SAFe 5 Flashcards
How does SAFe recommend using a second operating system to deliver Value?
Organize the Enterprise around the flow of value while maintaining the hierarchies
Who is responsible for managing the Portfolio Kanban?
Lean Portfolio Management
What are the top two reasons for adopting Agile in an organization?
- Enable changing priorities
- Accelerate product delivery
Which team type is “organized to assist other teams with specialized capabilities and help them become more proficient in new technologies?
Enabling teams
The program board shows which two items
Significant Dependencies
Features
Capacity Load and load
Which statement is true when continuously deploying a DevOps model?
a. It alleviates the reliance on the skill sets of Agile Teams
b. Int ensures that changes deployed to production are always immediately available to end-users
c. It increases the transaction cost.
d. It lessons the severity and frequency of release failures.
Answer is B:
It ensures that changes deployed to production are always immediately available to end-users.
According to SAFe principle 10# what should the Enterprise do when markets and customers demand change?
Reorganize the network around the new value flow
How can trust be gained between the business and development?
Deliver predictability.
Which pillar in the House of Lean focuses on the Customer being the consumer of the work?
Respect for People and Culture
Batch size - true or false
Large batch sizes limit the ability to preserve options.
True
Why do Business Owners assign business value to team PI Objectives?
To provide guidance on the business value of the team objectives
Why is it important to decouple deployment from release?
To enable releasing functionality on demand to meet business needs.
What is one component of a Guardrail in Lean Portfolio Management?
Capacity allocation of the Value Stream compared to process mapping.
During the final plan review, Program Risks are addressed using ROAM. What do the letters in ROAM mean?
Resolved, Owned, Approved, Mitigated
Which two types of decisions should remain centralized even in decentralized decision-making?
Decisions unlikely to change in the short term.
Decisions that deliver large and broad economic benefits
What is one example of differentiating business objectives?
Strategic Themes
Which pathway would a LACE use on the Agile growth lifecycle?
The SAFe Implementation Roadmap
When should new approaches be anchored in an organization’s culture?
Culture change comes last as a result of changing work habits.
An Enterprise 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 to start alignment of the organization.
How does SAFe describe Customer Centricity?
As a mindset focused on Customer behaviours that produce the best innovations.
Who decides the Team PI Objectives Business Value Scoring after negotiation?
Business Owner
What is one of the tools associated with Design Thinking?
Empathy Maps
Which Role serves as the Servant Leader for the Agile Release Train?
Release Train Engineer
During PI Planning event, when are planning adjustment agreed upon?
During the management review and problem-solving
What does the Continuous Delivery Pipeline enable?
Ongoing Learning
What are the four SAFe Core Values?
Alignment
Transparency
Respect for People
Relentless Improvement
Optimizing flow means identifying what?
Delays
Which core competency of the LEAN Enterprise helps drive Built-in Quality practices?
Team and Technical Agility
Is this statement true or false about ART events?
Team events run inside the ART events, and the ART events create a closed-loop system.
True
What is one way Lean Agile Leaders lead by example?
By modeling SAFe’s Lean-Agile Mindset, values principles, and practices.
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?
A single vote by every person for the train
Purpose of DevOps - Is this statement True?
DevOps joins development and operations to enable continuous delivery.
True
What is the goal of the House of Lean?
Value with the shortest sustainable lead time
