Preparing Architecture for PI Planning

Question 1

Which backlog contains Epics and Enablers?

A. Team Backlog
B. Program Backlog
C. Large Solution Backlog
D. Portfolio Backlog

Answer 1

D. Portfolio Backlog

Question 2

Which backlog contains Capabilities and Enablers?

A. Team Backlog
B. Program Backlog
C. Large Solution Backlog
D. Portfolio Backlog

Answer 2

C. Large Solution Backlog

Question 3

Which backlog contains Features and Enablers?

A. Team Backlog
B. Program Backlog
C. Large Solution Backlog
D. Portfolio Backlog

Answer 3

B. Program Backlog

Question 4

Which backlog contains Stories and Enablers?

A. Team Backlog
B. Program Backlog
C. Large Solution Backlog
D. Portfolio Backlog

Answer 4

A. Team Backlog

Question 5

What is a container for a Solution development initiative large enough to require analysis, the definition of a minimum viable product (MVP), and financial approval before implementation?

A. Epic
B. Capability
C. Feature
D. Story

Answer 5

A. Epic

Question 6

Because of Epics sizes and long delivery horizons they do not have concrete acceptance criteria or definitions of done (DoD). Instead they have what?

Answer 6

Benefits Hypothesis Statements

Question 7

What is a higher-level behavior of what needs to be done at the large-Solution level and typically spans multiple ARTs?

A. Epic
B. Capability
C. Feature
D. Story

Answer 7

B. Capability

Question 8

When splitting Capabilities into Features, slice the _____ not the _____?

A. Cost, Benefit
B. Benefit Hypothesis, Acceptance Criteria
C. Value, Work
D. Solution, Architecture

Answer 8

C. Value, Work

Question 9

What is a service that fulfills a stakeholder need, includes a benefit hypothesis and acceptance criteria, and typically delivered in a single PI?

A. Epic
B. Capability
C. Feature
D. Story

Answer 9

C. Feature

Question 10

Who often owns Enabler Features?

A. System Architect
B. Product Owner
C. Scrum Master
D. Release Train Engineer

Answer 10

A. System Architect

Question 11

What is the basic definition of a Feature?

A. A service that fulfills a stakeholder need
B. A Solution development initiative with considerable scope and impact
C. A small piece of functionality that benefits an end-user
D. Functionality required to extend the Architectural Runway

Answer 11

A. A service that fulfills a stakeholder need

Question 12

A System Architect is working with a new ART and has planned multiple Enabler Features that explore different approaches to a technical issue that is not fully understood. The Product Manager is concerned that the ART will be wasting capacity. How should the System Architect approach the situation?

A. Acknowledge the Product Manager’s concern and remove the enablers
B. Discuss with the Product Manager the need to assume variability and preserve options
C. Talk directly to the developers to make sure they perform the Enabler work
D. Refer the Product Manager to the Enterprise Architect

Answer 12

B. Discuss with the Product Manager the need to assume variability and preserve options

Question 13

What do Strategic Themes help identify from an architectural perspective?

A. ART configuration
B. Portfolio budgets
C. New Enabler Epics
D. New Value Streams

Answer 13

C. New Enabler Epics

Question 14

TRUE or FALSE: Architects assist in identifying measurable benefits and metrics.

Answer 14

TRUE

Question 15

What supports activities needed to extend the Architectural Runway and provide future business functionality?

A. MVPs
B. MMPs
C. Enablers
D. Backlogs

Answer 15

C. Enablers

Question 16

What are the 4 forms of enablers? (select 4)

A. Business
B. Infrastructure
C. Compliance
D. Integration
E. Architecture
F. Exploration

Answer 16

B. Infrastructure
C. Compliance
E. Architecture
F. Exploration

Question 17

What are Infrastructure Enablers?

A. Created to build, enhance, and automate the development, testing, and deployment environments
B. Support research, prototyping, and other activities needed to develop an understanding of customer needs including understanding the prospective Solution and potential alternatives
C. Created to build the Architectural Runway, proofs of concept
D. Facilitate managing specific regulatory activities, including Verification and Validation (V&V) documentation and signoffs, and regulatory submissions and approvals

Answer 17

A. Created to build, enhance, and automate the development, testing, and deployment environments

Question 18

What are Exploration Enablers?

A. Created to build, enhance, and automate the development, testing, and deployment environments
B. Support research, prototyping, and other activities needed to develop an understanding of customer needs including understanding the prospective Solution and potential alternatives
C. Created to build the Architectural Runway, proofs of concept
D. Facilitate managing specific regulatory activities, including Verification and Validation (V&V) documentation and signoffs, and regulatory submissions and approvals

Answer 18

B. Support research, prototyping, and other activities needed to develop an understanding of customer needs including understanding the prospective Solution and potential alternatives

Question 19

What are Architecture Enablers?

A. Created to build, enhance, and automate the development, testing, and deployment environments
B. Support research, prototyping, and other activities needed to develop an understanding of customer needs including understanding the prospective Solution and potential alternatives
C. Created to build the Architectural Runway, proofs of concept
D. Facilitate managing specific regulatory activities, including Verification and Validation (V&V) documentation and signoffs, and regulatory submissions and approvals

Answer 19

C. Created to build the Architectural Runway, proofs of concept

Question 20

What are Compliance Enablers?

A. Created to build, enhance, and automate the development, testing, and deployment environments
B. Support research, prototyping, and other activities needed to develop an understanding of customer needs including understanding the prospective Solution and potential alternatives
C. Created to build the Architectural Runway, proofs of concept
D. Facilitate managing specific regulatory activities, including Verification and Validation (V&V) documentation and signoffs, and regulatory submissions and approvals

Answer 20

D. Facilitate managing specific regulatory activities, including Verification and Validation (V&V) documentation and signoffs, and regulatory submissions and approvals

Question 21

Which type of Enabler supports research, prototyping, and other activities needed to develop an understanding of customer needs?

A. Compliance
B. Architecture
C. Exploration
D. Infrastructure

Answer 21

C. Exploration

Question 22

How is WSJF calculated?

A. Cost of delay multiplied by job size
B. Cost of delay divided by job size
C. Job size multiplied by cost of delay
D. Job size divided by cost of delay

Answer 22

B. Cost of delay divided by job size

Question 23

What are the 3 components of cost of delay? (choose 3)

A. User-business value
B. Return on investment
C. Time criticality
D. Risk reduction and/or opportunity enablement
E. Weighted shortest job first
F. Job size

Answer 23

A. User-business value
C. Time criticality
D. Risk reduction and/or opportunity enablement

Question 24

Who are the WSJF stakeholders?

A. Business Owners, Product Managers, Product Owners, and Architects
B. Agile Team
C. LPM, APM
D. LPM, APM, Architects

Answer 24

A. Business Owners, Product Managers, Product Owners, and Architects

Question 25

Architects work with Product Management to do which of the following?

A. Implement Enabler Epics across Value Streams
B. Sequencing of the critical technological infrastructure for new business functionality
C. Define and maintain NFRs
D. Identify emerging conflicts

Answer 25

C. Define and maintain NFRs

Question 26

Architects work with Product Owners to do which of the following?

A. Implement Enabler Epics across Value Streams
B. Sequencing of the critical technological infrastructure for new business functionality
C. Define and maintain NFRs
D. Identify emerging conflicts

Answer 26

B. Sequencing of the critical technological infrastructure for new business functionality

Question 27

Architects work with other architects to do which of the following?

A. Implement Enabler Epics across Value Streams
B. Sequencing of the critical technological infrastructure for new business functionality
C. Define and maintain NFRs
D. Identify emerging conflicts

Answer 27

A. Implement Enabler Epics across Value Streams

Question 28

Whose focus is on robust technology Solutions that meet near and long term goals?

A. Product and Solution Management
B. System and Solution Architect/Engineering
C. Portfolio Management
D. Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE)

Answer 28

B. System and Solution Architect/Engineering

Question 29

Whose focus is on the Capabilities and Features that our customers need?

A. Product and Solution Management
B. System and Solution Architect/Engineering
C. Portfolio Management
D. Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE)

Answer 29

A. Product and Solution Management

Question 30

Which of the following IS NOT a benefit of capacity allocation? (choose 2)

A. Creating balance between immediate and long-term value delivery
B. Allows Enterprise to continuously invest in the Architectural Runway
C. Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)
D. Enables working on a cadence
E. Provides time for exploration of requirements and design for future PIs

Answer 30

C. Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)
D. Enables working on a cadence

Question 31

What level does the Pre and Post PI Planning meetings happen at?

A. Team Level
B. Program Level
C. Solution Level
D. Portfolio Level

Answer 31

C. Solution Level

Question 32

What is the purpose/goal of pre-PI Planning?

A. to get alignment on Solution-level objectives and architectural themes that will influence PI Planning
B. to socialize the top 10 features with all members
C. to confirm WSJF backlog prioritization is agreed to
D. to review, recap, communicate, and provide feedback to the Solution Train

Answer 32

A. to get alignment on Solution-level objectives and architectural themes that will influence PI Planning

Question 33

What is the purpose/goal of post-PI Planning meeting?

A. to get alignment on Solution-level objectives and architectural themes that will influence PI Planning
B. to socialize the top 10 features with all members
C. to confirm WSJF backlog prioritization is agreed to
D. to review, recap, communicate, and provide feedback to the Solution Train

Answer 33

D. to review, recap, communicate, and provide feedback to the Solution Train

Question 34

TRUE or FALSE: The entire ARTs attend the Solution Train pre and post PI planning meetings.

Answer 34

FALSE

Typically the pre- and post-PI Planning meetings are attended by:

Customers
Solution Train Engineer
Solution Architects/Engineer
Solution Train stakeholders
Select ART representatives
Solution Management
Suppliers

Question 35

What is a benefit of capacity allocation?

A. It ensures that Architects are working from a prioritized backlog
B. It prioritizes technical debt reduction over business requests
C. It balances effort between business Feature development and Enabler development
D. It guarantees that there are enough people on the ART to deliver everything in the Program Backlog

Answer 35

C. It balances effort between business Feature development and Enabler development