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Applying systems thinking means identifying the systems in the process which includes the solution itself
... [Show More] and what else? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---The enterprise building the system
The Agile Release Train passes through four steps in order to deliver Solutions which includes: defining new functionality, implementing, acceptance testing, and what else? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Deploying
In the Program Kanban some steps have Work-in-Process limits. Why is this necessary? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---To help continuous deployment and increase flow
Innovation and Planning Iteration - CORRRECT ANSWER ---occurs every PI and serves multiple purposes. Acts as an estimating buffer for meeting PI objectives, provides dedicated time for innovation, continuing education, PI Planning and Inspect and Adapt events
Portfolio Kanban - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Manages the flow of Epics
What components are used to base a decision on economics? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Lead time, product cost, value, development expense and risk
What is a Feature? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---A service that fulfills a stakeholder need. Each feature includes a benefit hypothesis and acceptance criteria, and is sized or split as necessary to be delivered by a single Agile Release Train (ART) in a Program Increment (PI)
What is found on a program board? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---This highlights the new feature delivery dates, feature dependencies among teams and with other ARTs, and relevant Milestones
What are the five primary dimensions of Built-in Quality? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Flow, Architecture & Design Quality, Code Quality, System Quality, Release Quality
Who has content authority to make decisions at the user story level during PI Planning? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Product Owner
What is SAFe's release strategy? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Release on demand
What is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision-making? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead time
How is the flow of Portfolio Epics managed? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---The Portfolio Kanban system is used to address the flow of Portfolio Epics
Which statement describes a Capability? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---It must be structured to fit within a single Program Increment (often takes multiple ARTs to implement)
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/features-and-capabilities/
What is the recommended frequency for updating Lean budget distribution? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---On demand (fund Value Streams, not projects)
ROAM - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Resolved, Owned, Accepted, Mitigated
House of Lean- Respect for People and Culture - CORRRECT ANSWER ---People do the work, customer is whoever consumes your work
-don't overload them
-don't make them wait
Build long-term partnerships based on trust
Cultural change comes LAST, not first
To change the culture, you have to change the organization
Describe DevOps - CORRRECT ANSWER ---- DevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between development and operations
- DevOps is a mindset, a culture, and a set of technical practices. It provides communication, integration, automation, and close cooperation among all the people needed to plan, develop, test, deploy, release, and maintain a Solution
Product Management has content authority over the Program Backlog. What do Product Owners have content authority over? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Team Backlog
Agile Manifesto - CORRRECT ANSWER ---
When is a Pre-PI Planning event needed? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---When multiple Agile Release Trains working on the same Solution need to align and coordinate
The Agile Release Train uses which type of teams to get work done? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Cross-functional teams
What is considered an anti-pattern when assigning business values to Team PI Objectives? - CORRRECT ANSWER ----Business Owners assign high values to important enabler work
- A value of 10 given to all of the PI Objectives
- Business Owners assigning the business value
- Assigning business values to stretch objectives
Agile Manifesto - CORRRECT ANSWER ----Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
-Working Software over documentation
-Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
-Responding to change over following a plan
Which statement accurately characterizes Strategic Themes? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---They are business objectives that connect the SAFe Portfolio to the Enterprise business strategy
What is a Minimal Viable Product? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---A minimal product that can validate a hypothesis
What is one of the Agile Release Train sync meetings? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Scrum of Scrums 6-8
What is an example of applying cadence-based synchronization in SAFe? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Teams align their iterations to the same schedule to support communication, coordination, and system integration 3-44
What is the best measure of progress for complex system development? - CORRRECT ANSWER ----System Demo
Refined Backlog
ROAMing Risks
Iteration Review
What is one benefit of unlocking the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---To provide autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/unlock-the-intrinsic-motivation-of-knowledge-workers/
What must management do for a successful Agile transformation? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Strive to think of adoption as an area they can control
Change Scrum Masters in the team every two weeks - NO
Send someone to represent management, and then delegate tasks to these individuals - NO
-Commit to quality and be the change agent in the system
What should the team focus on in order to optimize flow? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Delays 3-14
Peter Drucker defines knowledge workers as individuals who know more about the work they perform than who? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Their bosses
What is the recommended way to estimate Epics? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Split an Epic into potential Features, estimate each potential Feature in normalized story points, and add up the estimates 8-31
When does a Roadmap become a queue? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---When it is longer than one Program Increment 6-15
Which statement describes aspects of the team's commitment during PI Planning? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---A team does not commit to stretch objectives 5-8
Implementing SAFe requires buy-in from all levels of the organization. What level of leadership is most important for effecting cultural change? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Executive Management 2-10
What can be used as a template for putting SAFe into practice within an organization? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---SAFe Implementation Roadmap 1-29
What is the foundation of the SAFe House of Lean? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Leadership 2-10
The House of Lean is a classic metaphor describing the mindset essential for Lean thinking. Which one of the four pillars advocates a "Get out of the office" mindset? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Innovation 2-8
What is the best measure of progress for complex system development? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---To identify different parameters of the economic framework
Better answer - Local integration points - https://www.scaledagileframework.com/build-incrementally-with-fast-integrated-learning-cycles/
SAFe Core Values - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Built-in Quality
Program Execution
Alignment
Transparency
PDCA - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Plan
Do
Check
Adjust
Agile Teams - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Cross Functional, Self Organizing; Can define, build, testing valuable things
Delivers value every two weeks
Agile Teams Power the Train
4 Types of Safe - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Essential- Program & Team
Portfolio SAFe- Portfolio, Program & Team
Large Solution- Large Solution, Program & Team
Full- Portfolio, Large Solution, Program & Team
SAFe House of Lean - CORRRECT ANSWER ---
House of Lean- Value - CORRRECT ANSWER ---achieve the sustainably shortest lead time with:
-Best quality and value to people and society
-High morale, safety and customer delight
House of Lean- Respect for People and Culture - CORRRECT ANSWER ---People do the work, customer is whoever consumes your work
-don't overload them
-don't make them wait
Build long-term partnerships based on trus
Cultural change comes LAST, not first
To change the culture, you have to change the orgnaization
House of Lean- Flow - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Optimize continuous and sustainable throughput of value
Build quality in; flow depends on it
Understand, exploit, and manage variability
Informed decision-making via fast feedback
What is an example of applying cadence-based synchronization in SAFe? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Teams align their iterations to the same schedule to support communication, coordination, and system integration
House of Lean- Relentless Improvement - CORRRECT ANSWER ---A constant sense of danger
Optimize the whole
Consider Facts carefully, then act quickly
"Those who adapt fastest; win"
House of Lean- Leadership - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Lead the change
Emphasize life-long learning
Develop People
Decentralize decision-making
Agile Manifesto - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Value:
-Individuals and interactions
-Working Software over documentation
-Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
-Responding to change over following a plan
Agile Principles - CORRRECT ANSWER ---
SAFe Lean-Agile Principles - CORRRECT ANSWER ---1. Take an economic view
2. Apply systems thinking
3. Assume variability; preserve options
4. Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
5. Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems
6. Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes and manage queue lengths
7. Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning
8. Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
9. Decentralize decision-making
Definition of Agile Teams - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Cross Functional, Self Organizing; Can define, build, testing valuable things
Delivers value every two weeks
Agile Teams Power the Train
2 Principle- Apply systems thinking - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Optimizing the component does not optimize the system
A system can evolve no faster than its slowest integration point
Focus on the Delays: most problems surface as delays; reducing delays is the fastest way to reduce time to market
3 Principle- Assume variability; preserve options - CORRRECT ANSWER ---requirements must be flexible to make economic design choices
designs must be flexible to support changing requirements
preservation of options improves economic results
4 Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Fast feedback accelerates knowledge
Reduce the cost of risk-taking by truncating unsuccessful paths quickly
5 Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Program increment (PI) demos are orchestrated to deliver objective progress, product, and process metrics
Objective milestones facilitate learning and allow for continuous, cost-effective adjustments towards an optimum solution
6 Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths - CORRRECT ANSWER ---reduced batch sizes:
-Increases predictability
-accelerates feedback
-reduces rework
-lowers cost
The most important batch is the handoff batch
Long queues are bad - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Long queues create:
-longer cycle times
-increase risk
-more variability
-lower quality
-less motivation
7 Apply cadence and synchronization - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Cadence-makes waiting times predictable, supports regular planning and cross-functional coordination, limits batch sizes to single interval
Synchronization- facilitates cross-functional tradeoffs, provides routine dependency management
Cadence based planning limits variability to a single interval
Main Responsibilities of a Scrum Master - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Coaches the agile team, facilitates team meetings,
removes impediments, protects the team from outside influence
Product Owner - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Defines and accepts stories
Acts as customer for developers
Works with product management to plan PIs
Prioritizes team backlog
Development Team - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Creates refines and builds user stories and acceptance criteria
Develop and commit to Team PI Objectives and iteration plans
3-9 People
PI Planning - CORRRECT ANSWER ----two days every 8-12 weeks (10 weeks typical)
-Input= Vision and Top 10 Features
-Output= Team and Program PI objectives and program board
Stretch Objectives - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Stretch Objectives do count in velocity/capacity
However, are not included in commitment
Features and Stories - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Features decompose into stories by the teams on the train
Enabler Stories - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Exploration
Architecture
Infrastructure
Compliance
Story Points - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Singular number represents:
-Volume
-Complexity
-Knowledge
-Uncertainty
Story points are relative
Defined by the team using estimating poker
ROAMing Risks - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Resolved
Owned
Accepted
Mitigated
Why are Long queues considered bad? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Long queues create:
-longer cycle times
-increase risk
-more variability
-lower quality
-less motivation
Job Sequencing - CORRRECT ANSWER ---is the key to economic outcomes
Need to know two things:
-Cost of Delay
-Cost to implement the valuable thing
*Give preferences to jobs with the Shorter Duration and Higher COD
Implementing SAFe requires buy-in from all levels of the organization. What level of leadership is most important for effecting cultural change? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Executive Management
Weighted Shortest Job First - CORRRECT ANSWER ---COD/Job Size
Architectural Runway - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Existing code, hardware components, etc that enable near-term business features
DevOps - CORRRECT ANSWER ---An agile approach to bridge the gap between development and operations to deliver value faster and more reliably
-a capability of every Agile Release Train
- Value only occurs when end users are operating the solution
CALMR approach to DevOps - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Culture
Automation
Lean Flow
Measurement
Recovery
Release on Demand - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Decouple deployment from relase
4 Dimensions of Transformational leader - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Vision
Authenticity
Growth
Innovation
Value Streams - CORRRECT ANSWER ----sequence of steps used to deliver value to the customer
Fund value streams not budgets
Epics - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Enterprise initiatives so substantial they warrant analysis, understanding ROI, business case and approval
-Cuts across value streams
-EPICS then Features, then Stories
Estimated by splitting into potential features, then normalizing Story points and adding them up
Lean Startup Cycle - CORRRECT ANSWER ---EPIC> Build MVP> Evaluate MVP> Stop Work
Safe Implementation Roadmap - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Can be used as a template for putting SAFe into practice within an organization pg 15
Capabilities - CORRRECT ANSWER ---a high-level solutions behavior that typically spans multiple ARTs. They are sized and split into multiple features to facilitate their implementation in a single PI
Portfolio Kanban - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Manages the flow of Epics
Solution Management - CORRRECT ANSWER ---authority for the solutions Backlog.
What does project Management have authority over? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Program Backlog
Characteristics of an Effective Agile Team - CORRRECT ANSWER ---1. Displays the enterprise competency of Team and Technical Agility
2. Able to reliably deliver
3. Members are not afraid to challenge each other's ideas for the ultimate win
4. Makes process visible to themselves and to their stakeholders
5. Collaborates to achieve Iteration Goals and PI objectives
6. Produces consistent, high-quality increments of value
7. Sustains a predictable pace of development
Core Values of SAFe Agile Framework - CORRRECT ANSWER ---1. Built-in Quality
2. Program Execution
3. Alignment
4. Transparency
What are the four configurations of SAFe? - CORRRECT ANSWER ---1. Full
2. Large Solution
3. Portfolio
4. Essential
BVIR - CORRRECT ANSWER ---Big Visible Information Radiator
Program vs Solution Backlog - CORRRECT ANSWER ---The Program Backlog is the holding area for upcoming Features, which are intended to address user needs and deliver business benefits for a single Agile Release Train (ART).
The Solution Backlog is the holding area for upcoming Capabilities and Enablers, each of which can span multiple ARTs and is intended to advance the Solution and build its architectural runway.
Describe DevOps - CORRRECT ANSWER ---- DevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between development and operations
- DevOps is a mindset, a culture, and a set of technical practices. It provides communication, integration, automation, and close cooperation among all the people needed to plan, develop, test, deploy, release, and maintain a Solution [Show Less]