Description
Advanced SAFe Practice Consultant (ASPC): A learning path
Participants will follow a structured learning path that integrates self-paced learning, facilitated sessions, and peer-to-peer collaboration to progressively develop and validate their skills.
The certification journey concludes with the Learning Lab—a half-day facilitated session featuring scenario-based assessments designed to comprehensively evaluate mastery of key concepts. Upon successfully completing all modules in the ASPC certification path, learners will earn the Advanced SPC certification.
What’s New in the 4-Day ASPC Experience
The redesigned ASPC introduces:
- Two new content areas: Embracing AI and Customizing SAFe
- A narrative-based learning arc: The “Advanced SPC Story” connects strategy, leadership, and transformation through real-world case studies
- AI integration throughout the course: Explore how AI enhances portfolio decision-making, flow forecasting, and transformation metrics
- Hands-on Customizing SAFe Workshop: Exclusive to ASPC participants
- Small-group collaboration: Optimized for hybrid and remote facilitation
- Four full days of immersive learning culminating in an advanced Learning Lab
Who Should Attend
Certified and practicing SAFe Practice Consultants (SPCs) who want to:
- Deepen their influence as transformation architects
- Learn to integrate AI into Agile and Portfolio practices
- Customize SAFe to fit complex enterprise environments
- Mentor executive and transformation teams to drive cultural agility
- Extend their active SPC certification and advance to the next level of mastery
Note: SPCs must hold an active SAFe 6.0 certification to qualify.
Course Outline
Lesson 1 – Introducing the Advanced SPC Role
Redefine your role as a strategic transformation architect, exploring the evolving responsibilities and mindset needed to sustain enterprise agility.
Lesson 2 – Embracing AI
Understand how AI is reshaping organizational agility. Learn to use AI tools for decision-making, forecasting, metrics, and transformation flow.
Lesson 3 – Engaging Executives
Master executive facilitation and influence techniques. Align leaders on strategy, funding, and governance to accelerate transformation.
Lesson 4 – Developing a Transformation Strategy
Design measurable roadmaps and operating models. Connect business objectives, value streams, and performance indicators to transformation outcomes.
Lesson 5 – Unlocking Portfolio Flow
Apply Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) and flow metrics to optimize investment strategy and reduce systemic bottlenecks.
Lesson 6 – Customizing SAFe to Your Context
Leverage exclusive ASPC workshop content to tailor SAFe configurations to your enterprise’s culture, systems, and operating constraints.
Learning Lab (Capstone)
An immersive simulation where teams apply every concept from the course to a complex transformation case study, connecting AI, flow, and leadership practices.
This learning path is ideal for experienced professionals who already have foundational knowledge and SAFe certifications and are actively engaged in driving agile transformations at the enterprise level.
Specifically, this training is best suited for:
- Certified SAFe Practice Consultants (SPC)
- Enterprise Agile Coaches and Transformation Leads
- Change Agents and Leaders Driving Agile Practices
- Lean Portfolio Managers (LPM)
- Release Train Engineers (RTE)
SAFe Modules (facilitated sessions)
- Executing a Successful Transformation Strategy (4 hours)
- Excelling with Lean Portfolio Management (4 hours)
- Engaging Leaders (4 hours)
- Pursuing Relentless Improvement (4 hours)
SAFe Skill (self-paced e-learning)
- Writing Effective OKRs (1 hour)
Learning Lab (facilitated session)
- Scenario-based peer-to-peer learning (4 hours)
Complete the course, demonstrate mastery, and get certified to begin delivering the ASPC experience in your organization.
🎯 Key Learning Outcomes
1. Lead with Strategic Agility
- Define enterprise transformation strategies aligned with business and digital objectives
- Use AI to forecast portfolio performance and enable faster decision-making
- Architects flow across development and operational value streams
2. Customize SAFe for Your Enterprise
- Apply patterns and design principles to tailor SAFe configurations
- Leverage the Customizing SAFe Workshop to align framework elements with business structure and culture
3. Embrace AI and Innovation
- Integrate AI into metrics, flow management, and Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)
- Explore real-world AI use cases to amplify decision quality and continuous improvement
4. Coach and Elevate Leadership
- Mentor executives and transformation leaders through the Advanced SPC Story
- Strengthen organizational resilience through inclusive, adaptive leadership practices
5. Drive Measurable Transformation Outcomes
- Write and track effective OKRs
- Measure flow, value, and customer impact with AI-enabled data insights
