General Essential SAFe Flashcards
What are the 10 critical success factors?
- SAFe Lean-Agile Principles
- Real Agile Teams and Trains
- Cadence and Synchronization
- PI (Product Increment) Planning
- Customer Centricity, DevOps, and Release on Demand
- System Demo
- Inspect & Adapt
- IP (Innovation and Planning) Iteration
- Architectural Runway
- Lean-Agile Leadership
What are the Lean-Agile principles?
- Take an economic view
- Apply systems thinking
- Assume variability; preserve options
- Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
- Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems
- Make value flow without interruptions
- Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning
- Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
- Decentralize decision making
- Organize around value
What are the critical Agile Team roles?
- Scrum Master / Team Coach
- Product Owner (PO)
- Agile Team
Define Scrum Master/Team Coach
A servant leader and coach for an Agile Team. They facilitate team events and processes and support teams and ARTs in delivering value.
Define Product Owner (PO)
The Agile Team member primarily responsible for maximizing the value delivered by the team by ensuring that the Team Backlog is aligned with Customer and stakeholder needs.
Define Agile Team
A cross-functional group of typically ten or fewer individuals with all the skills necessary to define, build, test, and deliver value to their Customer.
What are the Critical Agile Release Train Roles?
- Release Train Engineers
- Product Management
- System Architects
- Customers
- Business Owners
Define Release Train Engineer
Servant leaders and ART coaches who facilitate ART events and processes and support teams in delivering value
Define Product Management
The function responsible for defining desirable, viable, feasible, and sustainable Solutions that meet Customer needs and support development across the product life cycle.
Define System Architects
Responsible for defining and communicating a shared architectural vision for the solutions developed by an ART
Define Customer
The ultimate beneficiaries of the value of the Solutions created and maintained by a portfolio’s value streams
Define Business Owners
Key ART stakeholders who have the primary business and technical responsibility for return on investment, governance, and compliance.
