SAFe Leadership Forum

SAFe® Leadership Forum

Join this one-day conference targeted at all levels of leaders in organizations practicing SAFe or considering it.

When:

September 19, 2024, 8:30 am – September 19, 2024, 7:00 pm EET

Where:

MEMOX Zürich Europallee, Reitergasse 9, 8004 Zürich, Switzerland

Who:

Business Owner, CEO, CIO, Enterprise Architect

Event Overview

This event is a great opportunity to bring together and improve the community of organizations using SAFe.

Questions? Contact us here.

Speakers

Inbar Oren

Chief Product Officer, SAFe Fellow and Methodologist at Scaled Agile, Inc.

Agile HR Explorer (third-party course)

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.

This one-day introductory course is designed for HR professionals and leaders in a Lean-Agile environment to gain a high‐level understanding of Agile methodology and its influence on Human Resources. In Agile HR Explorer, learners will explore the new world of work and learn why Agile is instrumental in creating more stable, responsive, and successful organizations.

The course was created by one of the leading thought leaders in the world of Agile HR, Just Leading Solutions (JLS)©.

Attendees learn:

  • New World of Work – explore the latest revolution of work and its disruptive impact on organizations and HR. 
  • Agile Foundationscovers the history of Agile, its values, principles and underlying concepts
  • Intro to Agile HR – explains the meaning of Agile HR, and Agile4HR vs. HR4Agile
  • Mini Case Studies – practical stories to help learners apply the newly gained knowledge
  • Practices and Themes – guidance for applying agile values and principles to different HR practices

Agile HR Explorer answers the questions:

  • How can I identify the changing nature of work and its impact on HR?
  • What is the world of Agile and how do I apply agile values and principles?
  • What is the difference between Agile4HR and HR4Agile?
  • What are the key Agile HR themes and their relevance to HR Practices?

Languages available:

English

What’s included:

  • Course workbook 
  • Option to pursue certification from Just Learning Solutions

Accolades:

Certified Agile HR Explorer (AHRE) – certificate and digital badge from Just Leading Solutions

What people say about Agile HR Explorer

“I was blown away by how interactive a virtual course could be. JLS has put together an online experience that is unlike any other I’ve ever seen. Fabiola is so knowledgeable and passionate on the topic of Agile HR. This was the most informative online course I’ve ever taken.”

Leading SAFe®

Thriving in the Digital Age with Business Agility

New to the Scaled Agile Framework®? Leading SAFe® offers an introduction to the foundations of SAFe and provides the principles and practices to confidently drive your Lean-Agile transformation. The course and resulting certification equip you with the guidance and tools to build a culture of resiliency and a shared language that engages employees and focuses on customers so that organizations can work with agility at scale.


Take a Leading SAFe course to discover how companies can build business agility, and how to make SAFe work inside your organization. You’ll come away with an understanding of how to align your entire organization around the same clear objectives, and how to improve the flow of value and work from strategy to delivery. You’ll learn what makes companies more customer-centric and how to run key SAFe alignment and planning events, like PI planning.

Attendees learn:

  • How to realize the benefits of SAFe, including:
    • How to establish Team and Technical Agility and organize around the flow of value
    • How to align massive organizations around clear, common objectives
    • How to participate successfully in critical SAFe events, such as PI Planning
    • How to adopt a customer-centric mindset

Leading SAFe® answers the questions:

  • What is SAFe?
  • What is business agility and how does SAFe support it?
  • How does an organization get started with the Scaled Agile Framework®?

Languages available:

Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish

What’s included:

  • Course workbook and SAFe Studio access to help you prepare to take the certification exam, claim your digital badge, and tools to get started in your SAFe role
  • Remote learning via SAFe® Virtual Classrooms
  • One-year access to SAFe® Studio with your first class attendance
    • Platform access to e-learning modules and curated members-only content to support your SAFe transformation
    • Member discussion forms to engage in ongoing conversations on the SAFe framework or how to better perform as part of an Agile Team
    • Curated content-playlists based on your interests and roles, including templated resources and facilitation guides to get you started
  • SAFe Agilist certification exam

Adapted for interactive remote learning with SAFe® Virtual Classrooms

What people say about Leading SAFe

“Very good course to follow the process for an organization or to apply to any of the domains or areas. Enjoyed the training with good case study and scenarios.”

What people say about Leading SAFe

“Great to get an overview of the fundamentals of SAFe and to learn by practical exercises.”

What people say about Leading SAFe

“It covers a good range of the necessary foundations for embracing an Agile mindset and the tools necessary for implementing SAFe at scale. I’m really happy that it also embraces many of the modern philosophies and theories.”

What people say about Leading SAFe

“Nice journey through this powerful framework. I’d love to apply it in my current work.”

Lean Portfolio Management

Aligning Strategy with Execution using the Scaled Agile Framework

Aligning strategy with execution is critical to any organization’s success and a key aspect of Scaled Agile Framework®. 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.


The Lean Portfolio Management course helps executives, project management officers (PMOs) and other key stakeholders plan dynamically and be flexible enough to adjust initiatives and budgets as the market changes. The LPM course provides the guidance and tools attendees need to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams. You’ll learn how to connect portfolio strategy and initiatives to the agility planning and execution of work, how to integrate feedback from participatory budgeting, and how to adapt to change while maintaining your funding vision and roadmap.

Attendees learn:

  • How to connect the portfolio to the enterprise
  • How to maintain portfolio vision and roadmap
  • How to establish Lean budgets and guardrails
  • How to create portfolio flow

Lean Portfolio Management answers the questions:

  • How do I connect strategy to execution?
  • How do I manage flow and solve perpetual overload?
  • How can I fund and govern dynamically?
  • How does Lean Portfolio Management fit into SAFe?

Languages available:

  • Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish

What’s included:

  • Course workbook and SAFe Studio access to help you prepare to take the certification exam, claim your digital badge, and tools to get started in your SAFe role
  • Remote learning via SAFe® Virtual Classrooms
  • One-year access to SAFe Studio with your first class attendance
    • Complete LPM Practice Guide to help plan and execute a successful LPM adoption
    • Platform access to e-learning modules and curated members-only content to support your SAFe transformation
    • Member discussion forms to engage in ongoing conversations on the SAFe framework or how to perform better as part of an Agile Team
    • Lean Portfolio Manager certification exam
    • Access to the optional Getting Started with LPM Workshop

Adapted for interactive remote learning with SAFe® Virtual Classrooms

What people say about Lean Portfolio Management

“A vastly different viewpoint to the rest of the SAFe content … LPM focuses on the mostly invisible funding and governance. Not many other Agile frameworks address this vital component.”

What people say about Lean Portfolio Management

“Enjoyed LPM considerably.”

What people say about Lean Portfolio Management

“This course is very appropriate for my job and will guide me to make better decisions.”