Training
Our Applied SAFe® training will increase your capability in effectively applying scaled agility over the whole enterprise.
We train your LACE/Quality team with all the tools and knowledge to implement, adapt, and enlarge Applied SAFe® to truly reflect your company’s individuality.
We also arrange training for your organization on overall SAFe® , together with our hand-selected partners. They are focusing on leadership training for the management, portfolio steering, product line development, and its successful change approach and are all trained for Applied SAFe.
All of our training can be provided remotely!
- We use first-class methods and tools to provide a natural feeling (e.g. Google Class, Slack, Jamboard, etc.).
- All our trainers are certified SAFe Remote Trainers.
AI
Trainings | Workshops | Packages
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not only a technological shift—it changes how we work, how we learn, and how decisions are made within organizations. In quality management systems (QMS), AI accelerates processes, promotes adaptive learning, and supports decentralized decision-making. This demands new ways of working—and new governance models to ensure trust, compliance, and quality.
Applied SAFe®
Trainings | Workshops | Packages
Learn how to get started, enhance and use Applied SAFe® as an extendable, customizable and comprehensive implementation of SAFe® as a process model. The contained courses are built to help you understand how to use the solution the best way, how to instantiate, tailor and adopt Applied SAFe® to your needs and how to achieve regulatory compliance.
Lean-Agile
Trainings | Workshops | Packages
Specific topics around lean-agile development are our passion. Areas like Governance, Compliance, Human Resources, Portfolio Management, Architecture, Product Development and many more will be covered step-by-step. Do not hesitate do get in touch in case you have an additional topic you would like to see in our training curriculum.
Engineering
Trainings | Workshops | Packages
Benefit from our mature development experience with process engineering on the Stages platform. We gained in-depth skills not only on process design but also in the effective use of the tailoring features, different instantiation and deployment mechanisms as well as compliance mappings to a number of reference models and much more. Get inspired!
ASQMS
Trainings | Workshops | Packages
This 1-day training aims to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of the Automotive Software Quality Management System (ASQMS) standard and its application, with attention to lean-agile environments. The session will focus on the integration of ASQMS with modern software development practices and cover the utilization of AI to enhance quality management processes.
AI & Quality – Foundations, Concepts, and Solutions at a Glance
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not only a technological shift—it changes how we work, how we learn, and how decisions are made within organizations. In quality management systems (QMS), AI accelerates processes, promotes adaptive learning, and supports decentralized decision-making. This demands new ways of working—and new governance models to ensure trust, compliance, and quality.
In this 1-day training, you will:
- Gain a solid understanding of AI fundamentals
- Learn about AI-Solutions and hand-on experience with some of them e.g. ChatGPT, Projects, DeepSearch, etc.
- Explore opportunities and risks of AI in quality and compliance environments
- Learn about governance strategies for trustworthy AI
- Understand how quality assurance and audits evolve in the AI era
- See PEDCO AuditPro in action – our AI-powered solution for near real-time audits
A key focus:
How AI changes the role of users within a QMS:
- Faster learning cycles, driven by immediate feedback from AI-based systems
- Decentralized decision-making, empowered by AI-generated insights and recommendations
- Adaptive working styles, integrating quality assurance into daily operations continuously
- The need for evolved governance models, reflecting and supporting these new dynamics
Who should attend?
- Knowledge workers who want to understand quality in the age of AI, leverage it responsibly, and adapt their governance and work structures to maximize its potential.
- Quality managers
- Business leaders
More details and registration at: training/ai-quality-fcs-training/
Applied SAFe® Introduction
This one-day course provides a practical opportunity to see Applied SAFe in action as an executable process implementation of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). You will learn how to disaggregate SAFe into process elements, how to customize Applied SAFe on each framework level for specific needs of different endeavors, understand the benefit of executable Applied SAFe instances for an organization and how to reach compliance to reference frameworks like ISO standards or SPICE. This is the foundation that will support the growth of your processes for building complex cyber-physical systems – from teams to enterprise – simple to complex.
Applied SAFe® Quality Management
In this 2-days-course you will gain the knowledge needed to lead the integration, adoption and extension of Applied SAFe within your company. You will learn how to structure your workspace hierarchy, your process model and types to be able to define different implementation strategies as supported by Applied SAFe. You learn how to integrate and use different reference models and the main reporting features of Applied SAFe to achieve regulatory compliance. This training is further extended with knowledge about adoption preparation of Applied SAFe® for the company on a Team-, Program- and Portfolio-Level.
Applied SAFe® Engineering
This 3-days-course teaches the key concepts for effective process engineering with Applied SAFe on the Stages platform. You will learn how to integrate, adjust and extend Applied SAFe based on concepts like workspace hierarchies, effective use of process types for a number of deployment strategies, inheritance mechanisms for process elements, branching and merging with overlays, manual and automated tailoring and process model extensions with your existing and new process assets. Understand design principles like work product and process modelling and learn how to define and apply process templates to ensure a consistent design. Understand the mechanisms for effective bindings to reference models like Automotive SPICE, CMMI or any other ISO, IEC or DIN standard.
Applied SAFe® for Metric Engineers
In this 2 days course you will gain the knowledge needed to deeply understand the mechanics of metrics in Applied SAFe®, how the metric model can be altered, extended and integrated with the existing tool landscape. This is a complementary course to ‘Applied SAFe® Engineering’ and usually does not make sense taking without the knowledge of an Applied SAFe® Process Engineer.
Applied SAFe® Deployment
In this 2-days course you learn how to deploy Applied SAFe® in your company by using effective deployment strategies and process distribution concepts like Tailoring, Process Instantiation, Permissions, User Administration, Metrics, etc. as supported by the Stages platform. Understand the already existing over 180 tailoring options to be able to customize each Applied SAFe level to the needs of its users. Understand the relevant customizations and key concepts of Applied SAFe to prepare a change and deployment plan that achieves high community acceptance and adoption success.
Applied SAFe® User
In this half day course you will gain the knowledge needed to use Applied SAFe® for your daily work in the context of the Scaled Agile Framework and the underlying tool Stages from Method Park. Depending on your role you learn the main Applied SAFe elements in the context of the respective SAFe level including provided templates. Optionally, if configured for your organization, you will be trained in the use of the integrated work product and state management feature.
Lean-Agile Process Engineering Workshop
This two-day workshop will discuss concepts, risks and possible solutions on how to organize, design, process and manage process engineering in an agile environment. As it is stated in the agile manifesto: ‘individuals and interactions over processes and tools.’; in large scale companies building the most important systems, people, knowledge and auditable processes are usually a given and a prerequisite to even stay in business.
Lean-Agile Compliance Workshop
This two-day workshop will discuss concepts, risks and possible solutions on how to reach compliance and still use the benefits of scaled agile systems development as propagated by the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
You will learn how to systematically reach compliance on a given internal or external reference model and how to use existing process assets (like SOP’s) to achieve lean-agile compliance to reference frameworks like ISO standards or SPICE Assessments in your company. This is the foundation that will support the growth of your processes for building complex cyber-physical systems – from teams to enterprise – simple to complex.
Applied SAFe® for High-Assurance Development Package
This training and coaching package is intended for those enterprises or organizations in high assurance system and software development who want to leverage lean-agile practices while still reaching compliance on given internal or external reference models (e.g. Automotive SPICE, CMMI, IEC 62304). Scaled Agility and its practices for such complex cyber-physical systems is trained on Applied SAFe®, the unique implementation of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) as an executable process model.
Lean-Agile HR with SAFe®
This one day workshop addresses various aspects of modern people solutions and provides guidance on how to align HR with the demands and realities of a SAFe lean-agile organization to bring people operations into the 21st century with lean-agile values and principles. Gain insights from modern scientific findings, best practices and trends in organizational excellence and develop a toolbox of solutions, best practices, insights and ideas. Benefit from the experience and mindset of others through team exercises, integrated case study, hands-on activities and open space sessions.
Process Management 4.0 Workshop
Where are your processes? In your head, in files on a shelf, in Word, PowerPoint, or in Stages?
In this workshop, learn why evolutionary development of your processes towards a methodical approach of process management is necessary to cope with challenges of increasing complexity and how we support you with the Stages Method. This workshop consists of presentations, exercises and discussions and offers the opportunity to ask questions and exchange experiences. All participants receive detailed training documents and guidelines which support their daily work life.
Process Engineering with Stages Training
This 2-days-course teaches the key concepts for effective process engineering on the Stages platform. You will learn how to design and engineer processes based on concepts like workspace hierarchies, effective use of process types for a number of deployment strategies, inheritance mechanisms, branching and merging with overlays, manual and automated tailoring and process model extensions with your existing and new process assets. Understand design principles like work product and process modelling and learn how to define and apply process templates to ensure a consistent design. Understand the mechanisms for effective bindings to reference models like Automotive SPICE, CMMI or any other ISO, IEC or DIN standard.
Lean-Agile Process Engineering Workshop
This two-day workshop will discuss concepts, risks and possible solutions on how to organize, design, process and manage process engineering in an agile environment. As it is stated in the agile manifesto: ‘individuals and interactions over processes and tools.’; in large scale companies building the most important systems, people, knowledge and auditable processes are usually a given and a prerequisite to even stay in business.
Embracing Quality in Automotive Software Development
ASQMS (Automotive Software Quality Management System) is a newly established standard dedicated to enhancing software quality management in the automotive industry. Developed by the China Association of Consumer Products Quality and Safety Promotion (CACPQSP), ASQMS is intended to address the unique challenges and opportunities presented by Software Defined Vehicles. The standard establishes requirements for robust management systems and processes that drive software quality throughout the entire vehicle lifecycle. This includes everything from development to deployment, operation, and maintenance.
ASQMS is tailored to address the unique needs of the automotive industry, focusing on both in-vehicle and off-vehicle software systems. It ensures that software quality management practices are robust and adaptable to the evolving technological landscape, thereby enhancing the safety, functionality, and user experience of automotive software systems.
ASQMS applies broadly to software across the automotive sector, covering OEMs and suppliers—including those providing components, equipment, and software tools. Its scope extends to both “in-vehicle” and “off-vehicle” software, encompassing client-side, roadside, field-side, and toolchain software used in development and operations.
PEDCO’s Involvement
ASQMS Deutschland GmbH launched the first global ASQMS 1st/2nd Party Auditor Training in April, 2025. PEDCO’s Peter Pedross and Sheila Schultz were honored to attend the training and passed the final exam. PEDCO is proud to be the first external global partner outside of China to be trained on this important new standard. PEDCO has also the global license to use ASQMS within its own AI-Tool PEDCO AuditPro.
This 1-day training aims to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of the Automotive Software Quality Management System (ASQMS) standard and its application, with attention to lean-agile environments. The session will focus on the integration of ASQMS with modern software development practices and cover the utilization of AI to enhance quality management processes.
Audience
This training is designed for professionals involved in the automotive software development and quality management sectors.
Ideal participants include:
- Quality Managers, Process Managers, Process Owners
- Software Developers and Engineers in the automotive sector
- Quality Assurance Managers and Auditors
- Project Managers and Team Leads
- Stakeholders involved in automotive software development
Training Outcomes
Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of the Automotive Software Quality Management System (ASQMS). Key outcomes include:
- Mastery of ASQMS principles and their application in the automotive industry.
- Enhanced ability to integrate quality management systems with agile methodologies.
- Insights into leveraging AI and other technologies to improve quality management processes.
More details and registration at: training-asqms-overview
Training Cancellation & Rescheduling Policy
This policy governs all instructor‑led, virtual‑live, and on‑site trainings (collectively, “Trainings”) provided by PEDCO AG (“PEDCO”) to any customer or participant (“Client”). It forms an integral part of every Training quotation, order confirmation, and registration form.
All details can be found at our full PEDO Training Cancellation & Rescheduling Policy_2024.
Definitions
| Term | Meaning |
| Calendar Day | Any day of the year, including weekends and public holidays |
| Working Day | Monday–Friday, excluding Swiss public holidays |
| Notice Date | The calendar day on which PEDCO receives the Client’s written notice of cancellation or reschedule |
Cancellation by Client
| Notice Date before first Training day | Refund / Fee Due |
| ≥ 30 calendar days | 100 % refund less 5 % administrative fee |
| 14 – 29 days | 50 % refund or 50 % credit valid 12 months |
| 7 – 13 days | 25 % refund or 25 % credit valid 12 months |
| < 7 days or no‑show | No refund; 100 % of fee payable |
Short‑format or purely virtual sessions (< 1 day duration): Full refund if Notice Date ≥ 48 hours; otherwise, the full fee is due.