Building enterprise implementation capability, not just course attendance
Implementing SAFe is the broadest and most transformation-focused of the core SAFe courses. It is designed for people who need to do more than understand the framework, they need to help plan, lead, coach, and sustain change across an organisation. The course develops the practical grounding needed to identify value streams, launch Agile Release Trains, strengthen portfolio alignment, and support the wider leadership and organisational conditions that make change stick.
This course also serves as the route into the SAFe Practice Consultant certification. Because of the certification and enablement model around SPC, this course is delivered through our partnership with SAFe Gold Partner Agile Agilist, while still giving you the practical, high-quality AgilityPro experience and facilitation style.
The current Scaled Agile course also incorporates AI-empowered themes for the SPC role, with a pragmatic focus on using AI to support coaching materials, transformation artefacts, portfolio visibility, communication, and guidance, while keeping human judgement firmly in the loop.
What your people will learn
- How to plan and guide a SAFe implementation using the implementation roadmap
- How to identify value streams and design Agile Release Trains
- How to launch trains, support PI Planning, and coach ART execution
- How Lean-Agile leadership, mindset, and principles shape transformation success
- How product development flow and DevOps support better delivery performance
- How Lean Portfolio Management connects investment, strategy, and execution
- How to support large solution integration and wider portfolio evolution
- How to measure progress, improve flow, and accelerate business agility over time
Who this course is for
- Transformation leaders and internal change agents
- Agile coaches and consultants
- Senior leaders and line managers involved in enterprise change
- Portfolio leaders and Lean Portfolio Management practitioners
- Enterprise, system, and solution architects
- PMO and governance leaders supporting new operating models
- Experienced practitioners preparing for the SPC certification
- Organisations that want internal SAFe implementation capability, not just awareness
Domain topics covered in the current course
The current Implementing SAFe course goes into more depth than most role-based SAFe courses, which makes the domain structure itself useful to surface on the page for prospective attendees and internal buyers.
- Adapt and thrive with SAFe: thriving in disruption, building a Lean-Agile organisation
- Build a foundation with mindset, values, and principles: Lean-Agile mindset, SAFe core values, SAFe principles, and empowering agility with AI
- Establish team and technical agility: cross-functional teams, ARTs, built-in quality, and DevOps
- Product development flow: customer centricity, design thinking, prioritisation, PI Planning, and PI execution
- Explore Lean Portfolio Management: portfolio strategy, portfolio vision, epics, lean budgets, guardrails, and portfolio flow
- Lead the change: leading by example, leading change, and using AI to support leaders
- Reach the SAFe tipping point: establishing the vision for change and building the guiding coalition
- Design the implementation: identifying value streams and ARTs, then building the implementation plan
- Launch an Agile Release Train: preparing for launch, training teams, and facilitating distributed PI Planning
- Coach ART execution: Inspect and Adapt, problem solving, and continuous improvement
- Large solution integration and delivery: launching additional ARTs and value streams, operating a Solution Train, and integrating large solutions
- Enhance the portfolio and accelerate business agility: portfolio operations, measuring performance, strategy agility, measure and grow, flow acceleration, and appropriate SAFe customisation
Certification and exam
This course prepares attendees for the AI-Empowered SAFe® Practice Consultant (SPC) certification.
- SAFe® Practice Consultant (SPC) certification
- 60 multiple choice questions
- 120 minutes
- 83% passing score
- First exam attempt included when taken within 60 days of course completion
- Unlimited practice test with feedback and coaching report
- Perpetual access to the course workbook and SAFe Studio for additional preparation
- Digital badge on successful passing of the certification exam
A clear difference with SPC is that the certification also opens access to a much broader enablement model, including training rights and deeper SAFe implementation resources, subject to Scaled Agile's partner and certification rules.
What attendees get after the course
- Course workbook and certificate of completion
- Eligibility to sit the SAFe® Practice Consultant certification exam
- Access to SAFe Studio resources for preparation and continued learning
- Practice tools, study resources, and wider SAFe community access
- Additional enablement resources relevant to the SPC role and certification pathway
- Digital badge on successful passing of the certification exam
Prerequisites
Anyone can attend the course, but this is not an entry-level class. For those intending to sit the certification exam, the following background is strongly recommended:
- More than five years of experience in software development, testing, business analysis, product, or project work
- More than three years of experience in Agile coaching, transformation, or training-related roles
- Enough organisational context to connect the course to real implementation work
Why organisations choose this course
It is the course to use when awareness is no longer enough and you need real internal capability to guide a SAFe adoption, support leaders, launch trains, and shape the practical mechanics of change across a complex organisation.
It is also the right route when you want recognised implementation capability through the SPC certification, with delivery supported through our partnership with SAFe Gold Partner Agile Agilist.
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Delivery partnership
This course is delivered through our partnership with SAFe Gold Partner Agile Agilist.
This reflects Scaled Agile's delivery and enablement model for the SPC Badge, keeping us closely aligned to real-world implementations and new emerging patterns.If you are comparing providers, this Partnership gives us the strength to offer the two 'SPCT-only' SAFe courses, as well as all of the SPC and A-SPC Courses we deliver ourselves.
Current SAFe curriculum
Scaled Agile Inc. now positions Implementing SAFe around enterprise-scale transformation, including implementation roadmap use, Agile Release Train launch, portfolio and product delivery practices, and AI-enabled support for the SPC role.
Exam summary
- 120-minute web-based exam
- 60 questions
- 83% passing score
- First attempt included within 60 days of course completion
Supporting Co-trainer
Matt Hosking
SAFe Premier Trainer & A-SPC
Matt has been working with SAFe since 2012 and brings practical implementation and enterprise delivery experience into the classroom.
This course delivery will be lead by an experienced SPCT from Agile Agilist