Mastering the Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise Agility
You're under pressure. Your organization expects faster delivery, seamless cross-team alignment, and predictable innovation. But silos persist. Roadmaps stall. Initiatives lose momentum. You feel the weight of leading transformation without a proven, enterprise-grade roadmap to follow. You've read the SAFe principles. You’ve attended the overviews. But applying them in a complex, matrixed, globally distributed enterprise? That’s where most Agile transformations fail - and careers stall. Mastering the Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise Agility is your definitive blueprint to transition from fragmented pilot teams to synchronized, value-driven agility across portfolios, programs, and product lines. This is not theory. This is the operating system for enterprises that scale innovation without sacrificing governance or speed. One learner, a Release Train Engineer at a Fortune 500 financial institution, used the course blueprint to unblock a 14-team ART that had missed three Program Increments. Within six weeks, they restored PI predictability from 42% to 88%, earning a direct commendation from the CIO. Their quote? “This finally gave me the structure to lead with authority - and prove it.” The difference between being stuck in transformation purgatory and being the recognized leader of enterprise agility is one decision: to master the framework, not just mimic it. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Course Format & Delivery Details Self-Paced, Always Available - Zero Time Conflicts, Maximum Flexibility
This course is self-paced with immediate online access. Start today, progress at your schedule, and complete in as little as 40–50 hours. Most learners see measurable impact in their current role within the first two modules - including refined PI planning templates, ART launch checklists, and backlog-prep frameworks they apply immediately. You receive lifetime access. All future updates to the content, tools, and certifications are included at no additional cost. Revisit materials any time, from any device. Access is 24/7 and fully mobile-friendly. Whether you’re preparing for a PI Review on a flight, refining your Lean Budget summary on a train, or aligning stakeholder expectations from a remote office, your learning travels with you. Designed for Real Enterprise Impact - Not Just Completion
The course is structured to deliver tactical, board-ready outcomes. You’ll build not just understanding, but artifacts: a finalized ART charter, a value stream map, dependency heatmaps, and Lean-Agile budget justifications - all designed for executive scrutiny. You are not alone. Direct instructor support is available via dedicated guidance channels. Expert Agile coaches with documented SAFe implementations across banking, healthcare, and government programs will review your work, answer questions, and help you navigate organizational resistance. Upon completion, you receive a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service, a globally recognized accreditation body trusted by enterprises in over 60 countries. This credential is shareable on LinkedIn, verifiable by HR systems, and strengthens your professional credibility in Agile leadership roles. Zero-Risk Enrollment - You’re Protected and Supported
Pricing is straightforward with no hidden fees. We accept Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal - secure, one-time payment processing with bank-grade encryption. If you complete the first three modules and find the content isn’t exceeding your expectations, you’re covered by our full money-back guarantee. No hassle. No fine print. You're either moving forward - or walking away with your investment protected. After enrollment, you’ll receive a confirmation email. Your access details will be sent separately once the course materials are prepared - ensuring a smooth, secure onboarding experience. Will this work for you? Even if you’re not in a formal SAFe role yet? Even if your organization is mid-transformation or resistant to change? This works even if: - You’re a Scrum Master transitioning to a Release Train Engineer role and need to scale beyond team-level practices.
- You’re a portfolio manager facing scrutiny on ROI and need to demonstrate Lean budgeting and hypothesis-driven funding.
- You’re an enterprise architect struggling to align technical alignment across multiple ARTs.
- You’re new to SAFe but have been assigned to lead an upcoming ART launch next quarter.
Real learners in similar positions have used this course to pivot from facilitation to leadership, from confusion to clarity, from “managing ceremonies” to “driving enterprise outcomes.” This isn’t about passing a test. It’s about gaining the confidence to lead. The framework is proven. Now, the missing piece is you.
Module 1: Foundations of Enterprise Agility - Understanding the crisis in traditional enterprise delivery
- Why Agile at scale fails without a framework
- The evolution from team Agile to enterprise Lean-Agile
- Key pain points in large organizations: misalignment, latency, waste
- Defining enterprise agility: speed, quality, innovation, compliance
- Lean-Agile principles versus project management mindsets
- The role of leadership in driving cultural transformation
- Recognizing the symptoms of Agile theatre
- Building the business case for SAFe adoption
- Measuring current state maturity using the SAFe Implementation Roadmap
Module 2: Core Components of SAFe - Overview of the SAFe Big Picture: all configurations and roles
- Essential SAFe: minimal viable configuration for mid-size organizations
- Full SAFe: managing multiple value streams and large portfolios
- Lean Portfolio Management layer: strategy to execution alignment
- Large Solution SAFe: coordinating complex, multi-ART systems
- Portfolio SAFe: enterprise strategy, funding, and governance
- Understanding Solution Trains and Solution Management
- SAFe’s four levels: Team, Program, Large Solution, Portfolio
- Mapping organizational structure to SAFe roles
- Customizing SAFe for regulated or hybrid environments
Module 3: Lean-Agile Leadership Mindset - The five core leadership behaviors in SAFe
- Leading by example: becoming a Lean-Agile change agent
- Overcoming command-and-control legacy patterns
- Developing personal agility as a leadership prerequisite
- Building psychological safety across Agile Release Trains
- Coaching leaders through resistance and skepticism
- Creating urgency without panic: the art of transformation pacing
- Developing a growth mindset in hierarchical organizations
- Applying Lean systems thinking to organizational design
- Differentiating leadership from management in SAFe
Module 4: Implementing the SAFe Portfolio - Establishing Lean Portfolio Management governance
- Connecting strategy to execution via portfolio vision
- Developing strategic themes that guide investment decisions
- Creating a Portfolio Backlog with epics and guardrails
- Defining Epic Owners and the Epic Kanban system
- Reviewing epics with Lean Business Cases
- Applying Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) at scale
- Estimating epic duration, effort, and risk
- Obtaining Portfolio Steering approval and funding
- Tracking epic progress using Epic KPIs and burn-up charts
Module 5: Value Stream Identification and Design - Defining Development Value Streams versus Operational Value Streams
- Mapping customer journeys to value delivery paths
- Identifying current-state process bottlenecks and delays
- Calculating lead time, process time, and %C&A
- Selecting the right value stream for initial SAFe rollout
- Aligning ARTs to value streams, not organizational silos
- Designing future-state value streams for flow optimization
- Engaging stakeholders in value stream co-design workshops
- Integrating DevOps and continuous delivery into value streams
- Validating value stream design with real-world throughput data
Module 6: Launching Agile Release Trains (ARTs) - Preparing for ART launch: timeline and prerequisites
- Selecting the right ART configuration (12–150 people)
- Identifying ART stakeholders and executive sponsors
- Conducting ART readiness assessments
- Building the ART launch plan with key milestones
- Organizing the ART launch event and Big Room Planning
- Staffing roles: Product Manager, RTE, System Architect, etc.
- Creating the initial Program Backlog
- Developing the first PI Objectives with business alignment
- Sustaining ART momentum post-launch with cadence
Module 7: Program Increment (PI) Planning Mastery - Understanding the rhythm of PI Planning: quarterly cadence
- Preparing for PI Planning: pre-work and logistics
- Running the two-day PI Planning event successfully
- Setting the PI Vision with business context and objectives
- Facilitating team breakout planning sessions
- Drafting team PI Objectives with measurable outcomes
- Identifying and negotiating cross-team dependencies
- Using ROAM technique to manage risks, ownership, etc.
- Reaching the PI Planning draft plan review
- Finalizing ART commitments and management review
- Conducting the final PI Planning confidence vote
- Documenting outcomes and action items
- Integrating compliance and regulatory requirements into PI goals
- Adjusting PI scope based on capacity and risk
- Using PI Planning as a transparency and alignment mechanism
Module 8: Executing the Program Increment - Overview of the 8–12 week PI execution rhythm
- Running effective Scrum of Scrums and ART syncs
- Tracking Program Board progress and impediments
- Managing dependencies with visibility tools
- Using Inspect and Adapt (I&A) events effectively
- Conducting System Demos with stakeholder feedback
- Measuring PI success with Objectives and Metrics
- Facilitating the PI Retrospective for continuous improvement
- Reporting PI performance to executives and sponsors
- Handling mid-PI scope changes and emergency fixes
- Integrating user feedback into PI execution
- Ensuring quality through continuous testing and CI/CD
- Managing team capacity and velocity at scale
- Using Kanban systems for flow management across teams
- Aligning team backlogs to program priorities
Module 9: Lean-Agile Product Management - Role of the Product Manager in SAFe
- Differentiating team Product Owner from ART Product Manager
- Developing the Program Backlog with user and enabler stories
- Prioritizing backlog items using WSJF and business value
- Refining epics into features and capabilities
- Collaborating with Architects on non-functional requirements
- Engaging stakeholders in backlog reviews and refinement
- Managing customer expectations through roadmap transparency
- Using feedback cycles to validate assumptions and pivot
- Aligning product outcomes to strategic themes
- Integrating market research and customer discovery
- Documenting Lean Business Cases for significant features
- Creating release plans with go-to-market coordination
- Managing regulatory and compliance requirements in backlog
- Using metrics to measure product outcomes, not just output
Module 10: Systems and Solution Architecture at Scale - The role of Enterprise and System Architects in SAFe
- Shifting from up-front design to emergent architecture
- Defining Architectural Runway and Enabler Stories
- Planning non-functional requirements across ARTs
- Facilitating Architecture Sync meetings
- Using Portfolio Epics to fund major architectural changes
- Integrating DevOps and security into architectural planning
- Managing technical debt at scale with transparency
- Coordinating architecture across multiple value streams
- Using modeling tools to visualize system dependencies
- Ensuring scalability, performance, and resilience by design
- Embedding architecture review gates in PI Planning
- Building reusable services and platforms
- Aligning cloud strategy with architectural runway
- Documenting decisions in Architectural Decision Records (ADRs)
Module 11: DevOps and Continuous Delivery Pipeline - Understanding the four pillars of DevOps in SAFe
- Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline for enterprise systems
- Mapping the current-state delivery workflow
- Identifying automation opportunities and bottlenecks
- Integrating security and compliance into the pipeline
- Designing test automation strategies for large systems
- Using deployment pipelines for frequent, low-risk releases
- Establishing built-in quality practices across teams
- Measuring pipeline performance: lead time, failure rate, MTTR
- Coordinating releases across multiple ARTs
- Implementing canary and blue-green deployments
- Using feature toggles to decouple deployment from release
- Integrating monitoring and observability into delivery
- Shifting security left in the pipeline
- Managing environment provisioning at scale
Module 12: Lean Portfolio Management in Practice - Establishing a Lean-Agile PMO function
- Transitioning from project-based to product-based funding
- Using Lean Budgets with guardrails instead of cost centers
- Deciding how much to allocate per value stream
- Setting spending thresholds and review cycles
- Empowering ARTs with budget authority and accountability
- Measuring portfolio performance with Lean metrics
- Reporting to executives using Value Stream KPIs
- Conducting Portfolio Sync meetings quarterly
- Integrating risk management into funding decisions
- Balancing innovation, maintenance, and technical uplift
- Using Kanban for portfolio flow management
- Managing portfolio epics from ideation to implementation
- Linking portfolio objectives to enterprise strategy
- Conducting regular Lean Portfolio audits
Module 13: Organizational Change and Sustaining Agility - Applying the SAFe Implementation Roadmap (12 steps)
- Identifying change agents and transformation champions
- Creating a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE)
- Developing training and certification plans for teams
- Rolling out SAFe incrementally vs. big bang
- Managing resistance from middle management
- Aligning HR policies with Lean-Agile roles
- Updating performance reviews and incentives
- Integrating SAFe into enterprise learning platforms
- Measuring transformation success beyond velocity
- Using surveys, metrics, and feedback loops for health checks
- Scaling beyond the first value stream
- Handling matrixed reporting and dual accountability
- Ensuring continuity during leadership transitions
- Institutionalizing agility into operating rhythms
Module 14: SAFe Metrics and Performance Tracking - Selecting the right metrics for each SAFe level
- Differentiating leading vs. lagging indicators
- Implementing Team Level metrics: velocity, quality, predictability
- Tracking Program Level: PI Objectives achievement, ART health
- Measuring compliance, security, and audit readiness
- Using Flow Metrics: lead time, work in process, throughput
- Applying the CALMR approach to DevOps metrics
- Visualizing metrics with dashboards and equity guards
- Avoiding metric manipulation and gaming behaviors
- Using metrics for improvement, not punishment
- Reporting to executives without oversimplification
- Conducting quarterly metrics reviews with ARTs
- Linking metrics to business outcomes
- Integrating NPS and customer satisfaction into delivery
- Establishing feedback loops from operations to development
Module 15: Advanced Topics and Specialized Applications - SAFe in Government and Regulated Industries
- Adapting SAFe for cybersecurity and safety-critical systems
- Integrating SAFe with ITIL and service management
- Scaling Agile to maintenance and operations teams
- Applying SAFe in M&A and organizational restructuring
- Using SAFe for digital transformation initiatives
- Integrating design thinking and UX into Agile delivery
- Applying SAFe in data, AI, and machine learning programs
- Coordinating SAFe with waterfall gating in hybrid models
- Managing offshore and nearshore distributed ARTs
- Running virtual PI Planning effectively
- Using collaboration tools for global SAFe execution
- Handling time zone and cultural differences
- Integrating contractor teams into ARTs
- Ensuring knowledge transfer and continuity
Module 16: Certification and Post-Course Advancement - Preparing for the SAFe certification ecosystem: SPC, POPM, RTE, etc.
- Understanding the difference between this course and SAFe certification exams
- Building a professional development roadmap
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for career growth
- Updating your LinkedIn and resume with verified skills
- Joining the global Art of Service alumni network
- Accessing post-course templates, tools, and playbooks
- Participating in community forums and expert Q&As
- Registering for advanced workshops and coaching programs
- Transitioning from practitioner to consultant or internal coach
- Developing a personal brand in enterprise agility
- Delivering measurable ROI in your next role or project
- Using the course portfolio as proof of applied learning
- Tracking progress with gamified milestones and achievements
- Receiving updates on SAFe evolution and industry shifts
- Understanding the crisis in traditional enterprise delivery
- Why Agile at scale fails without a framework
- The evolution from team Agile to enterprise Lean-Agile
- Key pain points in large organizations: misalignment, latency, waste
- Defining enterprise agility: speed, quality, innovation, compliance
- Lean-Agile principles versus project management mindsets
- The role of leadership in driving cultural transformation
- Recognizing the symptoms of Agile theatre
- Building the business case for SAFe adoption
- Measuring current state maturity using the SAFe Implementation Roadmap
Module 2: Core Components of SAFe - Overview of the SAFe Big Picture: all configurations and roles
- Essential SAFe: minimal viable configuration for mid-size organizations
- Full SAFe: managing multiple value streams and large portfolios
- Lean Portfolio Management layer: strategy to execution alignment
- Large Solution SAFe: coordinating complex, multi-ART systems
- Portfolio SAFe: enterprise strategy, funding, and governance
- Understanding Solution Trains and Solution Management
- SAFe’s four levels: Team, Program, Large Solution, Portfolio
- Mapping organizational structure to SAFe roles
- Customizing SAFe for regulated or hybrid environments
Module 3: Lean-Agile Leadership Mindset - The five core leadership behaviors in SAFe
- Leading by example: becoming a Lean-Agile change agent
- Overcoming command-and-control legacy patterns
- Developing personal agility as a leadership prerequisite
- Building psychological safety across Agile Release Trains
- Coaching leaders through resistance and skepticism
- Creating urgency without panic: the art of transformation pacing
- Developing a growth mindset in hierarchical organizations
- Applying Lean systems thinking to organizational design
- Differentiating leadership from management in SAFe
Module 4: Implementing the SAFe Portfolio - Establishing Lean Portfolio Management governance
- Connecting strategy to execution via portfolio vision
- Developing strategic themes that guide investment decisions
- Creating a Portfolio Backlog with epics and guardrails
- Defining Epic Owners and the Epic Kanban system
- Reviewing epics with Lean Business Cases
- Applying Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) at scale
- Estimating epic duration, effort, and risk
- Obtaining Portfolio Steering approval and funding
- Tracking epic progress using Epic KPIs and burn-up charts
Module 5: Value Stream Identification and Design - Defining Development Value Streams versus Operational Value Streams
- Mapping customer journeys to value delivery paths
- Identifying current-state process bottlenecks and delays
- Calculating lead time, process time, and %C&A
- Selecting the right value stream for initial SAFe rollout
- Aligning ARTs to value streams, not organizational silos
- Designing future-state value streams for flow optimization
- Engaging stakeholders in value stream co-design workshops
- Integrating DevOps and continuous delivery into value streams
- Validating value stream design with real-world throughput data
Module 6: Launching Agile Release Trains (ARTs) - Preparing for ART launch: timeline and prerequisites
- Selecting the right ART configuration (12–150 people)
- Identifying ART stakeholders and executive sponsors
- Conducting ART readiness assessments
- Building the ART launch plan with key milestones
- Organizing the ART launch event and Big Room Planning
- Staffing roles: Product Manager, RTE, System Architect, etc.
- Creating the initial Program Backlog
- Developing the first PI Objectives with business alignment
- Sustaining ART momentum post-launch with cadence
Module 7: Program Increment (PI) Planning Mastery - Understanding the rhythm of PI Planning: quarterly cadence
- Preparing for PI Planning: pre-work and logistics
- Running the two-day PI Planning event successfully
- Setting the PI Vision with business context and objectives
- Facilitating team breakout planning sessions
- Drafting team PI Objectives with measurable outcomes
- Identifying and negotiating cross-team dependencies
- Using ROAM technique to manage risks, ownership, etc.
- Reaching the PI Planning draft plan review
- Finalizing ART commitments and management review
- Conducting the final PI Planning confidence vote
- Documenting outcomes and action items
- Integrating compliance and regulatory requirements into PI goals
- Adjusting PI scope based on capacity and risk
- Using PI Planning as a transparency and alignment mechanism
Module 8: Executing the Program Increment - Overview of the 8–12 week PI execution rhythm
- Running effective Scrum of Scrums and ART syncs
- Tracking Program Board progress and impediments
- Managing dependencies with visibility tools
- Using Inspect and Adapt (I&A) events effectively
- Conducting System Demos with stakeholder feedback
- Measuring PI success with Objectives and Metrics
- Facilitating the PI Retrospective for continuous improvement
- Reporting PI performance to executives and sponsors
- Handling mid-PI scope changes and emergency fixes
- Integrating user feedback into PI execution
- Ensuring quality through continuous testing and CI/CD
- Managing team capacity and velocity at scale
- Using Kanban systems for flow management across teams
- Aligning team backlogs to program priorities
Module 9: Lean-Agile Product Management - Role of the Product Manager in SAFe
- Differentiating team Product Owner from ART Product Manager
- Developing the Program Backlog with user and enabler stories
- Prioritizing backlog items using WSJF and business value
- Refining epics into features and capabilities
- Collaborating with Architects on non-functional requirements
- Engaging stakeholders in backlog reviews and refinement
- Managing customer expectations through roadmap transparency
- Using feedback cycles to validate assumptions and pivot
- Aligning product outcomes to strategic themes
- Integrating market research and customer discovery
- Documenting Lean Business Cases for significant features
- Creating release plans with go-to-market coordination
- Managing regulatory and compliance requirements in backlog
- Using metrics to measure product outcomes, not just output
Module 10: Systems and Solution Architecture at Scale - The role of Enterprise and System Architects in SAFe
- Shifting from up-front design to emergent architecture
- Defining Architectural Runway and Enabler Stories
- Planning non-functional requirements across ARTs
- Facilitating Architecture Sync meetings
- Using Portfolio Epics to fund major architectural changes
- Integrating DevOps and security into architectural planning
- Managing technical debt at scale with transparency
- Coordinating architecture across multiple value streams
- Using modeling tools to visualize system dependencies
- Ensuring scalability, performance, and resilience by design
- Embedding architecture review gates in PI Planning
- Building reusable services and platforms
- Aligning cloud strategy with architectural runway
- Documenting decisions in Architectural Decision Records (ADRs)
Module 11: DevOps and Continuous Delivery Pipeline - Understanding the four pillars of DevOps in SAFe
- Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline for enterprise systems
- Mapping the current-state delivery workflow
- Identifying automation opportunities and bottlenecks
- Integrating security and compliance into the pipeline
- Designing test automation strategies for large systems
- Using deployment pipelines for frequent, low-risk releases
- Establishing built-in quality practices across teams
- Measuring pipeline performance: lead time, failure rate, MTTR
- Coordinating releases across multiple ARTs
- Implementing canary and blue-green deployments
- Using feature toggles to decouple deployment from release
- Integrating monitoring and observability into delivery
- Shifting security left in the pipeline
- Managing environment provisioning at scale
Module 12: Lean Portfolio Management in Practice - Establishing a Lean-Agile PMO function
- Transitioning from project-based to product-based funding
- Using Lean Budgets with guardrails instead of cost centers
- Deciding how much to allocate per value stream
- Setting spending thresholds and review cycles
- Empowering ARTs with budget authority and accountability
- Measuring portfolio performance with Lean metrics
- Reporting to executives using Value Stream KPIs
- Conducting Portfolio Sync meetings quarterly
- Integrating risk management into funding decisions
- Balancing innovation, maintenance, and technical uplift
- Using Kanban for portfolio flow management
- Managing portfolio epics from ideation to implementation
- Linking portfolio objectives to enterprise strategy
- Conducting regular Lean Portfolio audits
Module 13: Organizational Change and Sustaining Agility - Applying the SAFe Implementation Roadmap (12 steps)
- Identifying change agents and transformation champions
- Creating a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE)
- Developing training and certification plans for teams
- Rolling out SAFe incrementally vs. big bang
- Managing resistance from middle management
- Aligning HR policies with Lean-Agile roles
- Updating performance reviews and incentives
- Integrating SAFe into enterprise learning platforms
- Measuring transformation success beyond velocity
- Using surveys, metrics, and feedback loops for health checks
- Scaling beyond the first value stream
- Handling matrixed reporting and dual accountability
- Ensuring continuity during leadership transitions
- Institutionalizing agility into operating rhythms
Module 14: SAFe Metrics and Performance Tracking - Selecting the right metrics for each SAFe level
- Differentiating leading vs. lagging indicators
- Implementing Team Level metrics: velocity, quality, predictability
- Tracking Program Level: PI Objectives achievement, ART health
- Measuring compliance, security, and audit readiness
- Using Flow Metrics: lead time, work in process, throughput
- Applying the CALMR approach to DevOps metrics
- Visualizing metrics with dashboards and equity guards
- Avoiding metric manipulation and gaming behaviors
- Using metrics for improvement, not punishment
- Reporting to executives without oversimplification
- Conducting quarterly metrics reviews with ARTs
- Linking metrics to business outcomes
- Integrating NPS and customer satisfaction into delivery
- Establishing feedback loops from operations to development
Module 15: Advanced Topics and Specialized Applications - SAFe in Government and Regulated Industries
- Adapting SAFe for cybersecurity and safety-critical systems
- Integrating SAFe with ITIL and service management
- Scaling Agile to maintenance and operations teams
- Applying SAFe in M&A and organizational restructuring
- Using SAFe for digital transformation initiatives
- Integrating design thinking and UX into Agile delivery
- Applying SAFe in data, AI, and machine learning programs
- Coordinating SAFe with waterfall gating in hybrid models
- Managing offshore and nearshore distributed ARTs
- Running virtual PI Planning effectively
- Using collaboration tools for global SAFe execution
- Handling time zone and cultural differences
- Integrating contractor teams into ARTs
- Ensuring knowledge transfer and continuity
Module 16: Certification and Post-Course Advancement - Preparing for the SAFe certification ecosystem: SPC, POPM, RTE, etc.
- Understanding the difference between this course and SAFe certification exams
- Building a professional development roadmap
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for career growth
- Updating your LinkedIn and resume with verified skills
- Joining the global Art of Service alumni network
- Accessing post-course templates, tools, and playbooks
- Participating in community forums and expert Q&As
- Registering for advanced workshops and coaching programs
- Transitioning from practitioner to consultant or internal coach
- Developing a personal brand in enterprise agility
- Delivering measurable ROI in your next role or project
- Using the course portfolio as proof of applied learning
- Tracking progress with gamified milestones and achievements
- Receiving updates on SAFe evolution and industry shifts
- The five core leadership behaviors in SAFe
- Leading by example: becoming a Lean-Agile change agent
- Overcoming command-and-control legacy patterns
- Developing personal agility as a leadership prerequisite
- Building psychological safety across Agile Release Trains
- Coaching leaders through resistance and skepticism
- Creating urgency without panic: the art of transformation pacing
- Developing a growth mindset in hierarchical organizations
- Applying Lean systems thinking to organizational design
- Differentiating leadership from management in SAFe
Module 4: Implementing the SAFe Portfolio - Establishing Lean Portfolio Management governance
- Connecting strategy to execution via portfolio vision
- Developing strategic themes that guide investment decisions
- Creating a Portfolio Backlog with epics and guardrails
- Defining Epic Owners and the Epic Kanban system
- Reviewing epics with Lean Business Cases
- Applying Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) at scale
- Estimating epic duration, effort, and risk
- Obtaining Portfolio Steering approval and funding
- Tracking epic progress using Epic KPIs and burn-up charts
Module 5: Value Stream Identification and Design - Defining Development Value Streams versus Operational Value Streams
- Mapping customer journeys to value delivery paths
- Identifying current-state process bottlenecks and delays
- Calculating lead time, process time, and %C&A
- Selecting the right value stream for initial SAFe rollout
- Aligning ARTs to value streams, not organizational silos
- Designing future-state value streams for flow optimization
- Engaging stakeholders in value stream co-design workshops
- Integrating DevOps and continuous delivery into value streams
- Validating value stream design with real-world throughput data
Module 6: Launching Agile Release Trains (ARTs) - Preparing for ART launch: timeline and prerequisites
- Selecting the right ART configuration (12–150 people)
- Identifying ART stakeholders and executive sponsors
- Conducting ART readiness assessments
- Building the ART launch plan with key milestones
- Organizing the ART launch event and Big Room Planning
- Staffing roles: Product Manager, RTE, System Architect, etc.
- Creating the initial Program Backlog
- Developing the first PI Objectives with business alignment
- Sustaining ART momentum post-launch with cadence
Module 7: Program Increment (PI) Planning Mastery - Understanding the rhythm of PI Planning: quarterly cadence
- Preparing for PI Planning: pre-work and logistics
- Running the two-day PI Planning event successfully
- Setting the PI Vision with business context and objectives
- Facilitating team breakout planning sessions
- Drafting team PI Objectives with measurable outcomes
- Identifying and negotiating cross-team dependencies
- Using ROAM technique to manage risks, ownership, etc.
- Reaching the PI Planning draft plan review
- Finalizing ART commitments and management review
- Conducting the final PI Planning confidence vote
- Documenting outcomes and action items
- Integrating compliance and regulatory requirements into PI goals
- Adjusting PI scope based on capacity and risk
- Using PI Planning as a transparency and alignment mechanism
Module 8: Executing the Program Increment - Overview of the 8–12 week PI execution rhythm
- Running effective Scrum of Scrums and ART syncs
- Tracking Program Board progress and impediments
- Managing dependencies with visibility tools
- Using Inspect and Adapt (I&A) events effectively
- Conducting System Demos with stakeholder feedback
- Measuring PI success with Objectives and Metrics
- Facilitating the PI Retrospective for continuous improvement
- Reporting PI performance to executives and sponsors
- Handling mid-PI scope changes and emergency fixes
- Integrating user feedback into PI execution
- Ensuring quality through continuous testing and CI/CD
- Managing team capacity and velocity at scale
- Using Kanban systems for flow management across teams
- Aligning team backlogs to program priorities
Module 9: Lean-Agile Product Management - Role of the Product Manager in SAFe
- Differentiating team Product Owner from ART Product Manager
- Developing the Program Backlog with user and enabler stories
- Prioritizing backlog items using WSJF and business value
- Refining epics into features and capabilities
- Collaborating with Architects on non-functional requirements
- Engaging stakeholders in backlog reviews and refinement
- Managing customer expectations through roadmap transparency
- Using feedback cycles to validate assumptions and pivot
- Aligning product outcomes to strategic themes
- Integrating market research and customer discovery
- Documenting Lean Business Cases for significant features
- Creating release plans with go-to-market coordination
- Managing regulatory and compliance requirements in backlog
- Using metrics to measure product outcomes, not just output
Module 10: Systems and Solution Architecture at Scale - The role of Enterprise and System Architects in SAFe
- Shifting from up-front design to emergent architecture
- Defining Architectural Runway and Enabler Stories
- Planning non-functional requirements across ARTs
- Facilitating Architecture Sync meetings
- Using Portfolio Epics to fund major architectural changes
- Integrating DevOps and security into architectural planning
- Managing technical debt at scale with transparency
- Coordinating architecture across multiple value streams
- Using modeling tools to visualize system dependencies
- Ensuring scalability, performance, and resilience by design
- Embedding architecture review gates in PI Planning
- Building reusable services and platforms
- Aligning cloud strategy with architectural runway
- Documenting decisions in Architectural Decision Records (ADRs)
Module 11: DevOps and Continuous Delivery Pipeline - Understanding the four pillars of DevOps in SAFe
- Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline for enterprise systems
- Mapping the current-state delivery workflow
- Identifying automation opportunities and bottlenecks
- Integrating security and compliance into the pipeline
- Designing test automation strategies for large systems
- Using deployment pipelines for frequent, low-risk releases
- Establishing built-in quality practices across teams
- Measuring pipeline performance: lead time, failure rate, MTTR
- Coordinating releases across multiple ARTs
- Implementing canary and blue-green deployments
- Using feature toggles to decouple deployment from release
- Integrating monitoring and observability into delivery
- Shifting security left in the pipeline
- Managing environment provisioning at scale
Module 12: Lean Portfolio Management in Practice - Establishing a Lean-Agile PMO function
- Transitioning from project-based to product-based funding
- Using Lean Budgets with guardrails instead of cost centers
- Deciding how much to allocate per value stream
- Setting spending thresholds and review cycles
- Empowering ARTs with budget authority and accountability
- Measuring portfolio performance with Lean metrics
- Reporting to executives using Value Stream KPIs
- Conducting Portfolio Sync meetings quarterly
- Integrating risk management into funding decisions
- Balancing innovation, maintenance, and technical uplift
- Using Kanban for portfolio flow management
- Managing portfolio epics from ideation to implementation
- Linking portfolio objectives to enterprise strategy
- Conducting regular Lean Portfolio audits
Module 13: Organizational Change and Sustaining Agility - Applying the SAFe Implementation Roadmap (12 steps)
- Identifying change agents and transformation champions
- Creating a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE)
- Developing training and certification plans for teams
- Rolling out SAFe incrementally vs. big bang
- Managing resistance from middle management
- Aligning HR policies with Lean-Agile roles
- Updating performance reviews and incentives
- Integrating SAFe into enterprise learning platforms
- Measuring transformation success beyond velocity
- Using surveys, metrics, and feedback loops for health checks
- Scaling beyond the first value stream
- Handling matrixed reporting and dual accountability
- Ensuring continuity during leadership transitions
- Institutionalizing agility into operating rhythms
Module 14: SAFe Metrics and Performance Tracking - Selecting the right metrics for each SAFe level
- Differentiating leading vs. lagging indicators
- Implementing Team Level metrics: velocity, quality, predictability
- Tracking Program Level: PI Objectives achievement, ART health
- Measuring compliance, security, and audit readiness
- Using Flow Metrics: lead time, work in process, throughput
- Applying the CALMR approach to DevOps metrics
- Visualizing metrics with dashboards and equity guards
- Avoiding metric manipulation and gaming behaviors
- Using metrics for improvement, not punishment
- Reporting to executives without oversimplification
- Conducting quarterly metrics reviews with ARTs
- Linking metrics to business outcomes
- Integrating NPS and customer satisfaction into delivery
- Establishing feedback loops from operations to development
Module 15: Advanced Topics and Specialized Applications - SAFe in Government and Regulated Industries
- Adapting SAFe for cybersecurity and safety-critical systems
- Integrating SAFe with ITIL and service management
- Scaling Agile to maintenance and operations teams
- Applying SAFe in M&A and organizational restructuring
- Using SAFe for digital transformation initiatives
- Integrating design thinking and UX into Agile delivery
- Applying SAFe in data, AI, and machine learning programs
- Coordinating SAFe with waterfall gating in hybrid models
- Managing offshore and nearshore distributed ARTs
- Running virtual PI Planning effectively
- Using collaboration tools for global SAFe execution
- Handling time zone and cultural differences
- Integrating contractor teams into ARTs
- Ensuring knowledge transfer and continuity
Module 16: Certification and Post-Course Advancement - Preparing for the SAFe certification ecosystem: SPC, POPM, RTE, etc.
- Understanding the difference between this course and SAFe certification exams
- Building a professional development roadmap
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for career growth
- Updating your LinkedIn and resume with verified skills
- Joining the global Art of Service alumni network
- Accessing post-course templates, tools, and playbooks
- Participating in community forums and expert Q&As
- Registering for advanced workshops and coaching programs
- Transitioning from practitioner to consultant or internal coach
- Developing a personal brand in enterprise agility
- Delivering measurable ROI in your next role or project
- Using the course portfolio as proof of applied learning
- Tracking progress with gamified milestones and achievements
- Receiving updates on SAFe evolution and industry shifts
- Defining Development Value Streams versus Operational Value Streams
- Mapping customer journeys to value delivery paths
- Identifying current-state process bottlenecks and delays
- Calculating lead time, process time, and %C&A
- Selecting the right value stream for initial SAFe rollout
- Aligning ARTs to value streams, not organizational silos
- Designing future-state value streams for flow optimization
- Engaging stakeholders in value stream co-design workshops
- Integrating DevOps and continuous delivery into value streams
- Validating value stream design with real-world throughput data
Module 6: Launching Agile Release Trains (ARTs) - Preparing for ART launch: timeline and prerequisites
- Selecting the right ART configuration (12–150 people)
- Identifying ART stakeholders and executive sponsors
- Conducting ART readiness assessments
- Building the ART launch plan with key milestones
- Organizing the ART launch event and Big Room Planning
- Staffing roles: Product Manager, RTE, System Architect, etc.
- Creating the initial Program Backlog
- Developing the first PI Objectives with business alignment
- Sustaining ART momentum post-launch with cadence
Module 7: Program Increment (PI) Planning Mastery - Understanding the rhythm of PI Planning: quarterly cadence
- Preparing for PI Planning: pre-work and logistics
- Running the two-day PI Planning event successfully
- Setting the PI Vision with business context and objectives
- Facilitating team breakout planning sessions
- Drafting team PI Objectives with measurable outcomes
- Identifying and negotiating cross-team dependencies
- Using ROAM technique to manage risks, ownership, etc.
- Reaching the PI Planning draft plan review
- Finalizing ART commitments and management review
- Conducting the final PI Planning confidence vote
- Documenting outcomes and action items
- Integrating compliance and regulatory requirements into PI goals
- Adjusting PI scope based on capacity and risk
- Using PI Planning as a transparency and alignment mechanism
Module 8: Executing the Program Increment - Overview of the 8–12 week PI execution rhythm
- Running effective Scrum of Scrums and ART syncs
- Tracking Program Board progress and impediments
- Managing dependencies with visibility tools
- Using Inspect and Adapt (I&A) events effectively
- Conducting System Demos with stakeholder feedback
- Measuring PI success with Objectives and Metrics
- Facilitating the PI Retrospective for continuous improvement
- Reporting PI performance to executives and sponsors
- Handling mid-PI scope changes and emergency fixes
- Integrating user feedback into PI execution
- Ensuring quality through continuous testing and CI/CD
- Managing team capacity and velocity at scale
- Using Kanban systems for flow management across teams
- Aligning team backlogs to program priorities
Module 9: Lean-Agile Product Management - Role of the Product Manager in SAFe
- Differentiating team Product Owner from ART Product Manager
- Developing the Program Backlog with user and enabler stories
- Prioritizing backlog items using WSJF and business value
- Refining epics into features and capabilities
- Collaborating with Architects on non-functional requirements
- Engaging stakeholders in backlog reviews and refinement
- Managing customer expectations through roadmap transparency
- Using feedback cycles to validate assumptions and pivot
- Aligning product outcomes to strategic themes
- Integrating market research and customer discovery
- Documenting Lean Business Cases for significant features
- Creating release plans with go-to-market coordination
- Managing regulatory and compliance requirements in backlog
- Using metrics to measure product outcomes, not just output
Module 10: Systems and Solution Architecture at Scale - The role of Enterprise and System Architects in SAFe
- Shifting from up-front design to emergent architecture
- Defining Architectural Runway and Enabler Stories
- Planning non-functional requirements across ARTs
- Facilitating Architecture Sync meetings
- Using Portfolio Epics to fund major architectural changes
- Integrating DevOps and security into architectural planning
- Managing technical debt at scale with transparency
- Coordinating architecture across multiple value streams
- Using modeling tools to visualize system dependencies
- Ensuring scalability, performance, and resilience by design
- Embedding architecture review gates in PI Planning
- Building reusable services and platforms
- Aligning cloud strategy with architectural runway
- Documenting decisions in Architectural Decision Records (ADRs)
Module 11: DevOps and Continuous Delivery Pipeline - Understanding the four pillars of DevOps in SAFe
- Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline for enterprise systems
- Mapping the current-state delivery workflow
- Identifying automation opportunities and bottlenecks
- Integrating security and compliance into the pipeline
- Designing test automation strategies for large systems
- Using deployment pipelines for frequent, low-risk releases
- Establishing built-in quality practices across teams
- Measuring pipeline performance: lead time, failure rate, MTTR
- Coordinating releases across multiple ARTs
- Implementing canary and blue-green deployments
- Using feature toggles to decouple deployment from release
- Integrating monitoring and observability into delivery
- Shifting security left in the pipeline
- Managing environment provisioning at scale
Module 12: Lean Portfolio Management in Practice - Establishing a Lean-Agile PMO function
- Transitioning from project-based to product-based funding
- Using Lean Budgets with guardrails instead of cost centers
- Deciding how much to allocate per value stream
- Setting spending thresholds and review cycles
- Empowering ARTs with budget authority and accountability
- Measuring portfolio performance with Lean metrics
- Reporting to executives using Value Stream KPIs
- Conducting Portfolio Sync meetings quarterly
- Integrating risk management into funding decisions
- Balancing innovation, maintenance, and technical uplift
- Using Kanban for portfolio flow management
- Managing portfolio epics from ideation to implementation
- Linking portfolio objectives to enterprise strategy
- Conducting regular Lean Portfolio audits
Module 13: Organizational Change and Sustaining Agility - Applying the SAFe Implementation Roadmap (12 steps)
- Identifying change agents and transformation champions
- Creating a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE)
- Developing training and certification plans for teams
- Rolling out SAFe incrementally vs. big bang
- Managing resistance from middle management
- Aligning HR policies with Lean-Agile roles
- Updating performance reviews and incentives
- Integrating SAFe into enterprise learning platforms
- Measuring transformation success beyond velocity
- Using surveys, metrics, and feedback loops for health checks
- Scaling beyond the first value stream
- Handling matrixed reporting and dual accountability
- Ensuring continuity during leadership transitions
- Institutionalizing agility into operating rhythms
Module 14: SAFe Metrics and Performance Tracking - Selecting the right metrics for each SAFe level
- Differentiating leading vs. lagging indicators
- Implementing Team Level metrics: velocity, quality, predictability
- Tracking Program Level: PI Objectives achievement, ART health
- Measuring compliance, security, and audit readiness
- Using Flow Metrics: lead time, work in process, throughput
- Applying the CALMR approach to DevOps metrics
- Visualizing metrics with dashboards and equity guards
- Avoiding metric manipulation and gaming behaviors
- Using metrics for improvement, not punishment
- Reporting to executives without oversimplification
- Conducting quarterly metrics reviews with ARTs
- Linking metrics to business outcomes
- Integrating NPS and customer satisfaction into delivery
- Establishing feedback loops from operations to development
Module 15: Advanced Topics and Specialized Applications - SAFe in Government and Regulated Industries
- Adapting SAFe for cybersecurity and safety-critical systems
- Integrating SAFe with ITIL and service management
- Scaling Agile to maintenance and operations teams
- Applying SAFe in M&A and organizational restructuring
- Using SAFe for digital transformation initiatives
- Integrating design thinking and UX into Agile delivery
- Applying SAFe in data, AI, and machine learning programs
- Coordinating SAFe with waterfall gating in hybrid models
- Managing offshore and nearshore distributed ARTs
- Running virtual PI Planning effectively
- Using collaboration tools for global SAFe execution
- Handling time zone and cultural differences
- Integrating contractor teams into ARTs
- Ensuring knowledge transfer and continuity
Module 16: Certification and Post-Course Advancement - Preparing for the SAFe certification ecosystem: SPC, POPM, RTE, etc.
- Understanding the difference between this course and SAFe certification exams
- Building a professional development roadmap
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for career growth
- Updating your LinkedIn and resume with verified skills
- Joining the global Art of Service alumni network
- Accessing post-course templates, tools, and playbooks
- Participating in community forums and expert Q&As
- Registering for advanced workshops and coaching programs
- Transitioning from practitioner to consultant or internal coach
- Developing a personal brand in enterprise agility
- Delivering measurable ROI in your next role or project
- Using the course portfolio as proof of applied learning
- Tracking progress with gamified milestones and achievements
- Receiving updates on SAFe evolution and industry shifts
- Understanding the rhythm of PI Planning: quarterly cadence
- Preparing for PI Planning: pre-work and logistics
- Running the two-day PI Planning event successfully
- Setting the PI Vision with business context and objectives
- Facilitating team breakout planning sessions
- Drafting team PI Objectives with measurable outcomes
- Identifying and negotiating cross-team dependencies
- Using ROAM technique to manage risks, ownership, etc.
- Reaching the PI Planning draft plan review
- Finalizing ART commitments and management review
- Conducting the final PI Planning confidence vote
- Documenting outcomes and action items
- Integrating compliance and regulatory requirements into PI goals
- Adjusting PI scope based on capacity and risk
- Using PI Planning as a transparency and alignment mechanism
Module 8: Executing the Program Increment - Overview of the 8–12 week PI execution rhythm
- Running effective Scrum of Scrums and ART syncs
- Tracking Program Board progress and impediments
- Managing dependencies with visibility tools
- Using Inspect and Adapt (I&A) events effectively
- Conducting System Demos with stakeholder feedback
- Measuring PI success with Objectives and Metrics
- Facilitating the PI Retrospective for continuous improvement
- Reporting PI performance to executives and sponsors
- Handling mid-PI scope changes and emergency fixes
- Integrating user feedback into PI execution
- Ensuring quality through continuous testing and CI/CD
- Managing team capacity and velocity at scale
- Using Kanban systems for flow management across teams
- Aligning team backlogs to program priorities
Module 9: Lean-Agile Product Management - Role of the Product Manager in SAFe
- Differentiating team Product Owner from ART Product Manager
- Developing the Program Backlog with user and enabler stories
- Prioritizing backlog items using WSJF and business value
- Refining epics into features and capabilities
- Collaborating with Architects on non-functional requirements
- Engaging stakeholders in backlog reviews and refinement
- Managing customer expectations through roadmap transparency
- Using feedback cycles to validate assumptions and pivot
- Aligning product outcomes to strategic themes
- Integrating market research and customer discovery
- Documenting Lean Business Cases for significant features
- Creating release plans with go-to-market coordination
- Managing regulatory and compliance requirements in backlog
- Using metrics to measure product outcomes, not just output
Module 10: Systems and Solution Architecture at Scale - The role of Enterprise and System Architects in SAFe
- Shifting from up-front design to emergent architecture
- Defining Architectural Runway and Enabler Stories
- Planning non-functional requirements across ARTs
- Facilitating Architecture Sync meetings
- Using Portfolio Epics to fund major architectural changes
- Integrating DevOps and security into architectural planning
- Managing technical debt at scale with transparency
- Coordinating architecture across multiple value streams
- Using modeling tools to visualize system dependencies
- Ensuring scalability, performance, and resilience by design
- Embedding architecture review gates in PI Planning
- Building reusable services and platforms
- Aligning cloud strategy with architectural runway
- Documenting decisions in Architectural Decision Records (ADRs)
Module 11: DevOps and Continuous Delivery Pipeline - Understanding the four pillars of DevOps in SAFe
- Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline for enterprise systems
- Mapping the current-state delivery workflow
- Identifying automation opportunities and bottlenecks
- Integrating security and compliance into the pipeline
- Designing test automation strategies for large systems
- Using deployment pipelines for frequent, low-risk releases
- Establishing built-in quality practices across teams
- Measuring pipeline performance: lead time, failure rate, MTTR
- Coordinating releases across multiple ARTs
- Implementing canary and blue-green deployments
- Using feature toggles to decouple deployment from release
- Integrating monitoring and observability into delivery
- Shifting security left in the pipeline
- Managing environment provisioning at scale
Module 12: Lean Portfolio Management in Practice - Establishing a Lean-Agile PMO function
- Transitioning from project-based to product-based funding
- Using Lean Budgets with guardrails instead of cost centers
- Deciding how much to allocate per value stream
- Setting spending thresholds and review cycles
- Empowering ARTs with budget authority and accountability
- Measuring portfolio performance with Lean metrics
- Reporting to executives using Value Stream KPIs
- Conducting Portfolio Sync meetings quarterly
- Integrating risk management into funding decisions
- Balancing innovation, maintenance, and technical uplift
- Using Kanban for portfolio flow management
- Managing portfolio epics from ideation to implementation
- Linking portfolio objectives to enterprise strategy
- Conducting regular Lean Portfolio audits
Module 13: Organizational Change and Sustaining Agility - Applying the SAFe Implementation Roadmap (12 steps)
- Identifying change agents and transformation champions
- Creating a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE)
- Developing training and certification plans for teams
- Rolling out SAFe incrementally vs. big bang
- Managing resistance from middle management
- Aligning HR policies with Lean-Agile roles
- Updating performance reviews and incentives
- Integrating SAFe into enterprise learning platforms
- Measuring transformation success beyond velocity
- Using surveys, metrics, and feedback loops for health checks
- Scaling beyond the first value stream
- Handling matrixed reporting and dual accountability
- Ensuring continuity during leadership transitions
- Institutionalizing agility into operating rhythms
Module 14: SAFe Metrics and Performance Tracking - Selecting the right metrics for each SAFe level
- Differentiating leading vs. lagging indicators
- Implementing Team Level metrics: velocity, quality, predictability
- Tracking Program Level: PI Objectives achievement, ART health
- Measuring compliance, security, and audit readiness
- Using Flow Metrics: lead time, work in process, throughput
- Applying the CALMR approach to DevOps metrics
- Visualizing metrics with dashboards and equity guards
- Avoiding metric manipulation and gaming behaviors
- Using metrics for improvement, not punishment
- Reporting to executives without oversimplification
- Conducting quarterly metrics reviews with ARTs
- Linking metrics to business outcomes
- Integrating NPS and customer satisfaction into delivery
- Establishing feedback loops from operations to development
Module 15: Advanced Topics and Specialized Applications - SAFe in Government and Regulated Industries
- Adapting SAFe for cybersecurity and safety-critical systems
- Integrating SAFe with ITIL and service management
- Scaling Agile to maintenance and operations teams
- Applying SAFe in M&A and organizational restructuring
- Using SAFe for digital transformation initiatives
- Integrating design thinking and UX into Agile delivery
- Applying SAFe in data, AI, and machine learning programs
- Coordinating SAFe with waterfall gating in hybrid models
- Managing offshore and nearshore distributed ARTs
- Running virtual PI Planning effectively
- Using collaboration tools for global SAFe execution
- Handling time zone and cultural differences
- Integrating contractor teams into ARTs
- Ensuring knowledge transfer and continuity
Module 16: Certification and Post-Course Advancement - Preparing for the SAFe certification ecosystem: SPC, POPM, RTE, etc.
- Understanding the difference between this course and SAFe certification exams
- Building a professional development roadmap
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for career growth
- Updating your LinkedIn and resume with verified skills
- Joining the global Art of Service alumni network
- Accessing post-course templates, tools, and playbooks
- Participating in community forums and expert Q&As
- Registering for advanced workshops and coaching programs
- Transitioning from practitioner to consultant or internal coach
- Developing a personal brand in enterprise agility
- Delivering measurable ROI in your next role or project
- Using the course portfolio as proof of applied learning
- Tracking progress with gamified milestones and achievements
- Receiving updates on SAFe evolution and industry shifts
- Role of the Product Manager in SAFe
- Differentiating team Product Owner from ART Product Manager
- Developing the Program Backlog with user and enabler stories
- Prioritizing backlog items using WSJF and business value
- Refining epics into features and capabilities
- Collaborating with Architects on non-functional requirements
- Engaging stakeholders in backlog reviews and refinement
- Managing customer expectations through roadmap transparency
- Using feedback cycles to validate assumptions and pivot
- Aligning product outcomes to strategic themes
- Integrating market research and customer discovery
- Documenting Lean Business Cases for significant features
- Creating release plans with go-to-market coordination
- Managing regulatory and compliance requirements in backlog
- Using metrics to measure product outcomes, not just output
Module 10: Systems and Solution Architecture at Scale - The role of Enterprise and System Architects in SAFe
- Shifting from up-front design to emergent architecture
- Defining Architectural Runway and Enabler Stories
- Planning non-functional requirements across ARTs
- Facilitating Architecture Sync meetings
- Using Portfolio Epics to fund major architectural changes
- Integrating DevOps and security into architectural planning
- Managing technical debt at scale with transparency
- Coordinating architecture across multiple value streams
- Using modeling tools to visualize system dependencies
- Ensuring scalability, performance, and resilience by design
- Embedding architecture review gates in PI Planning
- Building reusable services and platforms
- Aligning cloud strategy with architectural runway
- Documenting decisions in Architectural Decision Records (ADRs)
Module 11: DevOps and Continuous Delivery Pipeline - Understanding the four pillars of DevOps in SAFe
- Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline for enterprise systems
- Mapping the current-state delivery workflow
- Identifying automation opportunities and bottlenecks
- Integrating security and compliance into the pipeline
- Designing test automation strategies for large systems
- Using deployment pipelines for frequent, low-risk releases
- Establishing built-in quality practices across teams
- Measuring pipeline performance: lead time, failure rate, MTTR
- Coordinating releases across multiple ARTs
- Implementing canary and blue-green deployments
- Using feature toggles to decouple deployment from release
- Integrating monitoring and observability into delivery
- Shifting security left in the pipeline
- Managing environment provisioning at scale
Module 12: Lean Portfolio Management in Practice - Establishing a Lean-Agile PMO function
- Transitioning from project-based to product-based funding
- Using Lean Budgets with guardrails instead of cost centers
- Deciding how much to allocate per value stream
- Setting spending thresholds and review cycles
- Empowering ARTs with budget authority and accountability
- Measuring portfolio performance with Lean metrics
- Reporting to executives using Value Stream KPIs
- Conducting Portfolio Sync meetings quarterly
- Integrating risk management into funding decisions
- Balancing innovation, maintenance, and technical uplift
- Using Kanban for portfolio flow management
- Managing portfolio epics from ideation to implementation
- Linking portfolio objectives to enterprise strategy
- Conducting regular Lean Portfolio audits
Module 13: Organizational Change and Sustaining Agility - Applying the SAFe Implementation Roadmap (12 steps)
- Identifying change agents and transformation champions
- Creating a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE)
- Developing training and certification plans for teams
- Rolling out SAFe incrementally vs. big bang
- Managing resistance from middle management
- Aligning HR policies with Lean-Agile roles
- Updating performance reviews and incentives
- Integrating SAFe into enterprise learning platforms
- Measuring transformation success beyond velocity
- Using surveys, metrics, and feedback loops for health checks
- Scaling beyond the first value stream
- Handling matrixed reporting and dual accountability
- Ensuring continuity during leadership transitions
- Institutionalizing agility into operating rhythms
Module 14: SAFe Metrics and Performance Tracking - Selecting the right metrics for each SAFe level
- Differentiating leading vs. lagging indicators
- Implementing Team Level metrics: velocity, quality, predictability
- Tracking Program Level: PI Objectives achievement, ART health
- Measuring compliance, security, and audit readiness
- Using Flow Metrics: lead time, work in process, throughput
- Applying the CALMR approach to DevOps metrics
- Visualizing metrics with dashboards and equity guards
- Avoiding metric manipulation and gaming behaviors
- Using metrics for improvement, not punishment
- Reporting to executives without oversimplification
- Conducting quarterly metrics reviews with ARTs
- Linking metrics to business outcomes
- Integrating NPS and customer satisfaction into delivery
- Establishing feedback loops from operations to development
Module 15: Advanced Topics and Specialized Applications - SAFe in Government and Regulated Industries
- Adapting SAFe for cybersecurity and safety-critical systems
- Integrating SAFe with ITIL and service management
- Scaling Agile to maintenance and operations teams
- Applying SAFe in M&A and organizational restructuring
- Using SAFe for digital transformation initiatives
- Integrating design thinking and UX into Agile delivery
- Applying SAFe in data, AI, and machine learning programs
- Coordinating SAFe with waterfall gating in hybrid models
- Managing offshore and nearshore distributed ARTs
- Running virtual PI Planning effectively
- Using collaboration tools for global SAFe execution
- Handling time zone and cultural differences
- Integrating contractor teams into ARTs
- Ensuring knowledge transfer and continuity
Module 16: Certification and Post-Course Advancement - Preparing for the SAFe certification ecosystem: SPC, POPM, RTE, etc.
- Understanding the difference between this course and SAFe certification exams
- Building a professional development roadmap
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for career growth
- Updating your LinkedIn and resume with verified skills
- Joining the global Art of Service alumni network
- Accessing post-course templates, tools, and playbooks
- Participating in community forums and expert Q&As
- Registering for advanced workshops and coaching programs
- Transitioning from practitioner to consultant or internal coach
- Developing a personal brand in enterprise agility
- Delivering measurable ROI in your next role or project
- Using the course portfolio as proof of applied learning
- Tracking progress with gamified milestones and achievements
- Receiving updates on SAFe evolution and industry shifts
- Understanding the four pillars of DevOps in SAFe
- Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline for enterprise systems
- Mapping the current-state delivery workflow
- Identifying automation opportunities and bottlenecks
- Integrating security and compliance into the pipeline
- Designing test automation strategies for large systems
- Using deployment pipelines for frequent, low-risk releases
- Establishing built-in quality practices across teams
- Measuring pipeline performance: lead time, failure rate, MTTR
- Coordinating releases across multiple ARTs
- Implementing canary and blue-green deployments
- Using feature toggles to decouple deployment from release
- Integrating monitoring and observability into delivery
- Shifting security left in the pipeline
- Managing environment provisioning at scale
Module 12: Lean Portfolio Management in Practice - Establishing a Lean-Agile PMO function
- Transitioning from project-based to product-based funding
- Using Lean Budgets with guardrails instead of cost centers
- Deciding how much to allocate per value stream
- Setting spending thresholds and review cycles
- Empowering ARTs with budget authority and accountability
- Measuring portfolio performance with Lean metrics
- Reporting to executives using Value Stream KPIs
- Conducting Portfolio Sync meetings quarterly
- Integrating risk management into funding decisions
- Balancing innovation, maintenance, and technical uplift
- Using Kanban for portfolio flow management
- Managing portfolio epics from ideation to implementation
- Linking portfolio objectives to enterprise strategy
- Conducting regular Lean Portfolio audits
Module 13: Organizational Change and Sustaining Agility - Applying the SAFe Implementation Roadmap (12 steps)
- Identifying change agents and transformation champions
- Creating a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE)
- Developing training and certification plans for teams
- Rolling out SAFe incrementally vs. big bang
- Managing resistance from middle management
- Aligning HR policies with Lean-Agile roles
- Updating performance reviews and incentives
- Integrating SAFe into enterprise learning platforms
- Measuring transformation success beyond velocity
- Using surveys, metrics, and feedback loops for health checks
- Scaling beyond the first value stream
- Handling matrixed reporting and dual accountability
- Ensuring continuity during leadership transitions
- Institutionalizing agility into operating rhythms
Module 14: SAFe Metrics and Performance Tracking - Selecting the right metrics for each SAFe level
- Differentiating leading vs. lagging indicators
- Implementing Team Level metrics: velocity, quality, predictability
- Tracking Program Level: PI Objectives achievement, ART health
- Measuring compliance, security, and audit readiness
- Using Flow Metrics: lead time, work in process, throughput
- Applying the CALMR approach to DevOps metrics
- Visualizing metrics with dashboards and equity guards
- Avoiding metric manipulation and gaming behaviors
- Using metrics for improvement, not punishment
- Reporting to executives without oversimplification
- Conducting quarterly metrics reviews with ARTs
- Linking metrics to business outcomes
- Integrating NPS and customer satisfaction into delivery
- Establishing feedback loops from operations to development
Module 15: Advanced Topics and Specialized Applications - SAFe in Government and Regulated Industries
- Adapting SAFe for cybersecurity and safety-critical systems
- Integrating SAFe with ITIL and service management
- Scaling Agile to maintenance and operations teams
- Applying SAFe in M&A and organizational restructuring
- Using SAFe for digital transformation initiatives
- Integrating design thinking and UX into Agile delivery
- Applying SAFe in data, AI, and machine learning programs
- Coordinating SAFe with waterfall gating in hybrid models
- Managing offshore and nearshore distributed ARTs
- Running virtual PI Planning effectively
- Using collaboration tools for global SAFe execution
- Handling time zone and cultural differences
- Integrating contractor teams into ARTs
- Ensuring knowledge transfer and continuity
Module 16: Certification and Post-Course Advancement - Preparing for the SAFe certification ecosystem: SPC, POPM, RTE, etc.
- Understanding the difference between this course and SAFe certification exams
- Building a professional development roadmap
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for career growth
- Updating your LinkedIn and resume with verified skills
- Joining the global Art of Service alumni network
- Accessing post-course templates, tools, and playbooks
- Participating in community forums and expert Q&As
- Registering for advanced workshops and coaching programs
- Transitioning from practitioner to consultant or internal coach
- Developing a personal brand in enterprise agility
- Delivering measurable ROI in your next role or project
- Using the course portfolio as proof of applied learning
- Tracking progress with gamified milestones and achievements
- Receiving updates on SAFe evolution and industry shifts
- Applying the SAFe Implementation Roadmap (12 steps)
- Identifying change agents and transformation champions
- Creating a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE)
- Developing training and certification plans for teams
- Rolling out SAFe incrementally vs. big bang
- Managing resistance from middle management
- Aligning HR policies with Lean-Agile roles
- Updating performance reviews and incentives
- Integrating SAFe into enterprise learning platforms
- Measuring transformation success beyond velocity
- Using surveys, metrics, and feedback loops for health checks
- Scaling beyond the first value stream
- Handling matrixed reporting and dual accountability
- Ensuring continuity during leadership transitions
- Institutionalizing agility into operating rhythms
Module 14: SAFe Metrics and Performance Tracking - Selecting the right metrics for each SAFe level
- Differentiating leading vs. lagging indicators
- Implementing Team Level metrics: velocity, quality, predictability
- Tracking Program Level: PI Objectives achievement, ART health
- Measuring compliance, security, and audit readiness
- Using Flow Metrics: lead time, work in process, throughput
- Applying the CALMR approach to DevOps metrics
- Visualizing metrics with dashboards and equity guards
- Avoiding metric manipulation and gaming behaviors
- Using metrics for improvement, not punishment
- Reporting to executives without oversimplification
- Conducting quarterly metrics reviews with ARTs
- Linking metrics to business outcomes
- Integrating NPS and customer satisfaction into delivery
- Establishing feedback loops from operations to development
Module 15: Advanced Topics and Specialized Applications - SAFe in Government and Regulated Industries
- Adapting SAFe for cybersecurity and safety-critical systems
- Integrating SAFe with ITIL and service management
- Scaling Agile to maintenance and operations teams
- Applying SAFe in M&A and organizational restructuring
- Using SAFe for digital transformation initiatives
- Integrating design thinking and UX into Agile delivery
- Applying SAFe in data, AI, and machine learning programs
- Coordinating SAFe with waterfall gating in hybrid models
- Managing offshore and nearshore distributed ARTs
- Running virtual PI Planning effectively
- Using collaboration tools for global SAFe execution
- Handling time zone and cultural differences
- Integrating contractor teams into ARTs
- Ensuring knowledge transfer and continuity
Module 16: Certification and Post-Course Advancement - Preparing for the SAFe certification ecosystem: SPC, POPM, RTE, etc.
- Understanding the difference between this course and SAFe certification exams
- Building a professional development roadmap
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for career growth
- Updating your LinkedIn and resume with verified skills
- Joining the global Art of Service alumni network
- Accessing post-course templates, tools, and playbooks
- Participating in community forums and expert Q&As
- Registering for advanced workshops and coaching programs
- Transitioning from practitioner to consultant or internal coach
- Developing a personal brand in enterprise agility
- Delivering measurable ROI in your next role or project
- Using the course portfolio as proof of applied learning
- Tracking progress with gamified milestones and achievements
- Receiving updates on SAFe evolution and industry shifts
- SAFe in Government and Regulated Industries
- Adapting SAFe for cybersecurity and safety-critical systems
- Integrating SAFe with ITIL and service management
- Scaling Agile to maintenance and operations teams
- Applying SAFe in M&A and organizational restructuring
- Using SAFe for digital transformation initiatives
- Integrating design thinking and UX into Agile delivery
- Applying SAFe in data, AI, and machine learning programs
- Coordinating SAFe with waterfall gating in hybrid models
- Managing offshore and nearshore distributed ARTs
- Running virtual PI Planning effectively
- Using collaboration tools for global SAFe execution
- Handling time zone and cultural differences
- Integrating contractor teams into ARTs
- Ensuring knowledge transfer and continuity