Leading SAFe 4.6® – Certified SAFe® 4 Agilist (SA)

Excella Training’s Leading SAFe 4.6 – Certified SAFe 4 Agilist (SA) course is a two-day, interactive learning experience that provides an overview of how to develop a Lean-Agile Mindset and apply the principles and practices of the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) to support Agile teams, programs, and Program Portfolio Management. This class focuses on how to coordinate and lead a Lean-Agile transformation at an enterprise scale.

What You’ll Learn

This class helps students understand and apply the values and principles of a Lean-Agile mindset while applying SAFe’s Lean and Agile principles to the roles and practices of SAFe. The class will include information about creating high-performing teams, leading a SAFe transformation with SAFe’s Implementation Roadmap, supporting PI Planning, driving release on-demand with the Continuous Delivery Pipeline, and will help you coordinate multiple Agile Release Trains and suppliers with a Solution Train. The course outline is included below:

• Introduction to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Becoming a Lean-Agile Leader
• Establishing Team and Technical Agility
• Experiencing Program Increment (PI) Planning
• Releasing on Demand with DevOps
• Building Business Solutions and Lean Systems
• Implementing Lean Portfolio Management
• Leading the transformation

Who Should Attend

• Executives and Leaders, Managers, Directors, CIOs, and VPs
• Development, QA, and Infrastructure Management
• Program and Project Managers
• Product and Product Line Management
• Portfolio Managers, PMO, and Process Leads
• Enterprise, System, and Solution Architects

Certification

Students who complete the class will be eligible to take the SAFe® 4 Agilist exam and become Certified SAFe Agilist (SA). Additionally, this course also allows students to claim 15 Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs)* as well as 16 Scrum Alliance Scrum Education Units (SEUs).

What’s Included

The cost of registration includes:

• High-quality printed course workbook and digital copies of reference materials
• Eligibility to take the SAFe® 4 Agilist exam to become a Certified SAFe® Agilist (SA)
• One-year membership to SAFe community platform
• Course certificate of completion
• Catered hot breakfast and lunch buffets, plus afternoon snacks
• Validated garage parking at the training location

Location

The class will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Attune (formerly MicroTek) Washington, DC Training Center at 1110 Vermont Avenue, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005. Attune DC is conveniently located two blocks north of the Vermont Avenue exit of the McPherson Square Metro station on the Orange/Blue/Silver lines.

About Your Trainer

Jill Stott, an Agile trainer and coach at Excella Training, has decades of experience working in different IT roles and has led many organizations through successful Agile transformations. Jill ensures her classes are highly informative, engaging, and fun(!). She has trained thousands of people of diverse roles and organizational levels (virtually and in-person) on a variety of Agile topics and specializes in coaching the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Over 95% of her participants passed the SAFe exam. She has both a detailed knowledge of SAFe and practical experience applying it and has personally led many diverse organizations through the SAFe Implementation Roadmap from start to finish.

Cancellation Policy

Students submitting cancellation requests 10 business days or more prior to the start of the course are entitled to a full refund. Students submitting cancellation requests less than 10 business days prior to the start of the course will be offered a credit toward a future Excella Training course of equivalent value, or a refund less a processing fee of $100. Should the organizer cancel the course for any reason, each registered student will be issued a full refund.

* PMI is a registered trademark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.