SAFe Flashcards
- What must management do for a successful Agile transformation?
o Commit to quality and be the change agent in the system
- How does SAFe provide a second operating system that enables Business agility?
o By focusing on customers, products, innovation, and growth
- What is Business agility?
o The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business solutions
- What are the last three steps of the SAFe Implementation Roadmap?
o Launch more Agile Release Trains and Value Streams, extend to the portfolio, accelerate
- What can be used as a template for putting SAFe into practice with an organization?
o SAFe Implementation Roadmap
- Which of the core competencies of the Lean Enterprise helps align strategy and execution?
o keyThe Lean Portfolio Management
- What is the foundation of the SAFe House of Lean?
o Leadership
- The House of Lean is a classic metaphor describing the mindset essential for Lean thinking. Which one of the four pillars advocates a ‘Go See’ mindset?
o Innovation
- Which statement fits with the SAFe Core Value of Built-in Quality?
o You cannot scale crappy code
- Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?
o Respond to change
- Which statement is a principle of the Agile Manifesto?
o Simplicity-the art of maximizing the amount of work not done is essential
- When basing decisions on economics, how are lead time, product cost, value, and development expense used?
o To identify different parameters of the economic framework
- Which is an aspect of systems thinking?
o Optimizing a component does not optimize the system
- What are the three primary keys to implementing flow? (Choose three)
o Reduce the batch sizes of work, manage queue lengths, visualize and limit work in process (WIP)
- What is an example of applying cadence-based synchronization in SAFe?
o Teams align their Iterations to the same Schedule to support communication, coordination and system integration
- What is one benefit of unlocking the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers?
o To provide autonomy with purpose, mission and minimum constraints
- What is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision-making?
o Delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead time
- What is the basic building block when organizing around value?
o Agile Teams
- What is one issue when organizing around hierarchical functions?
o Cross-functional teams
- Product Management has content authority over the Program Backlog. What do Product Owners have content authority over?
o Team Backlog
- What is part of the role of Product Management?
o To prioritize the Program Backlog
- Who is responsible for the Solution Backlog?
o Solution Management
- Design thinking identifies at least four new ways to measure success.
Desirable, Feasible, Viable, Sustainable
- What is considered an anti-pattern when assigning business values to team PI Objectives?
o When teams focus on one iteration at a time, attempting to create a solid plan for iteration one, followed by a deep dive in iteration two
- What is the impact of Customer Centricity?
o Greater profits, increased employee engagement, and more satisfied customers
- Which statement describes aspects of the team’s commitment during PI Planning?
o A team does not commit to uncommitted objectives
- When is a pre-PI Planning event needed?
o to coordinate input objectives, Milestones, and business and solution context for the ART PI planning sessions
- What is found on a program board?
o Features
- Who has content authority to make decisions at the User Story level during Program increment (PI) Planning?
o Product Owner
- In the Program Kanban some steps have work in process (WIP) limits. Why is this necessary?
o To ensure large queues are not being built
- What is one of the Agile Release Train sync meetings?
o Scrum of scrums
- Which statement is true about the Innovation and Planning (IP) iteration?
o Without the IP Iteration. there is a risk that the “tyranny of the urgent” outweighs all innovation activities
- What is one component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
o Continuous Exploration
- Which statement is true about Devops?
o Devops is an approach to bridge the gap between development and operations
- lf a program repeatedly shows separate Feature branches rather than a true System Demo, which practice should be reviewed to address the issue?
o Continuous Integration
- What is the best measure of progress for complex system development?
o System Demo
- What can be used to map the current state of a portfolio?
o Portfolio Canvas
- Which statement accurately characterizes Strategic Themes?
o They are business objectives that connect the SAFe portfolio to the Enterprise business strategy
- What is a minimum viable product?
o Is a product that has been minimally developed but still meets the requirements of the market
o MVP is a product with just enough features to satisfy early users and to provide feedback for future product development
o A minimal product that can validate a hypothesis
- How is the flow of Portfolio Epics managed?
o In the Portfolio Kanban
- What is one Guardrail on Lean Budget spend?
o Continuous Business Owner engagement
- What is the last step in Kotter’s approach to change management?
o Anchor new approaches in the culture
- What can be used to script the change to SAFe?
o The Implementation Roadmap
- Which statement accurately characterizes Strategic Themes?
o They are business objectives that connect the SAFe portfolio to the Enterprise business strategy
- 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?
o Business priorities
- Which are two Scaled Agile Framework Core Values?
o Built-in Quality
o Alignment
- What are two benefits of the Scaled Agile Framework?
o SAFe scales to accommodate organizations with thousands of people.
o The Framework creates good code quality which is important because, “You can’t scale crappy code”
- Which Core Competency of Business Agility is a customer centric approach to building valuable products?
o Agile Product Delivery
- What is one of the ART events
o Product owner sync
- What is one way to describe a cross-functional agile team?
o They are optimized for communication and delivery of value.
- Restoring the speed and innovation of the entrepreneurial network while leveraging the stability of the hierarchical system is a benefit of what.
o Dual operating system
- What is one key to leading a successful change?
o Forming a strategic vision
- Which basic agile quality practice reduce bottlenecks and ensures consistency
o Collective ownership and standards
- What is one oft he agile release train events
o Product Owner Sync
- What is one oft he dimensions of lean agile leadership
o Mindeset an principles / Lead the change / Lead by example
- What represents the workflow, activities, and automation needed to deliver new functionality more frequently?
o Continiouse delivery pipeline
- What is one example of differentiating business objectives?
o Strategic Themes
- A confidence vote is taken at the end of a PI Planning after dependencies are resolved and risk are addressed. What best escribes the process of confidence vote?
o The teams and the ART vote
- What ese does the SAFe principle, unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers, require besides purpose and minimum possible constraints?
o Autonomy
- During the final plan review, ART PI risk are ROAM’ed. What do the letters in ROAM represent?
o Resolved, Owned, Accept, Mitigated
- How does SAFe describe Customer Centricity
o As a mindset focused on Customer behaviours that produce the best innovations
- Deploy, verify, monitor, and respond are all activities of what?
o Continiouse deployment
- What type of thinking allows the Customer to pull value from the producer
o Lean
- What is found on a ART Planning board
o Features
- What is one way to describe a cross-functional Agile Team?
o They are optimized for communication and delivery of value
- The analyzing step of the Portfolie Kanban system has a new Epic with a completed Lean business case. What best describes the next step for Epic
o It will be moved to the ready stare in the Portfolio Kanban if it receives a “go” decision form Lean Portfolio Management
- Which basic Agile quality practice reduces bottlenecks and ensures consistency
o Collective ownership and standards
- What is used to brainstorm potential future states
o SWOT and TOWS
- Which SAFe Core Value includes use “common language” and “understand your customer”
o Alignment
- What is one of the SAFe Core Value
o Transparency
- What are lean portfolio management, agile product delivery and lean-agile leadership?
o Steps in the business agility value streams (Antwort nicht klar)
o SAFe Core competencies
o Safe Lean Agile Principles
- Which lean budget Guardrail helps ensure the appropriate allocation of budget to balance near-term opportunities with long-term strategy and growth?
o Guiding investments by horizon
- During the PI Planning event, when are planning adjustments agreed upon?
o During the management review and problem-solving meeting
- What is an example of applying cadence and synchronization in SAFe
o Conducting a PI Planning event
- Why do business owner assign business value to team PI Objectives?
o To empower teams to make decisions
- What is one of the Agile Train events
o Product Owner Sync
- When basing decisions on economics, how are lead time product cost, value, and development expense used?
o To understand solution tradeoffs
- Which SAFe Lean-Agile Principle includes an emphasis on deliver early and often?
o Take an economic view
- What in one key to leading a successful change?
o Forming a strategic vision
- What is one dimension of lean-agile Leadership
o Mindset and principles
- What represents the workflow, activities, and automation needed to deliver new functionality more frequently?
o The continuous delivery pipeline
- How does SAFe recommend using a second operating system to deliver value?
o Organize development around the flow of value while maintaining the hierarchies
- The primary goal of SAFe is to achieve what?
o Business Agility
- A SAFe Portfolio is a collection of what
o Development Value Streams
- Which team type is organized to assist other teams with specialized capabilities and help them become more proficient in new technologies?
o Enabling team
- Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto
o Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Who decides the Team PI Objective Business Value scoring after negotiation?
o Business Owner
- What is the focus of Lean Thinking?
o Reducing delays
- What is one way Lean-Agile leader lead by example?
o By modelling SAFe-s lean Agile Mindset, value, principles and practices
- What method provides a continuous understanding of the target market?
o Design thinking
- Which SAFE Lean-Agile Principle includes the critical part of “delaying decisions to the last responsible moment”?
o Assume variability: Preserve options
- Restoring the speed and innovation of the entrepreneurial network while leveraging the stability of the hierarchical system is a benefit of what?
o Dual operating system
- What triggers the need for value streams
o Feature request
- Which statement is true about batch size?
o Large batch size increase Variability
- Who is responsible for managing the Portfolio Kanban
o Lean Portfolio Management
- Which statement applies to uncommitted objectives?
o They are counted when calculating load
- What is one of the tools associated with design thinking
o Empathy maps
- User business value and time criticality are components of what?
o Cost of delay
- Which implementation step follows coach ART Execution on the SAFe Implementation Roadmap?
o Launch more ARTs and Value Streams
- What is “precisely specific value by product” central to?
o Lean Thinking
- Which type of decision should remain centralized even in a decentralized decision making environment?
o Decisions that deliver large and broad economic benefits
- What is one issue when organizing around hierarchical functions?
o lt is not how value flows
