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About the certification
What SPC means
The SAFe Program Consultant, often shortened to SPC, is the leading role for people who teach, launch, and improve the Scaled Agile Framework in real organizations. It signals that a professional can connect strategy, portfolio work, and team delivery in a way that fits large-scale product development.
What it validates
- Ability to lead SAFe adoption and explain the framework clearly
- Skills in coaching leaders, teams, and Release Train roles
- Practical knowledge of Agile Release Trains and Program Increment planning
- Experience supporting change across multiple teams and functions
- Understanding of Lean-Agile thinking, flow, and value delivery
Typical SPC profiles
Freelancers with this certification are often transformation coaches, release train engineers, agile consultants, or enterprise agile practitioners. They usually step into situations where many teams must align on one product or program goal, and where leadership needs help turning agile ideas into working operating models.
Knowledge behind the role
A strong SPC combines framework knowledge with facilitation and change leadership. That includes.
- portfolio and program alignment
- ART setup and launch support
- PI Planning preparation and facilitation
- coaching on roles, cadence, and metrics
- stakeholder alignment across business and technology
Why companies hire SPC freelancers
An SPC is useful when an organization wants more than a trainer. Companies look for someone who can diagnose current ways of working, guide a rollout, and help teams keep momentum after the first workshops. In Germany, this is especially relevant for larger enterprises with mixed on-site and remote teams, where clear facilitation and strong English or German communication both matter.
What it tells you
If a freelancer holds the SAFe Program Consultant certification, you can expect hands-on experience with scaled agile change, not just theory. For employers, it is a good sign that the person can work with executives, product people, and delivery teams in the same transformation. For freelancers, the SPC path also shows readiness to lead complex SAFe engagements, whether in Germany or in international programs.
Meet FRATCH SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)
Peter Jetter
Principal Management Consultant, Business Coach & Business Trainer
Last position:
external SPC & SAFe Trainer, Scrum Master at Siemens Energy
support SAFe adoption at team, ART and Portfolio level with consulting, coaching and training. Establish hierarchical enterprise backlog and Kanban Systems integrating portfolio, value stream and team level. Make e2e value stream flow across organisational boundaries visible and measurable. Teach "stop starting, start finishing" and Limit WiP.
Thomas Müller
Requirements Engineer (SPC) - ONE.CRM VW Salesforce Solution
Last position:
Requirements Engineer (SPC) - ONE.CRM VW Salesforce Solution at CARIAD SE / Diconium Strategy GmbH
- Rework demand, development and operational organizational set up for the Solution Train
- Rework requirement refinement process flow from strategic theme to user story
- Introduction of visualization tools (Canvas) of work dependencies over different requirement levels and Solution Train leadership coaching
Marco Toscano
Scrum Master
Last position:
Scrum Master at Siemens Energy
- Responsible for introducing agile methods within the Interface & Integration Team (2 Scrum Teams)
- Planning and delivering trainings in agile methods
- Facilitating workshops and Scrum events
- Removing impediments
- Increasing sprint performance
Thorsten Heintke
Managing Partner
Last position:
Program Manager at Telecommunications Industry
- Program Manager for a strategically highly relevant compliance project in the enterprise segment (C4)
- Leading 6 workstreams
- Setting up the project organization, establishing communication structures, project and budget planning, risk management
- Reporting to the CIO
- Facilitating steering committee meetings
- Facilitating critical solution processes
- Responsible for adapting the operating model of the IT organizations in Germany, the EU and India, including planning and managing the relocation of affected employees
Mario Pucko
Senior IT Project Manager / Program Lead – Network Strategy 2030
Last position:
Senior IT Project Manager / Program Lead – Network Strategy 2030 at ALDB GmbH
- Holistic responsibility for modernizing and expanding federal networks and upgrading critical data center and telecom infrastructure in the high-security agency environment of BDBOS
- Planning and management of the expansion of national BOS network infrastructure in the VS-NfD/KRITIS environment with technical decision authority at the architecture and component level (Cisco, Layer 2/3, WAN redundancy)
- Planning, tendering (EVB-IT/UVgO) and oversight of the upgrade of security-critical telecom infrastructure for emergency call 110/112 (ACD)
- Capacity planning, rack integration, structured cabling, power supply, cooling concept (CRAC/In-Row) and DCIM monitoring for data center expansion
- Building the IT department from scratch: structures, governance, processes, team recruiting, vendor selection and long-term IT strategy
- Planning and managing infrastructure and application migrations: migration strategies, batch planning, hypercare stabilization and rollback concepts
- Creating vendor-neutral specifications (telecom systems, signature solutions) according to EVB-IT and UVgO; contract award and vendor management
- Setting up a secure IT environment according to BSI basic protection, ISO 27001 and VS-NfD; developing IT security concepts and CMDB analyses
- Hands-on program leadership: decision papers for management and steering committees, risk management, reporting and change request control
Janko Böhm
RTE, Agile Coach
Last position:
RTE, Agile Coach at Haufe Group SE
Transformation of the program organization from six subprojects into a scaled agile setup as RTE to stabilize the go-live date
Organizational development by building virtual, agile, cross-functional teams and establishing metrics and performance indicators
Coaching agile development and rollout principles for an SAP migration
Training internal staff for new roles and toughening up effort estimates towards the steering board
Switching to agile governance and reporting structures with a focus on end-to-end business processes
Establishing the product owner role and promoting agile principles in the SAP development team
Reduced delivery times through domain-based scoping and smaller cycle times
More reliable delivery forecasts and increased delivery rates
Earlier and more frequent feedback from business units, increased trust, and cost savings by eliminating duplicate structures
Ambartsum Poghosiani
Program Lead – Performance & Quality Engineering
Last position:
Program Lead – Performance & Quality Engineering at Accenture
- Led performance engineering strategy for MS Dynamics 365 retail transformation
- Coordinated 25+ engineers across multiple delivery streams
- Identified and resolved system bottlenecks, reducing critical performance issues by 40% pre-go-live
- Delivered executive performance dashboards enabling data-driven release decisions
Frank Cappel
Agile Team Coach & SAFe RTE Consultant
Last position:
Agile and classic change transformation manager at Freelance Interim Manager | Transformation, Change & Procurement Consultant
- Industries: Energy, Telecommunications, Manufacturing
- Transformation & Change: Supported complex IT and digital transformation programs as Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Change Manager, and RTE Consultant at Siemens Energy (global SAFe rollout), E.ON (sales technology platform), Schneider Electric (S/4HANA transformation DACH), and Vodafone (Operational Excellence)
- Agile Roles: Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Product Owner, Business Analyst, RTE Consultant in cross-functional and scaled teams (SAFe, Scrum, Spotify model)
- Procurement Excellence: Strategic procurement consulting with a focus on cost optimization, supplier management, digitalization, and organizational development, including building supplier scorecard models, AI-supported sourcing approaches, and process automation in procurement
- Managed professional leadership of interdisciplinary project teams of up to 12 people in national and international settings
- Successfully launched multiple global ARTs at Siemens Energy with improved coordination across locations
- Increased change acceptance and established communication structures in the S/4HANA program at Schneider Electric
- Introduced agile methods, OKR frameworks, and KPI dashboards at E.ON, increasing velocity and transparency
- Reduced purchasing costs through strategic sourcing and supplier optimization
- Implemented process innovations in close cooperation with IT and business units
Kerstin Strasser
Managing Director, Interim IT Project Leadership, Crisis Project Management
Last position:
Project management at IT service provider in the SAP area for energy companies
- Project management for the SAP release upgrade of a large multi-client environment (IT service provider in the SAP area for energy companies)
- Setting up a release process for future operational workflows
- Cutover planning
- Building a test management process with the involved clients
Falko Werner
Transformation Coach, AI Trainer, Author
Last position:
Institute for Business and Personal Development, South Harz
- Development of an AI-supported personality analysis based on the institute's SDWA4: online survey, AI-supported and automated evaluation, and email delivery
- Requirements analysis, prototype development, evaluation, derivation of a simplified SDWA4-light analysis, continuous improvement, design, Make automation, deployment
Giuseppe Manolio
Agile Team Coach
Last position:
Agile Team Coach at Beispielprojekt (REWE-Digital)
- Improved the team’s delivery capability and performance by introducing agile methods and the agile mindset
- Established and further developed the agile development process, promoted innovation, and optimized processes
- Ensured the team’s forecastability through suitable tools and methods
- Identified impediments, created transparency within the team, and supported their removal
- Organized and facilitated workshops and events
- Selected, coordinated, monitored, analyzed, and reported on agreed OKRs and KPIs
- Established a healthy team culture, anchored agile values, promoted team development, knowledge sharing, and self-organization
- Established an open and constructive feedback culture
- Built communication bridges between the team, departments, and external roles
- Supported scaling and coordination of product development, provided methodological support for Product Owners and the team
- Maintained and communicated product strategy, backlogs, and roadmaps
Paul Weißhaar
Associate Partner
Last position:
Associate Partner at QRelation Management Team GmbH
Thomas Sternkopf
Interim Manager
Last position:
C-level consultant for transformation and organizational development at Primeo Management AG, Basel / Paris
Organisation: International energy provider in a regulated market environment with around 900 employees.
Responsibilities: Responsible for managing and prioritizing a company-wide transformation and initiative portfolio in the energy sector. Directly involved in the governance and decision-making logic of the organization with a focus on governance, IT management, prioritization and implementation of strategic initiatives across business and IT areas.
Results:
- Introduced a company-wide portfolio management system for structured prioritization and management of strategic business and IT initiatives.
- Established clear governance, decision and control mechanisms to sustainably improve execution capability across the entire organization.
- Integrated HR, capacity and organizational management into an overarching management logic to enhance transparency and decision quality.
- Directly supported executive management by moderating and structuring strategic decision-making processes at both executive and supervisory board levels.
Dirk Hellmuth
Head of Individualization Initiative
Last position:
Head of Individualization Initiative at Berge & Meer Touristik GmbH
- Responsibility for the Individualization Initiative to develop and implement a new travel product category
- Setting up the cross-functional organization at strategic, tactical and operational levels
- Aligning the initiative with the company's strategic goals (OKRs)
- Preparing decision papers and recommendations for management and advisory board
- Operational management of the technology work package
Jörg Ludwig
Project Coach, PMO, Agile Coach, Scrum Master
Last position:
Project Coach, PMO, Agile Coach, Scrum Master at DVAG
- Project coach (hybrid) with an end-to-end view of the entire project, including external managed services
- Interim project management due to staffing change
- Team coach for two agile development teams using Scrum
- Improvement of communication culture and structure
- Initiation and facilitation of stakeholder workshops
- Moderation of agile events from daily stand-ups to Scrum of Scrums (Smart SAFe®)
- Analysis and improvement of process and project documentation
- Coordination of Atlassian applications (Confluence and Jira)
- Support for product owners in backlog tasking
- Organization and facilitation of retrospectives at different levels
- Coaching of the project manager in a hybrid environment
- Intensive communication and coordination with portfolio management
- Tools and methods: Scrum, Scrum of Scrums, Smart SAFe®, Jira, Confluence, Salesforce, Concept Board, BPMN 2.0, MS 365, PRINCE2®
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SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) statistics
Typical experience
23 years
Average project duration
2.6 years
Certifications per freelancer
11
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Automotive, Professional Services
Most common languages
German, English, French
Bachelor's degree or higher
86%
Master's degree or higher
67%
Salary / Daily Rate Distribution
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Average rates for SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) & Seniority distribution
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Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Frequently Asked Questions
Want to learn more? Find helpful information about FRATCH
The SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) shows that a professional can introduce and guide the Scaled Agile Framework in real organizations. It points to coaching skill, facilitation, and the ability to support large groups of people through change. For companies, it is a sign that the freelancer can do more than talk about agile methods.
SPC is the most transformation-focused role in the SAFe line. While many other SAFe certifications concentrate on team, product, or leadership practices, this one focuses on teaching SAFe, launching Agile Release Trains, and supporting adoption across the organization. That makes it more suitable for consultants and change leaders than for a single-team role.
The certification fits agile coaches, transformation leads, consultants, and experienced practitioners who help companies move to SAFe. It is also relevant for people who support large product groups, complex delivery setups, or enterprise-wide change. A freelancer with this background is usually expected to work with both business and technology stakeholders.
You will often see SPC skills used in SAFe rollouts, Agile Release Train launches, and Program Increment planning sessions. It also matters in broader transformation programs where several teams need one operating model and a shared cadence. Industries with large, regulated, or complex product environments often value this profile most.
Both can matter. In Germany, many large organizations use mixed-language environments, so a freelancer may need to facilitate in German, English, or both depending on the team. The certification itself is international, but local communication skills can make a big difference in workshops and leadership sessions.
A good candidate should already understand agile delivery, team coaching, and how larger organizations work. The path usually makes the most sense for people who have helped teams adopt agile practices and now want to operate at program or enterprise level. Strong facilitation and change skills are more important than classroom theory alone.
The SAFe Program Consultant credential is maintained through Scaled Agile’s ongoing certification model, which typically includes continuing education and related requirements. The important point is that it is not a one-time learning badge; holders are expected to stay current with the framework and its updates. Candidates should always check the latest rules with Scaled Agile.
Ask which parts of a transformation they have led, such as coaching, ART launches, PI Planning, or executive alignment. It also helps to ask how they handle resistance, remote collaboration, and follow-through after the first workshop. That gives a much clearer picture of whether the person can support your specific SAFe journey.
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