VERIFIED ANSWERS
A powerful guiding coalition requires 4 things: - ANSWER- - Leaders
who set vision, show the way, remove impediments
- Practitioners, managers, change agents to implement prcs changes
- organizational credibility to be taken seriously
- expertise to make fast, intelligent decisions
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
LeanAgile 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;