFe 5.0 Agilist (SA). During this two-day course, you’ll learn the principles and practices of the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe), how to execute and release value through Agile Release Trains, and what it means to lead a Lean-Agile transformation at enterprise scale.

You will gain an understanding of the Lean-Agile mindset and why it’s so effective in today’s adapt-or-die marketplace. You’ll also get practical advice on supporting Agile teams and programs, empowering a Lean Portfolio, building a continuous delivery pipeline and DevOps culture, and coordinating large solutions.

SAFe DevOps

Optimize your value stream in order to compete in a disruptive global market. Every organization needs to deliver valuable technology solutions at the speed of business. This requires a shared DevOps mindset among all the people needed to define, build, test, deploy, and release software-driven systems, not just the engineers operating a CI/CD pipeline.
The two-day, interactive 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. Attendees work in cross-functional teams to map their current state value stream from concept to cash, identify major bottlenecks to flow, and build an actionable implementation plan that will accelerate the benefits of DevOps in their organization.

Lean Portfolio Management

Aligning strategy with execution: In this three-day workshop style 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.
Participants in the course have the opportunity to capture the current and the future state of their portfolio with the Portfolio Canvas tool and identify important business initiatives for achieving the future state. Participants also explore methods to establish portfolio flow with the Portfolio Kanban and prioritize initiatives for maximum economic benefit. The course also provides insights on how to establish Value Stream Budgets and Lean Budget Guardrails and measure the Lean portfolio performance.

SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager

Deliver value through effective Program Increment execution. For Product Management Office (PMO) professionals to apply Lean-Agile values and principles and economic prioritization, and develop skills writing epics, capabilities, features, and user stories within the context of SAFe.

SAFe for Government

Applying Lean-Agile practices in the public sector with the SAFe Transitioning to Lean-Agile practices for building technology-based capabilities is especially challenging in the context of government.

PRIVATE: SAFe Release Train Engineer

Lead Agility at Scale as a Certified Release Train Engineer (RTE) Overview. Facilitate and enable end-to-end value delivery through Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and learn how to build a high-performing ART by becoming a servant leader and coach when you become a SAFe 5 Release Train Engineer (RTE).