CERTIFICATION TRACKS

BUILD THE KNOWLEDGE. EARN THE CREDENTIAL. APPLY IT.

Industry-recognized credentials can strengthen your professional credibility and expand how you contribute inside complex organizations.

Built4Agility Certification Tracks prepare you to pursue SAFe® credentials while building the understanding and practical judgment to use what you know.

WHY SAFe®

CREDENTIALS BUILT FOR WORK AT SCALE.

The Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) helps organizations align strategy and execution across teams so they can deliver value more effectively in complex environments.

Used across industries including technology, financial services, healthcare, government, and manufacturing, SAFe provides a common operating framework for people working across teams, products, programs, and portfolios.

2M+ trained professionals | 20K+ organizations | 70 of the Fortune 100The Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) is a globally recognized framework for helping organizations align strategy, teams, and execution so they can deliver value more effectively at scale.

Learn more about SAFe from Scaled Agile

THE PRACTITIONER’S MODEL

THE CREDENTIAL SHOULD VALIDATE CAPABILITY—NOT REPLACE IT.

A certification can demonstrate what you know. Built4Agility is designed to help you develop what you can do with that knowledge.

Our Practitioner’s Model combines guidance with demonstrated application: understand the concepts, recognize when they apply, practice using them in context, receive feedback, and build evidence of capability.

That’s why the Talent Accelerator comes before Certification Tracks. The Talent Accelerator gives you an environment to practice, work in teams, solve problems, use modern workplace tools, and demonstrate application before adding the credential.

Practice first. Credential NXT.

CERTIFICATION TRACKS

WHERE DO YOU WANT TO PRACTICE?

Each SAFe certification prepares you for a different role, level of responsibility, or perspective within a Lean-Agile organization. Explore the five Built4Agility tracks to understand what each credential develops and where it can take your practice.Each Certification Track develops a different perspective on how value moves through an organization. Explore the tracks to understand the role, focus, and capabilities each credential develops.

FOUNDATIONAL TRACKS

SAFe® AGILIST (SA)

Understand how the whole system works.

Build a foundational understanding of the Scaled Agile Framework® and how strategy, teams, programs, and portfolios work together to deliver value.

Best aligned with: Professionals who need broad SAFe fluency or work across teams, functions, and organizational boundaries.

You’ll focus on: Lean-Agile principles • Agile Release Trains • PI Planning • value delivery • organizational agility

SAFe® SCRUM MASTER (SSM)

Help teams work better together.

Develop the skills to facilitate Agile teams, support team effectiveness, remove impediments, coach continuous improvement, and help teams contribute successfully within an Agile Release Train.

Best aligned with: Scrum Masters, team facilitators, project professionals, team leads, and people moving into Agile delivery roles.

You’ll focus on: Team facilitation • iteration execution • coaching • impediment removal • team improvement • ART participation

SAFe® PRODUCT OWNER / PRODUCT MANAGER (POPM)

Turn customer needs into valuable work.

Learn how Product Owners and Product Managers connect customer needs, business priorities, and team execution to guide the delivery of valuable solutions.

Best aligned with: Product professionals, business analysts, product owners, product managers, and professionals responsible for prioritization or defining value.

You’ll focus on: Customer value • features and stories • prioritization • backlogs • PI Planning • product delivery

ADVANCED TRACKS

SAFe® LEAN PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT (LPM)

Connect strategy to investment and execution.

Develop a portfolio-level perspective on how organizations align strategy, funding, governance, and execution around the flow of value.

Best aligned with: Leaders, portfolio professionals, PMO/strategy professionals, transformation leaders, and people involved in investment or enterprise-level decision-making.

You’ll focus on: Strategy • portfolio vision • investment funding • portfolio flow • Agile governance • strategic alignment

SAFe® RELEASE TRAIN ENGINEER (RTE)

Lead the system that helps teams deliver together.

Develop the capabilities to facilitate and coach an Agile Release Train, coordinate across teams, navigate dependencies and risks, and improve the flow of value at scale.

Best aligned with: Experienced Scrum Masters, Agile coaches, program leaders, delivery leaders, and practitioners ready to facilitate at the Agile Release Train level.

You’ll focus on: ART leadership • PI Planning • cross-team coordination • facilitation • coaching • flow • continuous improvement

Not sure which track fits? That’s part of the work. Your Blueprint and Talent Accelerator experience help you make an informed certification decision based on where you’re going—not simply which credential sounds good.

HOW CERTIFICATION PREP WORKS

PREPARE WITH SUPPORT. PRACTICE WITH PURPOSE.

Built4Agility Certification Tracks combine self-paced preparation with structured coaching and practitioner support so you can move toward certification at a pace that works for you.

Participants use applicable SAFe® learning resources and practice tests while preparing independently, with Weekly Flight Checks providing a shared environment for focused learning, questions, coaching, and application.

You don't have to wait for a traditional cohort to begin. Certification Tracks operate through continuous enrollment, allowing participants across multiple tracks to prepare concurrently while receiving the support they need along the way.

LEARN → PRACTICE → FLIGHT CHECK → APPLY → CERTIFY

Weekly Flight Checks
Focused learning + open Q&A + coaching + practitioner guidance.

READY TO BUILD TOWARD CERTIFICATION?

Your certification journey starts with practice.

The Talent Accelerator gives you the applied experience that Built4Agility Certification Tracks are designed to build upon.

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