Implementing SAFe (SPC)

Dur­ing this four-day course, you will learn how to lead a Lean-Ag­ile trans­for­ma­tion by lever­ag­ing the prac­tices and prin­ci­ples of the Scaled Ag­ile Frame­work® (SAFe®). You will also gain in­sights and prac­tice how to coach ARTs, launch Ag­ile Re­lease Trains, build a Con­tin­u­ous De­liv­ery Pipeline with De­vOps cul­ture, and em­pow­er a Lean Port­fo­lio. The first two days of the course Lead­ing SAFe pro­vide the ba­sis to teach SAFe to leaders.

The fi­nal two days fo­cus ex­clu­sive­ly on what it takes to suc­cess­ful­ly im­ple­ment SAFe in the en­ter­prise. Be­com­ing a change agent and a Cer­ti­fied SAFe® Prac­tice Con­sul­tant (SPC) en­ables at­ten­dees to coach and guide the en­ter­prise to­ward suc­cess in a dis­rup­tive mar­ket­place, and em­pow­ers them to im­ple­ment a Lean-Ag­ile SAFe transformation.

Price and registration

The costs are CHF 2,995 excl. VAT. In ad­di­tion, ear­ly book­ers re­ceive a 5% dis­count. Reg­is­tra­tion takes place via the ap­pro­pri­ate train­ing date of your choice. The course link or but­ton will then take you to the reg­is­tra­tion page.

SPC training registration

Oct
26
Im­ple­ment­ing SAFe (SPC)
On­line Re­mote Training
Mon, 26. Oct, 8:30 – Thu, 29. Oct, 17:00 CET 
Train­er: Sacha Czudek SPCT Co-Train­er: Fred­erik Zim­mer­mann SPC
Dec
1
Im­ple­ment­ing SAFe (SPC)
On­line Re­mote Training
Tue, 1. Dec, 8:30 – Fri, 4. Dec, 17:00 CET 
Train­er: Stephan Neck SPCT Co-Train­er: Fred­erik Zim­mer­mann SPC

SPC in-house training

If you are in­ter­est­ed in in-house train­ing, please con­tact us at academy@​flowsphere.​ch. We will make you an of­fer immediately!

Audience of this SAFe Practice Consultant training

The course is in­tend­ed for those who will be ma­te­ri­al­ly and di­rect­ly in­volved in a SAFe adop­tion. This in­cludes en­ter­prise lead­ers, prac­ti­tion­ers, change agents, and con­sul­tants re­spon­si­ble for im­ple­ment­ing Ag­ile pro­grams and port­fo­lios as part of an en­ter­prise Lean-Ag­ile change initiative.

At­ten­dees typ­i­cal­ly include:
  • Pro­fes­sion­al Ser­vices Consultants
  • Busi­ness and Tech­nol­o­gy Ex­ec­u­tives and Lead­ers, Man­agers, Directors
  • Port­fo­lio Man­agers and Fidu­cia­ries, Project/​Program Man­age­ment Of­fice (PMO) personnel
  • De­vel­op­ment, QA and IT management
  • Pro­gram and Project Managers
  • Prod­uct and Prod­uct Line Managers
  • Process Leads and Life­cy­cle Gov­er­nance Personnel
  • En­ter­prise, Sys­tem and So­lu­tion Architects
  • In­ter­nal Change Agents, Lean-Ag­ile Cen­ter for Ex­cel­lence, Ag­ile Work­ing Group

Learning Goals of SPC training

Af­ter this course, you should be able to

  • Lead an en­ter­prise Lean-Ag­ile transformation
  • Im­ple­ment the Scaled Ag­ile Frame­work (SAFe)
  • Im­ple­ment and man­age a Lean-Ag­ile portfolio
  • Align the or­ga­ni­za­tion to a com­mon lan­guage and way of working
  • Per­form val­ue stream analy­sis and iden­ti­fy val­ue streams
  • Launch and sup­port Ag­ile Re­lease Trains and co­or­di­nate val­ue streams
  • Build and ex­e­cute the im­ple­men­ta­tion roll­out strategy
  • Con­fig­ure the Frame­work for a spe­cif­ic en­ter­prise context
  • Train man­agers and ex­ec­u­tives in Lead­ing SAFe and act as a SAFe Ag­ilist (SA) cer­ti­fy­ing agent (SPCs only)
  • Train teams in SAFe for Teams (S4T) and act as a SAFe Prac­ti­tion­er (SP) cer­ti­fy­ing agent (SPCs only)

Topics Covered in this SAFe training

First two days: Lead­ing SAFe

  • In­tro­duc­ing the Scaled Ag­ile Framework
  • Em­brac­ing a Lean-Ag­ile Mindset
  • Un­der­stand­ing SAFe Principles
  • Im­ple­ment­ing an Ag­ile Re­lease Train
  • Ex­pe­ri­enc­ing PI Planning
  • Ex­e­cut­ing and Re­leas­ing Value
  • Build­ing an Ag­ile Portfolio
  • Build­ing Re­al­ly Big Systems
  • Lead­ing the Lean-Ag­ile Enterprise
Last two days: Im­ple­ment­ing SAFe
  • Reach­ing the SAFe Tip­ping Point
  • De­sign­ing the Implementation
  • Launch­ing an ART
  • Fa­cil­i­tat­ing ART Execution
  • Ex­tend­ing to the Portfolio
  • Un­der­stand­ing the SPC Exam
  • Ap­ply­ing your SPC Certification
  • Par­tic­i­pat­ing in Open Space

Prerequisites

All stake­hold­ers in a Lean-Ag­ile trans­for­ma­tion are wel­come to at­tend the course, re­gard­less of experience.

How­ev­er, the fol­low­ing pre­req­ui­sites are high­ly rec­om­mend­ed for those who in­tend to take the SPC cer­ti­fi­ca­tion exam and op­er­ate in the field as a SAFe Prac­tice Consultant:
  • 5+ years of ex­pe­ri­ence in soft­ware de­vel­op­ment, test­ing, busi­ness analy­sis, prod­uct or project management
  • 3+ years of ex­pe­ri­ence in Agile
  • One or more rel­e­vant Ag­ile certifications

SAFe® Certification

At­tend­ing the class pre­pares you to take the SAFe Prac­tice Con­sul­tant (SPC) exam. Those who at­tain their SPC cer­ti­fi­ca­tion will receive:

  • Ac­cess to li­cense the course ma­te­ri­als need­ed to train as­pir­ing SAFe Ag­ilists, SAFe Prac­ti­tion­ers, and SAFe PM/​POs
  • Ac­cess to no-cost li­cense ma­te­ri­als, videos, and ar­ti­facts that sup­port launch­ing Ag­ile Re­lease Trains
  • In­clu­sion in the SPC di­rec­to­ry list­ing (op­tion­al)
  • Ac­cess to the pri­vate SPC LinkedIn Group

Annual Renewal

Re­newals are good for one full year from the date of cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and will require:
  • 160 hours of SPC consulting
  • Re­new­al fee: $995
  • 40 con­tin­u­ing education/​outreach hours
At­ten­dees who pass the exam will receive:
  • An SPC certificate
  • Ac­cess to li­cense the course ma­te­ri­als need­ed to train SAFe Ag­ilists, SAFe Prac­ti­tion­ers, and SAFe PM/​POs
  • One-year cer­ti­fied mem­ber­ship as an SPC
  • SPC brand­ing kit with the SPC cer­ti­fi­ca­tion mark