Course Content
01Module 1: Transformation context and business agility
Establish why organizations need business agility and how SAFe® acts as a second operating system around value.
- Digital disruption
- Business agility
- Dual operating system
- SAFe configurations and competencies
02Module 2: Lean-Agile leadership, mindset, and principles
Use the Lean-Agile mindset, core values, and principles as decision rules for change leadership.
- Growth mindset
- House of Lean
- Core values
- Ten SAFe principles
- Leading by example
03Module 3: Core competencies and value delivery
Connect team agility, product delivery, large-solution delivery, portfolio management, organizational agility, and learning culture.
- Team and technical agility
- Agile product delivery
- Enterprise solution delivery
- Lean portfolio management
- Continuous learning culture
04Module 4: Build the guiding coalition
Prepare leaders, change agents, and a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence to lead the transformation.
- Tipping point
- Change-agent development
- Executive sponsorship
- LACE mission and operation
- Transformation communication
05Module 5: Identify value streams and design ARTs
Map operational and development value streams, then design ARTs and Solution Trains around value.
- Operational value streams
- Development value streams
- ART boundaries
- Feature and platform ARTs
- People and system mapping
06Module 6: Prepare, launch, and coach an ART
Move from ART readiness through role preparation, backlog readiness, PI Planning, and post-launch coaching.
- ART canvas
- Critical ART roles
- PI cadence
- Backlog readiness
- PI Planning
- ART coaching
07Module 7: Launch more ARTs and extend to the portfolio
Scale the implementation while connecting strategy, investments, governance, and delivery flow.
- Implementation railway
- Portfolio strategy
- Lean budgets
- Portfolio flow
- Agile contracts and suppliers
08Module 8: Measure, grow, and accelerate
Use assessments, outcome measures, and improvement backlogs to sustain the transformation.
- Business agility assessment
- Competency assessments
- Measure and grow
- Improvement backlog
- Continuous learning
09Module 9: Teach, coach, and augment change work with AI
Prepare role-based learning, coaching interventions, and responsible AI-assisted transformation artifacts.
- Teaching and coaching
- Facilitation
- AI-assisted analysis and content drafting
- Responsible AI
- Human validation