SA - SAFe Agilist Flashcards

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Core Competencies of Business Agility

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  1. Team and Technical Agility (TTA)
  2. Agile Product Delivery (APD)
  3. Enterprise Solution Delivery (ESD)
  4. Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)
  5. Lean-Agile Leadership (LAL)
  6. Organizational Agility (OA)
  7. Continuous Learning Culture (CLC)
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Team and Technical Agility (TTA) is a …

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Core Competency of Business Agility

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Agile Product Delivery (APD) is a …

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Core Competency of Business Agility

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Enterprise Solution Delivery (ESD) is a …

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Core Competency of Business Agility

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Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) is a …

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Core Competency of Business Agility

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Lean-Agile Leadership (LAL) is a …

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Core Competency of Business Agility

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Organizational Agility (OA) is a …

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Core Competency of Business Agility

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Continuous Learning Culture (CLC) is a …

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Core Competency of Business Agility

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Organizational Agility (OA) is comprised of …

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  1. Lean-Thnking People and Agile Teams
  2. Lean Business Operations
  3. Strategy Agility
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Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) is comprised of …

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  1. Strategy and Investment Funding
  2. Agile Portfolio Operations
  3. Lean Governance
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Enterprise Solution Delivery (ESD) is comprised of …

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  1. Lean Systems and Solution Engineering
  2. Coordinating Trains and Suppliers
  3. Continually Evolve Live Systems
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Agile Product Delivery (APD) is comprised of …

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  1. Customer Centricity and Design Thinking
  2. Develop on Cadence, Release on Demand
  3. DevOps and the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
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Team and Technical Agility (TTA) is comprised of …

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  1. Agile Teams
  2. Built-In Qualiity
  3. Team of Agile Teams
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Continuous Learning Culture (CLC) is comprised of …

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  1. Learning Organization
  2. Relentless Improvement
  3. Innovation Culture
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Lean-Agile Leadership is comprised of …

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  1. Mindset and Principles
  2. Leading by Example
  3. Leading Change
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WSJF = (formula)

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Cost of Delay / Job Duration (Size)

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Cost of Delay = (fomula)

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User-Business Value + Time Criticality + Risk Reduction or Opportunity Enablement Value

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Little’s Law = (formula)

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W_q = L_q / Lamda
Wait time = Average queue length / average processing rate

The longer the queue, the higher the wait time, and the higher the variability
“Long queues are all bad”

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The Agile Manifesto is …

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  1. Responding to change over following a plan
  2. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
    3.Working software over comprehensive documentation
    4.Customer collaboration over following a plan
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CALMR is …

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An approach to DevOps:

Culture
Automation
Lean Flow
Measurement
Recovery

21
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SAFe portfolio is …

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a collection of development Value Streams

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A Value Stream builds, supports, and maintains …

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Solutions

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Agile Portfolio Operations is …

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coordinate and support decentralized program execution

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Agile portfolio operations tasks include …

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  1. Coordinate Value Streams
  2. Support Program Execution
  3. Foster Operational Excellence
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Agile portfolio operations is the responsibility of …

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  1. Agile Program Management Office / Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (APMO/LACE)
  2. Release Train Engineers (RTE) Community of Practice (CoP)
  3. Scrum Master Community of Practice (CoP)
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Lean Governance is performed by …

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  1. Enterprise Architect
  2. Business Owners
  3. APMO
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Lean Governance tasks include …

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  1. Forecast and budget dynamically
  2. Measure portfolio performance
  3. Coordinate continuous compliance
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The SAFe Core Values are …

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  1. Alignment; enables
    a. Empowerment
    b. Autonomy
    c. Decentralized Decision-making
  2. Built-In Quality
    a. Quality can’t be inspected in
  3. Transparency
  4. Program Execution
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Draw SAFe House of Lean icon (roof, pillars, foundation)

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Roof: Delivering Value
Pillars: Respect for people and culture, flow, innovation, relentless improvement
Foundation: Lean Leadership

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Draw SAFe House of Lean icon (roof, pillars, foundation)

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Roof: Delivering Value
Pillars: Respect for people and culture, flow, innovation, relentless improvement
Foundation: Lean Leadership

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The Lean-Agile Principles are …

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  1. Take an economic view
  2. Apply systems thinking
  3. Assume variability; preserve options
  4. Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
  5. Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems
  6. Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths
  7. Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning
  8. Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
  9. Decentralize decision-making
  10. Organize around value
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IA stands for …

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Inspect & Adapt, a workshop that functions like an introspective for an ART

32
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“Advancing and applying Lean-Agile skills that drive and sustain organizational change by empowering individuals and teams to reach their highest potential” is …

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Lean-Agile Leadership, one of the seven Business Agility Core Competencies

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“Driving team Agile behaviors as well as sound technical practices, including Built-in Quality, Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Agile testing, Test-Driven Development (TDD) and more” is …

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Team and Technical Agility, one of the seven Business Agility Core Competencies

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“Building high-performing teams-of-Agile-teams (ARTs) that use design thinking and customer-centricity to provide a continuous flow of valuable products using DevOps, the Continuous Delivery Pipeline, and Release on Demand” is …

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Agile Product Delivery, one of the seven Business Agility Core Competencies

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“Building and sustaining the world’s most significant software applications, networks, and cyber-physical solutions” is …

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Enterprise Solution Delivery, one of the seven Business Agility Core Competencies

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“Executing portfolio vision and strategy formulation, chartering portfolios, creating the Vision, Lean budgets, and Guardrails, as well as portfolio prioritization, and road mapping” is …

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Lean Portfolio Management, one of the seven Business Agility Core Competencies

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“Aligning strategy and execution by applying Lean and systems thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance” is …

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Organizational Agility, one of the seven Business Agility Core Competencies

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“Continually increasing knowledge, competence, and performance by becoming a learning organization committed to relentless improvement and innovation” is …

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Continuous Learning Culture, one of the seven Business Agility Core Competencies

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The three dimensions of a Lean-Agile Leader are …

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  1. Mindset and Principles (Fixed Mindset vs Growth Mindset)
  2. Leading by Example (Authenticity, Emotional Intelligence, Livelong Learning, Growing Others, Decentralized Decision-Making)
  3. Leading Change (Change Vision, Change Leadership, Coalition for Change, Psychological Safety, Training)
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SAFe is grounded on four bodies of knowledge …

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  1. Lean
  2. Agile
  3. Systems Thinking
  4. DevOps
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An ART is …

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a cross-functional, cross-discipline teams-of-teams of up to 150 people.

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The three types of ARTs are …

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  1. Stream-aligned ART
  2. Platform ART
  3. Complicated Subsystem ART
43
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Agile teams are organized around the types of value …

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  1. Stream-aligned
  2. Platform
  3. Complicated Subsystem
  4. Enabling
44
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Alignment (SAFe Core Value #1) starts with strategy and investment decisions at the _____ level

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Portfolio

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Alignment (SAFe Core Value #1) is reflected in …

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  1. Strategic Themes
  2. Portfolio Vision
  3. Portfolio Backlog
  4. Outcomes of Participatory Budgeting