AGILE SAFE 5.1 SPC TEST QUESTIONS
AND 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS
What is one component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline? -
ANSWER-Continuous Exploration
Which statement is true about DevOps? - ANSWER- DevOps is an
approach to bridge the gap between development and operations
If a program repeatedly shows separate Feature branches rather than a
true System Demo, which practice should be reviewed to address the
issue? - ANSWER- Continuous Integration
What is the best measure of progress for complex system development?
- ANSWER- System Demo
What can be used to capture the current state of the portfolio? -
ANSWER-Portfolio Canvas
Which statement accurately characterizes Strategic Themes? -
ANSWER- They are business objectives that connect the SAFe
portfolio to the Enterprise business strategy
What is a minimum viable product? - ANSWER- A minimal version of
a new product used to test a hypothesis
How is the flow of Portfolio Epics managed? - ANSWER- In the
Portfolio Kanban
,What is one Guardrail on Lean Budget spend? - ANSWER- Continuous
Business Owner engagement
What is the last step in Kotter's approach to change management? -
ANSWER- Anchor new approaches in the culture
What can be used to script the change to SAFe? - ANSWER- The
Implementation Roadmap
Lean portfolio management - ANSWER- Aligns strategy/business and
execution by applying lean and systems thinking
Lean budget and guard rails - ANSWER- Funding governance practices
increase development throughput while maintaining financial and
fitness for use governance (support budgets)
Team and technical agility core competency (core comps?) - ANSWER-
Has built in quality (which means?)
-
Implementation roadmap: what do you do after training leads -
ANSWER- ID value streams and ARTs
Implementation roadmap: what do you do after launching ARTs -
ANSWER- launch more ARTs in the same value stream to
continue/accelerate flow of value
,What is the tipping point?
What is needed to implement change/transformation - ANSWER-
Forcing function (which is?...)
Role of business owner... - ANSWER- Adds value to team PI
objectives?
Role of SPC (article, be familiar...) - ANSWER- Coaches RTE roles
Coaches ART execution...
What 3 things are needed to launch an ART? - ANSWER- (What's on
the ART checklist?)
1
2
3
Lean portfolio management and budgeting empowers stakeholders to -
ANSWER- adapt the current backlog and roadmap context (lesson 5)
What are dunbar's numbers? - ANSWER- # of members on a self
managing, self organizing ART
ARTs are most efficient with how many people? (range) - ANSWER-
50-125 people
Whats on the agenda during an I&A (Inspect & Adapt) - ANSWER- 1.
PI system demo
2. Quant qual measurement or program predictability measure update
3. Problem solving workshop
, ...?
SAFe defines relentless improvement as... - ANSWER- applying lean
problem solving tools and techniques, and reflecting at key milestones
Know the agile manifesto - ANSWER- ...
How does SAFe extend the agile manifesto foundation to the level of
team of teams - ANSWER- By promoting face to face conversations
across the teams
What are principles 1-5 of lean? - ANSWER- ...
Forcing function is used to start... - ANSWER- PI planning date
What are principles 6-10 of lean? (most important) - ANSWER-
What is principle 10 of lean? - ANSWER- ...organizing around value
What is the use of foundations? (?) - ANSWER- Train agile teams
before PI planning
What are 2 ways to evolve the solution intent from variable to fixed? -
ANSWER- Trade studies and modeling
What is the Kanban solution? - ANSWER- A tool used to manage
capabilities evolution
What happens after the analyzing stage? - ANSWER- Program
management approves and then places in actual backlog
AND 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS
What is one component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline? -
ANSWER-Continuous Exploration
Which statement is true about DevOps? - ANSWER- DevOps is an
approach to bridge the gap between development and operations
If a program repeatedly shows separate Feature branches rather than a
true System Demo, which practice should be reviewed to address the
issue? - ANSWER- Continuous Integration
What is the best measure of progress for complex system development?
- ANSWER- System Demo
What can be used to capture the current state of the portfolio? -
ANSWER-Portfolio Canvas
Which statement accurately characterizes Strategic Themes? -
ANSWER- They are business objectives that connect the SAFe
portfolio to the Enterprise business strategy
What is a minimum viable product? - ANSWER- A minimal version of
a new product used to test a hypothesis
How is the flow of Portfolio Epics managed? - ANSWER- In the
Portfolio Kanban
,What is one Guardrail on Lean Budget spend? - ANSWER- Continuous
Business Owner engagement
What is the last step in Kotter's approach to change management? -
ANSWER- Anchor new approaches in the culture
What can be used to script the change to SAFe? - ANSWER- The
Implementation Roadmap
Lean portfolio management - ANSWER- Aligns strategy/business and
execution by applying lean and systems thinking
Lean budget and guard rails - ANSWER- Funding governance practices
increase development throughput while maintaining financial and
fitness for use governance (support budgets)
Team and technical agility core competency (core comps?) - ANSWER-
Has built in quality (which means?)
-
Implementation roadmap: what do you do after training leads -
ANSWER- ID value streams and ARTs
Implementation roadmap: what do you do after launching ARTs -
ANSWER- launch more ARTs in the same value stream to
continue/accelerate flow of value
,What is the tipping point?
What is needed to implement change/transformation - ANSWER-
Forcing function (which is?...)
Role of business owner... - ANSWER- Adds value to team PI
objectives?
Role of SPC (article, be familiar...) - ANSWER- Coaches RTE roles
Coaches ART execution...
What 3 things are needed to launch an ART? - ANSWER- (What's on
the ART checklist?)
1
2
3
Lean portfolio management and budgeting empowers stakeholders to -
ANSWER- adapt the current backlog and roadmap context (lesson 5)
What are dunbar's numbers? - ANSWER- # of members on a self
managing, self organizing ART
ARTs are most efficient with how many people? (range) - ANSWER-
50-125 people
Whats on the agenda during an I&A (Inspect & Adapt) - ANSWER- 1.
PI system demo
2. Quant qual measurement or program predictability measure update
3. Problem solving workshop
, ...?
SAFe defines relentless improvement as... - ANSWER- applying lean
problem solving tools and techniques, and reflecting at key milestones
Know the agile manifesto - ANSWER- ...
How does SAFe extend the agile manifesto foundation to the level of
team of teams - ANSWER- By promoting face to face conversations
across the teams
What are principles 1-5 of lean? - ANSWER- ...
Forcing function is used to start... - ANSWER- PI planning date
What are principles 6-10 of lean? (most important) - ANSWER-
What is principle 10 of lean? - ANSWER- ...organizing around value
What is the use of foundations? (?) - ANSWER- Train agile teams
before PI planning
What are 2 ways to evolve the solution intent from variable to fixed? -
ANSWER- Trade studies and modeling
What is the Kanban solution? - ANSWER- A tool used to manage
capabilities evolution
What happens after the analyzing stage? - ANSWER- Program
management approves and then places in actual backlog
