Unlock the secrets of Business Agility and propel your organization to new heights with "Learn the Foundations of Driving Business Agility with SAFe®.

In this comprehensive Foundations of Driving Business Agility with SAFe® course, you'll embark on a transformative journey, exploring the very essence of agility and its pivotal role in today's ever-changing business landscape.

Designed to empower leaders, teams, and organizations, this course delves deep into the core competencies of SAFe® (Scaled Agile Framework), providing you with a roadmap to achieve unparalleled business agility. 

From responsive customer-centricity to engaged culture, value-based delivery, and flexible operations, you'll uncover the key domains that shape a truly agile organization.

But that's not all – you'll also gain invaluable insights into the tools and frameworks for measuring business agility, enabling you to track your progress and continually refine your approach. 

With a wealth of practical knowledge, engaging videos, and thought-provoking quizzes, this course equips you with the skills and mindset to navigate complexity, foster innovation, and thrive in the face of constant change.

This section introduces the concept of Business Agility and its importance in today's rapidly changing business landscape. It explains how traditional management approaches often struggle to keep pace with market disruptions, customer demands, and technological advancements.

This module will equip you with a deep understanding of business agility, its significance, and the key aspects they need to embrace to thrive in an uncertain market. Learn why business agility is crucial for organizations to adapt swiftly to changing customer needs, new technologies, economic shifts, and market disruptions.

What you will learn at a glance:

This module delves into the five key domains of business agility, providing a comprehensive framework for your audience to develop the necessary capabilities and behaviors to become truly agile.

By mastering these domains, you will gain a deeper understanding of the skills and competencies required to foster agility within their organizations. You'll learn how to translate these skills into actionable capabilities and observable behaviors, driving real-world impact and enabling organizations to adapt swiftly to changing market conditions.

What you will learn at a glance:

- The five key domains of business agility
- The essential skills within each domain
- The 18 core competencies that emerge and improve as business agility progresses
- The role of leadership, teams, and every individual within the organization
- The importance of self-analysis and reflection on the observable behaviors present within the organization 

In this module, you’ll understand the urgency and the need for business agility; you will gain valuable insights into streamlining decision-making processes, developing flexible business models, and staying ahead of the curve. You’ll learn how to adapt swiftly to changing customer needs, respond to competitive threats, and capitalize on emerging opportunities.

What you will learn at a glance:

- The pressing need for business agility in the face of constant change
- The limitations of traditional top-down decision-making approaches
- The importance of developing a flexible business model
- The role of business agility in ensuring long-term success and staying ahead of the competition in the ever-changing business landscape

The SAFe® Roadmap to Achieve Business Agility outlines the core competencies, steps, and key concepts needed for organizations to successfully adopt the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) and achieve true business agility.

This module talks about the challenges that can derail agility efforts. It introduces the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) as a powerful tool to overcome these obstacles and unlock your organization's full potential of business agility.

By mastering the core competencies of SAFe®, you will gain a deep understanding of the essential capabilities needed to drive agility and deliver value at the speed of the market. You will learn how to navigate the pitfalls that often impede agility, foster a culture of continuous learning, and align their organization around value streams for optimal efficiency and customer-centricity.

What you will learn at a glance

- The common roadblocks that prevent organizations from achieving true business agility, such as silos, hierarchical structures, and a lack of customer focus
- How SAFe® acts as a "second operating system" to help traditional organizations achieve agility while maintaining existing structures and processes
- The Seven Core Competencies of SAFe® that drive business agility

This module will equip you with an in-depth understanding of the BAVS and its significance in enabling organizations to quickly respond to market changes and emerging opportunities.

By mastering the BAVS, you'll gain insights into the key steps required to sense opportunities, validate hypotheses through Minimum Viable Products (MVPs), make data-driven decisions, and continually deliver innovative solutions while maintaining a tight customer connection and a culture of learning. 

You'll also discover how the BAVS is enabled by SAFe's seven core competencies, empowering you to optimize the flow and achieve higher levels of business agility within your organization.

What you will learn at a glance:

- The definition and importance of the Business Agility Value Stream (BAVS) in achieving true business agility
- The eight key steps of the BAVS
- The advantages of the BAVS over traditional development processes

Successfully executing each step of the BAVS requires a significant level of organizational capability across multiple dimensions. This chapter will reveal how SAFe's seven core competencies enable enterprises to effectively execute the BAVS, empowering them to achieve true business agility.

By connecting the BAVS steps with the core competencies, you'll gain a deep understanding of the specific capabilities required at each stage of the value stream. From fostering an outward-looking culture of curiosity to rapidly funding Minimum Viable Products (MVPs), organizing cross-functional teams, staying connected with customers, iteratively building and delivering solutions, making data-driven decisions, and continuously learning and adapting – you'll unlock the secrets to mastering the entire BAVS process.

What you will learn at a glance:

- The importance of connecting SAFe's seven core competencies to the BAVS steps 
- How each core competency enables specific steps of the BAVS

This chapter delves into the crucial components of enabling business agility within organizations - Lean Agile Leadership and Leading Cultural Change. It explores the pivotal role that Lean-Agile leaders play in driving corporate transformation and fostering an environment conducive to high-performing agile teams. 

Additionally, the course emphasizes the significance of effective change management practices and principles for successfully implementing Lean-Agile methodologies across an organization.

What you will learn at a glance:

- Understand the three dimensions of Lean-Agile leadership
- Learn how Lean-Agile leaders can empower teams
- Discover the importance of leaders actively embodying Lean-Agile principles and practices to guide organizational transformation.
- Gain insights into the essential abilities and methods Lean-Agile executives utilize to accelerate the transformation process
- Explore Dr. John Kotter's "eight catalysts" for effective organizational change management
- Understand the four essential change leadership principles

This module explores the intricate relationship between complexity and business agility, emphasizing the significance of system thinking in navigating intricate business landscapes. It introduces the Cynefin Framework as a powerful tool for categorizing and addressing complex challenges, enabling organizations to enhance their adaptability and decision-making processes.

What you will learn at a glance:

- Gain insights into the nature of complexity and its manifestation in business environments
- Recognize the challenges businesses face in remaining agile and adaptable in the face of complexity
- Learn the principles of system thinking
- Discover how system thinking can help organizations achieve "simplicity at scale."
- Understand the importance of shifting focus toward value creation through customization, enabled by system thinking

This module provides a comprehensive overview of the tools and frameworks organizations can use to measure their progress towards achieving true business agility. It covers the three key measurement domains outlined in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

This module provides a comprehensive framework for measuring an organization's progress towards achieving true business agility. It outlines the Scaled Agile Framework's (SAFe) three measurement domains: Outcomes, Flow, and Competency, and equips learners with the necessary tools and techniques to assess and improve their organization's business agility value stream (BAVS).

What you will learn at a glance:

- Learn how to evaluate whether solutions meet customer needs and business objectives using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
- Understand the importance of measuring employee engagement and its impact on productivity, innovation, and turnover.
- Gain insights into setting and tracking KPIs, cascading OKRs, and conducting employee engagement surveys or Net Promoter Score (eNPS) assessments.
- Explore the six flow metrics adapted from the Flow Framework

This chapter delves into the critical role of continuous reinvention and relentless improvement in achieving true business agility within organizations. It highlights the significance of fostering a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and ongoing development as essential drivers of agility in the modern business landscape. 

Learners will gain insights into transforming their organizations into learning entities, nurturing a culture of innovation, and adopting the principles of relentless improvement.