According to SAFe Principle #10, what should the Enterprise do when markets and
customers demand change?
1) Reorganize the network around the new value flow
2) Create a reliable decision-making framework to empower employees and ensure
a fast flow of value
3) Apply development cadence and synchronization to operate effectively and
manage uncertainty
4) Create an Agile Release Train to focus on value
Why do Business Owners assign business value to team PI Objectives?
1) To ensure the teams do not work on architectural Enablers
2) To override the decisions made in WSJF prioritization
3) To determine the highest value using WSJF
4) To provide guidance on the business value of the team objectives
When should new approaches be anchored in an organization's culture?
1) Culture change comes last as a results of changing work habits
Which SAFe Principle includes working with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints
1) Build projects around motivated individuals
2) Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
3) Organize around value
4) Base Milestones on an objective evaluation of working systems
What is one way Lean-Agile leaders lead by example?
1) By using the SAFe Implementation Roadmap to script the way for change
2) By modeling SAFe's Lean-Agile Mindset, values, principles, and
practices 3) By mastering the Seven Core Competencies of the Lean
Enterprise
4) By applying empathic design and focusing on Customer Centricity
What is one pillar of the SAFe House of Lean?
- Innovation
- Transparency
- Quality
, - Agile
What is this statement defining: 'A series of activities that have proven to be effective in
successfully implementing SAFe'?
1) The SAFe Implementation Roadmap
2) API Planning agenda
3) The Scaled Agile Framework by
4) SAFe's CALMR approach to DevOps
Seven Core Competencies of the Lean
Enterprise Team and Technical Agility
Agile Product Delivery
Enterprise Solution
Delivery Lean Portfolio
Management
Organizational Agility
Continuous Learning
Culture Lean Agile
Leadership
Spanning Palette
Not an artifact per se; rather, it comprises various roles and artifacts
that may be applicable at any level of the framework. It is used to
customize the framework implementation to a specific context. For a
more complete discussion, see Program Level.
Measure and Grow
How to measure the state of Business Agility and how to accelerate growth
to improve overall economic outcomes.
Essential SAFe
Formerly the Program level - the most basic configuration of SAFe. The
team level has been eliminated.
Dual Operating System
The combination of functional hierarchy and value stream network
that delivers Business Agility
,Business Agility
The entire organization - not just development - is engaged in continually
and proactively delivering innovative business solutions faster than the
Three Dimensions of Team & Technical
Agility Agile Teams
Built-in Quality
Teams of Agile Teams
Agile Business Teams
support...
Guardrails/business
parameters Infrastructure
Contracts &
suppliers End-user
training
Compliance
Legal
Agile Business Team Maturity Model (3 steps)
1. Be Agile
2. Join the Value Stream
3. Specialize the Principles & Practices
Definition of SAFe
AFe is a freely revealed knowledge based of integrated, proven patters for
enterprise Lean- Agile development
What are the 3 SAFe Benefits?
1. Synchronizes alignment
2. Promotes collaboration
3. Coordinates delivery for large numbers of teams
4 SAFe Core Values
1. Built In Quality
2. Program Execution
, 3. Alignment
4. Transparency
Benefits of an Agile Team
- Empowered, self-organizing, self-managing, cross-functional team
- Delivers valuable, tested, working system every two weeks
- Uses a team framework which combines the best of Scrum project management,
XP-inspired technical practices and Kanban for flow
- Value delivery via User Stories
What are the benefits to a team of Agile teams
- Self-organizing, team of agile teams
- Delivers working, tested full system increments every two weeks
- Operates with vision, architecture, and UX guidance
- Common iteration lengths and estimating
- Face-to-face planning for collaboration, alignment, and adaption
How is an Agile portfolio organized?
It is organized around the flow of value
In an Agile Portfolio, what impact does Lean Agile budgeting have?
It empowers decision makers
In an Agile Portfolio, what benefit do kanban boards have?
They provide visibility and WIP limits to Portfolio
(1.2) In an Agile Portfolio, what impact does Lean Agile budgeting have?
It empowers decision makers
(1.2) In an Agile Portfolio, what benefit do kanban boards have?
They provide visibility and WIP limits to Portfolio
(1.2) In an Agile Portfolio, why and How does SAFe use objective metrics?
To support governance and improvement
(1.2) In an Agile Portfolio, delivery of value is rolled up to what kind of
organizing structure?
Epics
(1.3) What are the 3 steps in the Implementing SAFe 1-2-3 training process?
customers demand change?
1) Reorganize the network around the new value flow
2) Create a reliable decision-making framework to empower employees and ensure
a fast flow of value
3) Apply development cadence and synchronization to operate effectively and
manage uncertainty
4) Create an Agile Release Train to focus on value
Why do Business Owners assign business value to team PI Objectives?
1) To ensure the teams do not work on architectural Enablers
2) To override the decisions made in WSJF prioritization
3) To determine the highest value using WSJF
4) To provide guidance on the business value of the team objectives
When should new approaches be anchored in an organization's culture?
1) Culture change comes last as a results of changing work habits
Which SAFe Principle includes working with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints
1) Build projects around motivated individuals
2) Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
3) Organize around value
4) Base Milestones on an objective evaluation of working systems
What is one way Lean-Agile leaders lead by example?
1) By using the SAFe Implementation Roadmap to script the way for change
2) By modeling SAFe's Lean-Agile Mindset, values, principles, and
practices 3) By mastering the Seven Core Competencies of the Lean
Enterprise
4) By applying empathic design and focusing on Customer Centricity
What is one pillar of the SAFe House of Lean?
- Innovation
- Transparency
- Quality
, - Agile
What is this statement defining: 'A series of activities that have proven to be effective in
successfully implementing SAFe'?
1) The SAFe Implementation Roadmap
2) API Planning agenda
3) The Scaled Agile Framework by
4) SAFe's CALMR approach to DevOps
Seven Core Competencies of the Lean
Enterprise Team and Technical Agility
Agile Product Delivery
Enterprise Solution
Delivery Lean Portfolio
Management
Organizational Agility
Continuous Learning
Culture Lean Agile
Leadership
Spanning Palette
Not an artifact per se; rather, it comprises various roles and artifacts
that may be applicable at any level of the framework. It is used to
customize the framework implementation to a specific context. For a
more complete discussion, see Program Level.
Measure and Grow
How to measure the state of Business Agility and how to accelerate growth
to improve overall economic outcomes.
Essential SAFe
Formerly the Program level - the most basic configuration of SAFe. The
team level has been eliminated.
Dual Operating System
The combination of functional hierarchy and value stream network
that delivers Business Agility
,Business Agility
The entire organization - not just development - is engaged in continually
and proactively delivering innovative business solutions faster than the
Three Dimensions of Team & Technical
Agility Agile Teams
Built-in Quality
Teams of Agile Teams
Agile Business Teams
support...
Guardrails/business
parameters Infrastructure
Contracts &
suppliers End-user
training
Compliance
Legal
Agile Business Team Maturity Model (3 steps)
1. Be Agile
2. Join the Value Stream
3. Specialize the Principles & Practices
Definition of SAFe
AFe is a freely revealed knowledge based of integrated, proven patters for
enterprise Lean- Agile development
What are the 3 SAFe Benefits?
1. Synchronizes alignment
2. Promotes collaboration
3. Coordinates delivery for large numbers of teams
4 SAFe Core Values
1. Built In Quality
2. Program Execution
, 3. Alignment
4. Transparency
Benefits of an Agile Team
- Empowered, self-organizing, self-managing, cross-functional team
- Delivers valuable, tested, working system every two weeks
- Uses a team framework which combines the best of Scrum project management,
XP-inspired technical practices and Kanban for flow
- Value delivery via User Stories
What are the benefits to a team of Agile teams
- Self-organizing, team of agile teams
- Delivers working, tested full system increments every two weeks
- Operates with vision, architecture, and UX guidance
- Common iteration lengths and estimating
- Face-to-face planning for collaboration, alignment, and adaption
How is an Agile portfolio organized?
It is organized around the flow of value
In an Agile Portfolio, what impact does Lean Agile budgeting have?
It empowers decision makers
In an Agile Portfolio, what benefit do kanban boards have?
They provide visibility and WIP limits to Portfolio
(1.2) In an Agile Portfolio, what impact does Lean Agile budgeting have?
It empowers decision makers
(1.2) In an Agile Portfolio, what benefit do kanban boards have?
They provide visibility and WIP limits to Portfolio
(1.2) In an Agile Portfolio, why and How does SAFe use objective metrics?
To support governance and improvement
(1.2) In an Agile Portfolio, delivery of value is rolled up to what kind of
organizing structure?
Epics
(1.3) What are the 3 steps in the Implementing SAFe 1-2-3 training process?
