Agility achieved? Scale it!

Develop a skillset that’s in demand worldwide—and empower your enterprise to succeed in a disruptive marketplace—when you become a SAFe® 4 Agilist (SA).

During this two-day course, you will gain the knowledge necessary to lead a Lean-Agile enterprise by leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®), and its underlying principles derived from Lean, systems thinking, Agile development, product development flow, and DevOps. You will discuss the five competencies needed to become a Lean Enterprise. You will also learn and practice the skills for supporting and executing PI Planning events, and coordinating multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs).

You will gain an understanding of the Lean-Agile mindset, why it’s so effective in today’s adapt-or-die marketplace, and what it means to lead a Lean-Agile transformation. You will also learn how to build and support Agile teams and programs, empower a Lean Portfolio, build a Continuous Delivery Pipeline and DevOps culture, and coordinate large solutions.

During this two-day course you will learn to:

  • Become a Lean-thinking Manager-Teacher
  • Apply the values and principles of a Lean-Agile Mindset
  • Apply SAFe’s Lean and Agile principles to the roles and practices of SAFe
  • Create high-performing teams and trains by establishing mission and purpose
  • Lead the transformation with the SAFe Implementation Roadmap
  • Support PI Planning and the events associated with successful Program execution
  • Drive Release on Demand with the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
  • Establish alignment and execution with Strategic Themes and Lean Portfolio

Attendees who pass the exam will receive:

  • A SAFe® 4 Scaled Agilist (SA) certificate
  • A SAFe 4 Agilist digital badge to promote your accomplishment online
  • A one-year certified membership as a SAFe Agilist, which includes access to the SA Community of Practice
  • A SAFe Agilist certification usage guide with SA certification marks
  • Access to a variety of learning resources to support certified professionals during their SAFe journey

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GET TO KNOW THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF SCALING AGILE WITHIN A FEW MINUTES!

TWO-DAY TRAINING PROGRAM

Each course day starts around 9:00 and ends at 17:00 hours, including lunch and intermission.

Topics covered

  • Introducing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
  • Becoming a Lean-Agile Leader
  • Creating high-performing teams and trains
  • Experiencing Program Increment (PI) Planning
  • Releasing on Demand with DevOps
  • Building a Lean Portfolio
  • Leading the transformation

Prerequisites

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® 4 Agilist (SA) certification exam:

  • 5+ years’ experience in software development, testing, business analysis, product, or project management
  • Experience in Scrum

Exam Details

  • Exam name – SAFe 4 Agilist Exam
  • Exam format – Multiple choice
  • Exam delivery – Web-based (single-browser), closed book, no outside assistance, timed
  • Exam access – Candidates can access the exam within the SAFe Community Platform upon completion of the Leading SAFe course
  • Exam duration – Once the exam begins, candidates have 90 minutes (1.5 hours) to complete the exam
  • Number of questions – 45
  • Passing score – 34 out of 45 (75% passing score)
  • Language – English
  • Exam cost – First exam attempt is included as part of the course registration fee if the exam is taken within 30 days of course completion. Each retake attempt costs $50.
  • Retake policy – Second attempt on exam (first retake) can be done immediately after first attempt. Third attempt requires a 10-day wait. Fourth attempt requires a 30-day wait. Contact support@scaledagile.com for any retake questions.

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

  • Attendees may be eligible to apply for 15 PDUs toward their continuing education requirements with the Project Management Institute (PMI) for PMP, PgMP, and PMI-ACP certifications
  • Attendees may be eligible to apply for SEUs under category C, toward earning or renewing their CSP through Scrum Alliance

AUDIENCE

You are working in an organization where a movement towards an Agile way of working is in progress or desired. This course fits every role within the organisation. Whether you are responsible for a product, a service, a project, a program or a portfolio, and whether you work as a manager, a consultant or an executive professional, on the basis of this training, you can apply the principles of SAFe® in order to further develop your organization in a rapidly changing environment.

  • Executives and Leaders, Managers, Directors, CIOs, and VPs
  • Development, QA, and Infrastructure Management
  • Program and Project Managers
  • Product and Product Line Management
  • Portfolio Managers, PMO, and Process Leads
  • Enterprise, System, and Solution Architects
  • TypeTraining
  • Period 2 days
  • Maximum number of participants:18
  • Level:Foundation
  • Language:English
  • Lunch included:Yes
  • Exam:Yes
  • Incompany:Yes
  • Payment methods:Invoice, iDEAL, CreditCard
  • Examinator:Logo
  • Silva H. (Henrique) - Review: 9/10
    Top trainer and facilities. Very friendly and helpful people working for Gladwell. Only less positive point is: in my opinion the training subject is too much for only 2 days.
  • Panja M. (Monica) - Review: 8/10
    Really good course with pretty good content.I have only one recommendation that the time should be exceeded and include few more practical exercises
  • Gry Elstad Strande - Review: 8/10
    I really liked the training session going through the Safe Agile framework talking about how we can use this way of working in Canal Digital. We focused on relevant examples for our organisation.
  • MadanKumar Jayapal - Review: 8/10
    Very useful course. The trainer has good understanding on the concepts and application of them as well. Apart from how to apply, the most important element I liked is we discussed what and why to use SAFe.
  • Riem Frielink - Review: 8/10
    I already new some terminology but now I understand better what they mean and the total context, which is important to understand their individual contribution. I think it was agood mixture of theory and practice.
  • Digvijay Upadhyay - Review: 7/10
    It was a good experience
  • Silvio Croce - Review: 7/10
    It is very good to give general principles to management but I would have liked more insights about SAFE.
  • Gijs van Bokhoven - Review: 8/10
    Nice training, gives lot of insights on why we struggles with now in the organization.
  • Tomas Campodonico - Review: 8/10
    It was a good course, very interactive and the teachers were very patient to explain all the doubts we had.
  • James Downes - Review: 8/10
    I liked the presentation and the dynamic changing of emphasis during the two days dependent on what we as audience expected to get form the course. Also the speakers knowledege of the topic was good. I found that I could follow the course not having had any previous training in the AGILE framework nor in scrums. There was perhaps slightly too much reliance on the acronyms of scrum and SAFe rather than explaining the terms, but I think perhaps it's difficult to give such a course without using those acronyms. I notice as a native english speaker it's hard to 'reprogram' myself to accept the new meaning of words in the specific context of scrum, AGILE and SAFe. e.g. The word 'feature' and the word 'story' are very long established words in english and the meaning, especially the relative meaning, assigned to the words in SAFe is confusing. In english a story can have many features (e.g. it's a childrens story, it's a short story, it's a story with a message, etc.) whereas in the SAFe language apparently a single feature has multiple stories. In the end I could manage and I don't think there's another way to do it.
  • Laura Esteve - Review: 9/10
    The main trainer (Marijt) was great in every sense, course dynamic, own experience, mood, examples. With the 2nd trainer, though he has a great guy one could tell he was not as experienced, and it was hard to follow what he was trying to explain.
  • Ivan Cebrecos Muñoz - Review: 10/10
    There is too much content but the trainers were as good so god that everything was easy to understand
  • Juan Manuel Alberro - Review: 10/10
    Trainers are really good, the training is all theory so it could be boring at some time but they did a great job of bringing all our attention.
  • Frank Morselt - Review: 8/10
    Good hands-on in the framework
  • Kees Kotterink - Review: 8/10
    I liked the broad overview and good explaination of the priciples and practice of SAF en especially the open discussion on how to manage the change/transition. I did like the exercise 'PI workshop', it was however somewhat choatic and it was not explained well what was expected from us.
  • Fokke de Jong - Review: 7/10
    The underlying assumptions / limitation on SAFe are not discussed. Also, little evidence is given that implementing safe is beneficial for a company. It does state that it takes years to implement - in the mean time leading to less productivity.
  • Javier Oggento - Review: 9/10
    I really like the course. The trainers were excellent, and seemed to have really good experience in giving these courses, as well as applying safe in practical situations. It would be really great to be able to have dedicated time during this courses, to discuss some particular situations of the people attending, and just have a couple starting points for going agile.
  • Alvaro Peñalba - Review: 9/10
    I liked taking knowledge of how to scale Agile
  • Srikanth Suman Garishakurthi - Review: 9/10
    good
  • Kavitha SRINIVASA - Review: 7/10
    Training material was well defined for structure and content .More assignments and simulations would be helpful.
  • Ekaterina Taraikouskaya - Review: 7/10
    The course was very nice and our coach was super cool. Could be bigger audience room as the screen was to close.
  • Marc Patoureaux - Review: 9/10
    great trainers, great content and practical exercises were relevant and well executed
  • Cedric Dourthe - Review: 7/10
    interactivity with group exercises was much appreciated Not going into detail of Lean Portfolio Management was effectively missing
  • Didier Avargues - Review: 8/10
    2 days is short to cover all training materials. Course structuration is weak.
  • Loic Rioual - Review: 7/10
    A big part of the course was Agile It tooks time to go into Safe really I appreciated the video and examples and also the PI exercise It is a lot of slides for 2 days only
  • Christine Chaffard Sauze - Review: 9/10
    Excellen trainer, lots of contents, good balance listening vs exercises
  • Sophie Dallanegra - Review: 8/10
    very dense course, with many notions to absorb but very good interaction
  • Yannick Blancafort - Review: 7/10
    I liked the exercises as it allowed me to practise. Area of improvement: the pace for the second part of the training which was the most dense in information was addressed very quickly. The trainer was knowledgeable.
  • Henryk Hruszka - Review: 7/10
    It was a bit chaotic. It was a bit hard to follow.
  • Sophie Berthier - Review: 7/10
    The training was understandable enough for me to catch the Agile mindset. However, I find there were too much theory and not enough exercices. On my point of view, I will remember more things that I practiced than just listened to.
  • Cynthia Lew - Review: 8/10
    At the start of the course we were going back and forth in the manual which to me for confusing and hard to get the big picture. As I only attended one day (becuase of illness) I cannot comment on the 2nd day.
  • Mai Lan Tran - Review: 8/10
    It was a good experience to follow
  • Sebastian Lucret - Review: 9/10
    It was very good...Trainer very involved, kind and profesionnal...All questions had an answer finally. During these two days , I learn a lot of things while spend good time at work...
  • Alain Imhof - Review: 7/10
    good stuff but to short for 2 days
  • Attila Hajdu - Review: 8/10
    Pros: I really liked the course. The trainer had quite good experience in the topic that heped to better understand how such a theoretical topic works in real life. I liked that we had a small group, because there were time to answer questions. I liked the role plays that gave me more confidence in what we learned. Things to improve: Maybe because we spent lot of the time with questions and role plays the last few hours become a rush over the the presentation and we may skipped more than it was planned. The food served was for birds rather than grown-up mans, however it was very healthy :)
  • Nicole Hoeve - Review: 7/10
    Andries did a great job, but our group was small and therefore we couldn't do all the assignments the way it's supposed to be done. I missed interaction because of that. Maybe it's worth to think about a minimum amount of people in the class.
  • Chojnacki Georges - Review: 7/10
    I expected more concrete implementation information related to trainer experience.
  • Patrick Hamendt - Review: 7/10
    Location is difficult to reach by car and catering can be better
  • Satyajeet Kumar - Review: 7/10
    Everything was ok in theory however it was not clear how can we apply it in practice. As suggested by others in the group, a case study could have helped in grasping the concepts.
  • Casper Wauters - Review: 8/10
    I strongly feel the course should start with a case to which all elements of leading SAFe can be applied during the training. A lot of the time i missed concreet examples for the applications of theory.
  • Olena Syrota - Review: 10/10
    Content was useful. Trainer was experienced in content and training skill.
  • THAMIZHANBAN THAMIZHARASU - Review: 9/10
    Overall experience was very good, trainer explained all the concepts in detail. We had a real time(practical) PI planning session, likewise if we have real time session for retrospective meeting, risk and mitigation plan etc...
  • ROMAIN BARELLI - Review: 8/10
    Globally good content and trainer. For people with a visual memory, might be good to work on a support during the 2 days of training. At the end the slides presented are not shared.
  • CHINTAKUNTA VIJAYAKUMAR GOUD - Review: 8/10
    Over all experince is good. However there could have been more time that shud have been spent on practical examples.
  • Alex Lasschuit - Review: 7/10
    the theory is very intresting, only issue is that it is a lot of theory.
  • REGIS MORIZUR - Review: 7/10
    trainer was highly knowledgeable for the topic and always ready to answer questions. In terms of content, much time was spent in team-exercises/mini workshops: it is good, but simultaneously short time (in proporition with the lenght of the training) was left to SAFE-booklet review. This is a point to be clarified: should the training last 3 days, to ensure both workshops/team-exercises + a deeper review of the SAFE-structure?
  • Roland van Gestel - Review: 7/10
    The trainer is knowledgeable, however a 3 days course within 2 days is a challenge. So lot's of topics were threated not detailed enough.
  • Peter Hesen - Review: 7/10
    Good trainer. Lots of experience with lots of practical examples. Too much info for 2days. It would be better to spend more days of use the 2days to focus on certain chapters. I missed the link with ASML way of working. The trainer didn't have any ASML experience so also couldn't help to make these links

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