Agile Safe 5.1 SPC TEST WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS UPDATED 2021/2022 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 large st & 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 an d 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 s treams 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 pipeli ne 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 o f 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 oper ational 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 app ropriate quality standards throughout development. Agile Manifesto ---ANSWER --- * Individuals & Interactions OVER Processes & Tools; * Working Software OVER comprehensive documentation; * Customer Collaboration OVER contract negotiation; Responding to Cha nge 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 thei r 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 g uiding 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; Cus tomer 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 variabi lity; 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 w ith 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 peop le; 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; *Unlo ck 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 ma ximum benefit; * Do not consider Sunk Costs; * Make economic choices continuously (pivot relentlessly); *Empower local decision making; * Quantify the Cost of Delay.
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; *Unlo ck 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 ma ximum benefit; * Do not consider Sunk Costs; * Make economic choices continuously (pivot relentlessly); *Empower local decision making; * Quantify the Cost of Delay.
