SAFe for Teams - 4

What are the 4 major values of SAFe?. Alignment- Continual improvement depends on staying current with change and competition. Built-In Quality- Consistent testing and analysis based on consumer feedback to guarantee high-quality products and services. Transparency- The two main forces behind an organisation's excellence are trust and transparency. Program Execution- For improved business results, the working system must be the primary focus.

Which statement is true about work in process (WIP) limits?. Higher WIP limits provide richer feedback. Lower WIP limits result in fewer Stories being completed. Higher WIP limits result in lower utilization. Lower WIP limits improve flow.

Why do Lean-Agile leaders try to connect the silos of business, system engineering, hardware, software, test, and quality assurance?. To optimize vertical communication. To enforce organizational boundaries between functions. To align around value. To allow friction between the teams.

What is the goal of the SAFe House of Lean model?. Innovation. Flow. Relentless Improvement. Value.

Which statement is true about the PI Planning event?. It involves program Portfolio Management to prioritize the Stories presented by teams during the final plan review. It involves Product Management and Product Owners on the first day and the rest of the teams on the second day. It involves everyone in the program over a two-day period. It involves only the team members who are most qualified to estimate the work.

Which activity is key to successfully implementing the Scaled Agile Framework?. Remove blocks such as portfolio estimation. Use a cadence-based PI Planning process. Replace the PI Planning process with the Inspect and Adapt workshop when possible. Use the Innovation and Planning Iteration instead of the PI Planning process.

What is the benefit of separating release elements from the Solution?. It allows Agile Teams to launch untested Features. It allows the Systems Team to integrate with ease. It allows the release of different Solution elements at different times. It allows the Agile Release Train to demo value every two weeks.

An Agile Team collects the Iteration Metrics they have agreed upon during which part of the team retrospective?. During the quantitative part of the team retrospective. During the time and materials retrospective. During the Features agreement retrospective. During the qualitative part of the team retrospective.

Which factor helps unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers?. Team performance incentives. Parallel development. Pay-for-performance. Autonomy.

How does relentless improvement support value in the SAFe House of Lean?. It optimizes the whole. It builds long-term partnerships based on trust. It uses informed decision-making through fast feedback. It allows teams to pivot without mercy or guilt.

Which two statements describe the responsibilities of the Product Owner? (Choose two.). To protect the team from external forces. To be a single voice for the Customer and stakeholders. To ensure the team follows Agile principles and practices. To own and manage the Team Backlog. To coach the team.

What are two reasons Agile development is more beneficial than waterfall development? (Choose two.). It allows management to track project progress based on steering committees and metrics. It allows businesses to deliver value to the market more quickly. It relies on external provider dependencies. It increases productivity and employee engagement. It requires phase-gate approvals to ensure that everyone is moving together.

What is critical to successfully implementing quality in a Lean-Agile environment?. Separation of Dev and Ops. Making quality everyone’s responsibility. Component teams. A phased-gate rollout.

What is one of the typical Kanban classes of service for Agile teams?. Funnel. Fixed-date. Accepted. Review.

Which statement describes a cadence-based PI Planning event?. It is very important and should be postponed until all participants can attend. It is an all-hands, two-day event with the goal to create alignment. As many team members as possible should attend remotely to reduce travel costs. It is not a required event but tasks move forward at higher velocity when the meeting occurs.

What is typically included in the definition of done for the team increment?. Customer documentation is ready. Stories are accepted by Product Management. Regression testing is done. Stories are accepted by the Product Owner.

Why is the modified Fibonacci sequence used when estimating?. It serves as a way to estimate large ranges. It can be used to predict unit test coverage. It reflects the uncertainty in estimating larger items. It results in greater precision.

What are the three levels of the Scaled Agile Framework?. Essential, Large Solution, Portfolio. Framework, Delivery, Iteration. Epic, Capability, Feature. Value Stream, Program, Team.

What is the role of the Scrum Master?. To coordinate Portfolio Epics through the Portfolio Kanban system. To be a stakeholder who has the primary business and technical responsibility for fitness for use. To facilitate Agile Release Train processes and Solution Train execution. To act as a servant leader who helps teams self-organize, self-manage, and deliver using effective Agile practices.

James is a Product Owner. It is day seven of the Iteration and his team tells him that they may miss their Iteration commitment. What should James do?. Support adding an Innovation and Planning Iteration directly after the current Iteration. Support splitting a Story into a coding story and a testing story, and then moving the testing story into the next Iteration. Ensure the Iteration backlog is accurately prioritized. Agree to add a person from the System Team to complete the work.

Which responsibility belongs to the Product Owner in the team?. To facilitate team meetings and drive Agile behavior. To foster normalized estimating within the team. To foster adoption of Agile technical practices. To sequence backlog items to program priorities, events, and dependencies.

What are the SAFe Core Values?. Built-in Quality, Program Execution, Alignment, Transparency. Commitment, Competency, Collocation, Culture. Code Quality, Fast Feedback, Alignment, Trust. People and Culture, Transparency, Collaboration, Responding to Change.

Which practices are demonstrated during the Inspect and Adapt event?. Forward focus, develop, cross-domain plan, and expedite execution. Move forward, analyze future Stories, integrate, and iterate. Reflect, problem solve, and identify improvement actions. New start, job sequence, funnel, and enable.

What replaces detailed requirements documents?. Stories. Unit tests. Pair work. Task boards.

Iteration planning, Iteration review, and backlog refinement are examples of which type of event?. Program event. Team event. PI event. Sync event.

Quality is first and foremost a function of what in a Lean-Agile concept?. Culture of shared responsibility. Empowered Solution authority. Preserving options. Deployment on demand.

Which three questions should each team member answer during the daily stand-up? (Choose three.). Are there any impediments that will prevent the team from meeting the Iteration goals?. How am I splitting the Solutions into Capabilities and Enablers?. How I am contributing to an environment of continuous change?. What did I do yesterday to advance the Iteration goals?. What will I do today to advance the Iteration goals?.

What is the recommended size of an Agile Team?. 10 – 15 people. 3 – 5 people. 8 – 12 people. 5 – 11 people.

The "3 Cs" is a popular guideline for writing user stories. What does each of the three Cs represent? (Choose three.). Card. Conversation. Confirmation. Clarification. Concept.

What is the role of the System Architect/Engineer?. To guide the teams and support the Architectural Runway. To define the design for the system. To manage dependencies. To implement continuous improvement methods.

If the PI System Demo shows the current state of the Solution, then who is this demo intended for?. The Business Owners. The Scrum Masters. The Product Owner. The Agile Team.

Which two views does the Iteration review provide into the program? (Choose two.). How the team is responding to the stakeholders. How the team is demonstrating transparency of decision-making. How the team did on the Iteration. How the team is doing on the Program Increment. How the team is increasing empowerment.

What is an example of a program event?. Innovation and Planning. Iteration review. Daily stand-up. Scrum of scrums.

During Iteration execution, a team’s velocity tends to be most affected by what?. Productivity changes, team location, and innovation measures. Changing financial planners, a new Scrum Master, and new testers. Changing team size, team makeup, and technical context. Product Owner changes, changing estimations, and new Features.

What is an example of a modified Fibonacci sequence?. ...1, 1, 3, 5, 5... ..5, 8, 13, 21, 34... ... 2, 4, 5, 9, 11... ..5, 8, 13, 20, 40...

Which statement describes one element of the CALMR approach to DevOps?. Id cross-functional Agile Release Trains around the flow of value to the Customer. Keep everything under version control. Decentralize decision making. Establish a work environment of shared responsibility.

Which statement is true about Iteration planning for Kanban teams?. Kanban teams estimate their velocity. Kanban teams do not commit to service level agreements. Kanban teams publish Iteration goals. Kanban teams find high value in trying to plan the Iteration in detail.

What visibility should Scrum Masters provide during the Agile Release Train Sync?. Visibility into system Solution Intent. Visibility into progress and impediments. Visibility into collaboration deployment. Visibility into single source design decisions.

The Agile Release Train aligns teams to a common mission using a single Vision and what else?. Release on Demand. Program Backlog. Weighted shortest job first. Team Backlogs.

How can a technical exploration Enabler be demonstrated?. Exploration Enablers do not need to be demonstrated. Demonstrate working systems in the production environment. Show the knowledge gained by the exploration. Show the acceptance tests written for the exploration.

What is the role of the Release Train Engineer?. To serve as the Scrum Master for the Agile Release Train. To serve as the content authority at the Program Level. To ensure the technical integrity of all development in the Agile Release Train. To coach teams to improve their results.

What is the purpose of the Iteration review?. To measure the team’s progress by showing working Stories to the stakeholders and getting feedback from them. To identify where there is too much work in the system and where the teams are being overloaded. To serve as a forecasting meeting where the work is estimated for the Program Increments. To show the backlog items and work on possible Solutions for the backlog items.

A cumulative flow diagram focuses on which curves?. Arrival curve (“to-do”) and departure curve (“done”). Arrival curve ("to do") and evolution curve ("change"). Backlog curve ("work") and departure curve ("done"). Implementation curve ("movement") and departure curve ("done").

When should a component team be used?. To create each replaceable component with minimized dependencies. To develop T-shaped skills together with Continuous Integration. To gain the fastest velocity with well defined interfaces. To obtain high reuse and technical specialization with a focus on nonfunctional requirements.

Which statement reflects one of the steps for setting initial velocity?. Identify work on technical infrastructure, tooling, and other systemic impediments. The team members assess their availability, acknowledging time off and other potential duties. Maintenance tasks do not need to be included in velocity; maintenance tasks fall outside this scope. Determining velocity is a new function in each Iteration; previous Iterations should not be transferred to a new Iteration.

The Inspect and Adapt event always starts with which activity?. Retrospective and Problem Solving Workshop. Quantitative measurement. Agreement on the problems to solve. The PI System Demo.

SAFe Agile Teams leverage Scrum. Scrum based upon, Transparency, Inspection, Adaptation and...?. Short learning cycles. Fixed requirements. Centralizing the decisions. Managing WIP.

Model-Based Systems Engineering is an example of... A code review tool. A built-in quality practices for hardware teams. Value Stream analysis practice to optimize whole system. Model to implement customer centricity.

Which one of the below is the development practice required by building quality?. Cross Functionality. Self Organization. Syncronization via 2 week sprint. Collective ownership and standards.

Team visualizes and optimizes the flow of work using... Scrum. Lean. XP. Kanban.

Agile teams believe in Built in Quality - one of the benefits of this is... helps to maintain high, sustainable development velocity. quantity cost of delay. increase queue length. de centralize decision.

Transparency is one of the SAFe core values. Which activity is most likely to be part of transparency?. Visualize all relevant work. Constant check for undestanding. Refuse to accept low-quality work. Organize around value stream.

Which one is an output of Enterprise Strategy Formulation?. Porfolio Budgets. Core values. Vision. Porfolio management plan.

Which two items can be found on Program Board? (Choose two). Capacities and workload. Features. Risks. Epics. Significant dependencies.

With what way the program risks can be addressed?. CALMR. Journey map. ROAM. Put in uncommitment items.

Why is it important for the SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) to support the ART in its first problem-solving workshop?. To prioritize senior management voices. To provide the tools needed to improve ART performance. To maximize the ART improvement items for the next PI. To address ART level issues.

What is the second operating system organized around?. Systems. Initiatives. Value Streams. Departments.

When should a Lean Porfolio be established?. When ii is part of training the executives. When it is necessary to operate in a completely decentralized environment. When there is a minimum of six Agile Release Train (ARTs) that require coordination. When the lack of alignment between strategy and execution impacts value delivery.

Why is it importaht to establish a definition of done?. To create alignment on when stories are complete. To enable Scrum Masters / Team Coaches to enforce quality. To ensure Features provide the expected business benefits. To create Standarize work between all Agile Teams.

What is the primary purpose of PO Sync?. To build PI Objectives and improve alignment. To align with Coach Sync participants on the status of the PI. To assess progress of the Program Increment and adjust scope and priorities as needed. To conduct backlog refinement.