Lesson 12 : Enhancing the portfolio (6-7 questions) Flashcards
What are the five SAFe Principles that particularly influence large solutions builder’s adoption of Enterprise Solution Delivery (ESD) practices?
Principle #3, Assume variability; preserve options addresses the inherent uncertainty in large solution development and encourages practitioners to keep options open by applying Set-Based Design and a fixed-variable Solution Intent.
Principle #4, Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles recognizes that new knowledge reduces uncertainty instead of highly-detailed plans and specifications. Quickly building, integrating, and, when possible, deploying new system functionality provides the technical, user, and operational feedback needed to learn and adjust.
Principle #5, Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems encourages solution builders to evaluate progress based on objective, demonstrable evidence rather than proxies like traditional phase-gate milestones.
Principle #9, Decentralize decision-making reduces the delays inherent in escalating decisions that can dramatically slow productivity and decision quality at large scale, leading to delayed feedback and limiting innovation.
Principle #10, Organize around value reduces the functional silos that encourage large work batches, handoffs, and delays and creates optimal Agile Teams and Development Value Streams that can deliver value faster, more predictably, and with higher quality.
Enterprise Solution Delivery (ESD) is one of the seven core competencies for Business Agility,
What are the 3 dimensions associated with Enterprise Solution Delivery (ESD)?
- Lean System Engineering
- Coordinating Trains and Suppliers
- Continually Evolving Live Systems
The ESD competency describes ten best practices for applying Lean-Agile development to build and advance some of the world’s most important solutions.
Considering one of the dimension of ESD, Lean System Engineering what are some of the practices associated with this dimension?
1) Specify the solution incrementally
2) Apply multiple planning horizons
3) Design for change
4) Frequently integrate the end-to-end solution
5) Continously address compliance concerns
The ESD competency describes ten best practices for applying Lean-Agile development to build and advance some of the world’s most important solutions.
Considering one of the dimensions of ESD, Coordinating Trains and Suppliers what are some of the practices associated with this dimension?
1) Use solutioin trains to build large solutions
2) Manage the supply chain
The ESD competency describes ten best practices for applying Lean-Agile development to build and advance some of the world’s most important solutions.
Considering one of the dimension of ESD, Continually Evolving Live Systems what are some of the practices associated with this dimension?
1) Build an end-to-end Continuous Delivery Pipeline
2) Evolve deployed systems
3) Activley manage AI/machine learning systems.
What is a ‘solution intent’ and how is it used?
Solution intent communicates the solution’s current requirements and design decisions.
Solution intent is a critical knowledge repository to store, manage, and communicate ‘what is being built’ and, where necessary, ‘how it will be built.’ It serves many purposes:
- Provides a single source of truth regarding the intended and actual behavior of the solution
- Records and communicates requirements, design, and system architecture decisions
- Facilitates further exploration and analysis activities
- Aligns the Customer, Agile Teams, and Suppliers to a common mission and purpose -Supports Compliance and contractual obligations
By managing and communicating a more flexible approach to the system’s current and intended structure and behavior, the Solution Intent aligns all solution builders to a shared direction
What is a ‘solution context’ and how is it different from a ‘solution intent’?
Solution intent is a repository that communicates the solution’s current requirements and design decisions.
Solution Context, defines the system’s deployment, environmental, and operational constraints. Solution Context identifies the critical aspects of the environment in which a solution operates.
Together, they align teams and provide the necessary information for compliance. Teams use the Solution Intent to drive their backlogs and localized decision-making
A multi-year solution roadmap of milestones and < blank > informs the PI Roadmaps that decompose nearer-term entities into < blank > and < blank >.
A multi-year solution roadmap of milestones and Epics informs the PI Roadmaps that decompose nearer-term entities into Capabilities and Features
The SAFe Solution Train is led by what 3 agile roles?
Solution Train Engineer
Solution Architect
Solution Management
In SAFe, solutions deliver the Portfolio’s value. What are the four fundamental properties assoicated with a solution?
Hint: When I build a solution I want the solution to be… DFVS
In SAFe, the term ‘solution’ is intentionally general, defined as a:
- product
- system, or
- service that provides value to internal or external customers.
Desirable – Do customers and users want the solution?
Feasible – Can we deliver the right solution through a combination of build, buy, partner, or acquire endeavors?
Viable– Is the way we build and offer the solution creating more value than cost?
Sustainable – Are we proactively managing our solution to account for its expected product-market lifecycle?
Design thinking represents a profoundly different approach to product and solution development, in which divergent and convergent techniques are applied to understand a problem, design a solution, and deliver that solution to the market. What are the two diamond shaped themes associated with system thinking that produce a solution?
Understand the Problem
- discover (diverge)
- define (converge)
Design the Right Solution
- develop (diverge)
- deliver (converge)
What are the dimensions and associated activities for Lean Portfolio Management?
Strategy & Investment Funding – ensures the entire portfolio is aligned and funded to create and maintain the solutions needed to meet business targets.
Agile Portfolio Operations – coordinates and supports decentralized ART execution and operational excellence.
Lean Governance – provides oversight and decision-making of spending, audit, compliance, forecasting expenses, and performance measurement.
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Strategic and investment funding
- connect the porfolio flow to the enterprise strategy
- maintain a porfolio vision
- realize portfolio vision through Epics
- establish lean budgets and guardrails
- establish portfolio flow
Agile Portfolio operations
- Coordinate value streams
- Support ART execution
- Foster operational excellence
Lean governance
- Forecast and budget dynamically
- Measure portfolio performance
- Coordinate continous compliance
The LPM function relies on three significant events. What are they and how often do they occur?
Strategic portfolio Review (every 3 months)
Portfolio Sync (6 months)
Participatory Budgeting (6 months)
Providing a continuous strategy, implementation and budget alignment is part of what LPN Event?
a) Participatory budgetting
b) Portfolio Sync
c) Lean Governance
d) Strategic Portfolio Review
d) Strategic Portfolio Review
The Strategic Portfolio Review:
* Focused on achieving and advancing the portfolio Vision
* Provides continuous strategy, implementation, and budget alignment
* Typically held once a PI, at least one month before the next PI
Provides visibility into how well the portfolio
is progressing toward meeting its objectives is part of what LPN Event?
a) Participatory budgetting
b) Portfolio Sync
c) Lean Governance
d) Strategic Portfolio Review
b) Portfolio Sync
Focused on portfolio operations:
* Provides visibility into how well the portfolio
is progressing toward meeting its objectives
* Typically held monthly and may be replaced on a given month with the strategic portfolio review.
