Additionally, all Icon SAFe and DevOps coaches are available for remote engagement. We regularly coach/consult one-on-one and with client teams via our web conferencing platform. Please contact us at info@iconagility.com for more details of our remote coaching services.
We provide training for large groups at a great value.
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.
SAFe 5.0
Leading SAFe® with SA Certification
During this 2-day course, attendees gain the knowledge necessary to lead a Lean-Agile enterprise by using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and its underlying principles derived from Lean, systems thinking, Agile development, product development flow, and DevOps
SAFe® for Teams with SP Certification
This 2-day 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.
SAFe® DevOps with SDP Certification
Co-authored by ICON, this 2-day interactive course helps people across technical, non-technical, and leadership roles work together to optimize their value stream from end to end. Attendees will learn what DevOps is, why it is important to every role, and design a continuous delivery pipeline that is tailored to their business.
Implementing SAFe® with SPC Certification
During this 4-day course, attendees will learn how to lead a Lean-Agile transformation by using the practices and principles of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and the seven core competencies of the Lean Enterprise. Attendees will practice how to coach programs, launch Agile Release Trains, create a DevOps culture to build a Continuous Delivery Pipeline, and empower a Lean Portfolio.
SAFe® Release Train Engineer with RTE Certification
This 3-day course provides an in-depth understanding of the role and responsibilities of a SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE). Through experiential learning, attendees learn how to facilitate ART processes and execution, coach others, and prepare a Program Increment (PI) planning event.
SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management with LPM Certification
In this 3-day interactive course, attendees will gain the practical tools and techniques necessary to implement the Lean Portfolio Management functions of Strategy and Investment Funding, Agile Portfolio Operations and Lean Governance.
SAFe® Scrum Master with SSM Certification
In this 2-day 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® Advanced Scrum Master with SASM Certification
This 2-day 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.
SAFe® Product Owner/Product Manager with POPM Certification
During this 2-day course, attendees will gain an in-depth understanding of how to effectively perform their role in the the Agile Release Train (ART) as it delivers value through Program Increments.
SAFe® Agile Product & Solution Management with APSM Certification
In this 3-day course, attendees harness the power of Design Thinking to develop innovative solutions with proven SAFe capabilities to execute on those visions.
SAFe® Agile Software Engineering with ASE Certification
This 3-day, workshop-oriented course explores foundational principles and practices and how continuous flow of value delivery and built-in quality are enabled by XP technical practices, Behavioral-Driven Development (BDD), and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
SAFe® for Architects with ARCH Certification
The SAFe for Architects course prepares System, Solution, and Enterprise Architects to engage across the organization as effective leaders and change agents who collaboratively deliver architectural solutions. During this 3-day course, attendees explore the roles, responsibilities, and mindset of Agile Architects.
SAFe® for Government with SGP Certification
During this 2-day course, attendees learn the practices and principles of SAFe, how to execute and release value through Agile Release Trains, and what it means to lead a Lean-Agile transformation of a program inside a government agency.
SAFe and Lean-Agile Workshops
Lean-Agile Center of Excellence Workshop (SAFe® LACE)
Drive enterprise adoption of Lean-Agile practices and business results
The LACE is a small, dedicated team of leaders and change agents who are responsible for driving real and lasting organizational change.
An effective Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) is a critical success factor differentiating organizations fully committed to adopting Lean-Agile practices and achieving significant business results from those practicing Agile in name only.
The challenge is that most of the people qualified to drive change have full-time responsibilities in their current roles. While a significant portion of their time can perhaps be devoted to supporting the change, a smaller, more dedicated group of people is needed to drive SAFe® adoption throughout the organization.
Organize for value
The SAFe Implementation Roadmap provides a proven approach for adopting the Scaled Agile Framework. One of the most important steps on this roadmap is to identify the Value Streams within the enterprise.
Value streams are the primary construct in SAFe for understanding, organizing, and delivering value to the customer and to the enterprise itself. Attempting to shortcut or breeze through this crucial step can derail your transformation before it begins. Getting value streams right, however, enables the organization to accelerate the flow of value across functional silos, activities, and boundaries.
SAFe® ART Quickstart (Release Train Launch)
Accelerate your SAFe transformation
There are many ways to successfully launch an Agile Release Train (ART) to begin realizing the benefits of SAFe. 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 in just one week. While this may seem daunting, hundreds of rollouts have proven that this is the easiest and most pragmatic way to help 100-plus people transition to the new way of working.
SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management Workshop
Focus and align productivity to strategic goals
Speed, quality, and productivity are worthy goals for any organization. Yet it’s only when applied with strategic focus and alignment that transformative results can be achieved. SAFe® helps align portfolio execution to the enterprise strategy, by organizing Agile development around the flow of value through one or more value streams. It enables business agility by applying the principles and practices of Lean Portfolio Management (LPM).
SAFe® Inspect and Adapt Workshop
Optimize the quality of your implementation through relentless improvement
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. During this one-day workshop you will be guided through the planning, preparation and execution of the Inspect and Adapt workshop.
In this 2-day course, business leaders will gain the knowledge, understanding, and tools to successfully embark on a SAFe Transformation. Use lean and agile thinking to understand new leadership patterns that are vital to success in today's rapidly changing business world.
Agile Backlog Workshop with Epics, Features, and User Stories
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.
DevOps
SAFe® DevOps with SDP Certification
Co-authored by ICON, this 2-day SAFe® course provides a comprehensive overview for understanding the DevOps competencies needed to accelerate time-to-market by improving the flow of value through the Continuous Delivery Pipeline. Attendees will map the current value stream through their delivery pipeline from idea to cash and identify practices that eliminate bottlenecks.
Agile Testing with Acceptance Test-Driven Design (ATDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
This 2-day courses teaches how to build quality into products while controlling scope and avoiding duplicated efforts. Learn how to apply a "whole team" approach to quality and how to orechestrate feedback from your tests in order to be extremely effective.
Test-Driven Development (TDD) Foundations
This 2- or 3-day course helps developers craft and sustain a high-quality code base. This course covers TDD fundamentals, sustainable tests, refactoring/continuous design, test doubles/mocks, and how to start rescuing your legacy code.
DevOps Discovery and Solution Workshops
The 1-day DevOps Discovery Workshop and 1-day DevOps Solution Workshop lead the organization through a practical and engaging approach to kicking off a DevOps transformation the right way. These workshops are customized activities specific to a Client's unique needs.
DevOps for the Agile Enterprise
This 2-day course explores the role of DevOps in the context of the entire IT value stream. Prepare to successfully plan and implement DevOps capabilities that significantly extend the benefits of Agile Transformations.
Enterprise Business AgilitySM
Enterprise Business AgilitySM Seminar
This seminar explains the elements needed for designing successful business agility transformations where Lean/Agile goes beyond IT. Discover how top business challenges are addressed by EBA’s seven pillars.
Enterprise Business AgilitySM Strategist with EBAS Certification (2 Day)
Help your leaders build their vision, success measures, and roadmap to enable enterprise-level transformation in this 2-day course. Gain concrete solutions and participate in activities tailored to your specific transformation challenges. Spend time exploring the seven pillars of the Enterprise Business AgilitySM Model, developing the knowledge necessary to lead a transformation within each pillar.
Enterprise Business AgilitySM Strategist with EBAS Certification (3 Day)
Help your leaders build their vision, success measures, and roadmap to enable enterprise-level transformation in this 3-day course. Gain concrete solutions and participate in activities tailored to your specific transformation challenges. Spend time exploring the seven pillars of the Enterprise Business AgilitySM Model, developing the knowledge necessary to lead a transformation within each pillar.
AgilityHealth® Facilitator Certification
This certification workshop prepares participants to facilitate and deliver TeamHealth Retrospective Assessments and certifies them to be AgilityHealth® Facilitators.
Business Outcomes and OKR Workshop
This 1 or 2 day workshop helps senior executives and business/technology leaders create Strategic Intent and measurable quarterly business outcomes at the Portfolio/Value Stream level. You’ll learn how to use Business Outcomes and OKRs to bring alignment and drive results across the teams within your organization.
EBA Lean Portfolio Management Planning Workshop
This 2-day facilitated portfolio planning workshop allows for leaders from both the portfolio and product levels to come together and plan out the Demand and Capacity for the next quarter.
Lean-Agile
Agile Product Owner Enablement
This 2-day course teaches the basics of Agile development using Scrum and the role of the Product Owner. Learn how a Product Owner can infuse business priorities, goals, and vision into a development team and thereby build highly functional systems.
Applying Scrum - Agile Principles & Practices
This 1-day course incorporates the Agile philosophy into IT organizations, helping them to rapidly deliver working software, increase quality, and decrease time-to-market.
In this 2-day course, learn how to apply the basic practices of any Agile approach, with a focus on Scrum. A series of exercises takes attendees through identification of User Stories, project/release planning, Sprint planning, and Sprint execution. Participants will build and manage a Product Backlog, a Sprint Backlog and a Release Plan.
Agile Team Enablement Workshop
In this 3-day course, learn how to apply the basic practices of any Agile approach, with a focus on Scrum. This workshop is customized depending on the team, environment, and any unique requirements of the customer. A series of exercises takes attendees through identification of User Stories, project/release planning, Sprint planning, and Sprint execution.
This 2-day course introduces the concepts of agile project leadership and how to apply Scrum practices in software development teams, using the Scrum framework. This course 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)
This 2-day course will help you with the business side of Agile projects. Learn to create product vision, order the product backlog, and make sure the best possible work is done to satisfy your customers.
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.
