SAFe 5.1 RTE Lesson 5 Flashcards
What are the core five ceremonies of an agile iteration?
- Iteration Planning,
- Daily Standup,
- Backlog Refinement,
- Iteration Demo,
- Iteration Retrospective
Are completed User Stories (PBIs) demonstrated at the Solution Demo?
No. Only completed Features are demonstrated.
Does the whole ART attend the Iteration Demo?
No. The ART attends the Solution Demo.
Who owns the Iteration Demo?
The Agile Team
What is the intended purpose of Iteration Goals?
Align the Agile Team to a common purpose.
ART metrics should track progress toward the achievement of what?
PI Objectives
ART metrics should track the completion of what?
PI Objectives
During PI Execution, the ART Program Board represents what?
The active (committed) PI Plan
The RTE uses what program visual for Scrum of Scrums?
Program Board
The RTE uses what program visual during ART Sync?
Program Board
What is program visual is used to forecast performance during PI Execution?
Burn Down / Burn Up chart
ART metrics focus on the flow of what scale of work items?
Features
What are the five core ceremonies at the ART level?
- PI Planning,
- Scrum of Scrums,
- Product Owner Sync,
- Solution/System Demo,
- Inspect & Adapt
The ART may opt to hold an ART sync. The ART sync is composed of what two ceremonies?
- Scrum of Scrums,
- Product Owner Sync
A Kanban board visualizes work as it flows through what?
defined workflow States (or Stages)
The boundary between workflow states on a Kanban board are defined by what?
Explicit Policies (Definition of Ready and Definition of Done)
WIP stands for what?
Work in Progress
WIP limits are determined by…
the throughput of the following downstream workflow state.
When should you apply a WIP limit to a workflow state?
When the workflow state begins to bottleneck flow.
What is another name for a Kanban policy?
Working agreement.
A Program level Kanban shows the flow of what?
Features
In Kanban, Lead Time refers to the measurement of what?
The time a work item spends in the system after it’s been pulled from the backlog and before it is accepted.
The last iteration of a PI is known as what?
The Innovation and Planning iteration.
IP stands for what?
Innovation and Planning
PI stands for what?
Program Increment
IA stands for what?
Inspect & Adapt
The IA workshop is the PI equivalent of what Agile Team ceremony?
Iteration Retrospective
Backlog Grooming is the ceremony where work items are refined. (True or False)
False. ‘Grooming’ is an illegal activity. Backlog Refinement is the correct ceremony.
The House of Lean has how many pillars?
Four (4)
What are the pillars in the House of Lean?
- Respect for People and Culture,
- Flow,
- Innovation,
- Relentless Improvement
The IA workshop comes after PI Planning in the IP iteration. (True or False)
False
What are the three parts of the IA workshop?
- Solution Demo,
- Quantitative and Qualitative Metrics Review,
- Problem Solving Workshop
What is the single most important metric for PI Execution?
Predictability Measure
The Predictability Measure conveys what information?
The empirical achievement of ART objectives.
What does the acronym C.A.L.M.R. stand for?
- Culture,
- Automation,
- Lean Flow,
- Measurement,
- Recovery
Which DevOps segment most often overlooked?
Recovery
Which SAFe group is responsible for the Continuous Exploration segment of the DevOps pipeline?
Product Management
What is the primary control for built in quality in the DevOps pipeline?
Definition of Done
