Sec 1 Thriving in the Digital Age with Business Agility

Question 1

Portfolio vs Large Solution vs Essential

Answer 1

Large solution = Microsoft Office, Essential = Word (still large, many teams)

Question 2

What is the goal of leading SAFe

Answer 2

Becoming a LEAN Agile leader, business agility and enterprise agility

Question 3

What is needed for business agility?

Answer 3

Dual Operating System: don’t trash what we know and have done in the past but add SAFe to it for Business Agility.

Question 4

Who is the creator of SAFe

Answer 4

Dean Leffingwell

Question 5

How many SAFe configurations are there?

Answer 5

Four: Full, Large solution, Portfolio and Essential

Question 6

What are the 7 core competencies of Business Agility?

Answer 6

COLLATE: Continuous Learning Culture, Organizational Agility, Lean-Portfolio Management, Lean Agile Leadership, Agile Product Delivery, Team and Technical Agility, Enterprise Solution Delivery

Question 7

Explain the competency: Team and Technical Agility.

Answer 7

Describes the teams using agile methodologies to build in quality as they develop to provide high quality solutions to their customers.

Question 8

Who are the members of an agile team?

Answer 8

Product Owner, Scrum Master, developers

Question 9

How do you “Build in Quality?”

Answer 9

Establish flow, pairing and peer review, collective ownership and standards, automation, definitions of done.

Question 10

What is the agile release train?

Answer 10

Teams of agile teams with a release train engineer.

Question 11

Explain the “Agile Product Delivery” Competency

Answer 11

Customer centric approach to defining, building, and releasing a continuous flow of valuable products and services to customers and users.

Question 12

How do you provide a continuous flow of valuable products?

Answer 12

Develop on Cadence, Release on demand. Using dev/ops continuous exploration, integration and deployment.

Question 13

Explain the “Enterprise Solution Delivery” competency of Business Agility.

Answer 13

Interdisciplinary teams work together to provide complex solutions. This competency describes how to apply Lean-Agile practices to specifications, development, deployment, operation and evolution of the world’s most sophisticated software applications, networks, and cyber-physical systems.

Question 14

Explain the “Lean Portfolio Management” competency of business agility.

Answer 14

Strategy and Investment Funding (all hands on deck from business owners, executives and architects); Lean governance; Agile Portfolio Operations (scrum master, release train engineer, community of practice)

Question 15

Explain the “Organizational Agility” competency of Business Agility.

Answer 15

Teams applying lean agile thinking to optimize business processes, evolve, adapt.

Question 16

Explain the “Continuous Leaning Culture” competency of business agility.

Answer 16

Learning Organization, Relentless Improvement: Plan, do, check, adjust cycle) aka Inspect and Adapt, innovation culture

Question 17

Explain the Lean-Agile Leadership competency of Business Agility.

Answer 17

Leaders promote change and excellence by empowering individuals and teams to reach their highest potential. Leading by example, leading change and having a growth mindset.

Question 18

How can you measure where you are and where you need to be in respect to business agility?

Answer 18

Use the Business Agility Assessment tool.

Question 19

What is meant by “Measure and Grow”

Answer 19

term we use to describe how SAFe value stream portfolios evaluate their progress towards business agility and determine the next improvement steps. It describes how to measure the current state of a portfolio and grow to improve overall business outcomes.

Question 20

How do you implement SAFe

Answer 20

There is a roadmap:4 stages with 12 key steps. Stage 1: building a guiding coalition; Stage 2: Designing the Implementation; Stage 3: Implementing ARTs, Solution Trains, and Lean Portfolio; Stage 4: Sustaining and Improving.

Question 21

What is business agility?

Answer 21

ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative, digitally-enabled business solutions.