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5 Reasons Why You Should Get a SAFe® Program Consultant (SPC)?

Agilemania

It’s no secret that SAFe® is the talk of the Agile town these days and there is a huge demand for SAFe® Program Consultants (SPCs) to be catalysts of SAFe® implementation. Since its release in 2016, the number of people getting SAFe® SPC Certified has been increasing each year. Why is the SAFe® Program Consultant (SPC) Important?

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Agile Beyond IT: Lean Thinking

The IIL Blog

2022, Alan Zucker; Project Management Essentials, LLC See related articles: Be Productive by Focusing on Value Create Value: Map the Value Stream Kanban 101: Improving How We Work The Lean Restaurant To learn more about our training and consulting services or subscribe to our newsletter, visit our website: [link]. Register today.

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Money is important, but it is not what drives me

Gunther Verheyen

It wasn’t when I abandoned a position of Principal Consultant and a future higher-up the ladder function at a large international consulting company (2013). If it was money that drives me, I would do individual coaching of people not interested in experience, but still wanting level III certifications.

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How a growth mindset has helped in my journey to become a PST

Scrum.org

To be honest, I was against certifications, but in my classes and sometime in my teams I had people with certifications challenging my knowledge and the content I was teaching without arguments, just because they had the certification and I didn’t. I remember my first day as a teacher, I was just frozen in front of 30 students.

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

Since I hold advanced certifications in both frameworks and regularly teach agile classes, I have a unique perspective and appreciate what they offer. Certifications DA and SAFe have a series of certifications that generally require attending a 2-day class and passing an exam. Interestingly, Dean also worked at Rational.

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Project Success: Implementation AND Adoption

The IIL Blog

In my consulting practice, I see development teams struggling with their users. In 2016, Alan founded Project Management Essentials to share his passion for and experience in project management, leadership, and Agile. He also holds multiple Agile certifications from Disciplined Agile, Scrum Alliance, and Scaled Agile.

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5 Steps to Finding the Path to Business Agility

International Institute for Learning

Tactec guides are our Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultants, Coaches and Senior Team Leads (SCRUM Master+) to facilitate experimentation and innovation. Brent started Tactec in 2016 with the vision of building world-class products and services that support his mantra of focusing on value at velocity.

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