UPDATED2021/2022
Business Agility requires what? ---ANSWER--- Technical Agility and Business-level
commitment to Product and Value Stream thinking.
Everyone uninvolved in delivering Business solutions use Lean & Agile practices.
Seven Core Competencies of Business Agility ---ANSWER--- 1. Enterprise Solution
Delivery
2. Agile Product Delivery
3. Team & Technical Agility
4. Lean Portfolio Mgmt.
5. Organizational Agility
6. Continuous Learning Culture
7. Lean-Agile Leadership
What is Enterprise Solution Delivery? ---ANSWER--- - One of the Core Competencies of
Business Agility
- How to apply Lean-Agile principles & practices to specification, development,
deployment, operation and evolution of the world's largest & most sophisticated systems
- Coordinate & align the full supply chain
- Continue to enhance value after release
Dimensions of Enterprise Solution Delivery ---ANSWER--- 1. Lean Systems and
Solution Engineering: applies Lean-Agile practices to align and coordinate all the
activities necessary to specify, architect, design, implement, test, deploy, evolve, and
ultimately decommission these systems
2. Coordinating Trains and Suppliers: coordinates and aligns the extended, and often
complex, set of value streams to a shared business and technology mission. It uses the
coordinated Vision, Backlogs, and Roadmaps with common Program Increments (PI)
and synchronization points
3. Continually Evolve Live Systems: ensures large systems and their development
pipeline support continuous delivery
Agile Product Delivery ---ANSWER--- A customer-centric approach to defining, building,
and releasing a continuous flow of valuable products and services to customers and
users. One of the 7 Core Competencies of Biz Agility.
,Team & Technical Agility ---ANSWER--- The critical skills and Lean-Agile principles that
high-performing Agile teams (or team of teams) use to create hi-quality solns for
customers. One of the 7 Core Competencies of Biz Agility. Roles: Agile Team, SM, PO.
Teams execute w Scrum & Kanban.
Lean Portfolio Mgmt ---ANSWER--- Aligns strategy & execution by applying Lean- and
systems-thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding Agile portfolio
operations, and governance. One of the 7 Core Competencies of Biz Agility.
Organizational Agility ---ANSWER--- How Lean-thinking people and Agile Teams
optimize their business, evolve strategy with clear & decisive new commitments, and
quickly adapt ad needed to capitalize on new opportunities. One of the 7 Core
Competencies of Biz Agility.
Continuous Learning Culture ---ANSWER--- A set of values and practices that
encourage individuals, & the Enterprise as a whole, to continually increase knowledge,
competence, performance and innovation. One of the 7 Core Competencies of Biz
Agility.
Lean-Agile Leadership ---ANSWER--- How Lean-Agile Leaders drive and sustain
organizational change and operational excellence by empowering individuals & teams
to reach their highest potential. One of the 7 Core Competencies of Biz Agility.
Built-in Quality ---ANSWER--- Built-In Quality practices ensure that each Solution
element, at every increment, meets appropriate quality standards throughout
development.
Agile Manifesto ---ANSWER--- * Individuals & Interactions OVER Processes & Tools; *
Working Software OVER comprehensive documentation; * Customer Collaboration
OVER contract negotiation; Responding to Change OVER following a plan.
Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CDP) ---ANSWER--- Continuous Exploration ->
Continuous Integration -> Continuous Deployment -> Release on Demand. CE -> CI ->
CD -> RoD.
Measure & Grow ---ANSWER--- The way portfolios evaluate their progress towards Biz
Agility and determine their next steps.
SAFe Core Values ---ANSWER--- Alignment, Built-in Quality, Transparency, Program
Execution. The four Core Values represent the fundamental beliefs that are key to
SAFe's effectiveness. These guiding principles help dictate behavior and action for
everyone who participates in a SAFe portfolio.
Alignment ---ANSWER--- Constant communication, constantly check for understanding.
, Built-In Quality ---ANSWER--- Ensures that each Solution element, at every increment,
meets appropriate quality standards throughout development.
Transparency ---ANSWER--- visualize relevant work, admits mistakes, support others.
SAFe House of Lean ---ANSWER--- Illustrates the goal of delivering VALUE through the
pillars of Respect for people and culture, Flow, Innovation, and Relentless improvement.
LEADERSHIP provides the foundation on which everything else stands.
Respect for people and culture ---ANSWER--- House of Lean. Generative Culture;
People do all the work; Customer is whomever consumes your work; Build long-term
partnerships based on trust; To change the Culture, Change the Organization.
Flow ---ANSWER--- House of Lean. Optimize sustainable Value delivery; Build in
Quality; Understand, exploit & manage variability; Move from Projects to Products.
Innovation ---ANSWER--- House of Lean. Innovative people, provide time & space for
Innovation, Go see; Experimentation & Feedback; Innovation riptides; Pivot without
mercy or guilt.
Relentless improvement ---ANSWER--- House of Lean. Constant sense of danger;
Optimize the whole; problem-solving culture; Base improvements on facts; Reflect at
Key Milestones.
Value ---ANSWER--- House of Lean. Achieve the shortest sustainable lead time with
The best Quality & Value to People & Society; high Morale, Safety and Customer
Delight.
Leadership ---ANSWER--- House of Lean.Lead by example; Adopt growth mindset (why
do it this way?); Exemplify values & principles of Lean-Agile & SAFe; Develop people;
Lead the change; Foster psychological safety.
Lean-Agile Principles ---ANSWER--- SAFe is based on ten immutable, underlying Lean-
Agile principles which inspire and inform the roles and practices of SAFe: *Take an
economic view; *Apply systems thinking; *Assume variability; *Build incrementally with
fast, integrated learning cycles; *Base milestones on objective evaluation of working
systems; *Visualize & limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, manage Q lengths; *Apply
cadence, sync with x-domain planning; *Unlock intrinsic motivation of knowledge
workers; * Decentralize decision-making; *Organize around value.
Take an Economic view ---ANSWER--- Lean-Agile Prin. * Deliver Value early & often. &
incrementally; Solution economic trade-offs.: * Sequence jobs for maximum benefit; *
Do not consider Sunk Costs; * Make economic choices continuously (pivot relentlessly);
*Empower local decision making; * Quantify the Cost of Delay.