This course will teach you the essential knowledge on how to create visibility into the architectural process and the practical skills of planning and executing a Program Increment (PI). You will learn how to develop vision, intent, and roadmaps for your solution and how to coach other team members during PI planning and execution.

You will explore the roles, responsibilities, and mindset of agile architects. You will also appreciate aligning architecture with business value and driving continuous flow to large systems-of-systems while supporting program execution. 

This course is for senior technical contributors who need to understand the architect's role and a deeper view into how architecture enables continuous value flow, engage in, and contribute to, a lean-agile enterprise. 

Topics covered 

  • Exemplifying lean-agile architecture 

  • Aligning architecture with business value

  • DevOps and release on demand 

  • Developing solution vision, solution intent, and roadmaps 

  • Preparing architecture for PI Planning and coordinating it throughout PI 

  • Supporting continuous delivery during PI 

  • Supporting Strategic Themes and Value Streams 

Target group 

System, solution, and enterprise architects, lead developers 

Business benefits and outcomes of training

  • Alignment with business value: Architects learn to align their work with business goals, ensuring that architectural decisions support overall strategy.

  • Improved collaboration: Training fosters better communication and teamwork among architects, product managers, and Agile Release Train (ART) teams to build innovated products.

  • Enhanced architectural vision: Architects develop skills to create and communicate a clear architectural vision, providing direction for development teams.

  • Effective planning: Participants learn to plan the architectural runway, which helps teams deliver value consistently.

  • Continuous improvement and innovation: Training encourages a culture of continuous improvement, leading to better architectural solutions over time.

These benefits contribute to the overall success of organizations implementing SAFe practices.

Relevance in mature Nordics markets

  • Alignment with business goals: Architects learn to connect their architectural decisions with the organization’s strategic objectives, ensuring that their work adds value.

  • Collaboration: The training promotes teamwork among architects, product managers, and Agile Release Train (ART) teams, which is essential in collaborative and innovative cultures.

  • Clear architectural vision: Architects develop skills to create and communicate a strong architectural vision, guiding development teams effectively.

  • Adaptability: The training equips architects to respond quickly to changes in market demands and technology, which is crucial in competitive environments.

These factors make SAFe for Architects training a valuable investment for organizations in mature Nordic markets.

Prerequisites 

One previous SAFe course, i.e., Leading SAFe, and you have participated in at least one ART and one PI. 

Briefly

  • Duration: Online 4 days

  • Language: English

  • Minimum number of participants: 8

  • Maximum number of participants: 24

Nitor is Scaled Agile Framework SAFe® expert contributor

Learn the SAFe -framework from its contributors! Our coaches have long practical experience in applying the framework to different business contexts. Since its development, many nitoreans have contributed to the SAFe framework evolution since version 0.93, and we have received the rare SAFe Fellow -recognition. By the end of 2024, Nitor has trained over 11 000 private and public participants on scaled agility, with high customer satisfaction reviews. Most of these SAFe training participants made the included but optional online exam and earned globally recognized SAFe badge which they proudly shared in CVs and social media.

Evolution continues. Nitoreans keep the deep expertise so that your organization can benefit from working with SAFe® and us.

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