Leading SAFe® – Surviving the Digital Age with Business Agility

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Date and Time	May 12 (Mon.) – 13 (Tue.), 2025, each day 9:00 – 18:30 <2 days> * Application deadline: by 17:00, Wednesday, April 30, 2025 * Cancellation deadline: by 17:00, Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Venue	online
Entrance Fee	160,000 yen (tax not included)
Capacity	24 persons
Subject	For those in roles driving lean and agile transformation of organizations in implementing SAFe® (business leaders, heads of product, managers, leaders, etc.)

Are you new to SAFe® (Scaled Ag ile Framework) Leading SAFe® introduces the fundamentals of SAFe® and provides the principles and practices to drive lean agile transformation with confidence. The course also provides the guidance and tools needed to effectively lead in remote environments where teams are distributed.

In the Leading SAFe® course, you will learn how companies can build business agility and make SAFe® work within their organizations; you will learn how SAFe® can help improve quality, productivity, employee engagement, and time to market. You will also gain an understanding of how to align the entire organization with the same clear goals and how to improve value and work flow from strategy to delivery. You will also learn why companies are becoming more customer oriented and how to execute key SAFe® alignment and planning events such as PI planning.

Leading SAFe® answers these questions.

What is SAFe®?
What is business agility and how does SAFe® support it?
How to get started with SAFe®?

Course Content

How to realize the benefits of SAFe®:

– Improved productivity
– Improved product quality
– Reduced time-to-market
– Improved employee engagement

– How to establish team and technical agility and organize around value flows
– How to align large organizations toward clear, common goals
– How to successfully participate in key SAFe® events such as PI planning
– How to adopt a customer-centric mindset

Benefits

– Original U.S. SAI materials (PDFs of the materials in Japanese will be provided)
– Distance learning via SAFe® Virtual Classroom
– One-year membership to SAFe® Studio (for first-time SAFe training)
– Eligibility to take the SAFe® Agilist (SA) certification exam

Certification Examination

The SAFe® Agilist (SA) certification exam is an online exam in Japanese (time frame available).
To be eligible to take the exam, students must attend all days of the course.

PDU’s (for those with PMI’s Certification)

After the training, you can apply for 15 PDUs (Ways/Working: 6, PowerSkills: 6, Business: 3) by entering them on the PMI Website.

For more information about the course and the certification exam, please visit the official SAFe® website.

Please confirm the following course procedures in advance.

About the Lecture

This course is a SAFe® certification program training provided by SAI, Inc. of the U.S. and taught by our SPCs.
Please refer to this page for instructor profiles.

About teaching materials

∙ The new version 6.0, released in March 2023, will be implemented.
The course materials are SAI’s original materials (in Japanese).
The course workbook (in Japanese) will be provided in a writable PDF format.

About the tools used

This course will be conducted via Zoom.
Exercises will be conducted using the course workbook or a virtual classroom in SAFe® Studio.
Some activities will be conducted using Google Drive.If you are unable to use Google Drive, you will not be able to participate in this course.
(The display name of each tool must be registered with the full name in English.)

About the course environment

Please prepare a PC environment where you can use the camera and microphone.
Please use a wired connection with an optical fiber line. Mobile Wi-Fi routers, etc. are not recommended as they may cause communication interruptions.
You can take the course on a single PC, but for a better experience, we recommend that you prepare a multi-display (two displays on one PC) or two PCs so that you can comfortably view the Zoom screen and other course materials.

Other

In the event of a natural disaster, sudden illness of the instructor, or if the minimum number of participants is not reached, the course may be postponed or cancelled.
Cancellations made after the cancellation deadline will be charged the full amount of the cancellation fee.
After the course, a PDF invoice will be sent to the applicant.
Please transfer the amount to our designated account by the due date indicated on the invoice.
We do not accept credit card payments.
We do not issue receipts.
Please contact us if you have any requests regarding invoicing.
(e.g., the participant and the billing address are different, multiple applications from the same company need to be combined into one invoice, etc.)
・If you need the original invoice, you can use it as the original if you print it out in color.

This course is not available from the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom.

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• SAFe® (Scaled Agile Framework®) is a registered trademark of Scaled Agile, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

• All company and product names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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