Becoming a Product Owner/Product Manager in the SAFe enterprise (10%) Flashcards

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What is SAFe Lean Enterprises?

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a knowledge base of proven integrated principles, practices, and competencies for achieving Business Agility by implementing Lean, Agile, and DevOps at scale.

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What are the SAFe Core Values?

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alignment, built-in quality, transparency, and program execution

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What is an enabler

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enables customer facing work - usually technical, not a person.

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what is the shared area of concern for the PO and the PM?

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Flow to customer

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What is a value stream?

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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.

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What is the difference between:
operational/business value stream
vs
development value stream?

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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

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What is a Solution?

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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.

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What is the house of lean?

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6 items (principles)

Foundation - Leadership
4 Pillars - Respect, Flow, Innovation, relentless improvement
Roof - Value

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What is an Agile Team?

how many people?
what do they do?

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a cross functional, self organizing team

5-11 people

define, build, test and deliver solutions

deliver value every iteration.

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What are responsibilities of the agile team?

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create and refine user stories and acceptance criteria

define, build, test, deliver stories

develop and commit to team PI Objectives and Iteration plans

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What are the responsibilities of the Scrum Master?

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  • 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
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What are the responsibilities of the Product Owner?

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  • contributes to Vision and Roadmap
  • Acts as customer for team questions
  • creates, communicates and accepts Stories
  • prioritizes backlog

(what and why)

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What is the ART?

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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
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Who leads the ART?

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The ART is steered by Product Managers and POs

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Which role focuses on market and customer

(PM or PO)?

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Product Manager (PM)

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Which role focuses on solution, technology, and team (PM or PO)?

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Product owner (PO)

17
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Which role drives the Program Increment (PI) and product?

A

Product Manager

build the right thing

18
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Which role drives the iteration?

A

Product Owner

build the right way

19
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Which role drives the program execution?

A

Agile Team

20
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Which role owns the Program Backlog?

A

PM (Product Manager)

21
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Which role owns the Team Backlog?

A

PO (Product Owner)

22
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which role defines Features?

A

PM

23
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Which role defines Stories?

A

PO

24
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Which role defines Iterations?

A

PO

25
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Which role owns estimates?

A

Agile Team

26
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Which role owns the vision?

A

PM

27
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Which role owns Roadmap?

A

PM

28
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Which role contributes to Vision and Roadmap?

A

PO

29
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Which role accepts the iteration increments?

A

PO

30
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which role acts as the chief Scrum master for ART?

A

RTE (Release Train Engineer)

31
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which role provides technical enablement and architectural guidance to the teams on the ART?

A

System Architect-Engineering

32
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Which role/team provides processes and tools to integrate?

A

System Team

33
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Which role is the key stakeholder on the ART?

A

Business Owner