Instructor: Michael Johnson

Certified SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)

  1. Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)
  2. Establishing Strategy and Investment Funding
  3. Applying Agile Portfolio Operations
  4. Applying Lean Governance
  5. Implementing the LPM function
  6. Day 3 Workshop (for private sessions only)

SAFe® AI-Empowered Scrum Master (SAFe SSM)

  • Lesson 1: Introducing Scrum in SAFe
    • Basic Agile development concepts
    • Scrum basics
    • The Agile Team in SAFe
  • Lesson 2: Characterizing the Role of the Scrum Master
    • Defining the role of the Scrum Master
    • Coaching execution with effective events
    • Cultivating high-performing teams
  • Lesson 3: Experiencing PI Planning
    • Preparing for PI Planning
    • PI Planning – Day One
    • PI Planning – Day Two
    • Final plan review and PI objectives
  • Lesson 4: Facilitating Iteration Execution
    • Plan the iteration
    • Track the iteration progress
    • Refine the backlog
    • Facilitate the Iteration Review
    • Facilitate relentless improvement
    • Support DevOps and Release on Demand
  • Lesson 5: Finishing the PI
    • Coach the IP iteration
    • Prepare the team for the Inspect & Adapt event
  • Lesson 6: AI for Scrum Masters
    • AI foundations and prompting
    • Responsible AI
    • Building an AI-augmented Scrum Master workflow

Leading SAFe® with Certified SAFe® Agilist (SA)

Digital Age & Business Agility

  • Thriving in the digital age
  • SAFe© as an Operating System for Business Agility
  • Core competencies of Business Agility

Lean-Agile Leaders

  • Lean-Agile Mindset
  • SAFe Core Values
  • SAFe Lean-Agile Principles

Team and Technical Agility

  • Cross-functional Agile Teams
  • Built-in Quality
  • Organizing around value with ARTs

Agile Product Delivery

  • Customer-centric culture
  • Design Thinking
  • ART Backlog and WSJF
  • PI Planning
  • Develop on Cadence; Release on Demand
  • Continuous Delivery Pipelines with DevOps

Lean Portfolio Management

  • SAFe Portfolio
  • Strategic Themes
  • Portfolio canvas
  • Epic hypothesis statements
  • Traditional and Lean budgeting approaches
  • Portfolio Kanban

Leading the Change 

  • Lead by example
  • Lead the change
  • SAFe Implementation Roadmap 

SAFe® AI-Empowered Product Owner/Product Manager (SAFe POPM)

  • Lesson 1: Exploring Product Roles and Responsibilities
    • Introducing SAFe for product roles
    • The Lean-Agile mindset
    • Value streams
    • Responsibilities of product roles
  • Lesson 2: Preparing for PI Planning
    • PI Planning
    • The solution vision
    • Solution and PI roadmaps
    • Customer-centric features
    • ART backlog and Kanban
  • Lesson 3: Leading PI Planning
    • Communicate the vision
    • Establish PI objectives
    • Manage dependencies
    • Manage risks
  • Lesson 4: Executing Iterations
    • Stories and story maps
    • Iteration planning
    • The team Kanban and team sync
    • Backlog refinement
    • Iteration review and iteration retrospective
    • Continuous delivery pipeline
  • Lesson 5: Executing the PI
    • Aligning delivery with sync events
    • The system demo
    • The innovation and planning iteration
    • Inspect and adapt
  • Lesson 6: AI for Product Roles
    • An overview of AI
    • Responsible AI
    • Building an AI-augmented workforce

SAFe for Teams with Certified SAFe® Practitioner (SP)

Part 1: Introducing SAFe

  1. Connect with the Scaled Agile Framework
  2. Explore Lean, the Agile Manifesto, and SAFe Principles
  3. Identify Scrum, Kanban, and Quality Practices

Part 2: Building an Agile Team

  1. Build your team
  2. Explore the Scrum Master and Product Owner roles
  3. Meet the teams and people on the Agile Release Train (ART)

Part 3: Planning the Iteration

  1. Prepare the backlog
  2. Plan the Iteration

Part 4: Executing the Iteration

  1. Visualize the flow of work
  2. Measure the flow of work
  3. Build quality in
  4. Continuously integrate, deploy, and release
  5. Improve flow with communication and synchronization
  6. Demonstrate value
  7. Retrospect and improve

Part 5: Executing the PI

  1. Plan Together
  2. Integrate and demonstrate together
  3. Learn together

Part 6: Becoming a Certified SAFe Practitioner

  1. Becoming a Certified SAFe® Practitioner (SP)