Introducting SAFe - Core Competencies - APD and TTA Flashcards

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Choose one

Mention the 7 SAFe Core Competencies

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  1. Lean-Agile Leadership
  2. Team and Technical Agility
  3. Agile Product Delivery
  4. Enterprise Solutions Delivery
  5. Lean Portfolio Management
  6. Organizational Agility
  7. Continuous Learning Culture
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Which core competency is regarded as the real cornerstone of Business Agility?

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Team and Technical Agility

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What are the three dimensions of Team and Technical Agility?

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  1. Agile Teams
  2. Teams of Agile Teams
  3. Built-in Quality
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The three dimensions of Agile Product Delivery

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  1. Customer-Centricity and Design Thinking
  2. Develop on cadence, Release on demand
  3. DevOps and Continuous Delivery Pipeline
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What is Customer Centricity

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Customer-centricity is a mindset and a way of doing business that focuses on creating positive user experiences and customer engagement with the organization’s products and services.

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Customer-centricity encourages Agile teams to do 5 things:

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  1. Focus on the customer
  2. Understand the customer’s needs
  3. Think and feel like the customer
  4. Build whole product solutions
  5. Create customer lifetime value
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Define Design Thinking

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Design Thinking is an iterative development process that ensures solutions are desired by customers and users while also ensuring the solution is feasible, economically viable, and sustainable throughout its lifecycle.

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Two main activities of Design Thinking

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  1. Understand the problem
  2. Design the right solution
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Two sub-activities of the Design Thinking Problem Space

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  1. Discover
  2. Define
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Two sub-activities of the Design Thinking Solution (Design) Space

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  1. Develop
  2. Deliver
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One reason to develop on cadence

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To manage the inherent variability in product development

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Two sets of activities that support cadence

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  1. ART Events
  2. Agile Team Events
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Who determines when a release should happen?

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The Product Management in collaboration with stakeholders

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Four activities of Release on Demand

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  1. Release
  2. Stabilize and Operate
  3. Measure
  4. Learn
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Which Agile Product Delivery dimension lays the foundation for releasing value?

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DevOps and Continuous Delivery Pipeline

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What is the goal of CALMR?

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CALMR is a DevOps mindset that guides the ART toward achieving continuous value delivery by enhancing Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement and Recovery