SAFe® Program Consultant (SPC) training & certification course in Poland!
Course: SAFe® Program Consultant (SPC)
Date: 12-15.05.2015
Price: $2995.00 + VAT
Early bird price: $2795.00 + VAT*
(available until 12th April)
Group discounts:
- 3 persons from one organization -5% of the price
- more than 3 persons from one organization -7,5% of the price
Place: Warsaw, Poland
Registration: Registration form
The Scaled Agile Framework® (pronounced SAFe™) is an interactive knowledge base for implementing agile practices at enterprise scale. It includes the individual roles, teams, activities and artifacts necessary to scale agile from the team to program to the enterprise level. This model of agile adoption has been elaborated primarily in Dean Leffingwell’s books Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements for Teams Programs and the Enterprise and Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises. It has been successfully applied in programs of only 50-100 people and in enterprises employing thousands of software developers.
The course will be lead by Michael Stump who is SAFe Program Consultant Trainer.
Michael is a consultant, instructor, leader and mentor who has been applying Lean and Agile practices in and beyond the software industry. Prior to joining Scaled Agile, Michael worked in different roles across the industry from Business Analyst, Project Manager to Line Manager and experienced the transition from Waterfall to Agile in highly distributed multi-cultural environments. He then started to support other organizations around the globe and especially their leaders doing the transformation and making organizations more productive, engaging, and fun.
Description
The goal of this course is to prepare internal change agents and external consultants to:
- Lead an enterprise agile transformation
- Implement the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe)
- Train managers and executives in Leading SAFe and act as a SAFe Agilist (SA) certifying agent
- Train teams in SAFe ScrumXP for Teams and act as a SAFe Practioner (SP) certifying agent
The first two days of this class is an intensive version of Leading SAFe. The goal is to prepare certified SAFe Program Consultants (SPCs) to teach the course and act as a certifying agent for SAFe Agilists (SAs). You will also gain the knowledge necessary to lead an enterprise agile transformation by leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework and its underlying principles of lean thinking and product development flow. You will leave with an understanding of how the principles and practices of the framework support Agile Teams, Agile Programs, Agile Program Portfolio Management and Agile Architecture.
In the second two days, you will gain the knowledge needed to identify, plan, and implement SAFe programs with Agile Release Trains. Further, you’ll have the briefings, artifacts and templates you need to identify the value streams, prepare the organization, launch agile programs, plan and execute the major events, and implement effective processes and measures for continuous program improvement.
Audience
Internal change agents, external consultants and managers and leaders responsible for implementing agile programs as part of an enterprise Lean|Agile change initiative.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, attendees will be able to:
- apply lean, agile and product development flow principles to improve productivity, employee engagement, time to market, and quality
- apply the Scaled Agile Framework based on lecture, real-world examples, and insights by Scaled Agile experts
- understand the skills necessary for an enterprise transformation based on the information and examples presented, and additional recommended readings and resources
- gain the insights into the leadership skill most effective in unlocking the intrinsic motivation of software development knowledge workers, and begin applying them in your context
- find the value streams around which to organize the enterprise’s Agile Release Trains
- prepare the organization and the teams to launch the trains
- run the first Release Planning Meeting
- interact at key program touch-points to "help keep the train on the tracks”
- run Inspect and Adapt workshops for continuous program improvement
- introduce the organization to the principles of program portfolio management and agile architecture
- grow the leadership skills necessary to support the transformation
Length
4 days
Benefits
All SPCs in good standing receive the following benefits:
- Usage of SAFe Foundations PowerPoint briefing
- Access to SAFe courseware to train managers and executives in the Leading SAFe course and the ability to act as a SAFe Agilist (SA) certifying agent
- Access to SAFe courseware to train teams in the SAFe ScrumXP for Teams course and the ability to act as a SAFe Practitioner (SP) certifying agent
- Content updates
- SPC Branding Kit (certification mark, material co-branding, etc.)
- Certified SPC directory listing (optional)
- Scaled Agile Academy LinkedIn community membership
Additional information
Both the course and the course materials will be in English. The exam will be available after completion of the course and will be implemented in the on-line form.
Registration for course
To register, first fill a registration form, then we will send you an invoice for payment. To review our registration rules for course, click here. If you have any questions you can contact us through the e-mail safe@usecase.pl.
Enjoy!
*discount for registration and payment up to 30 days before the first day of the class