SAFe Scaled Agile For Enterprise
Certification Exam 2022
House of Lean - Goal: Value Foundation: Leadership, Respect for People and
Culture, Development Flow, Innovation, Relentless Improvement
Lean Goal- ANS - Speed, quality, value. sustainably shorted lead time, best quality
and value to people and society, most customer delight, lowest cost, high morale,
safety
Respect for People- ANS - Lean principle, your customer is whoever consumes your
work. Develop individuals and teams, empower teams, build partnerships based on
trust and mutual respect
Kaizen- ANS - Lean principle,. We can do better.Reflection, continuous improvement
as an enterprise value
Leadership- ANS - Lean foundation, management is trained, take responsibility,
develop people
Product development flow- ANS - Lean principle. 1. Take an economic view. 2.
Actively manage queues. 3. Understand and exploit variability. 4. Reduce batch
sizes. 5. Apply WIP constraints. 6. Control flow under uncertainty; cadence and
synchronization. 7. Get feedback as fast as possible. 8. Decentralized control
Take an economic view- ANS - Lean principle of product development flow. #1. Base
your decisions on economics. The goal is to optimize the time from concept to cash
Actively manage queues- ANS - Lean principle of product development flow. #2.
Understand Little's Law. Control wait times by controlling queue lengths
Understand and exploit variability- ANS - Lean principle of product development flow.
#3. Risk taking is central to value creation
Reduce Batch Size- ANS - Lean principle of product development flow. #4. Smaller
batches go through the system faster, with lower variability and risk. Large batch
sizes and high utilization increase variability, causing project slippage. Co-location
and good infrastructure enable small batches
Apply WIP constraints- ANS - Lean principle of product development flow. #5. WIP
constraints force capacity matching, increases flow. Time box, purge lower value
projects when WIP is too high, constrain local WIP pools, make WIP continuously
visible. High WIP and utilization cause reduction throughput
Control flow under uncertainty- ANS - Lean principle of product development flow.
#6. Cadence + Synchronization. Cadence transforms unpredictable events into
predictable events, requires scope or capacity margin, makes waiting times
,predictable, helps manage load by limiting available time. Regular systemwide
integration provides higher fidelity tests and objective solution assessment
Get fast feedback- ANS - Lean principle of product development flow. #7. Product
development is the process of converting uncertainty to knowledge. Fast feedback
accelerates knowledge
Decentralized control- ANS - Lean principle of product development flow. #8.
Centralize control for decisions that are infrequent and can be applied globally, have
significant economies of scale or high-risk. Decentralized control for time critical,
local decisions
Planning is for alignment- ANS - Lean principle of product development flow. #9.
There is more value created with overall alignment than with local excellence. Agile
aims to change the plan when something changes
Agile values: Individuals and interactions- ANS - Over processes and tools
Agile values: working software- ANS - Over comprehensive documentation
Agile values: customer collaboration- ANS - Over contract negotiation
Agile values: responding to change- ANS - Over following a plan
Agile drivers in the triangle.- ANS - Value and quality driven, the vision creates
feature estimates, fix the dates and float the scope
Agile benefits- ANS - Early value delivery drives first to market, fast feedback,
profitability, makes money faster, reduces risk, delivers better fit for purpose
SAFe core values- ANS - Alignment, Code quality, Transparency, program execution
Four SAFe business results- ANS - Increased employee engagement, 20-50%
increase in productivity, 30-70% faster time to market, 50% defect reduction
Describe an Agile team- ANS - Empowered, self organizing, self managing, cross
functional, deliver fully tested code every two weeks
How does an Agile team deliver value?- ANS - In user stories
Describe a SAFe team that is scaled to program level- ANS - Self organizing, self
managing team of Agile teams, continuous value delivery, aligned to a common
mission via a single program backlog
How do program level safe teams deliver value?- ANS - In features and benefits
Describe how SAFe is scaled to the portfolio level.- ANS - Using Lean approaches to
strategy and investment funding, program management, and governance.
Centralized strategy and decentralized execution. Objective metrics support
governance and kaizen
, How does portfolio level SAFe deliver value?- ANS - In business and architectural
epics
What is the product owner's content authority?- ANS - User stories
What is product management content authority?- ANS - Features
What is the typical ratio of product management to product owners?- ANS - One PM
to four PO
What is the typical size of an Agile Release Train- ANS - 5-12 teams 50-125 people
What is the typical ART program increment time box?- ANS - 10 weeks
What are the shared teams in Agile Release Train?- ANS - DevOps, UX, System
Architect, RTE
How often is the team demo in the ART?- ANS - Every two weeks
How often is the inspect and adapt in an ART?- ANS - Every 10 weeks
What makes a good Agile team?- ANS - They are independent, cross functional, self
organizing, self managing, define, build, test code, optimized for communication to
deliver value every two weeks. Team size 7 +/- 2
What are the Agile team Product Owner responsibilities?- ANS - Define and accept
stories, act as the customer for developer questions, work with product management
to plan releases
What are the developer or tester responsibilities in the Agile team?- ANS - Create
and refine user stories and acceptance criteria, define - build - test and deliver
stories, develop and commit to team PI objectives and Sprint plans
What is the Release Train Engineer's role in ART?- ANS - The Chief Scrum Master
for the train.
What is Product Management's role in the ART?- ANS - Own, define,and prioritize
the Program Backlog
What is the System's Architect role in ART?- ANS - Provide architectural guidance
and technical enablement to the teams on the train.
What is the Systems team role in the Art?- ANS - Provide process and tools to
integrate and evaluate assets early and often
What are the Business Owner's responsibilities in the ART?'- ANS - The key
stakeholders on the Agile Release Train
Certification Exam 2022
House of Lean - Goal: Value Foundation: Leadership, Respect for People and
Culture, Development Flow, Innovation, Relentless Improvement
Lean Goal- ANS - Speed, quality, value. sustainably shorted lead time, best quality
and value to people and society, most customer delight, lowest cost, high morale,
safety
Respect for People- ANS - Lean principle, your customer is whoever consumes your
work. Develop individuals and teams, empower teams, build partnerships based on
trust and mutual respect
Kaizen- ANS - Lean principle,. We can do better.Reflection, continuous improvement
as an enterprise value
Leadership- ANS - Lean foundation, management is trained, take responsibility,
develop people
Product development flow- ANS - Lean principle. 1. Take an economic view. 2.
Actively manage queues. 3. Understand and exploit variability. 4. Reduce batch
sizes. 5. Apply WIP constraints. 6. Control flow under uncertainty; cadence and
synchronization. 7. Get feedback as fast as possible. 8. Decentralized control
Take an economic view- ANS - Lean principle of product development flow. #1. Base
your decisions on economics. The goal is to optimize the time from concept to cash
Actively manage queues- ANS - Lean principle of product development flow. #2.
Understand Little's Law. Control wait times by controlling queue lengths
Understand and exploit variability- ANS - Lean principle of product development flow.
#3. Risk taking is central to value creation
Reduce Batch Size- ANS - Lean principle of product development flow. #4. Smaller
batches go through the system faster, with lower variability and risk. Large batch
sizes and high utilization increase variability, causing project slippage. Co-location
and good infrastructure enable small batches
Apply WIP constraints- ANS - Lean principle of product development flow. #5. WIP
constraints force capacity matching, increases flow. Time box, purge lower value
projects when WIP is too high, constrain local WIP pools, make WIP continuously
visible. High WIP and utilization cause reduction throughput
Control flow under uncertainty- ANS - Lean principle of product development flow.
#6. Cadence + Synchronization. Cadence transforms unpredictable events into
predictable events, requires scope or capacity margin, makes waiting times
,predictable, helps manage load by limiting available time. Regular systemwide
integration provides higher fidelity tests and objective solution assessment
Get fast feedback- ANS - Lean principle of product development flow. #7. Product
development is the process of converting uncertainty to knowledge. Fast feedback
accelerates knowledge
Decentralized control- ANS - Lean principle of product development flow. #8.
Centralize control for decisions that are infrequent and can be applied globally, have
significant economies of scale or high-risk. Decentralized control for time critical,
local decisions
Planning is for alignment- ANS - Lean principle of product development flow. #9.
There is more value created with overall alignment than with local excellence. Agile
aims to change the plan when something changes
Agile values: Individuals and interactions- ANS - Over processes and tools
Agile values: working software- ANS - Over comprehensive documentation
Agile values: customer collaboration- ANS - Over contract negotiation
Agile values: responding to change- ANS - Over following a plan
Agile drivers in the triangle.- ANS - Value and quality driven, the vision creates
feature estimates, fix the dates and float the scope
Agile benefits- ANS - Early value delivery drives first to market, fast feedback,
profitability, makes money faster, reduces risk, delivers better fit for purpose
SAFe core values- ANS - Alignment, Code quality, Transparency, program execution
Four SAFe business results- ANS - Increased employee engagement, 20-50%
increase in productivity, 30-70% faster time to market, 50% defect reduction
Describe an Agile team- ANS - Empowered, self organizing, self managing, cross
functional, deliver fully tested code every two weeks
How does an Agile team deliver value?- ANS - In user stories
Describe a SAFe team that is scaled to program level- ANS - Self organizing, self
managing team of Agile teams, continuous value delivery, aligned to a common
mission via a single program backlog
How do program level safe teams deliver value?- ANS - In features and benefits
Describe how SAFe is scaled to the portfolio level.- ANS - Using Lean approaches to
strategy and investment funding, program management, and governance.
Centralized strategy and decentralized execution. Objective metrics support
governance and kaizen
, How does portfolio level SAFe deliver value?- ANS - In business and architectural
epics
What is the product owner's content authority?- ANS - User stories
What is product management content authority?- ANS - Features
What is the typical ratio of product management to product owners?- ANS - One PM
to four PO
What is the typical size of an Agile Release Train- ANS - 5-12 teams 50-125 people
What is the typical ART program increment time box?- ANS - 10 weeks
What are the shared teams in Agile Release Train?- ANS - DevOps, UX, System
Architect, RTE
How often is the team demo in the ART?- ANS - Every two weeks
How often is the inspect and adapt in an ART?- ANS - Every 10 weeks
What makes a good Agile team?- ANS - They are independent, cross functional, self
organizing, self managing, define, build, test code, optimized for communication to
deliver value every two weeks. Team size 7 +/- 2
What are the Agile team Product Owner responsibilities?- ANS - Define and accept
stories, act as the customer for developer questions, work with product management
to plan releases
What are the developer or tester responsibilities in the Agile team?- ANS - Create
and refine user stories and acceptance criteria, define - build - test and deliver
stories, develop and commit to team PI objectives and Sprint plans
What is the Release Train Engineer's role in ART?- ANS - The Chief Scrum Master
for the train.
What is Product Management's role in the ART?- ANS - Own, define,and prioritize
the Program Backlog
What is the System's Architect role in ART?- ANS - Provide architectural guidance
and technical enablement to the teams on the train.
What is the Systems team role in the Art?- ANS - Provide process and tools to
integrate and evaluate assets early and often
What are the Business Owner's responsibilities in the ART?'- ANS - The key
stakeholders on the Agile Release Train
