SAFe for Teams - 6

In Lean Thinking what does it mean by "make value flow without interruptions". Optimize sustainable value delivery with built-in.quality. Build long-term partnership based on trust. Provide time and space for innovation. Achieving the shortest sustainable lead time.

In order to implement SAFe in practice, what can be used as a template?. Showcase SAFe Principles. SAFe implementation Roadmap. SAFe large solution configuration. SAFe house of Lean.

What is one part of the role as the Scrum Master / Team Coach (SC/TC)?. To facilitate all team events. To prioritize and identify what is ready for Iteration Planning. To support Iteration Exceution. To escalate ART Impediments.

What is true about SAFe?. SAFe is an operating system for Business Agility. The goal of SAFe is to make good plans and follow them. SAFe is a new way to manage projects. SAFe is a framework for risk management.

'Communicate directly' is part of which core value of SAFe?. Transparency. Alignment. Respect for people. Relentless improvement.

What does the Continuous Delivery Pipeline enable?. Increased technical debt. Continuous refactoring. Delivery of large batches. Cotinuous learning.

The Program Kanban facilitates the flow of Features throught what?. The funnel. Continuous delivery pipeline. Validating on Staging. Release on demand.

Which two are primary keys to implementing flow? (Choose two). Reduce the batch sizes of work. Address the system problems. Increase capacity. Visualize and limit WIP. Move Stories to next Iteration.

Since timing th release is a business decision, separating Deploy from Release becomes necessary. How to achieve it?. Store new features in staging server until the business aks for it. Hide new functions under features Toggles. Automate the release with a scheduled task. Release the new functions in a fixed interval.

What is true about Team's commitment at the end of PI Planning?. A team does not commit to uncommitted objectives. A team commits to all the Features that are put the program board. A team commits only to the PI Objectives with the highest business value. A team commits to all the Stories they put on one PI plan.

In the ART Kanban, why is it necessary to set Work-in-Progress limit?. To enable multitasking. To ensure that queues are not building up. To keep timebox goals. To held Continuous Deployment.

What is Business Agility?. It is how business people and Agile Teams optimize their business process with Lean Thinking. A customer-centric approach to defining, building and releasing a continuous flow of valuable products and services to customers and users. Applying Lean-Agile principles and practices to the specification , development, deployment, operation, and evolution of the world's largest and most sophisticated systems. The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business solutions.

In what way is the flow of Portfolio Epics managed?. The Program Kanban. The Portfolio Backlog. The Portfolio Kanban. The Program Backlog.

What is an anti-pattern for backlog refinement?. Maintain timeboxes. Team sees Stories for the first time during Iteration or PI Planning. Invite subject matter experts. Hold the event regularly.

When can a dependency be added to the program risks?. When it can be resolved. When it must be accepted. When an Enabler can fix it. When it can be mitigated.

Agile teams have many attributes. Which stament is true about Teams?. Change in team composition will not have impact to their productivity. Teams are more productive than the same number of individuals. Agile Teams can manage daily interruptions. Team members are more productive with various skills sets.

Which two statements can be identified as purposes for the innovation and Planning iteration?. It signifies the end of a development cycle. It provides sufficient capactity margin to enable cadence. It is time reserved for fixing bugs. It is an opportunity to identify infraestructure improvements. It is when the full system integration happens.

The definition of "A Story Point" is a singular number that represents complexity, knowledge, uncertainty, and what else?. Volume. Cost. Skill. Time.

When is a Feature hypothesis fully evaluated?. When the Customer uses the Feature in Production. When the Feature has been deployed to production. When the Feature's return on investment has been realized. When the Feature is accepted by Product Management.

Which statatement is true about Iteration?. Each iteration is the same lenght, running back-to-back. When the planned Story Points are completed, then the iteration is over. An iteration is a single development cycle where a Feature is delivered. An iteration is used to measure teams's accomplishment.

Which two staments are characteristics of an Agile Team?. It is optimized for communication and delivery of values. It includes the roles of System Engineeer and Business Owner. It always includes the functions of Legal and Security. It is a cross-funcional and self-organizing entity. It operates on 5-week iteration.

Which statement is true about scrum?. It is a Lean system engineering technique. It is a team-based framework. It is the best practice cross industries. It is a set of technical software practices.

Which responsability belongs to Scrum Master / Team Coach in Scale Agile Framework?. Faciliting the Coach Sync. Prioritizing the Team Backlog. Owning the Team Sync. Coordinating with other teams.

We are currently in which technological revolution?. Farming. Brass age. Iron Smythy. Software and digital.

Which one of the below is NOT a benefit from SAFe?. Increased productivity. Happier employees. Improved parallel processing skills. Better time to market.

In terms of Technology revolutions which period indicates beginning of a new age?. Sunset period is This is the period where the technology becomes redundant. Turning Point is Existing businesses either master the new technology or decline and become relics of the last age. Installation Period is New Technology and financial capital combine to create a Cambrian explosion of new market entrants, disrupting entire industries from the previous age. Deployment Period is Production capital of the new technological giants start to take over.

Lean Portfolio Management talks about: Feature ordering. Strategy investment and funding. Defining the Agile Release Trains. Architectural runway.

SAFe has 4 configurations - which configuration acts as the basic building block?. Full. Solution. Portfolio. Essential.

Which of the following SAFe configurations shows business agility?. Essential. Portfolio. Huge Program. Large Solution.

SAFe 6 for Lean Enterprise is a ... Prescribed Methodology. Part of Agile Manifesto. Lightweight framework. Operating system for business agility.

To compete in age of software we need to. Think only about speed of innovation. discard hierarchy completely. Balance the stability of hierarchy and Speed of innovation via Network. Think only about the newer technologies.

What is business Agility?. Ability to release cose to production every to weeks. Capturing requirements in User Story form rather than Req. Specs. Ability to compete and thrive in the digital age. Establishing well developed CI/CD pipeline.

Lean Agile leadership does not need. Leading by example. Autocratic dictatorial ways of working. Working on mindset and culture. Leading the change.

As per SAFe who suould be center of your product strategy. Vision. Customer. Skills avalaible. Budget.

High performing cross functional agile teams strive for. Built in Quality. Independent focus on operations and developments teams. Release in production every two weeks. Maximizing the story points.

Which one is NOT an advantatge of reduced batch size?. Improved predicatability. Less defects. Less rework. Better agility to adopt to market changes.

SAFe principles helps the leaders to: Ensure that SAFe transformation is happening in ethical way. Create requirement hierarchy. Understand why the practices work and if they do not work - how to change them. Sht down any resistance.

Which of the below is true?. Large batch size helps to shorten the learning loop. Development can proceed no faster than the slowest learning loop. Teams can have their own learning loops or iterations - they do not need to synchronize the learning loops. Shorter learning cycles mean slower the learning.

What can help the teams to get ready for practicing decentralized decision-making?. Remove hierarchy within organization. Mangement leadership should provide clarity on organizational objectives coach effective problem-solving, and provide opportunities to exercise and cultivate decision-making abilities. Improve cross functionality. Create good customer centicity.

Optimize time in the zone helps to... Improve flow. Decentralize the decisions. Deliver Incrementally. Remove Silos.

Who are the people most qualified to make decisions about how to perform their work?. Direct supervisors. People who do the work themselves. Senior management. External auditors.

Which of below events suppor synchronization via cross domain planning?. Daily stand up. Iteration retrospective. Iteration planning. PI planning.

SAFe helps to enable cadence as well as syncronization by. Breaking requirements vertically. Having cross functional teams. Training scrum masters. Having two weeks iterations and all teams in an ART start their iterations one same day.

System Thinking says. ROAMinf the risk is a syntetic solution. For the system to behave well as a system, a higher-level understanding of behaviour and arquitecture is required. Knowledge workers seek Purpose. Customer Centric Products succed faster.

Littles law suggests that wait time ca be reduced by shortening the queue length. We can shorten the queue length by... Focusing on small batches. Centralize all decisions. Signing off all the requirements. Decreasing the amount of work we do.

Lean thinking focuses on... Making value flow without interruptions. Keeping the budgets lean and limited. Avoid changes and disruptions. Minimizing the team size.

Reduced Batch size helps to increase predictability. True. False. In depends on context. These two statements are not connected.

Hold precious what it is to be human, Value diversity of people and opinions, Grow people through coaching and mentoring, Embrace your Customer is whoever consumes are part of which SAFe Core Value?. Aligment. Respect for people and culture. Program Execution. Transparency.

Development effort should be organized around... Development Value streams. Reporting hierarchy. Locations - we should prefer single-location team. Operational Value Streams.

Which out of below is NOT a Core SAFe Value?. Respect for people and culture. Alignment. Program Execution. Transparency.

With an ART or Agile Release Train, which type of teams is organized around the flow of work and has the ability to deliver value directly to the Customer or end user?. Steam Aligned. Cross Functional. System Testing. User Experience.

Who provide architectural guidance and technical enablement to the teams on the train?. System Team. Release Train Engineer. System Architect Engineering. Solution Architect.

Usually the teams are Scrum Master and Product Owners are not working directly on the items - and hence we should exclude their effort from the capacity while loading the work during PI. False. True. NA. NA.

Who joins the PI Planning?. All the Epic Owners. Each team sends a few senior reprentatatives. Members of entire Agile Release Train or ART along with the management. All the RTE Product Manager along with Scrum Masters and Product Owner.

Program Backlog is a holding area for... Stories. Features. Capabilities. Epics.

In System Thinking, which statement is true about a system?. System Demo is only performed at the end of a PI exceution. A system can evolve no faster than its slowest integration point. Optimizing a big part of the system can optimize the full system. The enterprise itself is not a system.

Which function in Agile Team is managing the Program Backlog?. Product Owner. Product Management. Release Train Engineer. Business Owner.

Which statement is true about Story Point?. A Story Point represents Volume and Complexity. A Story Point is absolute. A Story Point represents certainty. A Story Point should have a unit of measure.

Which two are primary dimensions of Built-in Quality? (Choose two). Automation. Definition of done. Code Quality. System Quality. Inspection.

Which of the following is a critical ART event?. Pre-plan. Backlog refinement. Retrospective. System Demo.