SAFE PRACTITIONER 6.0 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT VERIFIED SOLUTIONS

SAFE PRACTITIONER 6.0 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT VERIFIED SOLUTIONS "Core Competencies of Business Agility - CORRECT ANSWER *****1) Team and Technical Agility***** *****2) Agile Product Delivery***** 3) Enterprise Solution Delivery 4) Lean Portfolio Management 5) Organizational Agility 6) Continuous Learning Culture 7) Lean-Agile Leadership" "Dimensions of Team and Technical Agility - CORRECT ANSWER Agile teams Agile Release Train (ART) Built-In Quality" "Dimensions of Agile Product Delivery - CORRECT ANSWER Customer Centricity and Design Thinking Develop on Cadence and Release on Demand DevOps and the Continuous Delivery Pipeline" "PO Responsibilities - CORRECT ANSWER 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" "SAFe Scrum Events - CORRECT ANSWER Iteration Planning Iteration Backlog Team Syncs Iteration Review **(run on a cadence) Iteration Retrospective System Demos" "SAFe Kanban Events - CORRECT ANSWER Plan Team Syncs System Demos Retrospective **(run on a cadence)" "ART Responsibilities - CORRECT ANSWER Connecting with the Customer Planning the Work Delivering Value Getting Feedback Improving Relentlessly" "ART Roles - CORRECT ANSWER Release Train Engineer (RTE) System Architect Business Owners Project Management System team" "Team Topologies - CORRECT ANSWER Stream-aligned Complicated subsystem Platform Enabling" "Customer-Centric Mindset - CORRECT ANSWER Understand the Customer's needs Focus on the Customer Think like the Customer Build whole-product solutions Know Customer lifetime value Everything is about the Customer!" "Architectural Runway - CORRECT ANSWER Provides the Technical vision to support the Product vision Consists of the existing code, components, and technical infrastructure needed to implement near-term features without excessive redesign and delay" "Intentional Architecture - CORRECT ANSWER Fosters team alignment and defines the Architectural Runway" "Emergent Design - CORRECT ANSWER Teams grow the system design as user stories require" "Features - CORRECT ANSWER Represent the work for an ART Split into User Stories and Enabler Stories" "INVEST in a good story - CORRECT ANSWER I - independent N - negotiable V - valuable E - estimable S - small T - testable" "Enabler Stories - CORRECT ANSWER Build the groundwork for future user stories" "Enabler Story Types - CORRECT ANSWER Exploration Architecture Infrastructure Compliance" "Infrastructure Enabler Story - CORRECT ANSWER Build development and testing frameworks that enable a faster and more efficient development process" "Architecture Enabler Story - CORRECT ANSWER Build the Architectural Runway, which enables smoother and faster development" "Acceptance Criteria - CORRECT ANSWER Provide the details of the Story from a testing point of view Are created by the Agile Team Can be written in a Given-When-Then format" "Sequencing Stories - CORRECT ANSWER Sequence based on: -Priorities inherited from the ART Backlog -Capacity allocations for maintenance -Dependencies with other stories" "Backlog Refinement - CORRECT ANSWER Collaborative process that involves the entire team Helps the team turn new hypotheses into User Stories Improves stories and identifies missing information Creates joint buy-in and team ownership" "Story Points - CORRECT ANSWER Singular number represents: -Volume -Complexity -Knowledge -Uncertainty Story points are relative Defined by the team using estimating poker" "Benefits of PI Planning - CORRECT ANSWER Establishes personal communication across all team members and stakeholders Aligning development to business goals with the business context, Vision, and Team/ART PI objectives Identifying dependencies and fostering cross team and cross ART collaboration Provide the opportunity for just the right amount of architecture and Lean User Experience guidance Matching demand to capacity, eliminating excess work in progress (WIP) Fast decision making" "PI Objectives - CORRECT ANSWER Objectives are business summaries of what each team intends to deliver in the upcoming PI Objectives often directly relate to intended Features in the backlog" "Uncommitted Objectives - CORRECT ANSWER Planned but not guaranteed goals in a PI Help improve predictability Do count when calculating load" "Outcomes of the PI Planning simulation - CORRECT ANSWER Communication Estimating Capacity Drafting Objectives Managing Risks" "Calculating Velocity - CORRECT ANSWER Give the team 8 points for every full-time Agile Team member Subtract 1 point for every team member's holidays/vacation days Estimate story points relative to a 1-point story that would take a day to develop" "Addressing ART PI Risks - CORRECT ANSWER After all plans have been presented, remaining ART PI risks and impediments are discussed and categorized ROAMing risks: Resolved: addressed, no longer a concern Owned: someone has taken responsibility Accepted: nothing more can be done, and if risk occurs, release may be compromised Mitigated: team has plan to adjust as necessary" "confidence vote - CORRECT ANSWER Teams agree to do everything in their power to meet the agreed-to objectives In the event that fact patterns dictate that it is simply not achievable, teams agree to escalate immediately so that corrective action can be taken 1 - no confidence 5 - very high confidence" "Scrum Iteration Planning - CORRECT ANSWER Defines the Iteration Goals and the Backlog of commitments Team commits to delivering specific value Capacity allocation towards User Stories, Refactors, and Maintenance Commitment and Adaptability; Commit to the iteration goals and the ART" "SAFe Kanban Team Planning - CORRECT ANSWER Teams such as maintenance and systems upkeep will emphasize continual Backlog Refinement rather than detailed Iteration Plans They still commit to goals They participate in PI Planning, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt like every other team" "DevOps CALMR Mindset - CORRECT ANSWER Maximizes speed and stability Used to create the Continuous Delivery Pipeline A CALMR approach to DevOps: C: Culture - of shared responsibility A: Automation - of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline L: Lean flow - accelerates delivery with small batch sizes and WIP limits M: Measurement - of flow, quality, and value using full-stack telemetry R: Recovery - reduces risk and preserves value by designing low-risk releases that allow for fast reversion" "Continuous Delivery Pipeline - CORRECT ANSWER Represents the workflows, activities, and automation needed to deliver new functionality more frequently Continuous Exploration Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment" "PDCA Integrated Learning Cycles - CORRECT ANSWER Plan Do Check Adjust" "Continuous Exploration - CORRECT ANSWER Understand Customer needs Hypothesize - Persona development Collaborate and Research - Understand needs of Customer Architect - Envision how technology will work Synthesize - Prioritize stories in Backlog" "Continuous Integration - CORRECT ANSWER Get fast feedback on small changes Develop - implement stories and commit code Build - create deployable binaries Test - validate system in environments Stage - host, validate, and demo solution in environments" "Continuous Deployment - CORRECT ANSWER Get to production early for verification Deploy Verify Monitor - telemetry and measurements Respond" "Release on Demand - CORRECT ANSWER Separate deployment from release (Decoupling) Hide new functionality under feature toggles Enable testing in production environment before exposure to users" "Team Sync - CORRECT ANSWER What did I do yesterday What will I do today Are there any impediments Review topics captured on meet-after board" "Agile Software Development Quality Practices - CORRECT ANSWER Continuous integration: continually check small changes for errors Test-first practices: execute many tests early, often, and at multiple levels of integration Refactoring: continually modify the system to be more efficient Continuous Delivery: apply the CDP Agile architecture: evolve the architecture continuously while supporting the needs of current users" "Test-first Software Practices - CORRECT ANSWER Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) Test-Driven Development (TDD) Extreme Programming (XP) Creates a balanced Agile testing pyramid - **many small, automated tests and fewer large, manual tests**" "Shift Left - CORRECT ANSWER Traditional V-Model delays testing Testing needs to shift left for fast and continuous feedback; always test right after completion" "Iteration Review - CORRECT ANSWER Provides the true measure of progress by showing working software functionality and business outcome progression Teams demonstrate every Story, Spike, Refactor, NFR How did we do in the Iteration? How are we doing in the PI? Review of PI Objectives and remaining PI Scope" "SAFe Kanban Team Review - CORRECT ANSWER Did we meet the dependencies other teams relied on us for? Have we been meeting our Team DoD? Review of PI Objectives and remaining PI Scope Alignment on Kanban board" "Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD) - CORRECT ANSWER A chart indicating features completed over time, features in other states of development, and those in the backlog Shows the stage of each feature To Do | Design | Develop | Test | Done" "System Demo - CORRECT ANSWER Tests and evaluates the full solution in a production-like context, often through staging, to receive feedback from stakeholders New features work together with existing functionality Resembles production as much as possible Used to deliver **objective progress**, product, and process metrics" "System Demo Agenda - CORRECT ANSWER Review the business context and PI Objectives Briefly describe each new Feature Demo each feature in end-to-end cases Open discussion of questions and feedback Summary of progress and action items" "Business Agility Improvement Domains - CORRECT ANSWER Competency Flow Outcomes" "Competency Improvement Activites - CORRECT ANSWER Retrospectives SAFe Assessments Inspect & Adapt" "Competency Assessments - CORRECT ANSWER Periodically measure progress towards the seven Core Competencies Identify specific practices for potential improvement" "Iteration Retrospective - CORRECT ANSWER Review if the team met the iteration goals Align on items that can be improved in the next iteration Enter improvement items into the Team Backlog" "Visualize and Limit WIP - CORRECT ANSWER #1 Flow Accelerator Excessive WIP decreases team productivity and impedes the flow of value Make current WIP visible Set WIP limits to balance WIP against available capacity" "Address Bottlenecks - CORRECT ANSWER #2 Flow Accelerator Bottleneck constrains the productivity of the entire ART Identify bottlenecks and determine their impact Identify the resolution, whether it is improving skills towards the bottleneck or prioritizing enabler stories" "Minimize Handoffs and Dependencies - CORRECT ANSWER #3 Flow Accelerator Excessive handoffs and dependencies disrupt team flow and create delays **Use the ART Planning Board to visualize dependencies** Organize around value and reorganize when necessary" "OKRs - CORRECT ANSWER Objectives and Key Results Create goals towards achieving business outcomes" "Business Owners guide the ART towards outcomes - CORRECT ANSWER Identify OKRs and maintain Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) Communicate business context at ART events Responsible for understanding and communicating the strategic themes that influence the train" "Four Critical Success Factors - CORRECT ANSWER Use measurement in conjunction with other discovery tools Apply Metrics where they support improved decision making Understand the benefit of Metrics on behavior Interpret Metrics carefully" Business Agility - CORRECT ANSWER Business Agility is the ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative, digitally-enabled business solutions." "safe - CORRECT ANSWER SAFe is the world's leading framework for Business Agility. SAFe integrates the power of Lean, Agile, and DevOps into a comprehensive operating system that helps enterprises thrive in the digital age by delivering innovative products and services faster, more predictably, and with higher quality. SAFe provides guidance on how businesses and employees can grow and respond to change." "Lean thinking principles - CORRECT ANSWER - precisely specify value by product - Identify The Value Stream for each product - make value flow without interruptions - let customer pull value from the producer - pursue perfection" "value stream - CORRECT ANSWER Includes activities from recognizing an opportunity through release and validation. Contains the steps, the flow of information and material, and the people who develop the Solution" "SAFe Core Values - CORRECT ANSWER - Alignment - Transparency - Built-in Quality - Program Execution" "safe lean agile principles - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Take an economic view 2. Apply systems thinking 3. Assume variability; preserve options 4. Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles 5. Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems 6. Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes and manage queue lengths 7. Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning 8. Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers 9. Decentralize decision-making" "Make value flow without interruptions - The eight flow accelerators - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Visualize and limit WIP 2. Address bottlenecks 3. Minimize handoffs and dependencies 4. Get faster feedback 5. Work in smaller batches 6. Reduce queue length 7. Optimize time 'in the zone' 8. Remediate legacy practices and policies" "Team and Technical Agility - CORRECT ANSWER The Team and Technical Agility competency 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." "Agile Teams - CORRECT ANSWER Agile Teams are cross-functional, self-organizing entities that can define, build, test, and—where applicable—deploy increments of value." "Basic Agile quality practices (apply to every team) - CORRECT ANSWER - Shift learning left - Reveal problems sooner, take corrective action with minimum impact - Pairing and peer review - Multiple viewpoints enhance work quality and grow knowledge - Collective ownership and T-shaped skills - Reduce bottlenecks and increase flow - Artifact standards and definition of done - Ensure consistent quality for each work product - Workflow automation - Enable small batches and reduce errors" "Agile Release Trains - CORRECT ANSWER - 5-12 teams - Synchronized on a common cadence (a Planning Increment) - Aligned to a single mission via the ART Backlog" "Architectural Runway - CORRECT ANSWER Consists of the existing code, components, and technical infrastructure needed to implement near-term features without excessive redesign and delay." "Features are implemented by Stories - CORRECT ANSWER ► Stories are small increments of value that can be developed in days and are relatively easy to estimate ► Story user-voice form captures the end user's roles, activities, and goals ► Features fit in one PI for one ART; Stories fit in one Iteration for one team" "Story Points - CORRECT ANSWER Singular number represents: -Volume -Complexity -Knowledge -Uncertainty Story points are relative, and are not connected to any specific unit of measure" "WSJF - CORRECT ANSWER Weighted Shortest Job First" "PI Planning - CORRECT ANSWER Planning Interval (PI) Planning is a cadence-based event that serves as the heartbeat of the Agile Release Train (ART), aligning all teams on the ART to a shared mission and Vision. - Two days every 8-12 weeks (10 weeks is typical) - Everyone plans together - Product Management owns Feature priorities - Development teams own Story planning and high-level estimates - System Architect and User Experience (UX) work as intermediaries for governance, interfaces, and dependencies" "PI Planning Day 1 - CORRECT ANSWER business context, product/solution vision, architecture vision and development practices, planning context, draft plan review, management review and problem solving" "PI Planning Day 2 Agenda - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Planning adjustments 2. Team Breakouts 3. Final Plan review and lunch 4. Program Risks 5. PI Confidence vote 6. Plan rework if necessary After commitment: Planning retrospective and moving forward." "Manage the flow of work with the ART Kanban - CORRECT ANSWER " "DevOps - CORRECT ANSWER An approach based on lean and agile principles in which business owners and the development, operations, and quality assurance departments collaborate." "Continuous Delivery Pipeline - CORRECT ANSWER Represents the workflows, activities, and automation needed to shepherd a new piece of functionality from ideation to an on- demand release of value to the end user. Each ART builds and maintains, or shares, a pipeline. Organizations map their current pipeline into this new structure and remove delays and improve the efficiency of each step." "SAFe Portfolio - CORRECT ANSWER collection of development Value Streams. - Each Value Stream builds, supports, and maintains Solutions - Solutions are delivered to the Customer, whether internal or external to the Enterprise" "Portfolio epic - CORRECT ANSWER Epic is a significant Solution development initiative. There are two types: - Business Epics directly deliver business value - Enabler Epics support the Architectural Runway and future business functionality - Portfolio Epics are typically cross-cutting, typically spanning multiple Value Streams and PIs. - Epics need a Lean business case, the definition of a minimum viable product (MVP), an Epic Owner, and approval by LPM." "Building a problem-solving culture" is an example of which SAFe Core Value? - CORRECT ANSWER Relentless Improvement" "How does SAFe provide a second operating system that enables Business Agility? - CORRECT ANSWER By focusing on customers, products, innovation, and growth" "How is the flow of Portfolio Epics managed? - CORRECT ANSWER In the Portfolio Kanban" "In the ART Kanban some steps have work in process (WIP) limits. Why is this necessary? - CORRECT ANSWER To ensure large queues are not forming" "On day two of PI Planning, management presents adjustments based on the previous day's management review and problem-solving meeting. What is one possible type of adjustment they could make? - CORRECT ANSWER Adjust business priorities" "Reviewing the organization's architecture vision during the first day of PI Planning is an example of what SAFe Core Value? - CORRECT ANSWER Alignment" "The Lean Thinking principle, "make value flow without interruptions" means identifying what? - CORRECT ANSWER Delays" "Turn mistakes into learning moments, create a trust-based environment, and visualize work are examples of which SAFe Core Value? - CORRECT ANSWER Transparancy" "Volume, complexity, knowledge, and uncertainty are all qualities of what? - CORRECT ANSWER Story Points" "What brings structure to analysis and decision making around Epics? - CORRECT ANSWER Portfolio Kanban" "What do Strategic Themes influence directly? - CORRECT ANSWER Lean Budget Guardrails" "What does the ART planning board show? - CORRECT ANSWER Significant dependencies" "What enables enterprises to respond quickly to shifts in the market? - CORRECT ANSWER Business Agility Value Stream" "What is a quality of an Agile team - CORRECT ANSWER Cross-functional" "What is an example of applying cadence-based synchronization in SAFe? - CORRECT ANSWER Teams align the start and end dates of their Iterations" "What is considered an anti-pattern when assigning business values to team PI Objectives? - CORRECT ANSWER All PI Objectives are given a business value of 10" "What is critical to improving flow? - CORRECT ANSWER Reduce the batch sizes of work" "What is one approach to unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers? - CORRECT ANSWER Provide Autonomy" "What is one body of knowledge that informs the SAFe values, principles, mindset, and practices? - CORRECT ANSWER Lean Thinking" "What is one component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline? - CORRECT ANSWER Continuous Exploration" "What is one Design Thinking measure of solution success? - CORRECT ANSWER Sustainability" "What is one of the five basic Agile quality practices applicable to all Agile Teams? - CORRECT ANSWER Shift learning left" "What is one of the five Lean Thinking principles? - CORRECT ANSWER Make value flow without interruptions" "What is one of the inputs to the Portfolio canvas? - CORRECT ANSWER Strategic Themes" "What is one of the Lean budget Guardrails? - CORRECT ANSWER Continuous Business Owner engagement" "what is part of the role of product management? - CORRECT ANSWER To prioritize the ART backlog" "What is the first step in Kotter's 8-step process for leading change? - CORRECT ANSWER Create a sense of urgency" "What is the next step in the SAFe Implementation Roadmap after organizing around value? - CORRECT ANSWER Create the implementation plan" "What is the purpose of customer centricity? - CORRECT ANSWER To understand the customer needs" "What is used to capture the current state of the Portfolio and provide input for defining the future state? - CORRECT ANSWER Portfolio Canvas" "What is used to describe functional and non-functional requirements? - CORRECT ANSWER Features" "What should the team focus on in order to optimize flow - CORRECT ANSWER Delays" "What type of map captures user workflows? - CORRECT ANSWER Story" "Which aspect of leading by example includes modeling desired professional behaviors? - CORRECT ANSWER Authenticity" "Which core competency of the Lean Enterprise helps drive Agile Quality practices? - CORRECT ANSWER Team and Technical Agility" "Which is an aspect of systems thinking? - CORRECT ANSWER Optimizing a component does not optimize the system" "Which of the core competencies of the Lean Enterprise helps align strategy and execution? - CORRECT ANSWER Lean Portfolio Management" "Which of the Lean Thinking principles includes the activities from recognizing an opportunity through release - CORRECT ANSWER Identify the Value Stream for each product" "Which statement best describes Business Agility? - CORRECT ANSWER The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business Solutions." "Which statement correctly describes one aspect of the team's commitment at the end of PI Planning? - CORRECT ANSWER A team does not commit to uncommitted objectives" "Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto? - CORRECT ANSWER Responding to change over following a plan" "Which statement is true about uncommitted objectives? - CORRECT ANSWER They help improve predictability" "Who has content authority to make decisions at the User Story level during PI Planning? - CORRECT ANSWER Product Owner" "Why is it important to decouple deployment from release? - CORRECT ANSWER To enable releasing functionality on demand to meet business needs" Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto? - CORRECT ANSWER Responding to change over following a plan Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Working software over comprehensive documentation Individuals and interactions over processes and tools" "Which discipline is necessary for a learning organization? - CORRECT ANSWER Personal mastery. Mental models. Building shared vision. Team learning Systems thinking" "What is an example of traditional mindset for Lean Portfolio Management? - CORRECT ANSWER Centralized annual planning" "Which of the following is a benefit of training all the teams on the ART together? - CORRECT ANSWER Accelerated learning" "Which of the following is a principle of Lean Thinking? - CORRECT ANSWER Build in Quality NOT: Build in quality for each product (per last test? )" "What is an example of applying cadence-based synchronization in SAFe? - CORRECT ANSWER Teams meet regularly to schedule capacity NOT: TEams meet regularly to schedule capacity (per last test)" "What is one common reason an organization starts a SAFe transformation? - CORRECT ANSWER There is a 'burning platform,' and the company is failing to compete" "According to SAFe Principle #10, what should the Enterprise do when markets and customers demand change? - CORRECT ANSWER Reorganize the network around the new value flow" "The design of an Agile Release Train (ART) should remove what? - CORRECT ANSWER Silos that inhibit flow" "Who facilitates team-level events? - CORRECT ANSWER The Scrum Master/Team Coach" "What does flow velocity measure? - CORRECT ANSWER The number of backlog items completed in a given timeframe" "Which of the following is an area of responsibility for a SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC)? - CORRECT ANSWER Coaching flow" "Why is it important for the SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) to support the ART in its first problem-solving workshop? - CORRECT ANSWER To prioritize senior management voices" "Which of the following is a benefit of organizing around Value Streams? - CORRECT ANSWER It reduces handoffs and allows for faster delivery" "What is the next step for the portfolio after the future state portfolio canvas? - CORRECT ANSWER Identify Epics and Enablers" "When should a Lean portfolio be established? - CORRECT ANSWER When the lack of alignment between strategy and execution impacts value delivery" "Which of the following includes business outcomes, leading indicators, and non-functional requirements? - CORRECT ANSWER Epic hypothesis statement" "What is the benefit of timeboxing the preparation for the first PI Planning event? - CORRECT ANSWER To maximize the quality of the preparation" "Which SAFe core competency supports coordination across multiple ARTs? - CORRECT ANSWER Enterprise Solution Delivery The Large Solution SAFe configuration (Figure 12) introduces the Enterprise Solution Delivery competency, which supports those building the largest and most complex solutions that require multiple ARTs and Suppliers but do not require portfolio-level considerations." "What is the final activity on day one of PI Planning? - CORRECT ANSWER Management review and problem-solving" "Which of the following aligns strategy to execution via a collection of the development Value Streams? - CORRECT ANSWER A SAFe portfolio aligns strategy to execution via a collection of Development Value Streams." "What is one benefit of organizing an ART using the "platform" ART topology? - CORRECT ANSWER It reduces cognitive load on other teams" "Which of the following is an input to PI Planning? - CORRECT ANSWER SWOT/TOWS analysis" "Applying which of the following flow accelerators minimizes interruptions and increases productivity? - CORRECT ANSWER it is NOT reducee queue lengths NOT Minimize handoffs and dependencies" "What approach enables Organizational Agility? - CORRECT ANSWER Implementing a continuous delivery pipeline" "What is one reason the SAFe Implementation Roadmap includes a step to train Lean-Agile change agents? - CORRECT ANSWER They provide the knowledge needed to implement change" "Which of the following are three of the steps in the LPM Adoption Roadmap? - CORRECT ANSWER Organize, Operate, and Govern" "What is one way Design Thinking measures success? - CORRECT ANSWER Sustainability" "Which of the following is one responsibility of the Value Management Office (VMO)? - CORRECT ANSWER Coordinates Portfolio governance" "What is the recommended size of an effective Agile Release Train (ART)? - CORRECT ANSWER 50-125 people" "Why do organizations often start with Essential SAFe? - CORRECT ANSWER A smaller number of teams is better when getting started NOT answer: adequate for most organizations" "Which of the following outlines the policies and practices for budgeting, spending, and governance for a specific portfolio? - CORRECT ANSWER Lean budget Guardrails" "Which of the following is an aspect of the leading-by-example dimension of Lean-Agile Leadership? - CORRECT ANSWER Lifelong learning" "What is Business Agility? - CORRECT ANSWER The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business Solutions." "During PI Planning, which statement is true about the activities of team breakouts? - CORRECT ANSWER In team breakout #2, teams work to create their final plans" "Why is it important for the SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) to support the ART in its first problem-solving workshop? - CORRECT ANSWER To provide the tools needed to improve ART performance" "Who is the content authority for an Agile Release Train (ART)? - CORRECT ANSWER Product Management" "Which of the following is one aspect of the Strategy and Investment Funding dimension of Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)? - CORRECT ANSWER NOT ANSWER: measure portfolio performance" "The benefit hypothesis justifies the Feature implementation cost, and what else? - CORRECT ANSWER NOT: provides acceptance criteria" "Which statement is true about multiple Agile Release Train (ART) rollouts? - CORRECT ANSWER ART rollouts can be done sequentially or in parallel" "Which of the following is an area of responsibility for a SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC)? - CORRECT ANSWER Building High-Performing Teams" "A problem-solving workshop focuses the Agile Release Train (ART) to take what action? - CORRECT ANSWER To create improvement backlog items" "When is the right time to create the Solution Train Engineer (STE) role? - CORRECT ANSWER When a large Value Stream has enough Agile Release Trains (ARTs) to launch a Solution Train" "Which of the following is one aspect of the Strategy and Investment Funding dimension of Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)? - CORRECT ANSWER Measure Portfolio performance" "What is the second operating system organized around? - CORRECT ANSWER Value Streams" "Why is it important for the SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) to support the ART in its first problem-solving workshop? - CORRECT ANSWER To provide the tools needed to improve ART performance" "What is the next step for the portfolio after the future state portfolio canvas? - CORRECT ANSWER Identify Epics and Enablers" "Why is it important that a SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) provide ongoing coaching? - CORRECT ANSWER To build the organization's Lean-Agile capabilities" "Which statement fits with the SAFe Core Value of Relentless Improvement? - CORRECT ANSWER Build a problem-solving culture" "When calculating and assessing team PI performance for the ART predictability measure, which statement is true about the actual business value delivered? - CORRECT ANSWER not sure NOT: Actual business value is scored using modified Fibonacci Scale" “Business Agility - CORRECT ANSWER The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business Solutions" "BAVS - CORRECT ANSWER Business Agility Value Stream" "Lean thinking principles - CORRECT ANSWER 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" "SAFe Core Values - CORRECT ANSWER - Alignment - Transparency - Respect for People - Relentless Improvement" "SAFe Lean-Agile Principles - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Take an economic view 2. Apply systems thinking 3. Assume variability; preserve options **4. Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles **5. Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems **6. Make value flow without interruptions **7. Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning 8. Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers 9. Decentralize decision-making **10. Organize around value" "Agile Team Responsibilities - CORRECT ANSWER Connecting with the Customer Planning the Work Delivering Value Getting Feedback Improving Relentlessly" "Agile Team Characteristics - CORRECT ANSWER Safety to take risks without fear of embarrassment or punishment Diverse knowledge and skills Trust each other, allowing for healthy conflict and reliance Align on a shared vision Accountable to each other and the organization" "Agile Team Specialty Roles - CORRECT ANSWER Scrum Master / Team Coach (SM / TC) Product Owner (PO)" "SM/TC Responsibilities - CORRECT ANSWER Facilitating PI Planning Supporting Iteration Execution Improving Flow Building High-Performing Teams Improving ART Performance" "Stream-aligned team - CORRECT ANSWER organized around the flow of work and has the ability to deliver value directly to the customer or end user" "Complicated subsystem team - CORRECT ANSWER organized around specific subsystems that require deep specialty skills and expertise" "Platform team - CORRECT ANSWER organized around the development and support of platforms that provide services to other teams" "Enabling team - CORRECT ANSWER organized to assist other teams with specialized capabilities and help them become proficient in new technologies" "Design Thinking - CORRECT ANSWER Approaching management problems as designers approach design problems Understanding the problem to design a **sustainable** solution Use tools like empathy maps, personas, gemba walks, journey maps" "Persona - CORRECT ANSWER Fictional characters that represent the different people who might use your product" "Empathy mapping - CORRECT ANSWER Creating a persona based on empathetic questions Who are they? What do they need? What do they think and feel?" "Product Vision - CORRECT ANSWER Aligns everyone on the product's direction What features does it have? How will it differentiate our product?" "Roadmaps - CORRECT ANSWER Communicates intent Provide multiple planning horizons Roadmaps are NOT commitments" "User Stories - CORRECT ANSWER Short descriptions of a small piece of desired functionality, written in the user's language Provide the customer with value" "Story Format - CORRECT ANSWER As a (user role), I want to (activity), so that (business value)" "Writing Good Stories: The 3Cs - CORRECT ANSWER Card - Written on a card or in the tool and may annotate with notes Conversation - The details are in a conversation with the Product Owner Confirmation - Acceptance criteria confirm the Story correctness" "Exploration Enabler Story - CORRECT ANSWER Build understanding of what is needed by the Customer to understand prospective Solutions and evaluate alternatives" "Compliance Enabler Story - CORRECT ANSWER Facilitate specific activities such as verification and validation, documentation, signoffs, regulatory submissions, and approvals" "Agile Team Backlog - CORRECT ANSWER Contains all the work for the team Created by the PO and the Team Prioritized by the PO Optimized to help teams focus on priorities" "Story maps - CORRECT ANSWER Overcome backlog challenges and promote Design Thinking Break down big User Stories Completed with Quality and Value" "Splitting Stories - CORRECT ANSWER In support of small batches for flow, decrease size to minimum. Split Stories into essential and non-essential parts and eliminate the non-essential Ensure you have something releasable In support of feedback: Deploy small stories to get technical/user feedback quickly (maximize feedback) In support of iteration planning: Split stories so they fit into an iteration" "Story Estimation - CORRECT ANSWER Fibonacci Sequence used for estimation (1, 2, 3, 5, 8...) Typically, a 1-point story would take 1 day to develop and test" "Estimating Poker - CORRECT ANSWER Combines expert opinion, analogy, and disaggregation for quick reliable estimates of story points Includes whole team Builds understanding Shared commitment" "Innovation and Planning Iteration (IP) - CORRECT ANSWER PI Planning occurs on cadence within the IP iteration which facilitates reliability, PI readiness, planning, and innovation" "PI Planning - CORRECT ANSWER Planning Interval (PI) Planning is a cadence-based event that serves as the heartbeat of the ART, aligning all the teams on the ART to a shared mission and Vision 2 days every 8-12 weeks Everyone plans together PM owns Feature priorities Agile Teams own Story planning & high-level estimates Architect and UX work as intermediaries" "PI Planning Day 1 Agenda - CORRECT ANSWER Business Context Product/Solution vision: ***Prioritized Features presented by PM*** Architecture Vision and development practices Planning Context Team Breakouts - ***Stories are written and sequenced***, draft plans are developed Draft Plan Review - ***Teams present ART PI risks*** Management Review and problem solving - adjustments made based on risks" "PI Planning Day 2 Agenda - CORRECT ANSWER Planning adjustments Team Breakouts - **Businesses assign business values to team objectives** Final Plan review - Team presents final plans PI Risks - Remaining risks are ROAMed PI Confidence vote - ***Teams commit to do everything they can to meet the agreed objectives*** Plan rework if necessary After commitment: Planning retrospective and moving forward" "ART Sync - CORRECT ANSWER Used to coordinate progress Programs coordinate dependencies through sync meetings" "Coach Sync - CORRECT ANSWER Visibility into progress and impediments to flow Facilitated by RTE" "PO Sync - CORRECT ANSWER Visibility into progress, scope and priority adjustments Facilitated by RTE or PM" "Built-in Quality - CORRECT ANSWER Basic Agile Quality Practices Agile Software Development Quality Practices Business Quality Standards Test-first Approach Agile Hardware Engineering Quality Practices Scalable Definition of Done" "Basic Agile Quality Practices - CORRECT ANSWER Establish flow: avoid stopping and starting Peer review and pairing: multiple viewpoints Collective ownership and standards: reduce bottlenecks and ensure consistency Automation: minimize manual processes Definition of done: consistent quality measures" "Business Quality Practices - CORRECT ANSWER Address specific functional quality standards: Legacy standards can require adjustment to a flow-based context Apply standards in an Agile manner: Shift left to apply standards early and automate if possible" "Agile Hardware Engineering Quality Practices - CORRECT ANSWER Modeling and simulation: analyze and simulate in a virtual environment to test changes quickly and cost-effectively Rapid prototyping: integrate mockups for higher fidelity feedback" "Scalable Definition of Done - CORRECT ANSWER Team increment: Stories satisfy acceptance criteria; accepted by PO System increment: Stories completed by all teams in ART, features satisfy acceptance criteria; accepted by PM Solution Increment: Capabilities completed by all ARTs and satisfy acceptance criteria; end-to-end integration, validation, and verification; accepted by Solution Management Release: Release documentation complete, accepted by Solution and Release Management" "Feedback Techniques to maintain customer focus - CORRECT ANSWER Product roles as a proxy: Bring customers and business owners as needed to ART events Gemba walks: Observing customers in their day to day Empathy mapping: tool that helps teams develop deep, shared understanding and empathy for others Solution telemetry: Build telemetry in to monitor problems and determine results System demo: presentation of functional new software" "Inspect & Adapt (I&A) - CORRECT ANSWER Consists of: -PI System Demo -Qualitative and Quantitative Measurement -Problem-Solving Workshop" "Problem-Solving Workshop - CORRECT ANSWER Agree on the problem to solve Apply root cause analysis and five whys Identify the biggest root cause using Pareto analysis Restate the new problem for the biggest root cause Brainstorm solutions Identify improvement backlog items" "Flow - CORRECT ANSWER Delivering a continuous flow of value to customers in the shortest sustainable lead time is the central theme of SAFe" "The Eight Flow Accelerators - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Visualize and limit WIP 2. Address bottlenecks 3. Minimize handoffs and dependencies 4. Get faster feedback 5. Work in smaller batches 6. Reduce queue lengths 7. Optimize time 'in the zone' 8. Remediate legacy policies and practices" "Get Faster Feedback - CORRECT ANSWER #4 Flow Accelerator Delayed feedback leads to substantial rework for multiple teams, leading to dissatisfied customers Shift reviews left Provide solution telemetry **Frequently engage with the Customer and Business Owner**" "Work in Smaller Batches - CORRECT ANSWER #5 Flow Accelerator Operating in large batches leads to delayed feedback, substantial rework, and high variability Use recommended cadence and team size Provide solution telemetry Plan for small batches" "Reduce Queue Lengths - CORRECT ANSWER #6 Flow Accelerator Queues represent committed work The longer the queue, the longer the wait time to deliver functionality Short iteration time boxes Make sure all work goes through the Backlog Leave capacity for emergent priorities" "Optimize Time 'In the Zone' - CORRECT ANSWER #7 Flow Accelerator Solution development relies on creativity, focus, and deep intellectual effort Optimize the efficiency of meetings Make WIP visible" "Remediate Legacy Policies and Practices - CORRECT ANSWER #8 Flow Accelerator Conflicting policies can reduce transparency and progress Grant time and space to raise issues Actively solve issues within the ART ***Raise the visibility of the effects of issues outside of ART control***" "Six Flow Metrics - CORRECT ANSWER Distribution: the amount of each type of work Velocity: the average number of work items completed in a time period Time: time to complete a work item Load: the overall amount of WIP in the system Efficiency: How much time is spent adding value vs waiting Predictability: Planned vs actual business value" "Agile Manifesto - CORRECT ANSWER Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan" "Agile Manifesto Principles - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software. 2. Welcome changing requirements , even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage. 3. Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference for the shorter timescale 4. Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project. 5. Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done. 6. The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation. 7. Working software is the primary measure of progress. 8. Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors , developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely. 9. Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility. 10. Simplicity-the art of maximizing the amount of work not done-is essential. 11. The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams. 12. At regular intervals , the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly." "systems thinking - CORRECT ANSWER Attributes of systems thinking - Optimizing a component does not optimize the system - For the system to behave well as a system, a higher-level understanding of behavior and architecture is required - The value of a system passes through its interconnections - A system can evolve no faster than its slowest integration point" "Set-Based Design - CORRECT ANSWER A practice that keeps requirements and design options flexible for as long as possible during the development process. Instead of teams choosing a single point solution upfront, set-based design identifies and simultaneously explores multiple options and eliminate poorer choices over time. It enhances flexibility in the design process, commits to technical solutions only after validating assumptions, and produces better economic outcomes." "Design thinking - CORRECT ANSWER Design Thinking is a clear and continuous understanding of the target market, Customers, the problems they are facing, and the jobs to be done." "ART Backlog - CORRECT ANSWER It's the holding area for upcoming Features, which are intended to address user needs and deliver business benefits for a single Agile Release Train (ART). Also contains the enabler features necessary to build the Architectural Runway." "Feature benefit hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER Justifies development cost and provides business perspective for decision-making" "Features represent the work for the Agile Release Train - CORRECT ANSWER - Acceptance criteria are typically defined during ART Backlog refinement - Reflect functional and nonfunctional requirements - Fits in one PI" "enablers - CORRECT ANSWER Enablers build the Architectural Runway. Enablers define the existing code, hardware components, marketing guidelines, and other variables that enable near-term business Features. - Enablers also build up the runway, including exploration, architecture, infrastructure, and compliance - Features consume the runway - The Architectural Runway must be continuously maintained - Capacity allocation (a percentage of the train's overall capacity in a PI) is used for Enablers that extend the runway"