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“The SAFe 6.0 big picture - CORRECT ANSWER the graphic representation of the framework"
"What is the goal of SAFe? - CORRECT ANSWER Business agility"
"what key roles manage the essential level? - CORRECT ANSWER business owners
RTE - system architect - product management
agile teams - product owner - scrum leader"
"what key roles manage the large solution level? - CORRECT ANSWER STE - solution
architect - solution management"
"what key roles manage the portfolio level? - CORRECT ANSWER epic owners - enterprise
architect"
"what competency(ies) align with the essential level? - CORRECT ANSWER agile product
delivery
team and technical agility"
"what competency(ies) align with the large solution level? - CORRECT ANSWER enterprise
solution delivery"
"what competency(ies) align with the portfolio level? - CORRECT ANSWER lean portfolio
management"
"big data provides what? - CORRECT ANSWER provides fact-based insights that portfolio
stakeholders use to make strategic business decisions"
"the cloud enables ________? - CORRECT ANSWER DevOps capabilities which fuels the
continuous delivery pipeline and accelerates agile teams and ARTs"
"what helps connect strategy and execution? - CORRECT ANSWER OKRs (objectives and key
results)"
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,"daily stand up == _______? - CORRECT ANSWER Team sync"
"Scrum of scrums (SoS) == _______? - CORRECT ANSWER coach sync"
"Lean thinking in SAFe was represented by the SAFe house of lean but is now represented by
what? - CORRECT ANSWER lean thinking principles"
"lean thinking principles - CORRECT ANSWER - precisely specify value by product
- identify the value stream for each product
- make value flow without interruptions
- let the customer pull value from the producer
- pursue perfection"
"push based value flow - CORRECT ANSWER big
infrequent
overengineered released"
"pull based value flow - CORRECT ANSWER small
frequent releases or what matters to the customer"
"principle of lean thinking: pursue perfection - CORRECT ANSWER supports the idea of
continuous improvement"
"lean agile mindset - CORRECT ANSWER combination of beliefs, assumptions, attitudes, and
actions of SAFe leaders and professionals who embrace the concepts of lean thinking"
"Team backlog - CORRECT ANSWER contains all the upcoming work needed to advance the
solution"
"responsibility wheels - CORRECT ANSWER visual representation of the key areas of
responsibility for that role"
"SAFe practice consultants (SPC) - CORRECT ANSWER change agents that play a critical role
in successfully implementing SAFe
provide coaching for many of the practices and critical moves described in the SAFe
implementation roadmap"
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, "what are some outcome metric examples? - CORRECT ANSWER KPIs
strategic themes and OKRs
employee engagement"
"KPIs - CORRECT ANSWER used to measure a SAFe portfolio outcomes. each KPI is a specific
and quantifiable measure of business results for the value streams within that portfolio"
"strategic themes / OKRs - CORRECT ANSWER are portfolio level business objectives that
provide competitive differentiation and strategic advantage"
"what are flow metrics? - CORRECT ANSWER determine the organizations effectiveness at
delivering value"
"what are the 6 flow metrics? - CORRECT ANSWER 1. flow distribution
2. flow velocity
3. flow time
4. flow load
5. flow efficiency
6. flow predictability"
"(flow metrics) flow distribution - CORRECT ANSWER the proportion of each backlog item
type in the flow"
"(flow metrics) flow velocity - CORRECT ANSWER number of items completed in a given
time"
"(flow metrics) flow time - CORRECT ANSWER time elapsed from when an item enters the
workflow to when it is released to the customer"
"(flow metrics) flow load - CORRECT ANSWER total work-in-progress (across all steps of the
flow)"
"(flow metrics) flow efficiency - CORRECT ANSWER the portion of time backlog items are
actively worked on to the total time elapsed"
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