SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC): the class board

Four days: the Leading SAFe lessons first (business agility, principles, team agility, Agile Product Delivery with the PI planning simulation, LPM), then designing the implementation, launching an ART with the readiness checklist, coaching ART execution, enhancing the portfolio and accelerating business agility.

4 days, 14 lessons, 32 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

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 · 4 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

  • Who do we need? Guiding coalitionSticky notes

Lesson 7: Getting Certified and Starting Training (SAFe for Teams)

  • Lesson linksTable

Lesson 8: Reaching the SAFe Tipping Point

  • Toward the tipping pointTable
  • The leader's call to actionTable

Lesson 9: Designing the Implementation

  • Identify the value streamsInstructions
  • Value stream canvasTable
  • Operational steps → systems → people → ARTsSticky notes
  • Run it liveLive Trainyard room

Lesson 10: Launching an Agile Release Train

  • ART readiness checklist: must it be in place to launch? Y · N · D(epends)Table
  • Score it liveLive Trainyard room
  • Launch planningSticky notes

Lesson 11: Coaching ART Execution

  • Fishbone: why does the ART miss its PI objectives?Sorting zones
  • Coaching plan for the first PISticky notes

Lesson 12: Enhancing the Portfolio

  • WSJF worked example (Fibonacci)Table
  • Portfolio Kanban, canvases and guardrailsLive Trainyard room

Lesson 13: Accelerating Business Agility

  • Measure and grow: where are we?Sticky notes

Lesson 14: Get Certified and Start Training

  • Your first 90 days as an SPCSticky notes

Running it

  • Templates → Classes → SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) → 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.
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