2 days, 6 lessons, 18 exercises. Every class opens with the start-here strip: Trainyard intro, quick agenda, remote working agreements, team and challenge, parking lot, daily structure.
Lesson 1: Thriving in the Digital Age with Business Agility
- What brought you hereSticky notes
- Potential for improvement × ease of implementationSorting zones
Lesson 2: Building a Foundation with Mindset, Values, and Principles
- Agile Manifesto principles in your contextSorting zones
- Your value stream and its delaysSticky notes
- Centralize or decentralize? Score each decisionTable
Lesson 3: Establishing Team and Technical Agility
- Built-in quality in your teamsSticky notes
Lesson 4: Building Solutions with Agile Product Delivery
- Empathy mapInstructions
- Empathy map canvasCanvas
- Features: benefit hypothesis and acceptance criteriaTable
- WSJF: Cost of Delay ÷ job sizeTable
- PI Planning simulationInstructions
- PI Planning simulation · autonomous delivery vehiclePI planning simulation · 3 teams
- Run it on the real boardLive Trainyard room
Lesson 5: Exploring Lean Portfolio Management
- Toward Lean Portfolio ManagementTable
- WSJF worked example (Fibonacci)Table
- Portfolio Kanban and canvasesLive Trainyard room
Lesson 6: Leading the Change
- The leader's call to action (one page)Table
- Who do we need? Guiding coalitionSticky notes
Running it
- Templates → Classes → Leading SAFe → create one board per cohort. Participants open the link; no install.
- The PI planning simulation uses the real planning room: ART board, team boards, story backlog with points, ROAM and the confidence vote.
- Readiness checklist, feature canvases and WSJF exercises point at the live canvases, so what the class practises is what a train uses.
- Have your own version in Miro? Export the board as CSV and import it under Bring your own boards; frames become lessons.
SAFe® and the course name are trademarks of Scaled Agile, Inc.; the name identifies the class a trainer runs. Exercises are the trainer's and Trainyard's. All classes.