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ICON provides expert on-site training to meet all your Agile process needs. We offer SAFe, DevOps, and Lean-Agile courses for large groups at a discount price. Our coaches help companies scale their Agile transformations with essential experiential training that aligns with business strategy, technology investments, and corporate goals. Please contact us at (636) 530-7776 or email info@iconagility.com for more information or a free analysis of your training needs.

Full Open Enrollments Calendar
Full Open Enrollments Calendar
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Open Enrollment Available
SAFe® 6.0 Product Owner/Product Manager with POPM Certification
SAFe® 6.0 Product Owner/Product Manager with POPM Certification
4 Half Days

What skills do you need to deliver value in a Lean enterprise? The SAFe® Product Owner / Product Manager (POPM) course covers the tactical responsibilities of these roles in the Agile Release Train. The course also gives you the guidance and tools you need to work effectively in remote environments.

Open Enrollment Available
Implementing SAFe® 6.0 with SPC Certification
Implementing SAFe® 6.0 with SPC Certification
4 to 5 Days; pay careful attention to which course you enroll in

Ready to lead a Lean-Agile transformation? Need a deeper understanding of the Scaled Agile Framework? Looking to teach SAFe® courses yourself? Implementing SAFe® offers attendees the broadest level of insight into each layer of a SAFe® implementation.

Open Enrollment Available
Lean Portfolio Management with SAFe® 6.0 LPM Certification
Lean Portfolio Management with SAFe® 6.0 LPM Certification
4 Half Days

Aligning strategy with execution is critical to any organization’s success and a key aspect of SAFe®. With a Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) approach, you can collaborate across silos, empower teams, and organize around value to adapt to what customers want, faster.

Open Enrollment Available
SAFe® 6.0 Release Train Engineer with RTE Certification
SAFe® 6.0 Release Train Engineer with RTE Certification
4 Days

In the SAFe® RTE course, learn to execute and continuously improve PI Planning and other key SAFe® events. You'll discover how to coach leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in new processes and mindsets. And you'll get the guidance and tools needed to effectively work in remote environments with distributed teams.

Open Enrollment Available
Leading SAFe® 6.0 with SA Certification
Leading SAFe® 6.0 with SA Certification
4 Half Days

New to the Scaled Agile Framework®? Leading SAFe® offers you an introduction to the foundations of SAFe®, provides the principles and practices to drive your Lean-Agile transformation with confidence and offers the guidance and tools you need to lead effectively in remote environments with distributed teams.

Open Enrollment Available
SAFe® for Teams 6.0 with SP Certification
SAFe® for Teams 6.0 with SP Certification
4 Half Days

This course teaches the skills needed to become a high-performing team member of an Agile Release Train (ART). Gain an in-depth understanding of the ART, how it delivers value, and what a team member can do to effectively perform his or her role using Scrum, Kanban, and XP.

Open Enrollment Available
Agile Product Management with SAFe® 6.0 APM Certification
Agile Product Management with SAFe® 6.0 APM Certification
5 Half Days

Discover and apply the mindset, skills, and tools to create successful products and solutions that are desirable, viable, feasible, and sustainable.

Open Enrollment Available
SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master 5.1 with SASM Certification
SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master 5.1 with SASM Certification
4 Half Days

This course prepares current Scrum Masters for their leadership role in facilitating Agile team, program, and enterprise success in a SAFe® Implementation. The course offers actionable tools for building high-performing teams and explores practical ways of addressing Agile and Scrum anti-patterns in the enterprise.

Open Enrollment Available
SAFe® 6.0 Scrum Master with SSM Certification
SAFe® 6.0 Scrum Master with SSM Certification
2 days; check class schedule to choose between four, one-half day sessions or two, full days

In this course, attendees gain an understanding of the role of a Scrum Master in a SAFe® enterprise. Explore the role of the Scrum Master in the context of the entire enterprise and prepare to successfully plan and execute the Program Increment (PI), the primary enabler of alignment throughout all levels of a SAFe® organization. 

 
SAFe® 6 DevOps with SDP Certification
SAFe® 6 DevOps with SDP Certification
2 days; check class schedule to choose between four, one-half day sessions or two, full days

Optimizing Your Value Stream

Delivering valuable solutions faster doesn’t involve just engineers developing software. It involves introducing a shared DevOps mindset among all the people who define, build, test, deploy, and release software-driven products. The innovative SAFe DevOps course helps people across technical, non-technical, and leadership roles work together to optimize their value stream from end to end. Attendees learn what DevOps is, why it is important to every role, and design a Continuous Delivery Pipeline that is tailored to their business. Attendees work in cross-functional teams to map their current state value stream from concept to cash, identify major bottlenecks to flow, and build an actionable implementation plan that will accelerate the benefits of DevOps in their organization.

Co-authored by ICON Agility Services, SAFe SPCT Gold Partner since 2012.

 
Agile Human Resources (HR) Explorer with AHRE Certification
Agile Human Resources (HR) Explorer with AHRE Certification
1 day; taught over two half-day sessions

Contextualizing Agility for Human Resources, People Professionals, and Organizational Design

A profound shift is happening in the way enterprises approach people management. Human Resource departments are realizing that traditional HR practices don’t support Agile teams and the needs of today’s rapidly changing business environments. To bridge this gap, Agile HR Explorer provides learners with the guidance needed to align HR practices with the SAFe transformation and their Agile teams.

 
SAFe® Agile Software Engineering with ASE Certification
SAFe® Agile Software Engineering with ASE Certification
5 Half Days

In this course, you’ll learn how modern practices including XP, behavior-driven development (BDD), and test-driven development (TDD) enable continuous value flow and built-in quality. This interactive, three-day course also gives you guidance and tools to work effectively in remote environments.

 
SAFe® for Architects with ARCH Certification
SAFe® for Architects with ARCH Certification
3 Days

In this course get the context needed to align architecture with business value. Understand how system, solution, and enterprise architects collaboratively deliver architectural solutions. And get the guidance and tools you need to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams.

 
SAFe Enterprise
SAFe Enterprise

SAFe Enterprise is a system of knowledge, tools, and practices essential to successfully scale agile across the enterprise. SAFe Enterprise bundles the critical components of learning, adopting, and practicing SAFe into a single platform, accessible to leaders and their teams anytime, anywhere.

 
SAFe® for Government with SGP Certification
SAFe® for Government with SGP Certification
2 Days

In the SAFe® for Government course, you’ll learn how to apply Lean-Agile and SAFe practices in a government organization. So you can deliver projects with speed and quality. Improve collaboration with teams and stakeholders, mitigate risk, and make efficient use of taxpayer money.

 
Agile Marketing with SAFe®
Agile Marketing with SAFe®
2 half-day sessions

The Agile Marketing with SAFe® course teaches teams how to apply Lean, Agile, and SAFe practices and principles. The course uses a combination of hands-on activities, introspection, and guided exercises to help teams build collective muscle memory and alignment. The course culminates with an activity that allows attendees to apply SAFe in their own real-world environments. 

 
Curso de Liderazgo en SAFe® 6 con Certificación SA
Curso de Liderazgo en SAFe® 6 con Certificación SA
2 Dias

Este curso de dos días enseña los conocimientos necesarios para dirigir una empresa Lean-Agile utilizando el marco de trabajo Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe) y sus principios derivados del pensamiento Lean, enfoque de sistemas, desarrollo ágil, flujo de desarrollo de productos y DevOps.

 
SAFe® 6 Scrum Master avanzado con Certificación SASM
SAFe® 6 Scrum Master avanzado con Certificación SASM
2 Dias

Este curso de dos días prepara a los Scrum Masters para su papel de liderazgo en la facilitación de un equipo de trabajo al igual que la implementación exitosa del programa en las empresas que utilizan el marco SAFe.

 
Curso SAFe® Scrum Master con Certificación SSM
Curso SAFe® Scrum Master con Certificación SSM
2 Dias

El curso de SAFe® Scrum Master (SSM) le ayudará a desarrollar sus habilidades como miembro de un equipo de alto rendimiento de un Agile Release Train (ART), lo que aumenta el valor para los equipos y organizaciones que implementan SAFe®.


Lean-Agile
 
Applying Scrum - Agile Principles & Practices
Applying Scrum - Agile Principles & Practices
1 day

Agile is an approach to software development that has rapidly become mainstream. Using a mixture of techniques that together form modern Agile Practices such as Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), user stories, test-driven development, etc., teams can significantly improve their productivity and morale. 

 
Agile Boot Camp
Agile Boot Camp
2 Days

The Agile Boot Camp uses a combination of lecture, class discussion, and hands-on exercises, with emphasis on group activities, to reinforce the concepts and principles. You will learn to apply the basic practices of an Agile approach, with a focus on Scrum.

 
Agile Team Enablement Workshop
Agile Team Enablement Workshop
3 Days

The Agile Team Enablement Workshop teaches you to apply the basic practices of an Agile approach, with a focus on Scrum. You will apply what you learn in a series of exercises that take you through project start-up, project/release planning, Sprint Planning, and Sprint Execution.

 
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
2 Days

The Certified Scrum Master course is hands-on and discussion-based to define terms and concepts. It explains the Scrum basics such as managing the product backlog, planning the sprint, tracking and reporting progress through the use of burndown charts, and reviewing the sprint.

 
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
2 Days

The Certified Product Owner course teaches a subset of topics, such as Product Ownership, Scrum Framework, and Agile Values. Participants will make a joint priority decision on which they agree on as most important, just like real-life Product Owners do every day.

 
Agile Product Owner Enablement
Agile Product Owner Enablement
2 Days

The Product Owner Enablement Course is designed for Product and Business Managers who are subject matter experts and are involved in the planning and execution of Agile projects. Students will learn how a Product Owner can infuse business priorities, goals, and vision, into a Development Team.

 
Lean - Kanban Workshop
Lean - Kanban Workshop
1 Day

This 1-day course familiarizes attendees with Lean Software Development concepts, principles, and practices as well as a "Kanban System," which is implemented to put Lean principles into practice. 

 
Agile Requirements with User Stories
Agile Requirements with User Stories
2 Days

The Agile Requirements and User Stories course will teach you how to write User Stories that effectively communicate the needs of your customers using a blend of lecture and group exercises. You will learn how to build a Product Backlog with User Stories as input, and how to plan and work with them.

 
Agile Release Train (ART) Flow Accelerator
Agile Release Train (ART) Flow Accelerator
1 day

The fastest way to achieve the benefits of enhanced value flow acceleration with SAFe 6.0 guidance is with a workshop led by expert, SAFe SPCTs. Agile Release Trains (ARTs) are at the center of delivering continuous flow of value to your customers.

 
Inspect, Adapt, & Excel Workshop
Inspect, Adapt, & Excel Workshop
1 day

Showcase the True Worth of Inspect & Adapt Events to your executive leaders. With the guidance and facilitation of expert ICON coaches, we can help elevate your next I&A Event outcomes.

 
Hands-on Test-Driven Development (TDD) Workshop
Hands-on Test-Driven Development (TDD) Workshop
2-3 Days (Day 3 is optional)

Elevate your coding game! This intensive 2-day Test Driven Development (TDD) workshop will introduce you to the skills you need to improve your coding experience, productivity, and flow. Learn how to achieve seamless collaboration with your Product Owner and testers.

 
Mastering Agile Collaboration and Automation with BDD and Cucumber
Mastering Agile Collaboration and Automation with BDD and Cucumber
3 Days

Unlock the power of Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Cucumber automation!


SAFe and Lean-Agile Workshops
 
SAFe® Executive Overview
SAFe® Executive Overview
4 Hours

To have a successful Business Agility transformation, executive stakeholders must align on the organizational problems to be solved. ICON helps you develop your understanding of what it means to be a Lean-Agile leader in a growing enterprise, assess where you are in your transformation journey, and guide you on the next steps to better understand the Scaled Agile Framework®. 

 
Lean-Agile Center of Excellence Workshop
Lean-Agile Center of Excellence Workshop
1 Day

In this workshop, explore SAFe® adoption patterns and how they apply to your context, 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, set up the LACE as an Agile team, build your initial SAFe® Implementation Roadmap, and prepare the launch of your first Agile Release Train (ART).

 
Value Stream Workshop
Value Stream Workshop
1 Day

In this 1-day workshop, you will identify your organization’s Value Streams and explore and test different potential Agile Release Train (ART) designs that are optimized for the flow of value. With this understanding, we help you choose one Value Stream and one ART to serve as the starting vehicle for the journey. Then, you will learn how to create a plan to launch the ART and develop a roadmap for launching more ARTs and Value Streams. 

 
SAFe® ART Quickstart
SAFe® ART Quickstart
4-10 Days

There are many ways to successfully launch an Agile Release Train. However, experience has shown that the easiest and fastest way to do this is through the SAFe® ART Quickstart approach. Using this approach, all teams on the ART are trained together, and the first Program Increment (PI) Planning session is completed.  

 
SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management Workshop
SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management Workshop
Based upon Customization of Workshop

Customized Workshop:


Gain more knowledge and insight on SAFe Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) and how it can apply to your company's evolution to modernized Portfolio Processes.


In order to maintain alignment, while preserving empowerment and decentralized decision making, three key collaborations must be enabled across the portfolio:

  • Strategy and Investment Funding

  • Lean Governance

  • Agile Portfolio Operations 

Together these 3 collaborations provide a leaner, and more Agile, governance model that helps each portfolio in the enterprise achieve its larger business objectives.


 
SAFe® Inspect and Adapt Workshop
SAFe® Inspect and Adapt Workshop
1 Day

The importance of the Inspect and Adapt (I&A) workshop cannot be understated. It enables every Agile Release Train (ART) to improve every Program Increment (PI). Since each PI represents a significant economic investment from the organization, it’s critical to assess the current state of the solution, which is demonstrated and evaluated by the ART teams during the I&A. In this hands-on workshop, your ART teams will be guided through a rigorous approach to the problem–solving that will result in improvement actions for the next PI.

 
Agile Backlog Workshop with Epics, Features, and User Stories
Agile Backlog Workshop with Epics, Features, and User Stories
2 Days

Learn about this powerful yet simple technique for creating work items for an Agile environment. This 2-day course teaches attendees how to write Epics, Features, and User Stories that effectively communicate customer needs. You will learn how to build a product backlog of Epic ideas, broken down into beneficial Features, and decomposed into small, valuable User Stories.

 
Customer-Centricity & Design Thinking Workshop
Customer-Centricity & Design Thinking Workshop
2 days

Using a practical hands-on approach, this workshop will support Upwardly Global in the sketching, conception, and early development of an innovation challenge.


Executive Leadership and Strategy
 
Scaled OKRs Certified Facilitator
Scaled OKRs Certified Facilitator
1 Day

In this 1-day course, you will gain an in-depth understanding of how to create OKRs and how OKRs align an organization. This course incorporates learnings from Agile practices, organizational strategy, establishing new behaviors, and learning to become a strategically aligned and Outcomes-Focused organization.

 
Adaptive Leadership 101
Adaptive Leadership 101
1 Day

This introductory 1-day course helps you to identify and make progress on your key leadership challenge. You’ll apply tools and techniques of Adaptive Leadership for leading change, particularly when there are no easy answers.


Scaled OKRs
 
Scaled OKRs Certified Facilitator
Scaled OKRs Certified Facilitator
1 Day

In this 1-Day course, you will gain an in-depth understanding of how to create OKRs and how OKRs align an organization. This course incorporates learnings from Agile practices, organizational strategy, establishing new behaviors, and learning to become a strategically aligned and Outcomes-Focused organization.

 
Scaled OKRs Certified Coach
Scaled OKRs Certified Coach
2 Days

Become a strategically aligned and outcomes-driven organization. In this 2-day course, you will gain a deep understanding of how to implement a full OKRs practice in an organization. This course incorporates learnings from Agile Practices, Organizational Strategy, Value Stream Alignment, Systems Thinking, and Metrics.


DevSecOps
 
DevSecOps Discovery and Solution Workshops
DevSecOps Discovery and Solution Workshops
2 Days

ICON's DevSecOps Discovery and Solution Workshops lead the organization through a practical and engaging approach to kicking off a DevSecOps Transformation the right way. In order to enable Continuous Delivery, the organization must Align to Value Streams, then optimize the Delivery Process from Concept to Cash

 
Agile Testing with Acceptance Test-Driven Design (ATDD) & Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
Agile Testing with Acceptance Test-Driven Design (ATDD) & Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
2 Days

Learn how to build quality into products while controlling scope and avoiding duplicated efforts.  Apply a "whole team" approach to quality and orchestrate feedback from your tests effectively.

 
Test-Driven Development (TDD) Foundations
Test-Driven Development (TDD) Foundations
2-3 Days

This course is the best place to start for most development teams. This class covers TDD fundamentals, sustainable tests, refactoring/continuous design, test doubles/mocks, and – what every developer wants to learn – how to start rescuing your legacy code. 


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We use a tested and proven hybrid-style approach, combining the classroom-like experience of Zoom with the integration of collaboration software from Mural and Kahoot!. Learn more details and read testimonials.

We offer group discounts for 2 or more, as well as a discount for ICON coaching clients. Please reach out to sales@iconagility.com. If you are looking for large group training at a discounted price, please reach out to sales@iconagility.com.

9 AM to 4 PM Central Time for 5 days (Monday-Friday) with multiple breaks throughout training as needed.

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