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Question 1

What is the role of PO?

Answer 1

Define product and ensure customer vision.
- What to build next?

Question 2

What do team members do?

Answer 2

Make the best product possible.
- How to do it best?

Question 3

What about scrum master role?

Answer 3

Facilitate communication & methodology.
- How to do it in time?

Question 4

What does the manager do?

Answer 4

Support team members & teams’ growth and development.
What does the individuals & teams need?
He has nothing to do with the delivery of the product.

Question 5

What are ART?

Answer 5

Agile Release Trains: are cross-functional, cross-component, business and technology teams of Agile teams organized around value steams.

Question 6

What does the RTE do in ART?

Answer 6

Promotes collaboration and improves efficiency + risk mngt.

Question 7

What does PM do?

Answer 7

Ensure customer vision, priorities + backlog.

Question 8

What about SA?

Answer 8

Respect solution constraints and guardrails.

Question 9

What are the official SAFe ceremonies at the team level?

Answer 9

Daily Standup - Iteration review 3w (present status of activities) - Backlog Refinement: every week when necessary - Iteration Retro (bilan : what happened and what to add every end of iter) - Iteration Planning.

Question 10

What are the official SAFe ceremonies at the train level?

Answer 10

ART Sync (Scrum of scrums: reunion of all SMs+ PO sync:etat lieux backlog) weekly meeting in all iterations- System demo (after iteration that were done in teams aux stakeholders & train & amigos) - PI planning prepa - inspect & adapt (once per pi/ volontariat: what was wrong, non functional comm in teams..etc)- PI planning 3m. for 2w

Question 11

What are train level sessions?

Answer 11

Management review meeting - Business Owner tour - Draft and Final Plan review.

Question 12

What are the 3 levels of backlog?

Answer 12

Portfolio Backlog - Product Backlog - Team Backlog.

Question 13

What is the difference between Epics, Features and Stories.

Answer 13

Epics: items delivered by 1+ trains in more than one Program Increment PI. (has hypothesis, and defines minimum, viable product which is simplest thing that can possibly prove the hypothesis)
Features: Items delivered by 1 train in 1 PI.
Stories: items delivered by 1 team in 1 iteration (sprint).
Enablers: non-functional deliveries (every level).

Question 14

What is the content of a Feature?

Answer 14

title, description, benefit hypothesis (what will it bring to customer/time contraints/deadlines..reduce risk/create new opportunities? useful for WSJF prioritization), acceptance criteria (not dod)

Question 15

What is the feature workflow?

Answer 15

Funnel > Analyzing > Backlog > Implementing > In test > Deployment (not activated) > Releasing > Done.

Question 16

What is a SAFe porfolio?

Answer 16

It’s a collection of dev value streams.
Each value stream builds, supports and maintains solutions.
Solutions are delivered to the customer, whether internal or external to the enterprise.

Question 17

What’s the goal of LPM?

Answer 17

Lean Portfolio Mngt has 3 principles in a nutshell: focus on less things and do them faster + better prioritization by limiting resources with limited ideas + incorporate flow by removing impediments for work to flow E2E.

Question 18

What work unit is used to manage at LPM level that can span across multiple Program Increments?

Answer 18

Epics.
> Customer facing.
> They enable solutions to address business needs.
> Developed and analyzed in the kanban systems.

Question 19

What are responsibilities of BO? and EO?

Answer 19

BO: participate in ongoing agreements to maintaing business and dev alignment + address impediments. provide guidance about porfolio and prioritize epics.

EO: Define epics, MVP and lean business case + collaborate in splitting epic into features.. help PM/SA prioiritize features in backlogs…