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SAFe stands for?
Scaled Agile Framework enterprise
HIP stands for?
Hardening, Innovation, Planning
(Test) What drives the upper limit to 125?
Dunbar's Number: Maintain stable social relationships
(Test) Why do we want to organize around Value?
Fewer handoffs, drive alignment, easier to build in quality, optimize the whole system
Operational Value Stream is?
Used to deliver end customer value
(Test) Development Value Stream means?
Development of Systems & Capabilities that enable the operational value streams
(Test) Where do we start to ID Multiple Value Streams?
4 Dimensions? Significant Opportunity, Clear products/solutions, Leadership support, Collaborating
Teams.
(Test) 3 things to Motivate?
1. Autonomy
2. Mastery
3. Purpose
Responsibilities SPCs can take on to drive? Why?
Communication, Form the team, Teach leaders & stakeholders, Train the Teams, Launch ARTs, Coach
ARTs, Scale wins. Why? Connect the dots in the enterprise.
(Test) Taking the Leading SAFe training is a? Know other training for different resources.
Key thing to get Leadership buy-in.
(Test) Energy we want a team to develop?
Ba
- Fuel of Ba is it's self-organizing nature
- Ba is energized with intentions, vision, interest, & mission
,Knowledge Worker?
Know more about the work they perform than their boss
(Test) Management Styles (3 types)
Expert, Conductor, Developer
Responsibility Trap
Leader has to know everything
Value Stream is a?
Fundamental thinking construct in Lean
(Test) Scrum includes a?
Cross-Functional Team of 5-9 people
Scrum Master (ATF) does what 3 things?
Facilitate Issues, Risks, & Dependencies
(Test) Product Owner does what 2 things?
Prioritize Backlog & Accepts Work
(Test) 4 Core Values of SAFe
1. Built In Quality
2. Program Execution
3. Alignment
4. Transparency
PI (Program Increment) is over when?
When the Time ends
Features happen within?
A Program Increment
(Test) Spanning Pallet is?
Support functions, Metrics, Milestones, Roadmap, Vision, etc.
(Test) RTE (Release Train Engineer)
Facilitator of the Train
System Architect
Technical Content Owner
(Test) Product Management
,Business Content Owner
No RTE or VSE at what Level?
Portfolio
No Time-Box at what Level?
Portfolio
Business Results (4 Areas)
1. Engagement
2. Time to market
3. Quality
4. Productivity
8 Big Mistakes of Change
1. Complacency
2. No guiding coalition
3. Underestimate power of vision
4. Not communication vision
5. Permitting obstacles
6. Not creating short-term wins
7. Declaring victory to soon
8. Not anchoring changes in the corporate culture
Culture is what 6 things?
1. Behaviors
2. Values
3. Processes
4. Habits
5. Rewards & Punishment
6. Leadership
(Test) SAFe 1,2,3
Train Teams, Train Leaders, Release Train
(Test) House of Lean 4 Pilars?
Respect for People & Culture, Flow, Innovation, Relentless Improvement
House of Lean Roof?
VALUE
House of Lean Base?
LEADERSHIP
, House of Lean: VALUE (the Roof) means?
Achieve sustainably shortest lead time: Best quality & value to people & society; High morale , safety
and customer delight.
(Test) House of Lean: Respect for People & Culture means?
People do all the work, customer is whomever consumes the work, Build long-term partnerships based
on trust, Culture change comes last, not first, to change the culture you have to change the organization.
Culture Eats?
Strategy for Breakfast (Peter Drucker)
(Test) House of Lean: FLOW means?
Continuous sustainable throughput of value, avoid start-stop-start delays, build in quality, understand &
manage variability, integrate frequently, informed decision making via fast feedback.
GEMBA means?
No useful product/improvement was created at a desk; Walk leadership around on the floor.
(Test) 4 keys of the Agile Manifesto?
1. Individuals/interactions over processes & tools
2. working software over comprehensive documentation
3. customer collaboration over contract negotiation
4. respond to change over following a plan.
House of Lean: INNOVATION means?
Producers innovate, customers validate, GEMBA, provide time & scope for creativity, apply innovation
accounting, pivot w/out mercy or guilt (make controlled decisions).
(Test) House of Lean: Relentless Improvement means?
Constant sense of danger, optimize the whole, consider facts quickly then act quickly, apply lean tools,
reflect at key milestones.
(Test) House of Lean: LEADERSHIP (the Base) means?
Lead the change, know the way, develop people, inspire & align w/mission, decentralize decision
making, unlock intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers.
An Economic View means?
Deliver early & often
5 "key" things when considering Economics?
1. Sequence jobs for max benefit
2. Do not consider Money already spent
3. Make economic choices continuously