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Implementing SAFe
Implementing SAFe
2024

Implementing SAFe®

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About Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 

 

SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) is the world’s most trusted system for business agility. It combines Lean, Agile, and DevOps, and is a vast knowledge base of proven Lean-Agile practices and competencies. Born in 2011, SAFe has more than 1.4 million certified professionals globally and continues to grow rapidly. More than 20,000 leading organizations around the world are using SAFe, and most of Forbes Fortune 100 have adopted or are currently using SAFe to help their organizations change and digital transformation. 

 

Instructor Profile 

Jennifer | SAFe® Fellow, SPCT

 

Jennifer is an empathetic lean and agile leader, practitioner, coach, speaker, and consultant. A SAFe Fellow, she contributed to and helped develop SAFe content and courseware. Her passion has been in delivering value in the workplace and by understanding the science of social communities, communication, and culture.

 

Other areas of focus included product management,product ownership, and compassionate leadership. She has provided dedicated service in these areas to enterprises for over 40 years. 

Marsha Xue | SPCT Candidate

 

Marsha currently is SAI Greater China Strategy Advisor. She was the General Manager of SAI China from 2018~2022, built the partner network in Greater China, created the largest SAFe practitioner community in China, and drove several large organizations to Lean-Agile & and digital transformation.

 

She has worked for several Fortune 500 companies, including Motorola, IBM, Nokia, Philips,Symantec, Thoughtworks, and so on, and served as Director of Product Development Quality, Senior R&D General Manager, Senior Manager of Global Public Relations, Director of Product Development, and Director of Global Delivery Execution, etc. 

Course Description & Benefits 

 

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 implement SAFe in the enterprise successfully.

After passing the corresponding certification exam, learners will obtain the SPC (SAFe® Practice Consultant) global authoritative certification, become a scale Agile implementation consultant with the ability to use the principles and practices of SAFe to promote the implementation of large-scale organizations to implement Lean-Agile transformation, as an organization- level digital transformation consultant, enterprise change leaders, Agile coaches, trainers and mentors, and so on, to lead all levels of the organization to implement Lean-Agile transformation. Led Lean-Agile, Digital Transformation, and Organizational Change at all levels of the organization. 

Other Benefits you will get once you complete the training and exam:

  • Professional Development Units (PDUs) and Scrum Education Units (SEUs) 
  • 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 Alliance 
  • 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 

 

 

After the training, 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® 

 

As a SAFe® Practice Consultant (SPC), you can continue the learning journey by achieving validation to license and teach SAFe courses. Courses available for validation include Leading SAFe®, SAFe® for Teams, SAFe® Product Owner/Product Manager, SAFe® Scrum Master, and SAFe® Release Train Engineer (additional requirements apply) etc.. 

Who will benefit

China
This course target audience includes, but is not limited to

• 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 • CXO (if possible)

Sign Up

Course Fee：$3495/per（ Includes four day course）

Course outline

Class time >> Every day 9:00-12:00 PM, 1:00-6:00 PM

N0. Outline  Detail 
01 Thriving in the Digital Age with Business Agility 

  • Thriving in the digital age

  • SAFe as an operating system for Business Agility 
02 Becoming a Lean-Agile Leader 

  • The Lean-Agile Mindset

  • SAFe Core Values

  • Apply SAFe Principles 
03  Establishing Team and Technical Agility 

  • Forming cross-functional Agile Teams

  • Built-In Quality

  • Organizing Agile Release Trains around the flow of

    value 
04 Building Solutions with Agile Product Delivery 

  • Customer Centricity and Design Thinking

  • Prioritizing the ART Backlog

  • PI Planning

  • Develop on Cadence; Release on Demand

  • Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with DevOps 
05 Exploring Lean Portfolio Management 

  • Defining a SAFe Portfolio

  • Connecting the portfolio to the Enterprise strategy

  • Maintaining the Portfolio Vision

  • Realizing the Portfolio Vision through Epics

  • Establishing Lean Budgets and Guardrails

  • Establishing portfolio flow 
06 Leading the Change 

Leading by example

Leading the change 
07 Practicing SAFe 

Practicing SAFe 
08 Reaching the SAFe Tipping Point 

Establishing a Vision for change
Building a powerful guiding coalition 
09 Designing the Implementation 

  • Identifying Value Streams and Agile Release Trains

  • Creating the implementation plan 
10 Launching an Agile Release Train  Preparing for ART launch
Training teams and Launching the ART 
11 Coaching ART Execution 

 

  • Coaching the train and the teams

  • Continuously improving program performance with

    Inspect and Adapt 
12 Enhancing the Portfolio 

  • Launching more ARTs and Value Streams

  • Enterprise Solution Delivery

  • Establishing Agile portfolio operations

  • Establishing Lean governance

  • Planning for LPM implementation 
13 Accelerating Business Agility 

  • Establishing Organizational Agility

  • Building a Continuous Learning Culture

    Measure and Grow 
14 Becoming a Certified SAFe Practice Consultant  Becoming a Certified SAFe Practice Consultant 
  Lean Coffee/Q&A  Lean Coffee/Q&A 
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