SAFe® for Teams
(Certified SAFe® Practitioner – SP)

Including the official SAFe® Practitioner Certification Exam

Content

Build your skills as a high-performing team member of an Agile Release Train (ART)—and learn how to collaborate effectively with other teams. Gain an in-depth understanding of the Agile Release Train (ART), how it delivers value, and what you can do to effectively perform your role using Scrum, Kanban, and XP.

The Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) is the world’s most trusted system for scaling Lean and Agile practices and establishing Business Agility across the entire organization.

While many agile frameworks and methods have been initially designed to be applicable to one or only a few agile teams, most organizations nowadays work in complex systems, with many cross-depending collaborative teams, which in many cases are also geographically dislocated. To bring in the benefits of faster, quality-built-in deliveries, and quick responses to customer demands, this requires well organised and synchronised system across the whole organisation.

Agile transformation on a large scale can be prone to failures due to a lack of proper understanding, existing processes or rigid legacy structures, and it might lead to agile implementations not yielding the expected adaptation results.

Establishing high performing Agile teams

Self-organizing and self-managing cross-functional Agile teams are the running motor of an Agile Release Train (ART), when delivering results that meet the needs and expectations of the customers and stakeholders.

SAFe® Practitioner is highly skilled professional, who together with other Agile team members defines (elaboration and design), builds (implementation), and tests (validation) increments of value.

SAFe® Practitioner Certification

As a course participant you qualify for the SAFe® Practitioner certification from scaledagile.com. The certification exam fee is already included in the training price.

Benefits

Learn SAFe® fundamentals and how to apply them in practice
Learn how to plan and execute Iterations
Learn how to plan Program Increments
Learn how to break down Features and write User stories
Learn about the CI/CD pipeline and DevOps
Gain an in-depth understanding of how to effectively align with other Agile teams and what it takes to continuously improve
Get prepared for the SAFe® Practitioner exam and earn the SAFe® Practitioner certification
Benefit from many practical examples and valuable tips from our experienced and certified trainers
Get better career opportunities

Course Outline

Introducing SAFe®

Connect with SAFe and the SAFe Configurations
Explore Lean, the Agile Manifesto, and SAFe Principles
Identify Scrum, Kanban and Extreme Programming (XP) Practices

Building an Agile team

Build Your Team
Explore the Scrum Master and Product Owner roles
Meet the Teams and People on the Agile Release Train

Planning the Iteration

Prepare the Backlog
Plan the Iteration: Purpose, Process, Result, Commitment

Executing the Iteration

Visualize the Flow of Work
Measure the Flow of Work
Build Quality In
Continuously Integrate, Deploy, and Release
Control Flow with Meetings
Demo Value
Retrospect and Improve

Executing the PI

Plan Together
Integrate and Demonstrate Together
Learn Together

Preparation for the SAFe® Practitioner certification exam (SP)

Registration on SAFe® Community Platform
SAFe® Practitioner certification exam data and facts
SAFe® Practitioner certification

The SAFe® Practitioner certification exam is a web-based exam on SAFe® Community Platform and can be taken any time after the SAFe® for Teams course completion. To access the exam, the participants must register their personal account on the SAFe® Community Platform. We recommend participants to prepare and take the exam as soon as possible after the SAFe® for Teams course (no longer as 30 days after the course completion).

The 45 exam questions are structured in multiple choice or multiple answer format. Multiple answer questions require all selection of all correct answers (no partial credits are given). The exam timebox is 90 minutes.When the exam timebox ends, the exam will be submitted, regardless of the number of questions answered. All unanswered questions will be considered as incorrect. The exam passing rate is 77% (35/45).

The exam will be held in English language (some other languages are also available – please check availability by contacting ASD Training).

After successfully passing the SAFe® Practitioner exam, the participants receive the certification along with 1-year SAFe® Community Platform membership.

Further Information

Who can participate in SAFe® for Teams course?

All are welcome to participate in the SAFe® for Teams course, regardless of the previous knowledge or experience.

This course is primarily aimed at members of Agile teams or any other aspiring members of SAFe® Agile Release Train.

Maximum number of participants: 10
Minimum number of participants: 3

Prerequisites

It is recommended that the course participants have some basic knowledge or experience in:

Agile Fundamentals
Scrum or any other agile framework
Software development and testing

Participants must attend both days of the SAFe® for Teams course to qualify for the exam.

Technology requirements and set up for online course:

Computer with an up-to-date operating system and up-to-date browser (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, or Safari)
High speed internet access
Speaker and microphone or appropriate headset
Webcam

Duration / Times

2 days
Both days from 9.00 a.m. until 5.00 p.m.

Course Takeaways

SAFe® for Teams Digital Student Workbook
Preparation and eligibility to take the SAFe® Practitioner certification exam
One year membership to the SAFe® Community Platform
Certificate of SAFe® for Teams course completion

Teaching Methods in the Course

SAFe® for Teams course will be carried out by one of our experienced and certified SAFe® Practice Consultants, with a focus not only on theory, but also on sharing practical experiences and practices. This includes: