WHY GET CERTIFIED

Business agility relies on people with the expertise to lead successful transformations.
Do you want to grow in your role at your current organisation or are you exploring new career opportunities.
By earning a SAFe certification, you will expand your skills and experience and be empowered to play a key role in driving business transformation.

SAFe® Courses

Leading SAFe ® 

Gain the knowledge necessary to lead an enterprise through an Agile transformation by leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework® and its underlying principles of lean thinking and product development flow.

Learn how to:

  • Lead the transformation to Business Agility with SAFe
  • Become a Lean-Agile Leader
  • Understand customer needs with Design Thinking
  • Enable Agile Product Delivery
  • Implement Lean Portfolio Management


SAFe ® Lean portfolio management

Understand the practical tools and techniques necessary to implement Strategy and Investment Funding, Agile Portfolio Operations, and Lean Governance.

Learn how to:

  • Connect the Portfolio to Enterprise strategy
  • Establish the Portfolio Vision
  • Implement Lean Budgeting and Guardrails
  • Establish flow with Portfolio Kanban
  • Establish Strategy and Investment funding
  • Apply Agile Portfolio Operations
  • Apply Lean Governance
  • Plan, implement and measure Lean Portfolio Management

SAFe ® Product Owner/product manager

Develop the skillsets needed to guide the delivery of value in a Lean enterprise and learn about the activities, tools, and mechanics used to manage backlogs and programs.

Learn how to:

  • Articulate the Product Owner and Product Manager role
  • Connect SAFe Lean-Agile principles and values to the PO/PM roles
  • Decompose Epics
  • Refine Features into Stories
  • Manage Program and Team backlogs
  • Represent Customer needs in Program Increment Planning
  • Execute the Program Increment

SAFe ® Scrum Master

The SAFe® Scrum Master course will take your Scrum Master skills to the next level by exploring the Scrum Master role in the context of organisations that are working within the Scaled Agile Framework.

Learn how to:

  • Build highly efficient, Agile teams
  • Be a Scrum Master and manage your high-performance team
  • Avoid roadblocks
  • Understand the Scrum Masters role within SAFe

SAFe ® for teams

This 2-day course teaches Lean thinking tools, roles, processes, and the software engineering practices necessary to achieve the code quality you need to scale Scrum to your enterprise business context.

Learn how to:

  • Implement SAFe, Lean, and Agile
  • Scale team structure responsibilities and challenges
  • Build backlogs
  • Sprint execution
  • Agile technical practices
  • Launching the Agile Release Train (ART)

SAFe ® devOps

The SAFe® DevOps course helps people in technical, non-technical, and leadership roles optimize their development value stream from end to end. Take this course with the rest of your cross-functional team to map your current value stream from concept to cash. Design a Continuous Delivery Pipeline that’s relevant to your business. And get the guidance and tools you need to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams.

Learn how to:

  • How to incorporate continuous testing and continuous security into the delivery pipeline.
  • How to integrate continuous exploration, integration, and deployment, and release value to end users on demand.
  • How to design and implement an actionable DevOps transformation plan tailored to your organization.
  • How to evaluate and improve your current state using tools like the DevOps Health Radar and Transformation Canvas.

SAFe ® AGILE PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Agile Product Management (APM), marries the power of Design Thinking to develop innovative solutions with proven SAFe® capabilities to execute on those visions.
Product management is at the heart of almost every business. From building the right products, getting them off the shelf, exploring new markets, and ensuring financial choices maximize business value, product and solution managers play a critical role in optimizing business outcomes. Disruptive technologies, fast-moving competitors, and increasingly complex supplier networks create new challenges to successfully managing the product lifecycle. As a product manager, you have to be involved in all aspects of product development—performing market research, integrating with product marketing, collaborating with sales, service, and support, designing the customer journey and solution context, establishing pricing and licensing models, and managing value stream economics.

Learn how to:  
  • Apply the right mindset, skills, and tools you need to create successful products and solutions using Agile techniques.
  • You’ll understand how to use Design Thinking to create products and solutions that are:
  • Desirable—what customers want Viable—profitable for you to build and sell Feasible—something you can realistically deliver Sustainable—something you can proactively manage to realize ROI.
  • Understand how Continuous Exploration fuels innovation and helps you define a vision, strategy, and roadmap to tap into new markets.
  • Collaborate with user and customer experience professionals to always stay connected to the user, their experience, and their journey.
  • Find out how to accelerate the product lifecycle to get fast feedback and quickly deliver exceptional products and solutions that delight customers—all while aligning with your organization’s strategy, portfolio, evolving architecture, and solution intent.




SAFe ® FOR ARCHITECTS

Architects play a key role in the trio of leaders that includes product managers and the Release Train Engineer. It’s these people who work together to execute programs and guide Agile Release Trains (ARTs) to enable continuous value flow.

In the SAFe® for Architects course, you’ll get the context you need to align architecture with business value. You’ll understand how system, solution, and enterprise architects collaboratively deliver architectural solutions. And you’ll get the guidance and tools you need to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams.

  • How to develop and communicate the architectural vision.
  • How to develop solution vision, intent, and roadmaps.
  • How to prepare and deliver software effectively and continuously.
  • How to lead and coach architects and team members during PI Planning and execution.


SAFe ® RELEASE TRAIN ENGINEER

Learn the skills needed to facilitate and enable end-to-end value delivery through Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and how to build a high-performing ART through servant leadership and coaching. During this three-day course, attendees will gain an in-depth understanding of the role and responsibilities of an RTE in the SAFe enterprise.

Through experiential learning, attendees will examine the RTE role in a Lean-Agile transformation. They will learn how to facilitate ART processes and execution, coach leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in new processes and mindsets. They will also learn how to prepare, plan and execute a Program Increment (PI) planning event, the primarily enabler of alignment throughout all levels of a SAFe organization.

Learn how to: 

  • The RTE Role and Responsibilities
  • Applying SAFe Principles
  • Organising the ART
  • Planning and executing a Program Increment
  • Fostering Relentless Improvement

SAFe ® FOR GOVERMENT

SAFe for Government is a set off success patterns that help public sector organizations implement Lean-Agile practices in a government context. The foundations of Lean and Agile thinking have led to higher success rates versus waterfall methods in software and systems development in the private sector.

Learn how to:

  • Thorough understanding of the Lean-Agile mindset and why it is considered as an essential foundation for the transformation process.
  • Gain practical advice on high performing Agile teams and programs, launching the programs, acquiring solutions, and planning and delivering the value using SAFe for Government.
  • Learn specific leadership qualities can help to bring organizational change in the government.

SAFe ® advanced scrum master

Developed to prepare Scrum Masters for leadership roles in facilitating Agile teams, programs, and enterprise success in a (SAFe®) environment.

Learn how to:

  • Apply SAFe principles to facilitation, enablement, and coaching
  • Build a high-performing team and scale improvement
  • Build a Continuous Delivery Pipeline
  • Support the adoption of engineering practices, DevOps and Agile
  • Learn to apply Kanban eXtreme Programming (XP) frameworks

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