Agile Product Delivery

Question 1

What is Agile Product Delivery

Answer 1

A customer centric approach to defining, building and releasing a continuous flow of valuable products and services to customers and users

Question 2

Why Agile Product Delivery?

Answer 2

To deliver innovative products and services, to be sure to create the right solutions for the right customers at the right time

Question 3

What are the dimensions of Agile Product Delivery?

Answer 3

Customer centricity and Design Thinking
Develop on Cadence, Release on Demand
DevOps and the Continuous Delivery Pipeline

Question 4

Customer centricity motivates teams to?

Answer 4

Focus on the customer
Understand the customer's needs
Think and feel like the customer
Build whole product solutions
Create customer lifetime value

Question 5

What the two activities of Design Thinking

Answer 5

Understand the problem (Discover and define)

Design the right solution (Develop and Deliver)

Question 6

A design thinking solution should be ?

Answer 6

Desirable, viable, feasible and also sustainable

Question 7

How do Release on Demand and Develop on Cadence further promote Business Agility

Answer 7

By decoupling the events and activities that support the organisation creating value from how that value is delivered

Question 8

What are the two elements of SAFe’s cadence structure?

Answer 8

Iterations
Program Increments (PIs)

Question 9

What is the typical length of an iteration?

Answer 9

Two weeks

Question 10

What is the typical length of a Program Increment?

Answer 10

8-12 weeks (i.e 3-5 dev iterations followed by one innovation and planning iteration)

Question 11

What are the Program Increment activities and events

Answer 11

Program Increment Planning
System demos
Inspect and Adapt
Innovation and Planning

Question 12

When are system demos done ?

Answer 12

At the end of every iteration

Question 13

When is Inspect & Adapt done?

Answer 13

At the end of the Program Increment

Question 14

What is the Innovation & Planning iteration?

Answer 14

An iteration where innovation activites are performed when they cannot not be performed incrementally.

Question 15

How to achieve Release on Demand?

Answer 15

Embrace the DevOps mindset

Create a continuous Delivery Pipeline

Question 16

What does the DevOps movement work to align?

Answer 16

Development
Operation
The business
Information security
Other areas to improve business results

Question 17

What the five concepts of DevOpms (CALMR)?

Answer 17

Culture (for fast value delivery)
Automation
Lean Flow
Measurement
Recovery (allow fast fixes of production issues througgh automatic rollback and fix forward capabilities)

Question 18

What are the components of the SAFe Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

Answer 18

Continuous Exploration
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Release on Demand

Question 19

What are the tools for Design Thinking?

Answer 19

Personas
Empathy Maps
Feature-Benefit Matrix
Journey Maps
Story Maps
Prototypes

Question 20

What are uncommitted objectives?

Answer 20

Objectives the team has time to do but cannot commit do