About the course -

Attendees can improve collaboration and alignment in a SAFe® Lean-Agile enterprise when they become a SAFe 5 Architect. The SAFe® for Architects course prepares System, Solution, and Enterprise Architects to engage across the organization as effective leaders and change agents who collaboratively deliver architectural solutions.

During this three-day course, attendees will explore the roles, responsibilities, and mindset of Agile Architects, and appreciate how to align architecture with business value and drive continuous flow to large systems-of-systems while supporting SAFe program execution.

This course is for senior technical contributors who need to understand the role of System, Solution, and Enterprise Architects in Lean-Agile enterprises. The course is also appropriate for individuals desiring a deeper view into how architecture enables continuous value flow and how architects engage in, and contribute to, a Lean-Agile enterprise.

About SAFe Architect Role -

A Certified SAFe® Architect is an effective leader and change agent who delivers Agile Architecture to enable the creation of business value. Key areas of competency include: applying SAFe principles to develop and maintain Agile Architecture and release on demand, leading and supporting Solution Trains and Agile Release Trains, extending the principles driving continuous flow to large systems-of-systems, and enabling improved flow of value.

Key areas of competency

• Apply SAFe principles to managing trade-offs between functionality, cost, risk, and sustainability
• Ensure designs can be implemented in small batches with continuous integration/continuous delivery deployment model
• Communicate solution context and intent to Agile teams and trains
• Establish intentional architecture guidelines and enable flexibility to allow emergent technology
• Prepare architectural runway to enable delivery success
• Steer architecture decisions, support risk and issue resolution, participate in Management Review and Problem Solving during Program Increment execution
• Define, implement, and monitor quality practices, including CI/CD and DevOps
• Ensure that technology decisions made within an ART work end-to-end across components in a Solution
• Ensure that Solution complies with Portfolio technology strategy
• Enable Lean-Agile transformations and coach Lean-Agile practitioners