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Agile Training & Coaching

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Training

Certified Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Program Consultant (SPC4) with real-world experience implementing SAFe within government agencies and software development companies can provide the following training for your teams, customers, and executives:

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  • Leading SAFe 4.0

  • SAFe 4.0 for Teams

  • SAFe 4.0 Product Manager/Product Owner

  • SAFe 4.0 Scrum Master

  • SAFe 4.0 Advanced Scrum Master

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Additionally, our SPC4 can provide SAFe Agile Release Train (ART) training and certifications for teams of 50 to 125 members. This includes all team members, stakeholders, and customers to ensure your ART launch is successful. Training for the entire ART is a recognized best practice for all large teams, regardless of experience level.

SAFe/Agile Coaching

If you are just starting to adopt agile development practices or struggling with transition, an experienced coach can assist you. Organizational change is always difficult, and moving to an agile approach requires a new way of thinking throughout your organization. Our agile experts can assist you and your team with:

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  • Executive and management level training

    • Gain high-level buy-in for success

    • Highlight the quality improvements inherent with agile development

  • Team level training

    • Aid the team in understanding why they should use agile processes

    • Demonstrate how the new processes will make their work more rewarding

    • Gain developer buy-in for success

  • Hands-on help with agile processes

    • Customize SAFe, Scrum, or some other agile method to better fit your unique needs

    • Assist with each phase of the process to ensure it's properly implemented by the team

    • Work with the leadership team to understand when, where, and how they fit into the new process

  • Agile program management tool selection

    • Outline tools available for managing agile teams and the cost for each

    • Customize the selected tool to better meet your needs

    • Establish reporting metrics and dashboards

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Agile development has matured over the last decade and the existing options can be overwhelming. Our coaches can help your company choose the best approach and provide a detailed comparison of other companies' approaches. Engaging our coaches early saves you time and money by helping you overcome the challenges all companies face during transition.

Scrum Master & Release Train Engineer

In SAFe, two team members are responsible for ensuring that processes are followed, improved, or removed if they're not beneficial. These team members are the Scrum Master and Release Train Engineer (RTE). If you'd like to make the SAFe/agile coach a long-term member of your team, our agile experts:

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  • Bring over a decade of agile development experience to your team

  • Ensure meetings are time-boxed and productive

  • Facilitate retrospectives that actually lead to continuous improvement

  • Lead Program Increment Planning, which is a notoriously difficult meeting to facilitate well

  • Integrate customers, executives, and stakeholders into the process at the right time and place

  • Generate useful reports at the team, program, and portfolio levels

  • Help the team to embrace the spirit of agile development and not just follow processes blindly

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Integrating an experienced agile champion with your team will transform it into a high-performance one. The champion will also ensure that new teams are able to make it past the initial difficulties of the transition. Our agile experts and coaches have a passion for SAFe and agile development that is infectious. When you use our experts, you'll find that this excitement spreads quickly to team members, executives, and stakeholders. This excitement will ensure the changes you make to your organization will be long-lasting and impactful.

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