SAFe Agilist Exam
dual operating system - Answer - We need a ______________________ for Business
Agility.
Full Configuration - Answer - represents the most comprehensive configuration. It
supports building large, integrated solutions that typically require hundreds of people or
more to develop and maintain. Focus on *lean budgeting*. Portfolio + Large Solution +
Essential
Large Solution Configuration - Answer - for enterprises that are building large and
complex solutions, which do not require the constructs of the portfolio level. + Essential
Portfolio Configuration - Answer - provides portfolio strategy and investment funding.
Agile portfolio operations, and Lean governance. Usually used by C-Suite and CEO
level. + Essential
Essential Configuration - Answer - the most basic configuration of the framework and it
provides the minimal elements necessary to be successful with SAFe.
Seven Core Competencies of Business Agilty - Answer - 1. Enterprise Solution Delivery
2. Agile Product Delivery
3. Team and Technical Agility
4. Lean Portfolio Management
5. Organizational Agility
6. Continuous Learning Culture
7. Lean-Agile Leadership
Definition of Done - Answer - Acceptance criteria; part of working agreement.
"Everything our team goes through from beginning to releasable."
Three Aspects of Team and Technical Agility - Answer - 1. Agile Teams
2. Built-In Quality
3. Teams of Agile Teams
Team and Technical Agility - Answer - describes the critical skills and lean-agile
principles and practices that high-performing agile teams and teams of agile teams use
to create high-quality solutions for their customers
3 aspects of Agile Product Delivery - Answer - 1. Customer Centricity
2. Develop on Cadence, Release on Demand
3. DevOps and the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
,Agile product delivery - Answer - customer-centric approach to defining, building, and
releasing a continuous flow of valuable products and services to customers and users
3 aspects of enterprise solution delivery - Answer - 1. Lean System and Solution
Engineering
2. Coordinating Trains and Suppliers
3. Continually Evolve Live Systems
Enterprise Solution Delivery - Answer - describes how to apply lean-agile principles and
practices to specification, development, deployment, operation, and evolution of the
world's largest most sophisticated software applications, networks, and cyber-physical
systems.
Takes place at the Large Solution layer.
Lean Portfolio Management - Answer - aligns strategy and execution by applying Lean-
and systems- thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding Agile portfolio
operations, and governance.
3 aspects of lean portfolio management - Answer - 1. lean governance
2. strategy and investment funding
3. agile portfolio operations
Organizational Agility - Answer - describes how lean-thinking people and agile teams
optimize their business process, evolve strategy with clear and decisive new
commitments, and quickly adapt the organization as needed to capitalize on new
opportunities
3 aspects of organizational agility - Answer - 1. lean thinking people and agile teams
2. strategy agility
3. lean business operations
Continuous learning culture - Answer - describes a set of values and practices that
encourage individuals, and the enterprise as a whole, to continually increase
knowledge, competence, performance, and innovation
3 aspects of continuous learning culture - Answer - 1. learning organization
2. relentless improvement
3. innovation culture
ways to develop learning organizations - Answer - 1. personal mastery
2. shared vision
3. systems thinking
4. team learning
5. mental models
, ways to help relentless improvement - Answer - 1. constant state of danger
2. optimize the whole
3. problem solving culture
4. reflect key milestones
5. fact-based improvement
ways to create an innovation culture - Answer - 1. innovative people
2. time and space
3. go see
4. experimentation and feedback
5. pivot without mercy or guilt
6. innovation riptides
Lean-Agile leadership - Answer - describes how lean-agile leaders drive and sustain
organizational change and operational excellence by empowering individuals and teams
to reach their highest potential
3 aspects of lean agile leadership - Answer - 1. mindset and principles
2. leading by example
3. leading change
leading by example - Answer - 1. authenticity
2. decentralized decision making
3. emotional intelligence
4. lifelong learning
5. growing others
leading change - Answer - 1. change vision
2. change leadership
3. condition for change
4. psychological safety
5. training
psychological safety - Answer - most important aspect of leading change
measure and grow - Answer - the way portfolios evaluate their progress towards
Business Agility and determine their next improvement steps
SAFe core values - Answer - what is the whole point of SAFe?
4 SAFe Core Values - Answer - 1. Alignment
2. Transparency
3. Built-In Quality
4. Program Execution
SAFe House of Lean - Answer -
dual operating system - Answer - We need a ______________________ for Business
Agility.
Full Configuration - Answer - represents the most comprehensive configuration. It
supports building large, integrated solutions that typically require hundreds of people or
more to develop and maintain. Focus on *lean budgeting*. Portfolio + Large Solution +
Essential
Large Solution Configuration - Answer - for enterprises that are building large and
complex solutions, which do not require the constructs of the portfolio level. + Essential
Portfolio Configuration - Answer - provides portfolio strategy and investment funding.
Agile portfolio operations, and Lean governance. Usually used by C-Suite and CEO
level. + Essential
Essential Configuration - Answer - the most basic configuration of the framework and it
provides the minimal elements necessary to be successful with SAFe.
Seven Core Competencies of Business Agilty - Answer - 1. Enterprise Solution Delivery
2. Agile Product Delivery
3. Team and Technical Agility
4. Lean Portfolio Management
5. Organizational Agility
6. Continuous Learning Culture
7. Lean-Agile Leadership
Definition of Done - Answer - Acceptance criteria; part of working agreement.
"Everything our team goes through from beginning to releasable."
Three Aspects of Team and Technical Agility - Answer - 1. Agile Teams
2. Built-In Quality
3. Teams of Agile Teams
Team and Technical Agility - Answer - describes the critical skills and lean-agile
principles and practices that high-performing agile teams and teams of agile teams use
to create high-quality solutions for their customers
3 aspects of Agile Product Delivery - Answer - 1. Customer Centricity
2. Develop on Cadence, Release on Demand
3. DevOps and the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
,Agile product delivery - Answer - customer-centric approach to defining, building, and
releasing a continuous flow of valuable products and services to customers and users
3 aspects of enterprise solution delivery - Answer - 1. Lean System and Solution
Engineering
2. Coordinating Trains and Suppliers
3. Continually Evolve Live Systems
Enterprise Solution Delivery - Answer - describes how to apply lean-agile principles and
practices to specification, development, deployment, operation, and evolution of the
world's largest most sophisticated software applications, networks, and cyber-physical
systems.
Takes place at the Large Solution layer.
Lean Portfolio Management - Answer - aligns strategy and execution by applying Lean-
and systems- thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding Agile portfolio
operations, and governance.
3 aspects of lean portfolio management - Answer - 1. lean governance
2. strategy and investment funding
3. agile portfolio operations
Organizational Agility - Answer - describes how lean-thinking people and agile teams
optimize their business process, evolve strategy with clear and decisive new
commitments, and quickly adapt the organization as needed to capitalize on new
opportunities
3 aspects of organizational agility - Answer - 1. lean thinking people and agile teams
2. strategy agility
3. lean business operations
Continuous learning culture - Answer - describes a set of values and practices that
encourage individuals, and the enterprise as a whole, to continually increase
knowledge, competence, performance, and innovation
3 aspects of continuous learning culture - Answer - 1. learning organization
2. relentless improvement
3. innovation culture
ways to develop learning organizations - Answer - 1. personal mastery
2. shared vision
3. systems thinking
4. team learning
5. mental models
, ways to help relentless improvement - Answer - 1. constant state of danger
2. optimize the whole
3. problem solving culture
4. reflect key milestones
5. fact-based improvement
ways to create an innovation culture - Answer - 1. innovative people
2. time and space
3. go see
4. experimentation and feedback
5. pivot without mercy or guilt
6. innovation riptides
Lean-Agile leadership - Answer - describes how lean-agile leaders drive and sustain
organizational change and operational excellence by empowering individuals and teams
to reach their highest potential
3 aspects of lean agile leadership - Answer - 1. mindset and principles
2. leading by example
3. leading change
leading by example - Answer - 1. authenticity
2. decentralized decision making
3. emotional intelligence
4. lifelong learning
5. growing others
leading change - Answer - 1. change vision
2. change leadership
3. condition for change
4. psychological safety
5. training
psychological safety - Answer - most important aspect of leading change
measure and grow - Answer - the way portfolios evaluate their progress towards
Business Agility and determine their next improvement steps
SAFe core values - Answer - what is the whole point of SAFe?
4 SAFe Core Values - Answer - 1. Alignment
2. Transparency
3. Built-In Quality
4. Program Execution
SAFe House of Lean - Answer -
