Implementing SAFe® 6.0 with SPC Certification

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Nov 06, 2023 Nov 10, 2023 9:00am-4:00pm	LIVE, VIRTUAL (Central Time Zone)	All our trainers are SAFe certified Program Consultants and/or Trainers, SPCs and SPCTs, and have hands-on experience with Agile and Scaled Agile, Inc.	Matt Aaron Matt has been helping people build better business solutions for over twenty years. He has consulted or worked full-time for travel, retail, financial, medical, consumer products, and technology companies (many of which were Fortune 100 companies) giving him a wide variety of experience and knowledge. Matt was introduced to Agile methods in 2000 through Extreme Programming and has embraced Lean and Agile practices since that time. Matt implemented his first SAFe Lean-Agile transformation in 2012 after being introduced to SAFe by a colleague and has been helping large companies with their SAFe Lean-Agile transformations since that time. Matt was certified as a SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) in early 2014 and as a SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT) in January of 2017. Matt has coached people on every level inside and outside of IT - executives, managers, developers, testers, operations personnel, infrastructure personnel, product managers, product owners, business owners, support specialists, etc. He has coached and worked with offshore groups all over the world and has extensive experience managing highly distributed teams. Matt has helped companies apply Lean-Agile principles and practices in finance, HR, recruiting, consumer product development, marketing, sales, business operations, and at the executive level as well as other business areas outside of IT. Besides helping many companies as an outside consultant, Matt has also held key positions in different companies where he was instrumental in their transformation and adoption of Lean-Agile principles. He has been a Vice President of Technology and Lean Portfolio Management at a multi-billion-dollar travel company, a Vice President of Globalization and CFO at a software services company, a Director of Business Analysis and Quality Assurance at a healthcare analytics company, and a Director of Quality Assurance and Internationalization at a voice of the customer company. John Miller John is a Transformation Coach, Trainer, RTE, POPM, SSM, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) SPCT5 with 20 years of experience in the Lean/Agile environment. He enjoys working at the Portfolio and Program Levels and has knowledge in all phases of systems and software engineering development and management. John has Performed ART Launches and PI Planning events for numerous Fortune 500 firms. He has provided training in the US, Canada, Europe, India, and China. Trained Engineers, Management, and others on SAFe, Agile, Systems Engineering, Lean, Six Sigma, Project Management, Software, CMMI, and other topics.	Register $2,995.00 18 days left to receive the "Early Bird" Discount! Hurry up and register today! Guaranteed to run

Learn how to lead a Lean-Agile Transformation using the practices and principles of SAFe® and the 7 core competencies of the Lean Enterprise that enable Business Agility.

In this 5-day course, you'll practice how to coach programs, launch Agile Release Trains (ARTs), create a DevOps culture to build a Continuous Delivery Pipeline, and empower a Lean Portfolio. Leading SAFe® taught during the first few days, gives you the foundation to teach SAFe® to leaders. The following days focus exclusively on what it takes to successfully implement SAFe® in your organization. By becoming a change agent and a Certified SAFe® 6 Practice Consultant (SPC), you’ll gain the knowledge and skills to implement a Lean-Agile SAFe® transformation—and guide the enterprise toward success in disruptive, fast-moving markets.

Lead a Lean-Agile Enterprise Transformation
Implement SAFe®
Implement Lean Portfolio Management
Perform Value Stream identification
Launch and Coach Agile Release Trains
Coordinate multiple Agile Release Trains with a Solution Train
Use the 7 core competencies to achieve Business Agility
Train managers and executives in Leading SAFe®
Continue your learning journey and become enabled to train other roles in a SAFe® enterprise

Leading SAFe®: Days 1 - 3

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
Becoming a Certified SAFe® Agilist

Implementing SAFe®: Days 3 - 5

Reaching the Tipping Point
Designing the Implementation
Launching an Agile Release Train
Coaching ART Execution
Extending to the Portfolio
Accelerating to Business Agility
Becoming a SAFe® Practice Consultant (SPC)

Professional Services Consultants
Internal Change Agents, Lean-Agile Center for Excellence (LACE) participants, Agile Working Groups
Business and Technology Executives, Leaders, Managers & Directors
Portfolio Managers and Fiduciaries, Project/Program Management Office (PMO) personnel
Development, QA & IT Managers
Program & Project Managers
Product & Product Line Managers
Process Leads & Lifecycle Governance Personnel
Enterprise, System & Solution Architects

All stakeholders in a Lean-Agile Transformation are welcome to attend the course, regardless of experience. However, the following prerequisites are highly recommended for those who intend to take the SAFe® 6 Practice Consultant certification exam and serve as a SAFe® 6 Practice Consultant (SPC):

5+ years of experience in software development, testing, business analysis, product or project management
3+ years of experience in Agile
One or more relevant Agile certifications

5 Days

Full Price: $3,195.00
Early Bird Price: $2,995.00

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Implementing SAFe® 6.0 with SPC Certification

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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 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.

Kim Gokce, Scaled OKRs Certified Facilitator 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

As an instructor, I found Dan James' DevOps class to be extremely well organized, exceptionally presented, and immediately relevant. Our team began using the SAFe methods right after the class and found tremendous benefit, initially saving over 30 hours of waste time in each iteration. We revisit every program increment and continue to see improvement. Our Value Stream and Health Check evaluations continue to be the single most impactful ceremony for our team.

Lisa F. from GFS, SAFe® DevOps with SDP Certification

Covid forced training to a fully remote style. The folks at ICON have responded with class offerings that mash up the standard training slides from SAFe with tools that nicely facilitate remote training gaining the engagement of the class participants and team breakouts.

Lisa F. from GFS, SAFe® RTE Certification Class

The training did a nice job packaging and presenting core software development practices that have been foundational to excellent software development over the last several years.

Lisa F. from GFS, SAFe® Software Engineering with ASE Certification

I really appreciated how the perspective of the Architect was always compared to the Business Perspective and IT Perspective. Whether the topic was DevOps, aligning to Strategy, or steps in the Program Increment Planning; it really helped me to see what the Business or IT representative would be thinking, compared to what I need to be thinking about for the architecture, and how to relate to them as collaborators in the process.

Lisa F., SAFe® for Architects ARCH Certification

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

Many thanks to ICON and Dan [James] for his fabulous instruction. This class was not a DevOps refresher. The ongoing discussion and activity forced me to think about my operational value stream in a way I hadn't before. I feel like I have some strong, data-based arguments for change - and that's what it's all about.

SAFe^® DevOps Student

True to the course description, this course will enable Agile leaders to implement 'Order Of Magnitude' advancements, regardless of your company's Agile maturity.

SAFe^® DevOps Student

The SAFe DevOps training helped me understand how DevOps principles and practices are critical to delivering business value faster and equipped me as an RTE to help support our organization's journey towards DevOps. Dan James is one of my favorite SAFe course instructors who brought a depth of knowledge, real-world experience to make concepts understandable, and a fun sense of humor which made the class an engaging experience.

SAFe® for 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

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