Becoming a Product Owner/Product Manager in the SAFe enterprise (10%) Flashcards
What is SAFe Lean Enterprises?
a knowledge base of proven integrated principles, practices, and competencies for achieving Business Agility by implementing Lean, Agile, and DevOps at scale.
What are the SAFe Core Values?
alignment, built-in quality, transparency, and program execution
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What is an enabler
enables customer facing work - usually technical, not a person.
what is the shared area of concern for the PO and the PM?
Flow to customer
What is a value stream?
A series of steps an org takes to deliver a product or service to customer
Contains systems, people who do work (RTE, agile train), and flow of info and materials.
What is the difference between:
operational/business value stream
vs
development value stream?
Operational - sequence of events needed to deliver hypothesis to customer valued solution. Comprised of people who deliver
Developmental - supports operational val stream. Sequence of activities needed to deliver product or service to customer
Comprised of people who develop
What is a Solution?
A product, service or system delivered to the customer whether internal or external to the enterprise.
Each dev val stream produces one or more solutions that enable operational valuestream.
What is the house of lean?
6 items (principles)
Foundation - Leadership
4 Pillars - Respect, Flow, Innovation, relentless improvement
Roof - Value
What is an Agile Team?
how many people?
what do they do?
a cross functional, self organizing team
5-11 people
define, build, test and deliver solutions
deliver value every iteration.
What are responsibilities of the agile team?
create and refine user stories and acceptance criteria
define, build, test, deliver stories
develop and commit to team PI Objectives and Iteration plans
What are the responsibilities of the Scrum Master?
- Coach for agile team
- helps team focus on creating increments of value
- removes impediments
- ensure all team events take place and are productive and timely
What are the responsibilities of the Product Owner?
- contributes to Vision and Roadmap
- Acts as customer for team questions
- creates, communicates and accepts Stories
- prioritizes backlog
(what and why)
What is the ART?
Agile Release Train
- virtual organization
- 5-12 teams of 50 to 125 individuals
- has all the capabilities needed to define, implement, test, and deploy new system functionality
- **Goal of achieving continuous flow of value **
- Syncs on common cadence (Everyone starts and finished iterations on same days)
- aligns to common mission through program backlog
Who leads the ART?
The ART is steered by Product Managers and POs
Which role focuses on market and customer
(PM or PO)?
Product Manager (PM)