Duration: 120 minutes
Become a leading agent for change and enable your enterprise to succeed in a disruptive marketplace when you certify as a SAFe® Practice Consultant (SPC) 6.0.
During this four-day course, you will learn how to lead a Lean-Agile transformation by leveraging the practices and principles of the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®). You will also gain insights and practice how to coach programs, launch Agile Release Trains, build a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with DevOps culture, and empower a Lean Portfolio. The first two days of the course Leading SAFe® will provide you with the basis to teach SAFe® to leaders. The final two days focus exclusively on what it takes to successfully implement SAFe® in the enterprise.
Who will benefit?:
- Professional Services Consultants.
- Internal Change Agents, Lean-Agile Center for Excellence (LACE) participants, Agile Working Groups.
- Business and Technology Executives, Leaders, Managers, and Directors.
- Portfolio Managers and Fiduciaries, Project/Program Management Office (PMO) personnel.
- Development, QA, and IT Managers.
- Program and Project Managers.
- Product and Product Line Managers.
- Process Leads and Lifecycle Governance personnel.
- Enterprise, System, and Solution Architects.
What you’ll learn:
To perform the role of a SAFe® Practice Consultant (SPC), you should be able to:
- Lead an enterprise Lean-Agile transformation.
- Implement the Scaled Agile Framework.
- Empower with a Lean Portfolio.
- Align the organization to a common language and way of working.
- Perform Value Stream identification.
- Launch and support Agile Release Trains, and coordinate Large Solutions.
- Build and execute an implementation rollout strategy.
- Configure the Framework for a specific enterprise context.
- Train managers and executives in Leading SAFe®.
Exam format:
- Questions are structured in a multiple-choice,multiple-select format.
- Exams are timed, & the timer is displayed once questions are presented.
- Exams will be submitted when the timer ends, regardless of the number of questions answered.
- Scores are calculated by the number of correctly answered questions.
- Unanswered questions will be marked as incorrect.
- The “Submit” button ends the exam, and a score will be calculated.
What you get:
Class registration includes:
- Attendee workbook.
- Preparation and eligibility to take the SAFe® Practice Consultant (SPC) 6.0 exam.
- One–year membership to SAFe® Studio.
- Course certificate of completion.
- You may be eligible to apply for 30 PDUs toward your continuing education requirements with the Project Management Institute (PMI) for PMP, PgMP, and PMI-ACP certifications.
- You may be eligible to apply for SEUs under Category C, toward earning or renewing your CSP through Scrum.
Prerequisites:
All stakeholders in a Lean-Agile transformation are welcome to attend the course, regardless of experience. However, the following prerequisites are highly recommended for those who intend to take the SAFe® Practice Consultant (SPC) 6.0 certification exam and practice as a SAFe® Practice Consultant (SPC):
- 5+ years of experience in software development, testing, business analysis, product or project management.
- 3+ years of experience in Agile.
- One or more relevant Agile certifications.
Thriving in the Digital Age and
- Business Agility.
- Thriving in the Digital Age.
- SAFe® as an Operating System for Business Agility.
- Core Competencies of Business.
- Agility.
Becoming a Lean-Agile Leader
- The Lean-Agile Mindset.
- SAFe® Core Values.
- SAFe® Principles.
Becoming a Lean-Agile Leader
- Cross-functional Agile Teams.
- Built-in Quality.
- Organize Agile Release Trains.
- around the Flow of Value.
Becoming a Lean-Agile Leader
- Customer-Centricity and DesignThinking.
- Prioritize the ART Backlog.
- PI Planning.
- Develop on Cadence; Release onDemand.
- A Continuous Delivery Pipeline with DevOps.
Enhancing the Portfolio
- Launching more ARTs and Value Streams.
- Enterprise Solution Delivery.
- Agile Portfolio Operations.
- Lean governance.
- LPM implementation.
Exploring Lean Portfolio Management
- SAFe® Portfolio.
- Connect the Portfolio to Enterprise Strategy.
- Maintain the Portfolio Vision.
- Portfolio Vision through Epics.
- Lean Budgets and Guardrails.
- Establishing Portfolio Flow.
Leading the Change
- Leading by Example.
- Leading the Change.
- SAFe® Implementation Roadmap.
Reaching the SAFe® Tipping Point
- Establish the Vision for Change.
- Build a Powerful Guiding Coalition.
Designing the Implementation
- Identify Value Streams and ARTs.
- The Implementation Plan.
Launching an Agile Release Train
- Preparing for ART Launch.
- Train Teams and Launch the ART.
Coaching ART Execution
- Coaching the Train and the Teams.
- Continuously improving ART performance with Inspect and Adapt.
Accelerating to Business Agility
- Establishing Organizational Agility.
- Build a Continous Learning Culture.
- Measure and grow.
- Coaching flow.
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