SAFe Release Train Engineer
- Effectively lead Agile Release Trains in an organization
Available as in-house training
Date and location of the in-house training to be agreed
Price: 1500 EUR + VAT / person
Duration and language:
Onsite training - 24h - 3 days each 8 hours (including breaks).
Online training - 24h - 6 days each 4 hours (including breaks).
Online training schedule:
- 09:00 - 10:45 CET online session,
- 10:45 - 11:00 CET break,
- 11:00 - 13:00 CET online session.
Training is provided in English. A Polish version is also available.
Target group:
The training is intended for:
- Release Train Engineers (RTE), Solution Train Engineers (STE),
- change agents, agile coaches, Agile consultants,
- project managers, department managers and directors,
- program and portfolio managers, PMO and Process Owners,
- Scrum Masters and Product Owners who want to leverage the best practices of agile ways of working at scale.
Training preconditions:
Minimum knowledge of basic concepts in the field of product/services development and project management. Participation in the development and team engagement activities, in particular in initiatives, in which a team of at least several people cooperates, or many teams at the same time. If you are looking for an introductory training to SAFe® we recommend the Leading SAFe® training.
For online training, it is required to be computer literate and meet technical requirements: https://valkir.pl/en/online-training/.
Price includes:
- Preparation and training performed by an expert, SAFe® accredited trainer, Agile and Lean experienced consultant.
- Effective training in a small group - on average 6-12 people.
- SAFe® accredited training materials, participant manual and exercises requisites or access to the electronic platform (exercise environment).
- Voucher for the SAFe® Release Train Engineer (RTE) exam and a certificate of training completion, issued by Valkir Academy (in Polish or English).
- International SAFe® Release Train Engineer (RTE) certificate, annual membership as SAFe® Release Train Engineer - in the case of a positive exam result.
- Annual membership on the SAFe® Studio platform.
- 24 Personal Development Units (PDUs) for members of the PMI PMP or SEU points in category C, in order to acquire or renew the Scrum Alliance CSP certificate.
- Lunch and catering (drinks and snacks). Not applicable to online training.
- Trainer’s travel and expenses (T&E). Not applicable to online training.
Certification:
Participation in the training prepares you for the SAFe® Release Train Engineer. Each trainee will receive a voucher valid for 30 days for a single approach to pass the RTE level certification exam. The exam (in English) takes place online on the Scaled Agile Inc. website. Certificate is valid for one year from its obtaining, after which time it requires self-renewal.
Available dates:
| Date | Location | Price per person | |
|---|---|---|---|
| To be agreed | To be agreed | 1500 EUR | Request quote |
Expert performing the training:
Training description:
What is the SAFe® Release Train Engineer training?
Implementing SAFe® is an accredited training from Scaled Agile Inc. designed for those responsible for introducing SAFe in organizations. Experts who have successfully taken the exam after this training become so-called SAFe® Program Consultants (SPCs). These are exceptional change agents who, using their extensive experience and SAFe® learning materials, set up structures, educate and initiate processes to enable agile value delivery at scale.
Participants in the training gain the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully introduce and scale agile practices across the organization. The training includes a discussion of the key elements of SAFe, practical exercises and case studies to help you understand how to drive Lean-Agile transformation, launch Agile Release Trains (ARTs), cultivate a DevOps culture, build Continuous Delivery Pipeline processes and manage Lean Portfolios.
This four-day training course covers the scope of the Leading SAFe® training on Day 1-2, and then on Day 3-4 provides a rich compendium of proven patterns. This allows you to practice the actionable methods for successful introduction of the Lean-Agile approach in large enterprises.
Who’s behind this?
Dean Leffingwell as the creator and main methodologist known for the bestselling “Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises” and Drew Jemilo as co-creator, main contributor, consultant and instructor, are at the forefront of the SAFe® concept. The whole concept is based on the experience of co-creators and other contributors starting from 2011, when the first version of this concept was developed.
Over 200 Scaled Agile Partners around the world (along with independent trainers) provide training, consulting and support complex organizations in long-term digital transformations.
Training agenda:
- Introduction to the Release Train Engineer role
- Understanding the role, key competencies and accountability of the RTE.
- How the RTE supports Agile teams and the organization as a whole.
- How to know if the RTE exhibits the right stances and behaviors.
- An overview of SAFe’s key events and processes - an ART leader’s perspective.
- Applying SAFe values and principals to the RTE role.
- Conducting Planning Interval (PI) Planning
- Ensuring program backlogs and teams readiness for PI Planning.
- Defining PI objectives and aligning teams around goals.
- Facilitating the PI Planning activity sequence.
- Conducting retrospectives and risk analysis at scale.
- Techniques for monitoring PI progress.
- Coordinating Agile Release Trains and promoting DevOps
- Organizing and facilitating ART meetings.
- Resolving issues and removing obstacles.
- Applying tools, techniques and metrics to ART management.
- Implementing Continuous Delivery Pipeline.
- Implementing Built-in Quality, DevOps principles and practices.
- Mentoring, coaching and facilitation in the RTE role
- Characteristics and competencies of a Servant Leader.
- Overview of concepts for coaching and mentoring.
- Facilitation techniques, conflict resolution and intervention scenarios.
- Support for Agile teams, Scrum Masters and Product Owners.
- Value stream optimization
- Value stream mapping and identification of bottlenecks.
- Determining and measuring value flow.
- Flow optimization and obstacle removal techniques.
- Best practices and optimization dead ends.
- Fostering Relentless Improvement
- Key components of relentless Improvement.
- Measuring maturity and growing ARTs.
- Systems thinking and diagnostic-intervention techniques.
- Enhancing Inspect and Adapt events at scale.
- Training summary
How our training look like?
Training goals:
What are the challenges we address?- How can I effectively form and launch Agile Release Trains (ART)?
- How can I effectively plan and facilitate PI Planning?
- How can I strengthen the effectiveness of ART during PI?
- How can I nurture coordination and collaboration among teams in ART?
- How can I build continuous deployment processes and a DevOps culture?
- How can I develop leadership skills among Agile teams?
- How can I optimize value flow in the organization?
- How can I foster a culture of continuous improvement in the organization?
What benefits do you get?
Training enables participants to better understand their organization, the challenges it faces, and to effectively steer its growth. It contains theoretical knowledge and practical methods taken from systems theory, complexity theory, value streams, combination of a project, process and product approach, change management and many other topics.
As a result of this training, participants from different areas of the organization will:
- know and understand aspects needed to effectively stimulate organization growth,
- acquire skills necessary to apply mentioned methods in practice,
- understand how and why new methods can positively affect their work.
