SAFe® Academy Portugal
We are your trusted SAFe® experts, offering the full range of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) courses and workshops to help organizations optimize delivery and accelerate transformation. Our certified trainers and consultants bring deep industry experience and proven practices to ensure your teams are fully empowered with SAFe. Let us guide you every step of the way, from fundamentals to advanced workshops, to maximize agility and deliver real business value.
Leading SAFe® in Lisbon, Portugal
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🚀 Unlock the Power of Innovation with Leading SAFe®
As a business leader, you know that staying competitive in today’s fast-paced market requires more than incremental improvements—it demands bold, innovative leaps. But how do you prepare your organization for such transformation?
A Leading SAFe® workshop is not just another training—it’s the foundation your company needs to foster agility, collaboration, and innovation at scale. Here’s why:
🔹 Break Down Silos: Align your entire organization around common goals, enabling seamless collaboration across departments.
🔹 Focus on Value: Prioritize the initiatives that deliver the most impact, while ensuring everyone is aligned with your strategic vision.
🔹 Empower Teams: Create an environment where your teams are equipped to think creatively, act decisively, and take ownership of transformative outcomes.
🔹 Adapt to Change: With SAFe, your company becomes more responsive to market shifts and ready to seize emerging opportunities.
Great leaders prepare their organizations for the future. A Leading SAFe® workshop equips you with the tools and mindset to lead with confidence, inspire innovation, and build a business ready to tackle tomorrow’s challenges.
💡 Are you ready to take your company to the next level? Let’s talk about how SAFe can help you drive impactful change.
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Leading SAFe – Course Content
Dr. Thorsten Janning
SPCT Fellow, Languages: German, English
Thorsten Janning (born 1962) is a graduate mathematician working in the IT industry since 1990. His professional career took him as an architect and project manager of consulting and corporate users, as well as a college professor in the consulting and training business. As a co-founder (in 2002) he is partner and was CEO of the KEGON AG until the end of 2017.
His professional activity focuses on the development of lean and agile organizations, as well as the implementation of leanagile strategy and portfolio processes. Thorsten brought his years of experience in innovative development technologies in a variety of publications and training development and he was the editor-in-Chief of OBJEKTspektrum from 2012 to summer 2018. He is the first SAFe Practice Consultant Trainer in Germany since 09/2016. As the first German SAFe Fellow he is experienced counterpart for C-Level Management on their way in the digital future for their enterprises.
Frank Gärtner
SPC, Languages; German, Portuguese, English
Frank Gärtner (born 1970), German-Portuguese. Frank grew up in Lisbon and moved to Germay by the age of 16. He has a Diploma in Industry Economics from the University of Karlsruhe. He was raised in his youth in Portugal.
He is a highly experienced Agile Transformation Leader, Program Manager, and IT Consultant with a strong background in Financial Engineering, Telematics, and Software Development. With over 35 years in IT and financial services, I specialize in agile transformations, enterprise-scale program management, and technology-driven innovation.
Frank believes in practical, results-oriented agile transformation—not just theoretical frameworks. My approach combines deep technical understanding with a strategic business mindset, ensuring that organizations adopt agility at all levels. Whether it’s coaching teams, optimizing enterprise agility, or driving digital transformation, my focus remains on delivering measurable value.
He is specially keen on driving the innovation in his home, Portugal.
Day 1
1. Thriving in the Digital Age with Business Agility
Get introduced to the fundamental concepts of Business Agility and decipher the major competencies of Business Agility.
- Thriving in the Digital Age
- SAFe as an operating system for Business Agility
- The Seven Core Competencies of Business Agility
2. Building a Foundation with Mindset, Values, and Principles
Gain a solid understanding of important SAFe principles and develop a Lean-Agile mindset like successful Agile leaders.
- The Lean-Agile Mindset
- SAFe Core Values
- SAFe Lean-Agile Principles
3. Establishing Team and Technical Agility
Learn how to manage cross-functional Agile teams and deliver ROI-driven results on a consistent basis.
- Forming Cross-Functional Agile Teams
- Built-In Quality
- Organizing Agile Release Trains around Flow of Value
4. Building Solutions with Agile Product Delivery
The primary learning goal is to help participants understand how to deliver continuous value to customers by adopting a customer-centric mindset and leveraging the Continuous Delivery Pipeline. Specifically, students learn to:
- Adopt a Customer-Centric Approach
Leverage design thinking and user research to ensure solutions address real customer needs.
- Manage Flow and Prioritization
Use Agile techniques, such as Kanban and backlogs, to maintain a steady flow of high-value features through the delivery pipeline.
- Integrate DevOps and Release on Demand
Implement continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices to quickly validate and release quality solutions.
- Enable Relentless Improvement
Gather frequent customer and internal feedback, embracing experiments and iteration to refine products and accelerate time-to-market.
Day 2
5. Exploring Lean Portfolio Management
In the “Exploring Lean Portfolio Management” segment of the Leading SAFe® course, the primary learning goal is to help participants understand how to connect strategic objectives with execution through a Lean-Agile approach to budgeting, portfolio operations, and governance.
- Align and prioritize work based on enterprise strategy and value.
- Enable flexible, continuous funding of the most critical initiatives.
- Provide transparency and clear decision-making through portfolio Kanban systems.
- Foster collaboration across business and technology teams to improve flow and outcomes at the portfolio level.
6. Leading the Lean-Agile Enterprise
Empower leaders to drive change, develop high-performing teams, and nurture a culture of relentless improvement.
Understand how to implement SAFe incrementally and sustain the transformation over time.
- The SAFe Implementation Roadmap, including key steps and milestones for enterprise-scale transformation.
- Leadership behaviors that foster innovation, autonomy, and alignment across the organization.
- Strategies for measuring and sustaining progress, addressing organizational challenges, and continuously adapting processes.
7. Practicing SAFe
Help participants apply and sustain SAFe practices over time, ensuring continuous improvement and long-term success of the Lean-Agile transformation. Specifically, students learn to:
- Follow the SAFe Implementation Roadmap
Understand how to prepare for, launch, and continuously refine Agile Release Trains (ARTs) while building a culture of relentless improvement.
- Overcome Common Transformation Pitfalls
Recognize typical challenges, identify root causes, and apply proven patterns for sustaining momentum in a large-scale Agile environment.
- Drive Alignment and Collaboration
Reinforce Lean-Agile leadership behaviors that foster a shared vision, cross-functional teamwork, and consistent adoption of SAFe principles.
- Measure and Adjust
Use Inspect & Adapt workshops, agile metrics, and retrospective feedback loops to gauge progress, validate solutions, and adjust course as needed.
Day 3
Open Discussions with SAFe SPCT Fellow Dr. Thorsten Janning and SPC Frank Gärtner