Lesson 1: Thriving in the Digital Age with Business Agility

Question 1

What are the 5 Technological Revolutions?

Answer 1

Industrial Revolution
Age of Steam & Railways
Age of Steel & Heavy Engineering
Age of Oil & Mass Production
Age of Software & Digital

Question 2

What type of capital follows financial capital?

Answer 2

Production capital

Question 3

What are the 3 stages of a revolution?

Answer 3

Installation Period
Turning Point
Development Period

Question 4

Installation Period

Answer 4

New Technology and financial capital combine to create a “Cambrian explosion” of new entrants, disrupting the entire industries from the previous age.

Question 5

Turning Point

Answer 5

Existing business either master the new technology or decline and become relics of the last age.

Question 6

Deployment Period

Answer 6

Production capital of the new technological giants starts to take over

Question 7

What revolution stage are we currently in?

Answer 7

Turning Point

Question 8

What are the 2 things needed to create a dual operating system for Business Agility?

Answer 8

1. Efficiency and stability (Functional hierarchy)

2. Speed of Innovation (Value Stream Network)

Question 9

Business Agility

Answer 9

The entire organization (not just development) is engaged in continually and proactively delivering innovative business solutions faster than the competition.

Question 10

What does Business Agility require?

Answer 10

• Technical agility and a business-level commitment to product and Value Stream thinking.
• Everyone involved in delivering business solutions use Lean and Agile practices.

Question 11

SAFe for Lean Enterprises

Answer 11

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

Question 12

What are the SAFe business benefits?

Answer 12

• 30% Happier, more motivated employees
• 50% Faster Time-to-Market
• 35% Increase in Productivity
• 50% Defect Reduction

Question 13

What are the 4 SAFe configuations?

Answer 13

Full Configuration
Large Solution Configuration
Portfolio Configuration
Essential Configuration

Question 14

What are the 7 Core Competencies of Business Agility?

Answer 14

Enterprise Solution Delivery
Agile Product Delivery
Team and Technical Agility
Lean-Agile Leadership
Continuous Learning Culture
Organizational Agility
Lean Portfolio Management

Question 15

An organization’s ability to thrive in the digital age is

Answer 15

entirely dependent on the ability of its teams to deliver Solutions that reliably meet a customer’s needs.

Question 16

Team and Technical Agility Competency

Answer 16

Describes the critical skills and Lean-Agile principles and practices that high-performing Agile Teams and the teams of Agile Teams use to create high-quality solutions for their customers.

Question 17

What are the aspects of Built-In Quality?

Answer 17

Establish Flow
Pairing and Peer Review
Collective Ownership and Standards
Automation
Definition of Done

Question 18

In order to achieve Business Agility, Enterprises must

Answer 18

rapidly increase their ability to deliver innovative products and services.

Question 19

Agile Product Delivery is

Answer 19

A customer-centric approach to defining, building, and releasing a continuous flow of valuable products and services.

Question 20

Enterprise Solution Delivery

Answer 20

Describes how to apply Lean-Agile principles and practices to specification, development, deployment, operation, and evolution of the world’s largest and most-sophisticated software applications, networks, and cyber-physical systems.

Question 21

Lean Portfolio Management

Answer 21

Aligns strategy and execution by applying Lean-and systems- thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding Agile portfolio operations, and governance.

Question 22

Without Organizational Agility, Enterprises cannot

Answer 22

respond sufficiently to the challenges and opportunities that today’s rapidly changing markets present.

Question 23

Organizational Agility Competency

Answer 23

Describes how Lean-thinking people and Agile Teams optimize their business process, evolve strategy with clear and decisive new commitments, and quickly adapt the organization as needed to capitalize on new opportunities.

Question 24

Why Continuous Learning Culture?

Answer 24

Organizations must evolve into adaptive engines of change, powered by a culture of fast and effective learning at all levels.

Learning organizations leverage the collective knowledge, experience, and creativity of their workforce, customers, supply chain, and the broader ecosystem.

Question 25

Continuous Learning Culture Competency

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Lean-Agile Leadership Competency

Answer 26

Describes how Lean-Agile Leaders drive and sustain organizational change and operation excellence by empowering individuals and teams to reach their highest potential.

Question 27

Measure and Grow

Answer 27

Is the way portfolios evaluate their progress in Business Agility and determine their next improvement steps.