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.
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 three certification 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
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 offer self-paced preparation for your selected SAFe® certification—SA, SSM, or POPM—with access to applicable learning resources, practice assessments, and optional practitioner coaching.
3-WEEK ACTIVATION WINDOW
December 4–18, 2027 | Saturdays, 11:30 AM–1:00 PM CT
Study independently, prepare at your own pace, and join optional Saturday office hours for questions, clarification, and practical application.
ACCESS → PREPARE → SUPPORT → CERTIFY
30-DAY EXAM WINDOW FOLLOWS
Complete your certification exam during the designated testing window following the activation period.
READY FOR CERTIFICATION?
Explore the three tracks and take the next step toward preparation.
NEED APPLIED EXPERIENCE FIRST?
The Talent Accelerator gives you the applied experience that Built4Agility Certification Tracks are designed to build upon.
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