SAFe Release Train Engineer – RTE
Facilitating Lean-Agile Program Execution
Facilitating Lean-Agile program execution involves orchestrating and guiding value delivery through Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and implementing Lean-Agile principles and practices within the organization. As an organizer, you play a crucial role in managing various groups’ tasks, promoting teamwork and creativity, and ensuring the continuous production of essential products and services.
The Release Train Engineer (RTE) is a servant leader and ART coach who facilitates ART events and processes and supports teams in delivering value. They communicate with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and drive relentless improvement. Although Agile Release Trains (ARTs) comprise self-organizing and self-managing teams, these trains cannot drive or steer themselves. That is the responsibility of the RTE, who facilitates most effectively as a servant leader. They have a solid grasp of how to scale Lean and Agile practices and understand the unique opportunities and challenges of aligning and facilitating an ART (Agile teams).
Your responsibilities encompass establishing and nurturing high-performing Agile teams, ensuring alignment with the organization’s strategic objectives, and promoting relentless improvement through regular Inspect and Adapt workshops. Creating an environment that encourages transparency, openness, and a shared understanding of objectives can help the teams respond effectively to change and deliver value at an accelerated pace.
Upcoming Training
| Type & Delivery | Instructor Name | Date | Cost & Registration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instructor-Led & Online / Virtual | Online | Oct 25-27, 06:30 PM - 02:30 AM IST (Weekend, 3 Sessions, 8 hrs each day) | ₹145,500.00 Enroll Now |
| Instructor-Led & Online / Virtual | Online | Nov 06-08, 08:30 PM - 04:30 AM IST (Weekday, 3 Sessions, 8 hrs each day) | ₹145,500.00 Enroll Now |
| Instructor-Led & Online / Virtual | Online | Nov 22-24, 08:30 PM - 04:30 AM IST (Weekend, 3 Sessions, 8 hrs each day) | ₹145,500.00 Enroll Now |
Effective Lean-Agile program facilitation also involves
- promoting a lean mindset,
- emphasizing the importance of flow,
- eliminating waste, and
- optimizing resource utilization.
Encouraging decentralized decision-making and empowering teams to take ownership of their work can lead to quicker problem-solving and decision-making. This can increase productivity and customer satisfaction. Additionally, promoting continuous improvement by fostering an environment that values innovation, trial and error, and education is important. Encouraging teams to have a growth mindset and continuously improve their processes and practices is essential for sustaining momentum and achieving outstanding results. Ultimately, facilitating Lean-Agile program execution can help teams operate with autonomy, focus on the customer, and deliver value that exceeds customer expectations, thus driving organizational success.
Unique to SAFe®, the Release Train Engineer (RTE) is part of the trio of leaders that includes product managers and system architects. This plays a critical role in leading Agile Release Trains (ARTs) to deliver value. This means that the RTE must create the right environment, have the right conversations, facilitate the right meetings, and gather the right people to make decisions based on the right data.
In the SAFe® RTE course, you’ll learn to execute and continuously improve PI Planning and other key SAFe events. You’ll discover how to coach leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in new processes and mindsets. And you’ll get the guidance and tools you need to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams.
SAFe® Release Train Engineer answers the questions:
- How do I plan for and execute a PI?
- How do I create an environment of relentless improvement?
- How do I lead and serve my ART?
Attendees learn:
- How to lead programs and large solutions in a SAFe organization.
- How to apply Lean-Agile knowledge and tools to release value.
- How to foster relentless improvement.
- How to build a high-performing ART by becoming a servant leader and coach.
What’s included:
- Course materials
- Remote learning via SAFe® Virtual Classrooms
- Access to SAFe® Collaborate, a visual online workspace
- One-year membership to the SAFe® Community Platform
- Access to content, tools, and resources you need to practice Access to content, tools, and resources you need to practice Scaled Agile Framework every day every day.
- SAFe Release Train Engineer certification exam
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