VERIFIED ACCURATE ANSWERS
Which increment is reviewed at the System Demo?
A) Portfolio increment
B) Value stream increment
C) Full system increment
D) Team increment - ---Answers----C) Full system increment
What are the Product Owner areas of responsibility? - ---Answers----
Connecting with the customer, contributing to the vision and roadmap,
managing and prioritizing the team backlog, supporting the team in
delivering value, getting and applying feedback
What are the Product Management areas of responsibility? - ---
Answers----Exploring markets and users; connecting with the customer;
defining product strategy, vision, and roadmaps; managing and
prioritizing the ART backlog, delivering value
What are the principles of Lean Thinking? - ---Answers----1) Precisely
specify value by product
2) Identify the value stream for each product
3) Make value flow without interruptions
4) Let the customer pull value from the producer
,5) Pursue perfection
What are the Agile Values? - ---Answers----1. Individuals and
interactions over processes and tools
2. Working software over comprehensive documentation
3. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
4. Responding to change over following a plan
Operational Value Stream - ---Answers----- Represents the series of
steps an org uses to deliver a product or service to a customer
- Persists for as long as customers continue to derive value
- Contains the systems, the people who do the work, and the flow of
information and materials
Development Value Stream - ---Answers----- The sequence of activities
needed to convert a business hypothesis into a technology-enabled
product or service that delivers customer value
- Development Value Streams support Operational Value Streams
Solution - ---Answers----- A product, service, or system delivered to the
customer, whether internal or external to the Enterprise
- Each Development Value Stream produces one or more Solutions that
enable the Operational Value Stream
,Agile Release Train (ART) - ---Answers----- Consists of a virtual org of 5-
12 teams (50-125 individuals)
- Has all the capabilities needed to define, implement, test, and deploy
new system functionality
- Operates with the goal of achieving continuous flow of value
- Synchronizes on common cadence
- Aligns to a common mission through the ART Backlog
- Fully cross-functional
What are the Agile Team areas of responsibility? - ---Answers----
Connect with the customer, plan the work, deliver value, get feedback,
improve relentlessly
What are the two specialty roles on Agile Teams? - ---Answers----
Product Owner, Scrum Master/Team Coach
What are the ART roles? - ---Answers----Release Train Engineer - Chief
coach for the train
System Architect - Provides architectural guidance and technical
enablement to the teams on the train
System Team - Provides processes and tools to integrate, and evaluates
assets early and often
Business Owners - Serve as the key stakeholders on the train
, What is a Planning Interval (PI)? - ---Answers----- A timebox during
which an Agile Release Train (ART) delivers incremental value in the
form of working, tested software and systems
- Typically 8-12 weeks that consists of development Iterations and an
Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration
- A timebox for planning, building, and validating a full system
increment, demonstration value, and receiving fast feedback
Epic - ---Answers----A container for a significant solution development
initiative that captures the more substantial investments that occur
within a portfolio. Make up the portfolio backlog.
Capability - ---Answers----Features that span multiple ART and PIs
Feature - ---Answers----Service that fulfills a stakeholder need. Each
Feature includes a name, a benefit hypothesis, and acceptance criteria.
A Feature is sized or split, as necessary, to be delivered by an ART in a
PI. Make up the ART backlog
Which statement is true about the SAFe Backlog Model?
A) Epics are in the Solution Train Backlog
B) Capabilities are in the ART Backlog
C) Stories are in the Solution Train Backlog
D) Features are in the ART Backlog - ---Answers----D) Features are in the
ART Backlog