Course Content
01Module 1: Thrive in the age of disruption
Frame digital disruption, business agility, and SAFe® as an enterprise response organized around value.
- Digital disruption
- Business agility
- Dual operating system
- SAFe overview
02Module 2: Mindset, values, and principles
Use Lean thinking, Agile values, core values, and SAFe® principles to guide leadership choices.
- Lean-Agile mindset
- Core values
- House of Lean
- Ten SAFe principles
03Module 3: Establish team and technical agility
Understand cross-functional teams, ARTs, built-in quality, and the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.
- Agile teams
- Agile Release Trains
- Built-in quality
- DevOps
- Continuous Delivery Pipeline
04Module 4: Create product-development flow
Connect customer centricity and design thinking to backlogs, PI Planning, execution, and release on demand.
- Customer centricity
- Design thinking
- ART backlog
- WSJF
- PI Planning
- Release on demand
05Module 5: Explore Lean Portfolio Management
Align portfolio vision, strategic themes, funding, governance, and epics with enterprise strategy.
- Portfolio vision
- Strategic themes
- Lean budgets
- Portfolio Kanban
- Guardrails
06Module 6: Lead the change
Translate the implementation roadmap into practical leadership actions and measurable next steps.
- Guiding coalition
- Implementation roadmap
- Change leadership
- Measure and grow
07Module 7: AI-empowered Lean-Agile leadership
Use role-appropriate prompting and AI assistance while maintaining security, transparency, human judgment, and Lean-Agile alignment.
- Prompt construction
- AI-assisted analysis
- Responsible AI
- Human-in-the-loop review