SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) Certification

SAFe® 5 Program Consultant Certification (SPCs) are change agents who combine their technical knowledge of SAFe with an intrinsic motivation to improve the company’s software and systems development processes. They play a critical role in successfully implementing SAFe. SPCs come from numerous internal or external roles, including business and technology leaders, portfolio/program/project managers, process leads, architects, analysts, and consultants.

During this six-day online training, attendees will learn how to lead a Lean-Agile transformation by leveraging the practices and principles of the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®). Attendees will also gain insights and practice how to coach programs, 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®—will provide them with the basis to teach SAFe to leaders. The final days focus exclusively on what it takes to successfully implement SAFe in the enterprise.

Becoming a SAFe® 5 Program Consultant Certification (SPC), and becoming a change agent, will enable attendees to coach and guide the enterprise to succeed in a disruptive marketplace and empower them to implement a Lean-Agile SAFe transformation.

The first two days of this class is an intensive version of Leading SAFe. The goal is to prepare 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. 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, artefacts 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.

Who Should attend?

Attendees typically include internal change agents, external consultants and managers and leaders responsible for implementing agile programs as part of an enterprise Lean-Agile change initiative.

A Critical Role for a Critical Need As we outlined in the Implementation Roadmap series, changing the development practices and behaviour of an enterprise is a significant challenge. To achieve meaningful and lasting change, author John P. Kotter notes that a “sufficiently powerful guiding coalition” of stakeholders is needed [1]. Such a coalition requires: Leaders who can set the vision, show the way, and remove impediments Practitioners, managers, and change agents who can implement specific process changes Sufficient organizational credibility to be taken seriously The expertise needed to make fast, intelligent decisions

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Leading SAFe®

• Thriving in the digital age with business agility
• Becoming a Lean-Agile leader
• Establishing Team and Technical Agility
• Building solutions with Agile Product Delivery
• Exploring Lean Portfolio Management
• Leading the change
• Becoming a Certified SAFe® Agilist

 
Implementing SAFe®

• Reaching the tipping point
• Designing the implementation
• Launching an Agile Release Train
• Coaching ART Execution
• Extending to the portfolio
• Accelerating to business agility
• Becoming an SPC