General Flashcards
Leaders need to ______ not just support this type of change.
- Reinforce
- Fund
- Lead
- Manage
Lead
Leaders need to be trained on the required actions, not just the principles.
How many SAFe Core Competencies are there?
Three
Four
Five
Six
Five
Lean-Agile Leadership Team and Technical Agility DevOps and Release on Demand Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering Lean Portfolio Management
Which SAFe Core Competency is the FOUNDATION or anchor?
Lean-Agile Principles Lean Portfolio Oversight Lean-Agile Leadership Lean Portfolio Execution Lean Portfolio Management
Lean-Agile Leadership
This is the “Anchor” in new ways of working.
Which SAFe Core Competency is for building large things like a NASA Satellite or Financial System?
DevOps and Release on Demand
Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering
DevOps and Operational Systems Alignment
Business Products and Lean System Thinking
Team and Technical Agility
Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering
This is the SAFe Core Competency that governs the “Large Solution SAFe” configuration.
Myth or Fact
Continuous delivery is not the same thing as Release on Demand.
Fact
Not all organizations need continuous delivery. They all need the ability to release functionality based on real time business need, hence Release on Demand.
Myth or Fact
Solution trains do the actual development work.
Myth
Solutions trains are about coordination of agile release trains and suppliers.
Agile Release Trains are organized around:
Release on Demand
Value Streams
Solution Management
Agile Release Trains are organized around Release on Demand through the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.
Value Streams are decided BEFORE Agile Release Trains are decided. Value Streams help identify the customers’ value workstream, the systems that are involved in it and the teams that build those systems however it doesn’t decide the actual Agile Release Train itself on its own accord.
Which two of these is NOT a SAFe Core Value:
Alignment Simplicity Program execution Built-in quality Release on Demand Tranparency
Simplicity and Release on Demand are not Core Values.
Alignment
Transparency
Built-in Quality
Program Execution
Alignment * Transparency * Built-in Quality * Program Execution
The following option is an example in ALIGNMENT.
Take ownership and responsibility for errors and mistakes.
Aggressively remove impediments and demotivators.
Support investments in capacity planning.
Help with backlog visibility, review and preperation.
Alignment
Help with backlog visibility, review and preperation.
Transparency
Take ownership and responsibility for erros and mistakes.
Built-in Quality
Support investments in capacity planning.
Program execution
Aggressively remove impediments and demotivators.
What is a metaphor used to describe the values that are essential for Lean thinking?
Value Respect for people & culture Flow Innovation Relentless Improvement Leadership
The House of Lean
House of Lean: Of all the values in the House of Lean, which one shows we are defining what we are trying to achieve?
Flow
Innovation
Business Outcomes
Value
Value
Value is the roof, it protects and overarches us all.
House of Lean: The Value, Respect for _____ _____ _____ will cause us to focus on changing habits. As habits change and solidify, culture will change long term.
Respect for People & Culture
The SAFe Core Value of Built-in Quality and the sibling House of Lean value Relentless Improvement are impacted by which House of Lean value that supports incremental value delivery?
Value
Respect for people & culture
Flow
Innovation
Flow
Continuous flow of work supports and enables incremental delivery with built-in quality along with relentless improvement because it allows for continuous feedback and adjustment loops
Myth or Fact
An organization being utilized at 95% - 100% is a sign of economically sustainable flow.
Myth
“Operating a product development process near full utilization is an economic disaster.” - Don Reinertsen
This in anti-pattern to a healthy flow model. It is hard if not impossible to have built-in quality when running a flow rate near 100%. Rework vibrates through the system and the shockwaves of rework make us less and less efficient.
Myth or Fact
House of Lean: “Respect for people and culture” value indicates that Lean has a stronger sense of customers than Agile.
Fact
Agile relies on user stories that may or may not reflect the customer. It is assumed in Agile the Product Owner, who may be many rungs down the customer hotline, represents the customer clearly.
Lean is flow based system that considers the customer to be whoever consumes your work.
