Overview
Leading SAFe® offers an introduction to the foundations of SAFe and provides the principles and practices to confidently drive your Lean-Agile transformation. The course and resulting certification equip you with the guidance and tools to build a culture of resiliency and a shared language that engages employees and focuses on customers so that organizations can work with agility at scale.
During a Leading SAFe course you will discover how companies can build business agility, and how to make SAFe work inside your organization. You’ll come away with an understanding of how to align your entire organization around the same clear objectives, and how to improve the flow of value and work from strategy to delivery. You’ll learn what makes companies more customer-centric and how to run key SAFe alignment and planning events, like PI planning.
Leading SAFe will help you answer:
- What is SAFe?
- What is business agility and how does SAFe support it?
- How does an organization get started with the Scaled Agile Framework®?
*Cprime is proud to be a Gold SPCT and Platform Level partner with Scaled Agile, the exclusive certifying body for the Scaled Agile Framework. Attending this class and passing the qualifying exam will earn you the SAFe® Agilist (SA) certification. This certification will prove that you have the knowledge necessary to lead the adoption of a SAFe implementation.
The first step toward becoming a Certified SAFe professional is to attend the Leading SAFe® course. This is a requirement, because attending the course provides access to all the study materials and the exam. Note that attending the course does not guarantee passing the exam.
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$795 (USD)
Standard Delivery: 14 hours of instruction over 2 days
Group (3+): $695 USD
GSA: $726.35 USD
GSA: $726.35 USD
Education Credits:
14 PDUs
14 PDUs
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Full Course Details
Digital Age & Business Agility
- Thriving in the digital age
- SAFe© as an Operating System for Business Agility
- Core competencies of Business Agility
Lean-Agile Leaders
- Lean-Agile Mindset
- SAFe Core Values
- SAFe Lean-Agile Principles
Team and Technical Agility
- Cross-functional Agile Teams
- Built-in Quality
- Organizing around value with ARTs
Agile Product Delivery
- Customer-centric culture
- Design Thinking
- ART Backlog and WSJF
- PI Planning
- Develop on Cadence; Release on Demand
- Continuous Delivery Pipelines with DevOps
Lean Portfolio Management
- SAFe Portfolio
- Strategic Themes
- Portfolio canvas
- Epic hypothesis statements
- Traditional and Lean budgeting approaches
- Portfolio Kanban
Leading the Change
- Lead by example
- Lead the change
- SAFe Implementation Roadmap
This course will benefit anyone who seeks to drive the adoption of scaled and organisational agility in a large company or enterprise.
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® Agilist (SA)
certification exam:
- 5+ years’ experience in software development, testing, business analysis, product, or project management
- Experience in Scrum
- How to realize the benefits of SAFe, including:
- How to establish Team and Technical Agility and organize around the flow of value
- How to align massive organizations around clear, common objectives
- How to participate successfully in critical SAFe events, such as PI Planning
- How to adopt a customer-centric mindset
- Exam name – SAFe® 6 Agilist Exam
- Exam format – Multiple choice (one answer) or multiple select (2-3 answers)
- 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 – SA6 = 35 out of 45 (77%)
- 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.
It was an excellent course with knowledgeable instructors who delivered the material well and gave thoughtful answers to questions.
Very good course instructors. Knowledgeable about the subject matter but also about my company and made it very relatable.
Great session and enjoyed practical experience and knowledge of SAFe 5.0.
-Gloria A., Polaris Software Labs India LTD