Learning goals

Understand the principles of Lean, Agile and Product development flow in order to achieve in a sustainable way high speed (short time-to-market), high quality, high productivity and strong employee engagement.

• Start your journey toward a Lean-thinking leader-teacher
• Apply SAFe’s Lean and Agile principles to the roles and practices of SAFe
• Lead the transformation with the SAFe Implementation Roadmap
• Support PI Planning and the events associated with successful Program execution
• Drive Release on Demand with the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
• Establish alignment and execution with Strategic Themes and Lean Portfolio Management
• Coordinate multiple Agile Release Trains and suppliers with a Solution Train

Your benefits

• Efficient 2 day preparation for SAFe® Agilist Certification + (optional) 1 day implementation preparation workshop.
• SAFe® licensed course material and workbook.
• After this course you know how to:
  • Approach and lead a SAFe® implementation;
  • Identify the necessary knowledge and skills to successfully start your first Agile Release Train;
  • Take up the essential leadership roles in Lean Portfolio Management and Program Increments.

Why should you take this course? What will you learn?

Are you responsible for portfolio management or PMO in an organization that is moving to Agile?

Or do you already have Agile teams working on discovery and delivery, but with no or only loose connection to the strategic portfolio?

You want to get the most strategic benefit out of your Agile teams?
Then this course is ideal for you.

It covers the following topics:

• Essence of Lean New Product Development and Agile Software Development
• Strategic benefits of Agile continuous discovery and delivery
• Hypothesis formulation and validation
• PMI® based Program & Benefit management as source for epics and features
• SAFe® inspired Lean Portfolio Management
• Lean Portfolio Kanban