SAFE 5 AGILIST EXAM (5.1) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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What is one benefit of unlocking the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers?
To provide autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints
To strive to achieve a state of continuous flow
To lower work in process (WIP) limits
To centralize decision-making
Which statement is a principle of the Agile Manifesto?
Respect for people and culture
Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths
Measure everything
Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount of work not done–is essential
What are the three primary keys to implementing flow? (Choose three.)
Manage queue lengths
Visualize and limit work in process (WIP)
Increase capacity
Frequent context switching
Address the systemic problems
Reduce the batch sizes of work
What is part of the role of Product Management?
To facilitate backlog refinement sessions
To prioritize Enablers
To assign business value to Features
To prioritize the Program Backlog
What is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision-making?
,Creating better visualization
Delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead time
Removing accountability from leaders
Ensuring strategic decisions are not made in a vacuum
Design Thinking identifies at least four new ways to measure success. What are two of those ways?
(Choose two.)
Desirability
Scalability
Reliability
Marketability
Sustainability
Which statement is true about DevOps?
Lean-Agile principles are not necessary for a successful DevOps implementation
Measurements are not a top priority for DevOps
DevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between development and operations
DevOps automation of testing reduces the holding cost
In the Program Kanban some steps have work in process (WIP) limits. Why is this necessary?
To keep timebox goals
To help Continuous Deployment
To enable multitasking
To ensure large queues are not being built
The House of Lean is a classic metaphor describing the mindset essential for Lean thinking. Which
one of the four pillars advocates a 'Go See' mindset?
Respect for people and culture
Flow
Innovation
Relentless improvement
, Which two statements are true about uncommitted objectives? (Choose two.)
Uncommitted objectives are not included in the team's commitment
Uncommitted objectives help improve predictability
Uncommitted objectives do not get assigned a planned business value score
Uncommitted objectives are extra things the team can do in case they have time
The work to deliver the uncommitted objectives is not planned into the iterations during PI Planning
What is the best measure of progress for complex system development?
Prioritized backlog
System Demo
Inspect and Adapt
Iteration Review
What is Business Agility?
How Lean-thinking people and Agile Teams optimize their business processes, evolve strategy with
clear and decisive new commitments, and quickly adapt the organization as needed to capitalize on
new opportunities.
The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and
emerging opportunities with innovative business Solutions.
Applying Lean-Agile principles and practices to the specification, development, deployment,
operation, and evolution of the world’s largest and most sophisticated systems.
A customer-centric approach to defining, building, and releasing a continuous flow of valuable
products and services to customers and users.
What is a minimum viable product?
A minimal product that can be built to achieve market dominance
A prototype that can be used to explore user needs
A minimal version of a new product used to test a hypothesis
A minimal Story a team can deliver in an Iteration
What is one issue when organizing around hierarchical functions?
It reduces political tensions
It moves the decision to where the information is
LATEST UPDATE WITH QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
ALREADY GRADED A
What is one benefit of unlocking the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers?
To provide autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints
To strive to achieve a state of continuous flow
To lower work in process (WIP) limits
To centralize decision-making
Which statement is a principle of the Agile Manifesto?
Respect for people and culture
Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths
Measure everything
Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount of work not done–is essential
What are the three primary keys to implementing flow? (Choose three.)
Manage queue lengths
Visualize and limit work in process (WIP)
Increase capacity
Frequent context switching
Address the systemic problems
Reduce the batch sizes of work
What is part of the role of Product Management?
To facilitate backlog refinement sessions
To prioritize Enablers
To assign business value to Features
To prioritize the Program Backlog
What is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision-making?
,Creating better visualization
Delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead time
Removing accountability from leaders
Ensuring strategic decisions are not made in a vacuum
Design Thinking identifies at least four new ways to measure success. What are two of those ways?
(Choose two.)
Desirability
Scalability
Reliability
Marketability
Sustainability
Which statement is true about DevOps?
Lean-Agile principles are not necessary for a successful DevOps implementation
Measurements are not a top priority for DevOps
DevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between development and operations
DevOps automation of testing reduces the holding cost
In the Program Kanban some steps have work in process (WIP) limits. Why is this necessary?
To keep timebox goals
To help Continuous Deployment
To enable multitasking
To ensure large queues are not being built
The House of Lean is a classic metaphor describing the mindset essential for Lean thinking. Which
one of the four pillars advocates a 'Go See' mindset?
Respect for people and culture
Flow
Innovation
Relentless improvement
, Which two statements are true about uncommitted objectives? (Choose two.)
Uncommitted objectives are not included in the team's commitment
Uncommitted objectives help improve predictability
Uncommitted objectives do not get assigned a planned business value score
Uncommitted objectives are extra things the team can do in case they have time
The work to deliver the uncommitted objectives is not planned into the iterations during PI Planning
What is the best measure of progress for complex system development?
Prioritized backlog
System Demo
Inspect and Adapt
Iteration Review
What is Business Agility?
How Lean-thinking people and Agile Teams optimize their business processes, evolve strategy with
clear and decisive new commitments, and quickly adapt the organization as needed to capitalize on
new opportunities.
The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and
emerging opportunities with innovative business Solutions.
Applying Lean-Agile principles and practices to the specification, development, deployment,
operation, and evolution of the world’s largest and most sophisticated systems.
A customer-centric approach to defining, building, and releasing a continuous flow of valuable
products and services to customers and users.
What is a minimum viable product?
A minimal product that can be built to achieve market dominance
A prototype that can be used to explore user needs
A minimal version of a new product used to test a hypothesis
A minimal Story a team can deliver in an Iteration
What is one issue when organizing around hierarchical functions?
It reduces political tensions
It moves the decision to where the information is
