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With this training, you won’t turn the SAFe framework into an empty shell

Super flexible, experimental and open to interpretation is not how the SAFe Framework is known. “SAFe especially has a lot of rules, is blue and buttoned up. That can work for you, but is also often misapplied. Then you put the model in place, but you still don’t work Agile. SAFe is then nothing more than an empty shell,” says Roy Gielen. Training partner Remco Diks explains: “When an organization applies SAFe, people get nervous about the right to exist of their function. Then they start looking within the model for a role they can still fill. See, then you apply SAFe forcibly.”

‘SAFe hinges on attitude and behavior of people in the organization’

Remco Diks

Experimenting with SAFe

Hearing the two trainers with a lot of (SAFe) experience like this, they don’t seem very enthusiastic about the framework. Yet the opposite is true according to Remco: “SAFe is a very valuable and useful model if you let it inspire you. Dare to experiment with it. Get the wisdom and tools from it that work for you. Something doesn’t work? Then by all means stop it too!” A vision that fits with the evaluation the framework went through from the 1.0 to a 5.1 version. “SAFe has thus grown from a super-tight framework to one with behavioral components. That fits perfectly in our Scrum Academy lane,” says Roy Gielen. “That’s why we have now incorporated our joint experience and vision into a new training course Leading SAFe!”

SAFe training with Scrum Academy twist

Have you ever attended a SAFe training course? Then you’ll probably remember the hundreds of powerpoint slides, workbooks, book folders and exams. Something Roy and Remco do completely differently in their Leading SAFe training: “We do it Scrum Academy style; interactive, flipcharts, lots of work forms and simulations. Of course, participants also bring their own cases to the two-day training. That way you not only go home with new knowledge and tools, but you can also apply it immediately in the organization.”

‘As a manager or board member, how can I give substance to SAFe? If you ever wonder that, this interactive two-day SAFe training course is perfect for you’

Roy Gielen

Two highly experienced trainers

Of course you choose this SAFe training because you get excited about the interactive training formats. But don’t forget the experienced and headstrong trainers. Because many trainers may have the (theoretical) knowledge, but lack experience on the shop floor. Roy and Remco turn it around and take into their Leading SAFe training especially years of experience with customers such as Dela, APG, Loyalis, ASML, Avans and Tennet. “Also in the training we as trainers really have the Agile mindset. We don’t know exactly how the training goes. That also depends on the participants and their cases. We really make the training together,” said Roy and Remco.

Certification

Of course, after the two-day Leading SAFe training of Scrum Academy you can go for certification with your license. But the two trainers think something else is actually even more important: “Of course, our main concern is that after the training you can and want to get started with SAFe within your organization. That you experiment with what you can and cannot use. That as a manager or board member you make SAFe much more than an empty shell.”