Role: Product Manager

Unlock Unprecedented Productivity: The Flow Metrics Path to Agile Success

Unlock Unprecedented Productivity: The Flow Metrics Path to Agile Success

Whether you are new to the concept of flow metrics or looking to deepen your understanding and application, this session will equip you with the knowledge and tools to start leveraging flow metrics for remarkable improvements in your organizational performance.

When:

April 24, 2024, 10:00 am – April 24, 2024, 11:00 am MST

Where:

Zoom

Who:

Agile Leaders, LACE Leader, Product Manager, SAFe Practice Consultant, SAFe Program Consultant, Transformation Leader

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Event Overview

In today’s competitive business landscape, attaining enterprise agility is more crucial than ever. Many are intrigued by the potential of Value Stream Management (VSM), yet find it intimidating and overly complex, even a colossal challenge. What if the journey to enterprise agility could be significantly simplified?

This session focuses on demystifying “flow metrics” – it’s the fastest and most effective path to extract immediate value for any organization. Flow metrics offer a lens through which organizations can view the efficiency, speed, and quality of work moving through their processes.

By attending this webinar, you will learn:

– What Flow Metrics Are: An introduction to flow metrics and their role in tracking the movement and delivery of value in the enterprise.

– Why They Matter: Explore the critical importance of flow metrics in identifying bottlenecks, reducing waste, and improving overall system performance, leading to enhanced enterprise agility.

– How to Get Started: Practical steps to begin collecting and analyzing flow metrics, even without fully implementing Value Stream Management (VSM). We’ll break down the seeming complexity of VSM, showing how any organization can derive significant value from flow metrics.

–Transformative Insights: Discover the kinds of insights flow metrics can provide and how these insights can be used to make informed decisions, prioritize work, and drive continuous improvement.

Speakers

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Marc Rix

Methodologist, SAFe® Fellow at Scaled Agile, Inc.

Brad Kramer

Pre-sales Solution Engineer at Atlassian

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Building a Professional Network the Agile Way

Building a Professional Network the Agile Way

Learn to grow your professional opportunities through a more valuable, connected, and invested network.

When:

April 16, 2024, 1:00 pm – April 16, 2024, 1:30 pm MST

Where:

Zoom

Who:

Architect, Product Manager, Product Owner, RTE, Scrum Master, SPC, SPCT, Team Coach

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Event Overview

According to a PwC survey, 55% percent of those in the technology and IT fields felt they had missed a job opportunity due to insufficient network. In this session, we’ll cover both a strategic mindset/approach and tactical steps you can take starting today.

  • Benefits and methods for in-person vs. virtual networking
  • Breaking the ice and developing meaningful connections
  • Achieving consistent, sustainable network growth on LinkedIn
  • Take advantage of existing groups like Meetups, role-specific groups like RTE and SPC circle, in-person events, etc.


We’ll help you develop simple, repeatable processes for building your network in a way that lasts long-term!

Speakers

Chandler Karadsheh

Sr. Content Marketing Manager at Scaled Agile, Inc.

Mike Alber

Director, Community Engagement at Scaled Agile, Inc.

First Look: 2024 SAFe Careers Snapshot

First Look: 2024 SAFe Careers Snapshot

Use this leap day to jump ahead in your career!

When:

February 29, 2024, 10:00 am – February 29, 2024, 11:00 am MST

Where:

Zoom

Who:

Agile Coach, Product Manager, Product Owner, Release Train Engineer, Scrum Master, Solutions Architect

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Event Overview

We’ll cover the latest employer data for salaries, skill requirements, and experience expectations for SAFe Roles in 2024. Unlike the next leap day, you shouldn’t wait another four years to prioritize your next career move.

Our comprehensive report delves into the current job market for six key SAFe roles (based on Q4, 2023 data):

• Scrum Master
• Agile Coach
• Product Owner (PO)
• Product Manager
• Release Train Engineer (RTE)
• Architect

In this one-hour session, we’ll review the report highlights and our upcoming releases to help you with specific professional development goals, skill growth, and new AI tools for enhanced productivity with SAFe.

Speakers

Tamara Nation

VP, SAFe Professionals at Scaled Agile, Inc.

Thomas Vong

Sr Director, Certification and Recognition at Scaled Agile, Inc.

2024 SAFe Careers Snapshot | Salaries, Skills, and Experience for SAFe Roles

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Are you pursuing a fulfilling career with SAFe® but unsure where to begin or how to progress? 

We know that SAFe roles don’t always follow traditional career paths. That’s why we created our first-ever SAFe Careers Snapshot, based on employer data from Q4, 2023. 

Whether you’re eager to kickstart your SAFe journey or seeking ways to elevate your current role, the 2024 SAFe Careers Snapshot is your compass to navigate the exciting landscape of SAFe opportunities.

Our comprehensive report delves into the heart of the current job market for six key SAFe roles:

  • Scrum Master
  • Agile Coach
  • Product Owner (PO)
  • Product Manager
  • Release Train Engineer (RTE)
  • Architect 

Each role offers a detailed breakdown with insights into the skills, certifications, and earning potential required to excel, all based on real job market data.

Key SAFe Careers Snapshot Takeaways

The following trends were clearly identified across all the roles we researched: 

  1. SAFe roles and certifications offer higher earning potential than alternatives
  2. The technology industry is the top employer of SAFe roles
  3. Most employers using SAFe require or prefer certification
  4. SAFe roles facilitate career progression with further skill development
  5. 70 percent of Fortune 100 companies have certified SAFe professionals and consultants, as do a growing number of Global 2000

What Will You Learn in the 2024 SAFe® Careers Snapshot? 

If you’re wondering about the earning potential of someone in your role with a SAFe certification or how to reinvest in your career path this year, the SAFe Careers Snapshot has helpful guidance.

Here’s a sampling of the types of questions you’ll get answers to in the report, broken into three critical career categories.  

Salary and earning potential:

  • How much should I expect to earn in a role like Scrum Master? 
  • How much could my salary change with a SAFe certification?
  • How do years of experience or new skills impact my salary?

We analyzed market averages for similar roles and the difference a certification can make. We also charted progressions to higher-paying roles based on your current career stage.

Employability and competitiveness in the job market:

  • How many employers require SAFe certification? 
  • Does SAFe certification increase my chances of finding a job? 
  • Can I apply my SAFe certifications to other roles besides the one I currently hold? 

Career advancement: 

  • What skills can take you to the next level or land you that first dream job?
  • What certifications and experience do employers look for in a role like Agile Coach or Architect? 
  • I’m an RTE; where should I go next in my career?

We break down (by role) how many employers require and prefer SAFe certification as a demonstration of competency. The results show just how much you gain a competitive edge through active certification.

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We understand career decisions aren’t one-size-fits-all. That’s why we’ve tailored our recommendations to fit multiple stages of career progression with the following categories:

  1. I want this job: You want to get hired at an organization that’s using SAFe
  2. I want to grow: You want to enhance your value with role-related training and development
  3. I want to advance: You want to position yourself for advancement to a new role

In addition to role-based recommendations, we included key findings for each role, a summary and outlook section, and additional information on the value of SAFe certification. Dive into some of the findings and hear about new releases to further your SAFe career journey in this recent webinar.

Download the report today and embark on a transformative journey toward realizing your full SAFe potential. This is the best time to start working differently and building your future.

Unlock Your Career Access career advice tailored to your SAFe role and experience. Get Report

Exploring the Foundations of Responsible AI

Exploring the Foundations of Responsible AI

Virtually every large enterprise is exploring how they can use AI to gain a competitive advantage in the market. However, its potential for creating unintended consequences is equal to AI’s benefits.

When:

November 30, 2023, 10:00 am – November 30, 2023, 11:00 am MST

Where:

Zoom

Who:

Agile Coach, Consultant, Product Manager, Product Owner, Program or Project Manager, Release Train Engineer, Scrum Master

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Event Overview

In this webinar, we will explore the crucial aspects of integrating AI responsibly in today’s products and learn how SAFe can help ensure your AI endeavors are transparent, fair, and safeguarded.

• Compliance & Regulation: Understand the critical regulatory landscapes governing AI and how to navigate product development within these constraints.

• Ethical Considerations: Examine the moral imperatives of AI, from ensuring unbiased algorithms to the broader societal impacts and considerations.

• Transparency, Accuracy and security: Learn how to cultivate trust in AI products by ensuring clear decision-making processes, high accuracy rates, and robust security measures.

Speakers

Dr. Steve Mayner

VP Framework, Methodologist & SAFe Fellow at Scaled Agile, Inc.

Increasing Productivity of SAFe Roles with Gen AI

Increasing Productivity of SAFe Roles with Gen AI

By reducing the routine, repetitive tasks that create toil for the individual contributor, Gen AI tools enable more ‘time in zone’ for higher-order, critical thinking work.

When:

December 13, 2023, 10:00 am – December 13, 2023, 11:00 am MST

Where:

Zoom

Who:

Agile Coach, Consultant, Product Manager, Product Owner, Program or Project Manager, Release Train Engineer, SAFe Members, Scrum Master

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Event Overview

In this session, we will unravel the potent capabilities of tools to streamline technology product development and elevate creative and strategic focus.

• Generative AI Overview: Dive into generative AI and its positive impact on SAFe roles, offering a competitive edge in the tech development landscape.

• Practical Application Examples: Witness real-world examples of how top-tier generative AI tools replace mundane tasks, ensuring optimal utilization of human effort for pivotal roles.

• Transition to Higher-Order Tasks: Learn strategies to redirect workforce focus from repetitive tasks to critical thinking assignments, catalyzing innovation and strategic growth.

Speakers

Cheryl Crupi

Methodologist and SAFe Fellow at Scaled Agile, Inc.

Rebecca Davis

Methodologist and SAFe Fellow at Scaled Agile, Inc.

Building, Operating, and Scaling AI-Enabled Solutions with SAFe

Building, Operating, and Scaling AI-Enabled Solutions with SAFe

SAFe Enterprises often encounter challenges integrating AI technology into their production solutions. Early adopters of AI have found ways to address the common barriers to building, operating, and scaling AI-enabled products.

When:

November 15, 2023, 10:00 am – November 15, 2023, 11:00 am MST

Where:

Zoom

Who:

Agile Coach, Product Manager, Product Owner, Program or Project Manager, Release Train Engineer, Scrum Master

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Event Overview

This webinar will examine the impacts of AI solution development on people, processes, and technology, as well as the commitments SAFe organizations should be prepared to make for creating desirable, viable, feasible, and sustainable AI solutions.

• Identify the new roles needed in Agile teams and ARTs, and the upskilling needed across all SAFe roles.

• Understand the new processes that must be added to the product development lifecyle to support AI solutions.

• Explore the new classes of tools that form the architectural runway needed to support AI development.

Speakers

Marc Rix

Methodologist & SAFe Fellow at Scaled Agile, Inc.

Harry Koehnemann

Methodologist & SAFe Fellow at Scaled Agile, Inc.

Dr. Wiselin Mathuram

SPCT, Chief Transformation Officer at International Business Consultants, LLC

Jeff Shupack

SAFe Fellow, President of Advisory Practice at Project & Team, Inc.

Implementing SAFe® Exemplar

Implementing SAFe® Exemplar

The Implementing SAFe® Exemplar course, offered by Scaled Agile, Inc., stands out as a distinctive learning experience. It is taught by the world’s most seasoned SAFe® Fellows and members of the Scaled Agile Framework team. This is your golden chance to learn directly from the architects of the framework, those at the cutting edge of pressing business challenges. Bring your toughest questions and get insights straight from the experts. You won’t want to miss this unparalleled opportunity with the Implementing SAFe® Exemplar.

December 19 – 22, 2023

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM (MST)

Remote, Zoom

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Be sure to check out additional course offerings provided by our Partner Community on the Training Calendar.

Want to become SPCT certified? Learn more about the SAFe® Practice Consultant-T (SPCT) certification here.

What makes this an Exemplar?

  • Taught by SAFe Framework team members and SAFe Fellows
  • Testbed for new IP
  • SPCT Immersion week

Event Overview

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. This course is for those who want to be a leader in a Lean-Agile transformation. This course and resulting certification will help you understand the roles of each person in SAFe organization and then plan and guide a SAFe transformation.

You’ll learn how to identify value streams, launch agile release trains, optimize flow, and apply OKRs to Strategic Themes that define the targeted outcomes for the SAFe transformation. You’ll also practice the principles of Agile product management and product delivery. If you’re looking for a comprehensive and practical understanding of how to help an organization achieve business agility effectively, Implementing SAFe® is the right course for you.

Instructors

Dean Leffingwell
Co-Founder and Chief Methodologist (Scaled Agile, Inc.)

Recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Lean-Agile best practices, Dean Leffingwell is an author, entrepreneur, and software and systems development methodologist. His two best-selling books, Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise and Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises, form much of the basis of modern thinking on Lean-Agile practices and principles. Founder of several successful startups, including Requisite, Inc., makers of RequisitePro (acquired by Rational), Mr. Leffingwell also served as Chief Methodologist to Rally Software, and prior to that, as a Sr. Vice President at Rational Software (now part of IBM). He currently serves as Chief Methodologist to Scaled Agile, Inc., which he co-founded in 2011.

Andrew Sales
Chief Methodologist and SAFe Fellow (Scaled Agile, Inc.)

Andrew Sales is an experienced Agile Consultant and previously led the Agile Services Practice across EMEA for CA Technologies (formerly Rally). Drawing on his diverse range of skills and experiences from project management, software development, product management and sales, Andrew has worked with many organizations to help them successfully establish better ways of working. He is passionate about continuous improvement and provides coaching to teams and leaders, supporting them in achieving improved outcomes for their business and their customers.

Rebecca Davis
SAFe Methodologist and SAFe Fellow (Scaled Agile, Inc.)

Rebecca Davis has been leading Agile teams, trains, and leaders for over 15 years within startups, mid-size, and Fortune 100 enterprises. Davis brings her experience as a former Release Train Engineer, Scrum Master, Portfolio Lead, Quality Director, and LACE Director into her current activities.  Rebecca is a SAFe Fellow, Methodologist, and SPCT on the Scaled Agile Framework Team who highlights joy and energy within her work.  Most recently, Rebecca led the Agile Transformation as Director of Scaled Agile Practices and Leader of the Digital LACE within the Fortune 4 and Global 7, where over 4 years, she expanded Scaled Agile Practices from 300 to over 10k working within a Scaled Agile model across the organization, including IT, Marketing, Digital experiences, and Retail business

Transformation in Practice – Engaging POs and PMs from the Business onto the ART

Transformation in Practice – Engaging POs and PMs from the Business onto the ART

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When:

June 26, 2023, 10:00 am – June 26, 2023, 10:30 am

Where:

Zoom

Who:

Agile Coach, Product Manager, Product Owner

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Event Overview

Agilists have been talking about business and technology alignment since the beginning of the Agile movement.  Many experience challenges with integrating POs and PMs from the business onto the delivery ARTs, especially if the ARTs are in technology organizations.  What’s the career incentive and path? What skills are needed? And how to create high-performing teams including the business members. Join this expert panel of Mark Saymen and Vikas Kapila to discuss why this is important and tips to help overcome these challenges.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to transform to business-enabled ARTs!

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Speakers

Deema Dajani

SAFe® Fellow, Product Director (Scaled Agile, Inc.)

Draws on a Startup background and an MBA from Kellogg Deema helps established enterprises create the environment to shape disruption with business agility and Lean Portfolio Management (LPM). Started her Agile journey in the early 2000’s as a Product Manager, Director of Strategy, and pre-IPO turn around specialist. Deema transitioned to advisory where she led some of the largest transformations to Lean-Agile with SAFe in Financial Services and Insurance. Deema currently serves as a Scaled Agile Product Manager focused on LPM and Leadership. Co-founder of the Women in Agile, a non-profit organization focused on breaking barriers and inclusivity in the agile community.

Vikas Kapila

CEO (Enterprise Agility Consulting)

Vikas is a business transformation practitioner with a passion for applying Lean-Agile principles, behaviors and practices to enable delivery of highest business value with built-in quality at the earliest in a predictably and sustainable cycle. He excels at quickly delivering business value, simplifying the seemingly complex, and delighting customers. He is able to achieve these results by consistently building radically prolific, high performing teams by believing to look listen & learn before initiating collaboration, coaching, training and facilitation. 

Mark Saymen

Title (Agile Agilist)

A career story from Developer to Partner has taken me around the world implementing digital transformation, training, and implementing SAFe. Mark thrives with ambiguity and challenges. Mark welcomes tough questions and complex challenges leveraging the power of Digital to help organizations create a culture of innovation and increase team happiness, fulfillment, and engagement. Some of my tools are Resilience Engineering, DevOps, Coaching, Agile at Scale, Training, and Mindset.

SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master

Advancing Scrum Master Servant Leadership with SAFe

As a practicing scrum master in a SAFe organization, you have the tactical skills to coach Agile teams to deliver business value. Build on that solid foundation in the SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master course and discover how to facilitate success for Agile teams, Agile Release Trains (ARTs), and the organization. And get the guidance and tools you need to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams.

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Take your leadership skills to the next level. The SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master course will give you the tools to improve your coaching and facilitation skills, avoid common missteps, and encourage relentless improvement. You’ll learn how to apply Lean, Kanban, DevOps, and SAFe principles to improve team and business outcomes. You’ll up-level your facilitation skills for key Agile and SAFe events, whether they’re in person or across teams and time zones. And you’ll discover how communities of practice can support continuous improvement.

Attendees learn:

  • How to apply SAFe principles to facilitate, enable, and coach in a multi-team environment
  • How to adopt scalable engineering practices, Kanban, DevOps, and Agile architecture to optimize flow
  • How to advance your facilitation skills for ART and team event planning, execution, and delivering end-to-end value
  • How to build communities of practice to support high-performing teams and ART efficiency
  • How to lead distributed teams effectively in remote environments

SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master answers the questions:

  • What’s the next step in my learning as a SAFe Scrum Master?
  • How can I improve my coaching and facilitation skills to support my team?
  • What are common anti-patterns to avoid when encouraging relentless improvement at scale?

Languages available:

  • English
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Exam & Certification Details
Professional Development Units & Scrum Education Units

What’s included:

  • Course workbook and SAFe Studio access to help prepare you to take the certification exam, claim their 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
    • Team Event Facilitator Guides
    • Online collaboration templates for all SAFe team events
    • Toolkits to help prepare and execute PI Planning
  • Access to content, tools, and resources you need to practice SAFe every day
  • SAFe Advanced Scrum Master certification exam

Adapted for interactive remote learning with SAFe® Virtual Classrooms

What people say about SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master

“Good content and great training for the aspirants who are moving towards an Agile Coach from a Scrum Master.”

What people say about SAFe Advanced Scrum Master

“I liked the team assignments and interactions in our training group the most.”

What people say about SAFe Advanced Scrum Master

“Course was very informative and dynamic.”