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……. IS a set of decision guidelines that align everyone with the financial objectives of a Portfolio and inform the continuous decision-making process.

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Economic Framework

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What are the components of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

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Continuous Exploration
Continuous Integration
Continuous Deployment

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What is the recommended frequency for updating Lean budget distribution?

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On demand

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What are the aspects of system thinking?

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The solution itself is a system
The enterprise building the system is a system too
Optimizing a component does not optimize the system

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What is considered an anti-pattern when assigning business values to Team PI Objectives?

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Giving all objectives the same business value.

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Who has content authority to make decisions at the user story level during PI Planning?

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Product Owner

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What is an example of applying cadence-based synchronization in SAFe?

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teams align their iterations to the same schedule to support communication, coordination, and system integration

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When does a Roadmap become a queue?

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When it is fully committed

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The House of Lean is a classic metaphor describing the mindset essential for Lean thinking. Which one of the four pillars advocates a “Get out of the office” mindset?

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Innovation

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What is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision-making?

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Delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead time

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It acts as an estimating buffer for meeting PI Objectives and provides dedicated time for innovation, continuing education, PI Planning, and Inspect and Adapt (I&A) events.

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Innovation and planning Iteration

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The Agile Release Train uses which type of teams to get work done?

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Cross-functional teams

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When is a Pre-PI Planning event needed?

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When multiple Agile Release Trains working on the same Solution need to align and coordinate

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Who is responsible for the Solution Backlog?

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Solution Management

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How do you unlock the intrinsic motivation of Knowledge workers or your experts (4 things)?

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How do you motivate your team

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  1. Leverage the systems view
  2. Understand the role of compensation
  3. Provide autonomy with Purpose, Mission
  4. Create an environment of mutual influence.
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What are the advantages of built-in quality …..

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Which statement fits with the SAFe Core Value of Built-in Quality?

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  1. Higher customer satisfaction
  2. Improved velocity and delivery predictability
  3. Better system performance
  4. Improved ability to innovate, scale, and meet compliance requirements

You cannot scale crappy code

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Product Management has content authority over the Program Backlog. What do Product Owners have content authority over?

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Team backlog

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What is DevOps?

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DevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between development and operations

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What is Devops 2 ?

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DevOps is a mindset, a culture, and a set of technical practices. It provides communication, integration, automation, and close cooperation among all the people needed to plan, develop, test, deploy, release, and maintain a Solution

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What must management do for a successful Agile transformation?

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Commit to quality and be the change agent in the system

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On day two of PI Planning, management presents adjustments based on the previous day’s management review and problem solving meeting. What is one possible type of adjustment they could make?

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Business priorities

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Who prioritizes the program backlog

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product management

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What can be used to map the current state of a portfolio?

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Portfolio CANVAS

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What are the 4 guardrails on Lean budget spend?

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Guiding investment by Horizon
Applying capacity allocation
Approving significant initiatives
Continuous business owner engagement

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4 Agile manifestos...
Individuals and interaction over process and tools Working Software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan
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What is a valid reason for moving a PI objective to stretch?
The team has no more time in the capacity but the objective has high business value
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Which practice helps with a test-first mentality?
Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
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What is the foundation of the SAFe House of Lean?
Leadership
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What is a Strategic Themes?
They are business objectives that connect the SAFe Portfolio to the Enterprise business strategy
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What is SAFe's release strategy?
release on demand
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Name 4 advantages when you continuously deploy using a DevOps model?
Deploy more frequently Deploy faster experience fewer failures, and recover from incidents faster than low-performing teams. It lessens the severity and frequency of release failures
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Which statement is a principle of the Agile manifesto?
Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential
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How are stories estimated in SAFe?
Story points
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What is one of the Agile Release Train sync meetings?
Scrum of Scrums
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Who facilitates the Scrum of Scrum?
Release train Engineer
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What is the recommended way to express a Feature?
Phrase, benefit hypothesis, and acceptance criteria
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What can be used as a template for putting SAFe into practice within an organization?
SAFe Implementation Roadmap
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How is the flow of Portfolio Epics managed?
In the Portfolio Kanban
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What are the last three steps of the SAFe Implementation Roadmap?
Launch more Agile Release Trains and Value Streams Extend to the portfolio Sustain and improve ????? ---Accelerate ---- ???
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What are the three primary keys to implementing flow?
1) Reduce the batch sizes of work 2) Visualize and limit WIP 3) Manage queue lengths
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In the Program Kanban some steps have Work-in-Process limits. Why is this necessary?
To ensure large queues are not being built
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Which statement describes aspects of the team's commitment during PI Planning?
A team does not commit to stretch objectives
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What are the 8 steps in Kotter's approach?
Establishing a sense of urgency Creating the guiding coalition Developing a vision and strategy Communicating the change vision Empowering employees for broad-based action Generating short-term wins Consolidating gains and producing more change Anchoring new approaches in the culture
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Which core competency of the Lean Enterprise helps drive built-in quality practices?
Team and Technical Agility
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What is a Minimal Viable Product?
MINIMAL VERSION OF A NEW PRODUCT USED TO TEST A HYPOTHESIS
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What is the best measure of progress for complex system development?
System Demo
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Scrum is built on transperency, inspection and what else?
Adaption
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During which event are Team PI Objectives agreed upon?
PI Planning
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Which Role serves as the Servant Leader for the Agile Release Train?
Release Train Engineer (RTE)
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Optimizing Flow means identifying and reducing what?
Delays
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Which statement is true about Program Events?
Team events run inside the Program Events and the Program Events create a closed-loop system
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How can trust be gained between the business and development teams?
Deliver predictability
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When are the planning adjustments communicated back to the Agile Release Train after the Management Review?
At the beginning of PI Planning day 2
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Why do Business Owners assign business value to the Teams' PI Objectives?
To provide the teams with guidance of value to the business communicates the strategy and context behind these weighting decisions
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What is this statement defining: "A series of activities that have proven to be effective in successfully implementing SAFe"?
SAFe Implementation Roadmap
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What are two ways to describe a cross-functional Agile team?
They are optimized for communication and delivery of valueThey can define, build, and test a feature or component
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What are two items that appear on the program board?
features | Significant dependencies
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Why is it important to decouple deployment from release?
To enable deploying upon demand
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What are the top two reasons for adopting Agile in an organization?
1. deliver value in the shortest sustainable lead time, 2. to evolve and implement new strategies quickly, and 3. to reorganize to better address emerging opportunities. Enable changing priorities / accelerate product delivery ??
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If small batches go through the system faster with lower variability, then which statement is true about batch size?
Severe project slippage is the most likely result of large batches
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The analyzing step of the Portfolio Kanban system has a new Epic with a completed Lean business case. What best describes the next step for the Epic?
It will be moved to the Portfolio Backlog if it receives a "Go" decision from Lean Portfolio Management
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At the end of PI Planning, after dependencies are resolved and risks are addressed, a confidence vote is taken. What is the default method used to vote?
Fist of Five
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Weighted Shortest Job First(WSJF) gives preference to jobs with which two characteristics?
Shorter duration | Higher Cost of Delay
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Which three types of decisions should remain centralized even in a decentralized decision-making environment?
Long lasting decisions Infrequent decisions Decisions with significant economies of scale
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Which SAFe Principle includes providing autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints?
Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
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SAFe's first Lean-Agile Principle includes "Deliver early and often" and what else?
Deliver value incrementally
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A team has just adopted the SAFe Implementation Roadmap and is in the process of training executives, managers, and leaders. What is their next step?
Identify Value Streams and Agile Release Trains
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Strategic Themes are different business objectives which help guide Solutions. Where are Strategic Themes found in the SAFe Big Picture?
Portfolio Level
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When should new approaches be anchored in an organization's culture?
Culture change comes last as a result of changing work habits
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What is an attribute of an application built with DevOps in mind?
It ensures continuous integration with manual deployment
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When would Large solution SAFe be needed?
Whenever there are more than two Agile Teams
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what are the Scaled Agile Framwork core values?
Alignment Built in Quality Transparency Program Execution
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Which statement is true about Lean Portfolio Management and Budgeting?
LPM empowers stakeholders to adapt the current backlog and roadmap context
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What is the primary focus of Lean Portfolio Management?
Align Lean-Agile development with business strategy
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Who is responsible for managing the portfolio Kanban?
Lean Portfolio Management
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If a program repeatedly shows separate feature branches rather than a true system demo which practice should be reviewed to address the issue?
Continuous Integration
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What is the roof of the SAFe house of Lean
Value
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What are two problems that can be understood from the program board?
1. A significant dependency leading to a feature | 2. Too much work in process in one iteration
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what do the three continuous cycles on the continuous delivery pipeline enable?
Ongoing implementation
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What is an example of cross functional iterations
Define Build Test
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What is another name for technical or functional spikes neede to uncover knoledge or risk in the next PI?
Exploration enablers
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Which leadership skills helps create a safe environment for learning, growth, and mutual influence?
Leader as a developer of people
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Why does SAFe extend the Agile manifesto foundation to the level of teams of teams?
By applying Lean thinking to understand and improve the systems that support the team
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What is the benefit of enhancing Enterprise agility?
It allows for a faster response to changing market opportunities
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Which statement is true about solution context when defining large solutions?
It defines the environment in which the solution operates
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What is ROAM
Resolved, Owned, Accepted, Mitigated.
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What is the meaning of shift left?
A test-first approach collapses the traditional “V-Model” by shifting left EARLY QUALITY / IMPROVE QUALITY
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Who Facilitates Solution train events?
Solution Train Engineer STE
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represents the customer’s overall needs across ARTs, as well as communicating the portfolio’s Strategic Themes.
Solution management
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Facilitate the ART events
RTE - Release train engineer
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NAME AT LEAST 4 SAFE PRINCIPLES
``` take an economic view apply systems thinking assume variability, build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles base milestones on an objective evaluation of working systems Visualize and limit WIP apply cadance, sync with cross-domain unlock motivation of knowledge workers decentralize decision-making ```
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NAME AT LEAST 4 OF THE 12 PRINCIPLES OF AGILE MANIFESTO
1. Satisfy customer 2. Welcome changes 3. Deliver SW frequently 4. Business and engineering working together 5. build around motivated individuals 6. face to face always better 7. working SW is the primary measure of progress 8. simplicity- the art of maximizing the amount of work not done 9. the best emerges from self-organizing teams 10. @ regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective.
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4 Economic trade-Offs (Part of Principle #1 Take an economic view)
VALUE RISK PRODUCT COST LEAD TIME DEVELOPMENT EXPENSE.
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Why WSJF?
The sequence of jobs for maximum benefit.
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What are the 4 things that STRATEGIC THEMES affect
Portfolio Vision Value stream Budgets and Guardrails, Portfolio Kanban and Portfolio Backlog Vision Large Solution, ART, and Team backlogs
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This individual supports the activities needed to extend the Architectural Runway to provide future business functionality.
Enablers.
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What type of enabler? These are created to build, enhance, and automate the development, testing, and deployment environments. They facilitate faster development, higher-quality testing, and a faster Continuous Delivery Pipeline. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Exploration 2. Architectural 3. Infrastructure 4. Compliance
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What type of enabler These are created to build the Architectural Runway, which allows smoother and faster development. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Exploration 2. Architectural 3. Infrastructure 4. Compliance
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What type of enabler These support research, prototyping, and other activities needed to develop an understanding of customer needs, including the exploration of prospective Solutions and evaluating alternatives. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Exploration 2. Architectural 3. Infrastructure 4. Compliance
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What type of enabler These facilitate managing specific compliance activities, including Verification and Validation (V&V), documentation and signoffs, and regulatory submissions and approvals. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Exploration 2. Architectural 3. Infrastructure 4. Compliance
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