SAFe PO/PM Flashcards
What is SAFe for lean enterprises?
A knowledge base of proven, integrated principles, practices, and competencies for achieving business agility by implementing lean, agile, and dev ops at scale.
What is a value stream?
Represents the series or steps an organization undertakes to deliver a product or service to a customer.
Contains the systems, the people who do the work, and the flow of information and materials.
What are the three building blocks of a value stream?
System, people who do the work, and the flow of information and materials.
What are the two value streams?
Operational and Development
What is an Operational Value Stream?
The sequence of activities needed to deliver a product or service to a customer.
Ex. manufacturing a product, fulfilling an ecommerce order, providing a loan
What are the benefits of an operational value stream?
Fewer handoffs and delays
Focus on value instead of tasks or tickets
Early feedback and better budgeting
What is a development value stream?
The sequence of actives needed to convert a business hypothesis into a technology enabled solution that delivers customer value?
What are the four steps of a development value stream?
Feature request > Define > Build > Test > Release
What is the relationship of operational value streams to development value streams?
one to many
Which value stream converts a business hypothesis into a technology enabled solution?
Development value stream
What is the kickoff of a development value stream?
Feature request
What is a solution?
A product, service, or system delivered to the customer - internal or external.
A ____ is a product service or system delivered to the customer whether internal or external, to the enterprise?
Solution
How many solutions does each development value stream produce?
One or more
______ enable operational value streams?
Solutions
Operational value streams for TTC include?
Truck program, van program, autonomous programs
What are the four pillars of the house of lean?
Respect for people and culture.
Flow
Innovation
Relentless Improvement
Agile Manifesto
Individuals and interactions over process and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
What is the primary measure of progress in the agile manifesto?
Working Software
SAFe Lean-Agile Principles
- Take an economic view
- apply systems thinking
- Assume variability
- Build incrementally with fast, integrated cycles
- Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems
- Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch size, and manage queue lengths
- Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning
- Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
- Decentralize decision making
- Organize around value
How many people in an agile team?
5-11
What does an agile team use for agility?
Scrum or Kanban
What is the goal of an agile team?
Deliver value every iteration
What is the basic building block of the SAFe enterprise?
Agile Team
What are the responsibilities of the Agile team?
- Create and refine stories and acceptance criteria
- Define, build, test, and deliver stories
- Develop and commit to team PI objectives and iteration plans
How many teams and individuals on an ART?
5 to 12 teams, 50 to 125 individuals
What is the goal of an ART?
Achieving continuous flow of value (long lasting)
When do POs coordinate dependencies?
PO Sync
What is the PI system demo a part of?
The IA workshop (Inspect and adapt)
___ is the process that deploys new functionality into production and releases it immediately or incrementally to customers based on demand?
Release on Demand
What are the four parts of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
Continuous Exploration
Continuous Integration
Continuous Deployment
Release on Demand
What are the four activities of release on demand?
Release
Stabilize and operation
Measure
Learn
_____ is the primary mechanism used to track and measure data usage against the hypothesis.
Application Telemetry
What ____ is a set of events that occur repeatedly on a predictable cadence?
Market Rhythm
What _____ is a one-time future event, which has a high probability of materially affecting one or more solutions?
A market Event
What three things should a PM do during pre PI planning?
Create/update Vision
Create/update Roadmap
Socialize to 10 features
How long is a PI?
8-12 weeks
A __________ is a timebox during an ART that delivers incremental value in the form of working, tested software and systems.
Program Increment
How long is a PI planning?
Two days in person, 4 days virtual
Who owns feature priorities during a PI?
Product Managers
What is one goal of the PI planning process?
Create PI Objectives
A _____ is a description of the future state of the product or solution.
Vision
What is included in the vision?
Where are we headed with the solution?
What problem do we solve?
What features and benefit hypothesis do we think it provides?
Who does it benefit?
What NFRs such as performance, reliability, platforms, does the solution deliver.
What type of themes influence the product/solution vision?
Strategic
What guides the train?
Vision
What evolves the vision?
Feedback
What roadmaps provides a multi-year view?
Solution Roadmaps
How many PIs in a PI roadmap?
1-3