Scaled Agile Framework 6.0: SAFe for Architects (ARCH) - Virtual

"The training resembles the Leading SAFe Training quite a lot. However, I value the trainer more in this case. Yet, not to disqualify Arie as a trainer, but for a training like this I'd expect a trainer with more experience in the role of System Architect.

It is really a pity that it is an online training. Also, 4 is really a very small group to have enough experience and interaction in the room.

This is why I will rate the training as 'unsatisfied' not because I am not satisfied at all but I expected more.

The collaboration environment is simple and helps to bring varience in the training.
Yet, the learning experience does not come even close to my experience with Xebia in the Scrum and PO trainings with Jeff Sutherland and David Bulkin.

The content is Ok, although I do have an opinion on the complexity of SAFe.
Planning and support are good, but the TTF cases should have been shared well before the training.

The training content has many 'discussion' type of excercises. I like a more empirical style with more reallife examples and pitfalls." - 2023-11-15 16:06

"Trainer was poorly prepared. Was not affine with using Zoom and made many mistakes. Correct Solutions to the exercises were barely shown and only discussed very shortly: Quoting: "Yeah so thsi is the solution...moving on..."
I did not geht any value out of this course that I would not be able to learn myself via studying the workbook or website articles myself.
The whole group was very disengaged from the trainer.

He also could not answer alot of questions and said he will get back to us... which he never did

the initial assessment of our wishes was barely complied with. At the end he looked at our wishes again and realized himself that only a few were achieved. --> so what was the exercise / initial assessment there for at the first place.

I also wished best practices and insights from the field to make SAFe more hands on and not so conceptual. THis also never happened or the trainer could not say much about it" - 2023-09-15 06:03

"Content was clear and understandable, Trainer was excellent with a lot of practical knowledge. Planning was OK. We had only three students, so On-Line Course was very good possible. " - 2021-06-29 00:00

"De trainer is enthousiast, bevlogen en weet zijn ervaring duidelijk over te brengen. MS Teams werkte soms in ons voordeel (break-outsessies), soms in ons nadeel (beperkte beeldresolutie). De interactie met regelmatige opdrachten werkt heel prettig en zet je ertoe aan om de stof meteen samen te verwerken. Het contact met de andere architecten is een mooie "bijvangst" en komt juist door de opdrachten goed uit de verf. " - 2021-03-20 00:00

"Good course, no boring subjects. Personally Im not a fan of the exercises in this training as I was too much approaching it from my own context and experience (But doing exercises to learn the theory makes sense). " - 2021-02-24 00:00

"It was a good training. What really helped was that Frank (our trainer) himself has been an architect and hence he could explain things much better. Also based on his experience, he was able to coach us well " - 2020-12-18 00:00

"The trainer has real world experience in implementing SAFe which is very useful as the theory can be explain in the context of experience too.

A lot of content in a short space of time and virtually this is more difficult that co-located learnings but all in all I was very happy with the course (although it started early for my timezone :-) ) " - 2020-12-11 00:00

"Content explain clearly the different Roles of Architect in SAFe Framework.
The course/material is extremely dense. Exercices are vey fast sometimes you can be lost.
Nothing about hardware context .... " - 2020-12-11 00:00

"I think this course was better than my previous course (SAFe Practitioner) because last time we had too little link to the theoretical material from the practical examples.
This course was better because we mixed the theory with practical examples.

Without blaming my co-students or the teacher for this: I would of course hoped for more real-world examples/experience from the other students - so a bigger physical course (not online) with more participants would probably had given the opportunity to share more knowledge.

As a general comment - I think 3 days is too short for this material - it should either be extended to 5 days or extend to more than 5 hours a day to get through the material in details." - 2020-07-10 00:00

"The training was excellent overall and provided us with a complete overview of the SAFe framework. The trainer was very enthusiastic with had past hands-on experience with SAFe and Agile in general which was very good since he was able to provide real life examples we could relate to. He was also able to answer questions we had with actual issues we experience in our organization." - 2019-11-19 00:00

"Content was very good and focused on the architect role in safe without repetition of safe concepts. Trainer was also very good, and gave time for (and facilitated) discussion between the attendees. Location was acceptable. Planning was not very good, we only received notification of being on the course the day before the course. However inside the course the amount of time allocated to each subject was also about right. Supporting material is nice and clear." - 2019-06-07 00:00