Leading SAFe® with SA certification

Applying a Lean-Agile mindset with SAFe Agilist Certification

Leading SAFe® offers you an introduction to the foundations of SAFe and provides the principles and practices to drive your Lean-Agile transformation confidently. The course and resulting certification offer the guidance and tools to build a culture of resiliency and a shared language that engages employees and focuses on customers so that organizations can work with agility at scale.

Take a Leading SAFe course to discover how companies can build business agility and how to make SAFe work inside your organization. You’ll understand how to align your entire organization around the same clear objectives and how to improve the flow of value and work from strategy to delivery. You’ll learn what makes companies more customer-centric and how to run key SAFe alignment and planning events, like PI planning.

Attending the class prepares you to take the exam and become a certified SAFe Agilist (SA)

Who should attend?

The following individuals will benefit from this course:

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

What’s included?

Provided by SAFe

SAFe course workbook and handouts
1-year SAFe community platform membership
SA certification exam (1 attempt)

Provided by Istek

Istek attendee book
Access to additional references for extended learning
Membership to Istek ecosystem
Access to Istek Mentoring Program

Topics covered

Below are the topics covered in this course

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

Learning goals

Below are the learning goals for this course

Apply SAFe to scale Lean and Agile development in your enterprise
Recognize and apply a Lean-Agile Mindset and principles
Continuously explore, integrate, deploy, and release value
Empower with a Lean Portfolio
Coordinate the development of large solutions
Enhance your Lean-Agile leadership skills
Support a Lean-Agile transformation in your enterprise

Professional Development Units (PDUs) and Scrum Education Units (SEUs)

You may be eligible to apply for 15 PDUs toward your continuing education requirements with the Project Management Institute (PMI) for PMP, PgMP, and PMI-ACP certifications.
You may be eligible to apply for SEUs under Category C, toward earning or renewing your CSP through Scrum Alliance.