Introduction

Leading SAFe is a guide to aligning Agile development throughout an organization. Most organizations focus their Agile development efforts at the team level, first starting with a pilot team and later transitioning individual teams one at a time. Unfortunately, this method fails to fully integrate each team's efforts with the larger stakeholder need. The Scaled Agile Framework gives you proven techniques to align these teams to work at the larger program level, and ultimately to align multiple programs into a portfolio that maximizes shareholder value.

Prerequisites

This SAFe Agilist certification course is beneficial to all members of an Agile team, but it is primarily oriented towards those leading the efforts to adopt and scale Lean and Agile principles and practices via the Scaled Agile Framework™.

Target audience

Professionals who may benefit include:

• Executives
• Managers
• Change Agents
• Program Managers
• Coaches
• Anyone helping lead the SAFe implementation

Course outlines

Day1

What is SAFe?

• SAFe Implementation Strategy
• History of SAFe
• SAFe Core Values

Lean Thinking

• Lean Tools
• House of Quality
• Optimal Batch Size
• Product Development Flow
• Controlling Flow Under Uncertainty
• Decentralized Control
• Value Stream Mapping

Day 2

Agile Development

• Accelerating Value Delivery
• Brief Agile Overview
• Business Benefits
• Case Studies

SAFe at the Team Level

• Overview of Scrum plus XP in SAFe
• Roles in ScrumXP
• The Power of “Ba”
• Backlog Sizing and Estimating
• Estimating and Planning
• Code Quality and Continuous Integration

Day 3

SAFe at the Portfolio Level

• What is Portfolio Program Management (PPM)?
• What is PPM’s role in Strategy and Investment Funding?
• What is PPM’s role in Governance?
• Dealing with Legacy Mindsets
• What is PPM’s role in Governance?
• 8 Transformational Patterns for Agile PPM

Day 4

SAFe at the Program Level

• What is an ART?
• What are the Rules of an ART?
• What new Roles are added?
• Identifying ART opportunities
• Program Vision and Roadmap
• Optimal ROI and the Economics of the Cost of Delay
• ART Duration Estimating
• Release Planning and Managing the Train

Agile Architecture

• Architecture in SAFe
• ART and System Architecture
• 7 Principles of Agile Architecture
• SAFe’s Architectural Runway

Day 5

Scaling Leadership

• Managing your Knowledge Workers
• Creating Purpose and Articulating
• Product Vision
• Analyzing the Value Stream
• Assessing Agile Teams
• Coaching with Powerful Questions