Lean-Agile Center of Excellence Workshop (SAFe® LACE)

Course Description

During this one–day workshop, you will explore proven SAFe adoption patterns (as well as common pitfalls) and how they apply to your context, in order to:

Create the mission statement and charter for the LACE
Understand and learn how to carry out the responsibilities of the LACE
Determine the organizational model for the LACE (centralized, decentralized or hub-and-spoke)
Set up the LACE as an Agile team
Build your initial SAFe Implementation Roadmap
Learn how to prepare to launch your first Agile Release Train (ART)

Topics Covered

Proven SAFe adoption patterns described in the SAFe Implementation Roadmap
Which LACE organizational model is best for your organization
LACE roles and responsibilities, and the key practices the LACE can leverage to drive enterprise adoption
An action plan for generating the short-term wins critical to organizational change
A roadmap and Kanban system to sustain and expand on early successes
Fostering Release Train Engineer (RTE) and Scrum Master Communities of Practice (CoPs)
Extending SAFe to Lean Portfolio Management, Human Resources, and Finance

Audience and Certification Details

Executive sponsors
Change agents
Certified SAFe Program Consultants (SPCs)
Agile coaches

Prerequisites

All participants must have attended an Implementing SAFe or Leading SAFe class
Completion and socialization of a Value Stream Workshop

Duration

1 Day

Price

Email sales@iconagility.com or call (636) 530-7776 for private, on-site pricing.

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Training Course Feedback

Tom was a fantastic partner, teaching SAFe for Teams with me Tuesday and Wednesday. I appreciated his knowledge first and foremost, but also his adaptability and collaboration as he was thrown right in and was instrumental in pulling off a successful training. Fingers crossed we get to work together again, but if other ICON partners are half as good to work with as Tom, I’ll be thrilled.

Alexander T., SAFe^® for Teams Student

Thanks to Kathy Marshak I got the highest score I've ever gotten on a SAFe exam.

Alvin Jackson, SAFe^® RTE Student

"I felt that our Instructors, Kathy and Doug, did an excellent job of presenting the SAFe program. They were diligent about keeping us on track and focused on the end result of making sure that we all understood the processes and practices of SAFe in preparation for the exam. I believe their presentations combined with the interactive activities kept everyone highly engaged."

Barb T., Implementing SAFe^® Student

Thoroughly enjoyed and learned a great deal from the course. Can't imagine anyone doing it better!

Implementing SAFe^® Student

I attended the Certified Scrum Product Owner course last week and now have a new certification. After attending two certification classes in addition to ICON's SA class, I can definitely say that Icon provided a much better experience. The content was superior and there was more of it. The food was also better.

Leading SAFe^® Student

I really enjoyed the course, given the current situation with remote work/learning, ICON has really nailed the ability to deliver this content online. Thank you all so much for a great course.

Nina Chavez, Implementing SAFe^® Student

Strongly recommend this course. It provides instrumental tools to help the Agile practitioner expand beyond the bounds of dev teams to identify and quantify bottlenecks in the flow/delivery of outcomes from an idea's inception to delivery to customers.

SAFe^® DevOps Student

ICON's SAFe DevOps class struck a great balance of establishing foundational concepts and equipping participants with tactical tools to influence outcomes. You’ll take away a tangible game plan to create efficiencies, better empower teams and instill proven practices to transform your delivery pipeline.

SAFe^® DevOps Student

I recently attended one of the highest value, 1-day training sessions of my career. Led by Larry LaSalle and offering a comprehensive look at the pathways and pitfalls to implementing OKRs at enterprise, I heartily recommend this opportunity.

Scaled OKRs Certified Facilitator student