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The ________________describes the future state of a portfolio’s value streams and solutions.

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Portfolio Vision

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The ________________measures the teams’ and ARTs’ belief in their ability to deliver the established PI Objectives.

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Confidence Vote

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The ________________is a summary of planned vs. actual business values for all the teams on the ART for a PI.

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ART Predictability Measure

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________________is a queuing theory that states that the average wait time for service from a system equals the ratio of the average queue length divided by the average processing rate.

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Little’s Law

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The ________________is the organizational construct used to build large solutions that requires the coordination of multiple ARTs and suppliers.

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Solution Train

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________________describe the policies and practices for budgeting, spending, and governance for a specific portfolio.

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Lean Budget Guardrails

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The ________________is responsible for coordinating epics through the portfolio Kanban system.

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Epic Owner

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________________is the function responsible for defining desirable, viable, feasible, and sustainable solutions that meet customer needs and supporting development across the product life cycle.

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Product Management

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________________are portfolio-level business objectives that provide competitive differentiation and strategic advantage. They provide business context for portfolio strategy and decision-making, representing aspects of the enterprise’s strategic intent.

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Strategic Themes

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The ________________is a Kanban system that is used to capture and manage the user stories and enablers intended to enhance the solution.

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Team Backlog

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________________is a cadence-based event for the entire ART that aligns teams and stakeholders to a shared mission and vision.

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PI Planning

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________________is a term used to describe a wide range of smart machines capable of performing tasks that typically required human intelligence. ________________ can be applied at all levels of SAFe to build intelligent customer solutions, automate value stream activities, and improve customer insights.

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AI (Artificial Intelligence)

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________________is an Agile method used by teams within an ART to deliver customer value in a short time box. ________________ teams use iterations, Kanban systems, and ________________ events to plan, execute, demonstrate, and retrospect their work.

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SAFe Scrum

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The ________________provides stakeholders an integrated view of the contributions of multiple ARTs and suppliers to obtain objective evidence of solution performance and to gather feedback.

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Solution Demo

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A ________________is a singular, relative number used to estimate the combination of volume, complexity, knowledge, and uncertainty of user stories.

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Story Point

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________________describes a state where Lean Portfolio Management provides a continuous flow of new epics to Solution Trains and ARTs to achieve the portfolio’s vision and strategic themes.

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Portfolio Flow

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The ________________competency describes the practices necessary to apply SAFe principles and practices to the specification, development, operation, and evolution of the world’s largest and most sophisticated software applications, networks, and cyber-physical systems.

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Enterprise Solution Delivery (ESD)

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A ________________is money that has already been spent and cannot be recovered.

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Sunk Cost

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A ________________is an early and minimal version of a new solution sufficient to prove or disprove an epic hypothesis.

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Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

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________________is a test-first, Agile testing practice largely synonymous with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).

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Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)

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The ________________is an ART event that helps coordinate ART dependencies and provides visibility into progress and impediments.

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Coach Sync

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________________is a Scrum method term for what SAFe defines as an iteration.

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Sprint

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The ________________competency aligns strategy and execution by applying Lean and systems thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance.

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Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)

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________________is a strategic planning technique used to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of a SAFe portfolio.

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SWOT Analysis

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________________describes the activities that align and prepare ARTs within a Solution Train for PI planning.

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Pre-Plan

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A ________________is the minimum functionality needed to validate a feature benefit hypothesis.

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Minimum Marketable Feature (MMF)

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________________ is the numerator in WSJF prioritization which represents the money or value that will be lost by delaying or not doing a job for a time period relative to other jobs.

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Cost of Delay (CoD)

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The ________________is a Solution Train event to ensure consistency in how emerging designs and tradeoffs are managed across the Solution Train, allowing frequent opportunities to steer implementation approaches without becoming a source of delays.

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Architect Sync

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A ________________represents solution functionality that delivers business value, fulfills a stakeholder need, and is sized to be delivered by an Agile Release Train within a PI.

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Feature

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The ________________contains various roles and artifacts that may apply to a specific team, ART, large solution, or portfolio context.

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Spanning Palette

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________________are the quantifiable measures used to evaluate how a value stream performs against its business objectives.

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Value Stream Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

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________________is the most comprehensive version of the Framework and supports enterprises that build and maintain a portfolio of large and complex solutions.

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Full SAFe

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A ________________is a design thinking technique that organizes a sequence of stories according to the tasks a user performs to accomplish their goal.

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Story Map

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________________is a set of success patterns that help public sector organizations achieve better solution development outcomes by implementing SAFe Lean-Agile values, mindset, principles, and practices.

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SAFe for Government

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The ________________is a Kanban system that is used to capture and manage the business and enabler epics intended to create and evolve the portfolio’s products, services, and solutions.

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Portfolio Backlog

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________________is a DevOps mindset that guides the ART toward achieving continuous value delivery by enhancing culture, automation, lean flow, measurement, and recovery.

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CALMR

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A ________________is a cadence-based timebox in which Agile Release Trains deliver continuous value to customers in alignment with PI Objectives.

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Planning Interval (PI)

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________________is a collaborative framework for establishing clear goals and measurable outcomes.

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Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)

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________________is the practice of developing a set of related models that help define, design, simulate, and document a system under development.

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Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)

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________________ represents the total active work items in a system.

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Work in Process (WIP)

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The ________________ is a significant event held at the end of each PI, where the current state of the Solution is demonstrated and evaluated. Teams then reflect and identify improvement backlog items via a structured problem-solving workshop.

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Inspect and Adapt (I&A)

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________________is the function responsible for defining desirable, viable, feasible, and sustainable large solutions that meet customer needs and for supporting development across the solution life cycle.

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Solution Management

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________________is an aspect of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline that releases new functionality immediately or incrementally based on business and customer needs.

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Release on Demand

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The ________________is a specialized Agile team that assists in building and supporting the Agile development environment, including developing and maintaining the Continuous Delivery Pipeline. They may also support the integration of assets, end-to-end solution testing, DevOps mindset and practices, deployment, and release on demand.

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System Team

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________________is the repository for storing, managing, and communicating the knowledge of current and intended solution behavior and design.

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Solution Intent

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________________ is the set of modern practices that reliably and predictably create quality software-centric systems. These practices originated with eXtreme Programming (XP) but have significantly evolved over the past two decades.

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Agile Software Engineering (ASE)

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________________ are key ART stakeholders who have the primary business and technical responsibility for return on investment (ROI), governance, and compliance.

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Business Owners (BOs)

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________________is a technique used during an Inspect & Adapt event to narrow down the number of actions that produce the most significant overall effect.

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Pareto Analysis

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________________are backlog items that extend the architectural runway of the solution under development or improve the performance of the development value stream.

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Enablers

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The ________________is a servant leader and coach who facilitates Solution Train events and processes, coordinates the work of ARTs and Suppliers, and supports ARTs in delivering value.

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Solution Train Engineer (STE)

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The ________________specifies the requirements for completeness of a work product or increment of value.

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Definition of Done

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The ________________is a visualization of the PI’s feature delivery dates, feature dependencies among teams, and relevant milestones.

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ART Planning Board

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________________is a set of practices to help ensure that the outputs of Agile teams in business and technology domains meet appropriate quality standards throughout the process of creating customer value.

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Built-In Quality

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________________is a set of development events and activities that occur on a regular schedule.

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Develop on Cadence

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________________ is the Japanese word for ‘the real place’ where work is performed and value is created.

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Gemba

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The ________________is a proven problem-solving technique used to explore the cause-and-effect relationships underlying a particular problem as part of Inspect and Adapt.

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5 Whys

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Anchored by the Lean-Agile leadership and continuous learning culture competencies, the SAFe ________________contains the mindset, values, principles, and implementation guidance needed to implement SAFe practices and achieve business agility.

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Foundation

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An ________________is 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.

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Agile Team

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The four ________________of alignment, transparency, respect for people, and relentless improvement represent the foundational beliefs that are key to SAFe’s effectiveness.

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Core Values

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The ________________is a Kanban system that is used to capture and manage the capabilities and enablers intended to enhance the large solution and extend its architectural runway.

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Solution Train Backlog

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________________ are graphical displays that illustrate work progress versus time.

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Burn-Down (and Burn-Up) Chart

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________________are short descriptions of a small piece of desired functionality written from the user’s perspective.

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Stories

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An ________________is a design thinking tool that is used to develop a deep and shared understanding of customers.

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Empathy Map

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________________describes a state in which Agile teams deliver a continuous flow of value to the customer.

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Team Flow

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The ________________defines the development value streams in a SAFe portfolio, their solutions, their revenue streams, the customers they serve, and other key business elements.

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Portfolio Canvas

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________________is a thinking tool used in conjunction with a SWOT analysis to help identify strategic options for evolving a SAFe portfolio.

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TOWS Analysis

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________________is a collaborative technique for relatively estimating the size of stories and features.

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Estimating Poker

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________________summarize the business and technical goals that teams and trains intend to achieve in the upcoming PI and are either committed or uncommitted.

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PI Objectives

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A ________________is an Agile Release Train that includes the technical and business people needed to ensure the solution is aware of the business in which it operates and that it addresses the relevant concerns for the technology, business, and customer.

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Business-Enabled ART

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The ________________is an organizational function responsible for facilitating the Lean Portfolio Management process and for fostering operational excellence and lean governance as part of a Lean-Agile transformation.

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Value Management Office (VMO)

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________________ is a set of Agile software engineering practices designed to improve software quality and responsiveness to changing requirements.

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Extreme Programming (XP)

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A ________________is a type of exploration Enabler Story that gains the knowledge necessary to reduce the risk of a technical approach, better understand a requirement, or increase the reliability of an estimate.

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Spike

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________________ is the world’s leading framework for Business Agility. ________________ integrates the power of Lean, Agile, and DevOps into a comprehensive operating system that helps enterprises thrive in the digital age by delivering innovative products and services faster, more predictably, and with higher quality.

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SAFe

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________________are system qualities that guide the design of the solution and often serve as constraints across the relevant backlogs.

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Nonfunctional Requirements (NFRs)

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The ________________is a regular SAFe Scrum event where the team inspects the iteration increment, assesses progress, and adjusts the team backlog.

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Iteration Review

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An ________________contains one or more SAFe operational value streams and all the ARTs needed to define, build, deploy, operate, and commercialize a complete business solution.

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Agile Business Train

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________________provides the minimal elements necessary for Agile Release Trains to deliver solutions and is the simplest starting point for implementation.

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Essential SAFe

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________________is an activity used to identify development value streams and the operational value streams they support.

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Value Stream Identification

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The ________________is a small Agile team dedicated to implementing the SAFe Lean-Agile way of working.

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Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE)

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A ________________captures the user’s experiences as they interact with a company’s operational value stream, products, and services.

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Customer Journey Map

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The ________________is responsible for establishing the portfolio’s technology vision, strategy, and roadmap.

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Enterprise Architect

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A ________________is a relative estimating number sequence (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40, 100) that reflects the inherent uncertainty of the job being estimated.

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Modified Fibonacci Sequence

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The ________________is 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.

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Product Owner (PO)

84
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________________provides a structure for companies to analyze, understand, and allocate investments in current and future business opportunities.

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Investment Horizons

85
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The ________________is an iterative build-measure-learn cycle that has proven to be effective in optimizing the economic value of strategic investments.

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SAFe Lean Startup Cycle

86
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________________is a test-first, Agile testing practice that provides built-in quality by defining (and potentially automating) tests before, or as part of, specifying system behavior.

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Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)

87
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The ________________represents the business entity to which each SAFe portfolio belongs.

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Enterprise

88
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The ________________system is a method to visualize and manage the flow of features from ideation to analysis, implementation, and release through the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.

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ART Kanban

89
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________________describes a state where an ART delivers a continuous flow of valuable features to the customer.

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ART Flow

90
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There are ten immutable, underlying ________________ These tenets and economic concepts inspire and inform the roles and practices of SAFe.

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SAFe Lean-Agile Principles

91
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A ________________is a smaller, largely independent value flow within a development value stream that delivers value according to customer needs and pace.

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Value Streamlet

92
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________________is a set of values, principles, and practices for iterative development most notably described by the ________________ Manifesto.

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Agile

93
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________________is an aspect of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline that drives innovation and fosters alignment on what should be built by continually exploring the market and customer needs, defining a vision, roadmap, and set of features for a solution.

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Continuous Exploration (CE)

94
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The ________________represents virtual, on-demand processing and storage services used for cost-effective and scalable infrastructure and operations, implementation of the DevOps toolchain, and development and hosting of AI applications.

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Cloud

95
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________________is a mindset, culture, and set of technical practices that supports the integration, automation, and collaboration needed to effectively develop and operate a solution.

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DevOps

96
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The ________________system is a method to visualize and manage the flow of portfolio epics, from ideation through analysis and implementation.

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Portfolio Kanban

97
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________________is the dimension of Lean Portfolio Management that supports oversight of spending, audit, compliance, expenditure, measurement, and reporting.

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Lean Governance

98
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________________is a quality practice where individual team members have the requisite skills and authority to update any relevant asset to improve value flow.

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Collective Ownership

99
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The ________________is a structured format used to capture, organize, and communicate critical information and assumptions about an epic.

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Epic Hypothesis Statement

100
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________________is a set of values, practices, and collaborations that support a system’s active, evolutionary design and architecture.

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Agile Architecture

101
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________________ are innovation events where team members can work on whatever they want, with whomever they want, so long as the work reflects the mission of the company and they demo their work at the end.

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Hackathon

102
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A ________________is a product, system, or service that provides value to internal or external customers.

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Solution

103
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________________is a financial governance approach that funds value streams instead of projects, accelerating value delivery and reducing the overhead and costs associated with traditional project cost accounting.

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Lean Budgets

104
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________________is a prioritization model used to sequence work for maximum economic benefit. In SAFe, WSJF is estimated as the relative cost of delay divided by the relative job duration.

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Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)

105
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________________describes a state where a Solution Train delivers a continuous flow of valuable capabilities to the customer.

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Solution Train Flow

106
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The ________________specifies the requirements for completeness of a work product or increment of value.

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Definition of Done

107
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________________empowers individuals and teams to make decisions based on their local knowledge and context.

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Decentralized Decision-Making

108
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________________is a mindset and practice that builds and executes tests before implementing the code for a component or system.

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Test-Driven Development (TDD)

109
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The ________________competency is a customer-centric approach to defining, building, and releasing products and services in a continuous flow of value to customers and end-users.

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Agile Product Delivery (APD)

110
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________________are certified change agents who combine their technical knowledge of SAFe with an intrinsic motivation to improve the company’s software, systems, and Agile business processes.

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SAFe Practice Consultants (SPCs)

111
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The ________________is a Kanban system that is used to capture and manage the features and enablers intended to enhance the solution and extend its architectural runway.

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ART Backlog

112
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________________is a measure of the proportion of work items by type in a system.

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Flow Distribution

113
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________________is an allocation of work by work item type for an upcoming planning period.

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Capacity Allocation

114
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A ________________is an internal or external organization that develops and delivers solution components, subsystems, or services to ARTs and development value streams.

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Supplier

115
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The ________________consists of an overview graphic and a 14-article series that describes a strategy and an ordered set of activities for successfully implementing SAFe.

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SAFe Implementation Roadmap

116
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An ________________is the sequence of activities needed to deliver a product or service to a customer.

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Operational Value Stream (OVS)

117
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The ________________is the proposed measurable business or customer benefit of an epic, capability, feature, or story.

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Benefit Hypothesis

118
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________________provide the information needed to ensure that a story, feature, or capability is implemented correctly and covers the relevant functionality and NFRs.

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Acceptance Criteria

119
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________________(SBD) is a Lean development practice that keeps requirements and design options flexible for as long as possible during the development process.

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Set-Based Design

120
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The ________________is the combination of beliefs, assumptions, attitudes, and actions of SAFe leaders and practitioners who embrace the concepts of Lean Thinking and the Agile Manifesto.

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Lean-Agile Mindset

121
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________________refers to the roles and practices required to collect, manage, normalize and deliver large datasets that help enterprises make more informed, fact-based decisions.

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Big Data

122
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The SAFe ________________is a servant leader and coach for an Agile team who facilitates team events and processes, and supports teams and ARTs in delivering value.

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Scrum Master/Team Coach (SM/TC)

123
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The ________________is an ART event used to gain visibility into the ART’s progress toward meeting its PI objectives and to make any necessary adjustments.

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Product Owner Sync / PO Sync

124
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________________is an aspect of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline in which new functionality is developed, tested, integrated, and validated in preparation for deployment and release.

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Continuous Integration (CI)

125
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The ________________is a servant leader and ART coach who facilitates ART events and processes, and supports teams in delivering value.

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Release Train Engineer (RTE)

126
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________________are organized groups of people with a common interest in a specific technical or business domain. They regularly collaborate to share information, improve their skills, and actively work on advancing their knowledge of the domain.

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Communities of Practice (CoPs)

127
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________________are those costs incurred by each value stream as it develops, supports, and operates the solutions that deliver current business capabilities.

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Baseline Solution Investments (BSIs)

128
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________________provides strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and Lean governance for one or more value streams.

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Portfolio SAFe

129
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The ________________is an Inspect and Adapt (I&A) event that provides a structured approach to identifying the root cause and actions to address systemic problems.

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Problem-Solving Workshop

130
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A ________________is a type of quality management system that applies Lean-Agile practices, policies, and procedures to confirm product quality, safety, and efficacy.

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Lean Quality Management System (Lean QMS)

131
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________________is a measure of how much work is pulled into the system during any given timebox.

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Batch Size

132
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The ________________provides stakeholders an integrated view of new features for the most recent iteration delivered by all the teams on the ART. Each ________________ provides an objective measure of progress and the opportunity to give feedback.

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System Demo

133
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________________is a collaborative process for allocating the portfolio budget to its value streams.

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Participatory Budgeting (PB)

134
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The ________________is responsible for defining and communicating a shared technical and architectural vision for the solutions developed by an ART.

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System Architect

135
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________________is the ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative, digitally-enabled business solutions.

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Business Agility

136
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________________is a SAFe Scrum event where all team members determine how much of the Team Backlog they can commit to delivering during an upcoming Iteration. The team summarizes this work as a set of committed iteration goals.

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Iteration Planning

137
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________________is a periodic activity teams use to define, discuss, estimate, and establish acceptance criteria for upcoming backlog items.

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Backlog Refinement

138
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________________is an activity used to identify the individual steps in a workflow and the delays between steps.

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Value Stream Mapping

139
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________________ apply Lean-Agile methods and SAFe principles to streamline business operations and create transparency in value delivery.

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Agile Business Function

140
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________________ are a standard, fixed-duration timebox during which Agile Teams and ARTs individually and collectively deliver incremental customer value while working towards the PI objectives.

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Iteration

141
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________________is an expression of the scientific method for creating a hypothesis, experimenting, and evaluating the results to navigate uncertainty and create new learning.

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Plan-Do-Check-Adjust (PDCA)

142
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The ________________is an ART event that combines the Product Owner (PO) Sync and Coach Sync.

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ART Sync

143
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________________determines the optimal batch size by finding the point where the total of transaction costs and holding costs is the lowest.

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U-curve Optimization

144
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________________is the ratio of the total time spent in value-added work activities divided by the total flow time.

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Flow Efficiency

145
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________________describes four organizational patterns that can be used for organizing Agile teams and ARTs.

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Team Topologies

146
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________________is an approach SAFe enterprises use to evaluate progress towards Business Agility and determine improvement actions.

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Measure and Grow

147
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A ________________is a type of SAFe portfolio that includes both development and operational value streams.

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Combined Portfolio

148
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________________is a PI Planning agenda item presented by a business owner that describes the current state of the business, shares the portfolio vision, and presents a perspective on how effectively existing solutions are addressing current customer needs.

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Business Context

149
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________________ are governance milestones based upon sequential, legacy approaches to measuring progress in solution development.

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Phase Gate

150
Q

________________is for enterprises building large and complex solutions that do not require portfolio concerns.

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Large Solution SAFe

151
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________________is a technique that is used to quickly compare the size and value of jobs in the system.

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Relative Estimation

152
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The ________________is a construct for aligning senior leadership in the form of Agile team that exhibits the mindset, values, principles, and practices of agility.

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Agile Executive Team

153
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A ________________makes deployed functionality available to end-users.

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Release

154
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The ________________is a unique, dedicated iteration that occurs every PI. It provides an estimating buffer for meeting PI Objectives and dedicated time for innovation, continuing education, PI Planning, and Inspect and Adapt (I&A) events.

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Innovation and Planning Iteration (IP)

155
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________________is a mindset that focuses on creating positive experiences for the customer through the full set of products and services that the enterprise offers.

A

Customer Centricity

156
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A ________________is a structured format for describing epics, their MVPs, and projected business value.

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Lean Business Case (LBC)

157
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________________refers to the strategy, activities, and artifacts that allow teams to apply Lean-Agile development methods to build systems that have the highest possible quality, while simultaneously ensuring they meet regulatory, industry, and other relevant standards.

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Compliance

158
Q

________________is a team-based approach to building better products by focusing less on theoretically ideal design and more on iterative learning, overall user experience, and customer outcomes.

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Lean User Experience (Lean UX)

159
Q

________________is a body of knowledge and a set of practices designed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of value delivery by reducing delays and eliminating non-value-added activities.

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Lean

160
Q

________________are representative characterizations of the people who use or could use the product.

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Personas

161
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The ________________competency describes how leaders drive and sustain organizational change and operational excellence by empowering individuals and teams to reach their highest potential.

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Lean-Agile Leadership (LAL)

162
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The ________________represents the workflows, activities, and automation needed to guide new functionality from ideation to an on-demand release of value.

A

Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CDP)

163
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The ________________is a description of the future state of the solution under development. It reflects customer and stakeholder needs and the features and capabilities proposed to meet those needs.

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Vision

164
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________________is a measure of the time elapsed from start to completion for a given work item.

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Flow Time

165
Q

________________describes the practices Solution Trains use to maintain the alignment and collaboration needed to continuously deliver value to large solution customers.

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Coordinate and Deliver

166
Q

________________is a holistic approach that incorporates all aspects of a system and its environment into its design, development, deployment, and maintenance.

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Systems Thinking

167
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________________identifies the critical aspects of the environment in which a solution operates.

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Solution Context

168
Q

________________describes how to manage dependencies between value streams and exploit the opportunities that exist in the interconnections.

A

Value Stream Coordination

169
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The ________________is a regular event where the team members discuss the results of the iteration, review their practices, and identify ways to improve.

A

Iteration Retrospective

170
Q

________________is the SAFe core value that encourages learning and growth through continuous reflection and improvement.

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Relentless Improvement

171
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________________are a high-level summary of the business and technical goals that an Agile Team agrees to accomplish in an Iteration.

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Iteration Goals

172
Q

________________ are the ultimate beneficiaries of the value of the solutions created and maintained by a portfolio’s value streams.

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Customer

173
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________________is a measure of how consistently teams, ARTs, and portfolios are able to meet their commitments.

A

Flow Predictability

174
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________________is a customer-centric development process that creates desirable products that are profitable and sustainable over their lifecycle.

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Design Thinking

175
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The ________________is responsible for defining and communicating a shared technical and architectural vision for a Solution Train to help ensure the solution under development will be fit for its intended purpose.

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Solution Architect

176
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The ________________consists of the existing code, components, and technical infrastructure needed to implement near-term features with minimal redesign and delay.

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Architectural Runway

177
Q

A ________________represents large solution functionality whose implementation often spans multiple ARTs and is sized to be delivered within a PI.

A

Capability

178
Q

The ________________is the seminal Agile document describing the four values and twelve principles of Agile software development.

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Agile Manifesto

179
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________________measures the number of completed work items over a time period.

A

Flow Velocity

180
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________________is a measure of the number of work items currently in progress (active or waiting).

A

Flow Load

181
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The ________________is a schedule of events and milestones that forecasts and communicates planned solution deliverables over a time horizon.

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Roadmap

182
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The ________________is a visual representation of the framework’s primary roles, activities, and artifacts.

A

SAFe Big Picture (BP)

183
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________________is a state that occurs when there is a smooth, linear, and fast movement of work product from step to step in a value stream.

A

Flow

184
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________________is an Agile method used by teams within an ART to continuously deliver value. SAFe Kanban teams apply a flow-based process to their daily work and operate within the ART iteration cadence.

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SAFe Team Kanban

185
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A ________________is an internal or external organization that develops and
The ________________is a short meeting (usually 15 minutes or less), typically held about daily, to inspect progress toward the team goals, communicate, and adjust upcoming planned work.

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Team Sync

186
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An ________________is a significant solution development initiative.

A

Epic

187
Q

The ________________is a visualization of the seven core competencies of Business Agility and the dimensions of each.

A

SAFe Overview

188
Q

A ________________is the sequence of activities needed to convert a business hypothesis into a digitally-enabled solution that delivers customer value.

A

Development Value Stream

189
Q

A ________________is a specific goal, event, or point in time used to evaluate progress toward a larger objective.

A

Milestone

190
Q

________________are processes used to assure a product, service, or system is designed in accordance with the solution intent and is fit for its intended purpose.

A

Verification and validation (V&V)

191
Q

________________is an aspect of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline that automates the migration of new functionality from a staging environment to production, where it is made available for release.

A

Continuous Deployment (CD)

192
Q

The ________________is a long-lived team of Agile teams that incrementally develops, delivers, and often operates one or more solutions in a development value stream.

A

Agile Release Train

193
Q

________________describes the patterns that may be applied to realize Business Agility by applying SAFe principles and practices across the enterprise.

A

Business and Technology

194
Q

________________represents the specialty roles, people, and services required for the success of an ART or Solution Train, but that are not dedicated full-time.

A

Shared Services

195
Q

________________is the activity of improving the internal structure or operation of a code or component without changing its external behavior.

A

Refactoring

196
Q

An ________________is a learning event that pulls various solution elements into an integrated whole that can be objectively evaluated for performance and fitness for use.

A

Integration Point

197
Q

________________is a leadership and technical discipline that enables the maximum flow of business value through the end-to-end solution delivery life cycle.

A

Value Stream Management (VSM)

198
Q

A ________________is a set of value streams that delivers a continuous flow of valuable solutions to customers within a common funding and governance model.

A

Portfolio

199
Q

The ________________competency describes a set of values and practices that encourage individuals—and the enterprise as a whole—to continually increase knowledge, competence, performance, and innovation.

A

Continuous Learning Culture (CLC)

200
Q

The ________________competency describes the critical skills, principles, and practices that high-performing Agile teams on an Agile Release Train use to create high-quality solutions for their customers.

A

Team and Technical Agility (TTA)

201
Q

To ________________is to migrate a change from a pre-production environment to a production or operational environment, where it may or may not be released to an end-user.

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Deploy

202
Q

The ________________competency describes how Lean-thinking people and Agile teams across the enterprise optimize their business processes, evolve strategy with clear and decisive new commitments, and quickly adapt the organization as needed to capitalize on new opportunities.

A

Organizational Agility (OA)

203
Q

________________are identified items that could impact the ability to meet the ART’s PI objectives.

A

ART PI Risks

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