SAFE POPM CERTIFICATION EXAMS SCRIPT UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Architectural Runway - ✔✔Enabler Epics are used to advance what in order to
support upcoming business epics?
✔✔Hypothesize what would create value to their customers - ✔✔In the first steps of
SAFe's Continuous Delivery Pipeline, POs and PMs do what activity?
✔✔Applies basic scientific practice - ✔✔Plan-Do-Check-Adjust
✔✔ART Should have a max of how many people? - ✔✔125
✔✔Market/Customer facing and identifies market needs - ✔✔Product Manager
✔✔Collocated with and reports into marketing/business - ✔✔Product Manager
✔✔Owns Vision and Roadmaps, pricing, licensing, ROI and Program Backlog -
✔✔Product Manager
✔✔Drives PI objectives and content via prioritized features and enablers - ✔✔Product
Manager
✔✔Solution, technology and team facing - ✔✔Product Owner
✔✔Collocated with and reports into development - ✔✔Product Owner
✔✔Contributes to Vision and program backlog; owns team backlog and implementation
- ✔✔Product Owner
✔✔Drives iteration Goals and iteration content via prioritized stories - ✔✔Product
Owner
✔✔Establishes Story acceptance criteria, accepts stories into the base line - ✔✔Product
Owner
✔✔Drives the Release and PIs - ✔✔Product Manager
✔✔Drives the iteration - ✔✔Product Owner
✔✔Owns Team Backlog - ✔✔Product Owner
✔✔Defines iterations and stories - ✔✔Product Owner
,✔✔Accepts iteration increments - ✔✔Product Owner
✔✔Includes refactors and redesigns in backlog - ✔✔Product Owner
✔✔Owns program backlog - ✔✔Product Manager
✔✔Defines Features PIs and Releases - ✔✔Product Manager
✔✔Owns Pricing, Licensing, and ROI - ✔✔Product Manager
✔✔Collaborates on Enablers - ✔✔Product Manager
✔✔Contribute to intentional architecture owns emergent design - ✔✔Team
✔✔Own story estimates and implementation of value - ✔✔Team
✔✔integrate with other teams - ✔✔Team
✔✔Individuals and interactions - ✔✔over processes and tools
✔✔Working Software - ✔✔Over Comprehensive documentation
✔✔Customer Collaboration - ✔✔Over Contract negotiation
✔✔Responding to change - ✔✔over following a plan
✔✔Function that is responsible for strategy and investment funding, Agile program
exection, KPIs, and Compliance. - ✔✔Lean Portfolio Management(LPM)
✔✔Blue on a Kanban is? - ✔✔Epics
✔✔Red on a Kanban is? - ✔✔Enablers
✔✔Responsible for driving individual epicsfrom identification through the analysis
process of the portfolio kanban system and on to the go/no-go decision, then all the way
through implementation. - ✔✔Epic Owner
✔✔When an Epic is accepted for implementation... - ✔✔Epic Owner works with ART
developement team and PM to initiate the development activites
✔✔In Safe, the is a role not a job. - ✔✔Epic Owner
, ✔✔Who can be an epic owner - ✔✔anyone
✔✔Epic owner Responsibilities - ✔✔Work with
✔✔Work with Stakeholders and SME to define the Epic and its hypothesis statement,
establish the cost of delay, and identify business sponsers - ✔✔
✔✔Work with Development teams to size the Epic and provide input for economic
prioritization. - ✔✔
✔✔Define Epic Outcomes hypothesis and MVP - ✔✔
✔✔Guide the Epics through the Portfolio Kanban system and create the Lean Business
Case - ✔✔
✔✔Present the Epic, including the business case, to the LPM for go/no-go decision -
✔✔Responsibilities of Epic Owner
✔✔Key Architecture concerns - ✔✔Non functional requirement
✔✔System qualities that support end-user functionality and system goals -
✔✔Nonfunctional requirements
✔✔Associated with backlogs at all four configurations of SAFe - ✔✔Nonfunctional
requirements
✔✔Sometimes known as ilities. IE reliability, usability, scalability, maintainability, etc -
✔✔Nonfunctional requirements
✔✔Manages the flow of Epics - ✔✔Portfolio Kanban System
✔✔Makes largest business initiatives visible - ✔✔Portfolio Kanban System
✔✔Brings structure to analysis - ✔✔Portfolio Kanban System
✔✔Provides WIP limits to ensure that the teams analyze responsibly - ✔✔Portfolio
Kanban System
✔✔Helps prevent unrealistic expectations - ✔✔Portfolio Kanban System
✔✔Helps drive collaboration among the key stakeholders - ✔✔Portfolio Kanban System
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Architectural Runway - ✔✔Enabler Epics are used to advance what in order to
support upcoming business epics?
✔✔Hypothesize what would create value to their customers - ✔✔In the first steps of
SAFe's Continuous Delivery Pipeline, POs and PMs do what activity?
✔✔Applies basic scientific practice - ✔✔Plan-Do-Check-Adjust
✔✔ART Should have a max of how many people? - ✔✔125
✔✔Market/Customer facing and identifies market needs - ✔✔Product Manager
✔✔Collocated with and reports into marketing/business - ✔✔Product Manager
✔✔Owns Vision and Roadmaps, pricing, licensing, ROI and Program Backlog -
✔✔Product Manager
✔✔Drives PI objectives and content via prioritized features and enablers - ✔✔Product
Manager
✔✔Solution, technology and team facing - ✔✔Product Owner
✔✔Collocated with and reports into development - ✔✔Product Owner
✔✔Contributes to Vision and program backlog; owns team backlog and implementation
- ✔✔Product Owner
✔✔Drives iteration Goals and iteration content via prioritized stories - ✔✔Product
Owner
✔✔Establishes Story acceptance criteria, accepts stories into the base line - ✔✔Product
Owner
✔✔Drives the Release and PIs - ✔✔Product Manager
✔✔Drives the iteration - ✔✔Product Owner
✔✔Owns Team Backlog - ✔✔Product Owner
✔✔Defines iterations and stories - ✔✔Product Owner
,✔✔Accepts iteration increments - ✔✔Product Owner
✔✔Includes refactors and redesigns in backlog - ✔✔Product Owner
✔✔Owns program backlog - ✔✔Product Manager
✔✔Defines Features PIs and Releases - ✔✔Product Manager
✔✔Owns Pricing, Licensing, and ROI - ✔✔Product Manager
✔✔Collaborates on Enablers - ✔✔Product Manager
✔✔Contribute to intentional architecture owns emergent design - ✔✔Team
✔✔Own story estimates and implementation of value - ✔✔Team
✔✔integrate with other teams - ✔✔Team
✔✔Individuals and interactions - ✔✔over processes and tools
✔✔Working Software - ✔✔Over Comprehensive documentation
✔✔Customer Collaboration - ✔✔Over Contract negotiation
✔✔Responding to change - ✔✔over following a plan
✔✔Function that is responsible for strategy and investment funding, Agile program
exection, KPIs, and Compliance. - ✔✔Lean Portfolio Management(LPM)
✔✔Blue on a Kanban is? - ✔✔Epics
✔✔Red on a Kanban is? - ✔✔Enablers
✔✔Responsible for driving individual epicsfrom identification through the analysis
process of the portfolio kanban system and on to the go/no-go decision, then all the way
through implementation. - ✔✔Epic Owner
✔✔When an Epic is accepted for implementation... - ✔✔Epic Owner works with ART
developement team and PM to initiate the development activites
✔✔In Safe, the is a role not a job. - ✔✔Epic Owner
, ✔✔Who can be an epic owner - ✔✔anyone
✔✔Epic owner Responsibilities - ✔✔Work with
✔✔Work with Stakeholders and SME to define the Epic and its hypothesis statement,
establish the cost of delay, and identify business sponsers - ✔✔
✔✔Work with Development teams to size the Epic and provide input for economic
prioritization. - ✔✔
✔✔Define Epic Outcomes hypothesis and MVP - ✔✔
✔✔Guide the Epics through the Portfolio Kanban system and create the Lean Business
Case - ✔✔
✔✔Present the Epic, including the business case, to the LPM for go/no-go decision -
✔✔Responsibilities of Epic Owner
✔✔Key Architecture concerns - ✔✔Non functional requirement
✔✔System qualities that support end-user functionality and system goals -
✔✔Nonfunctional requirements
✔✔Associated with backlogs at all four configurations of SAFe - ✔✔Nonfunctional
requirements
✔✔Sometimes known as ilities. IE reliability, usability, scalability, maintainability, etc -
✔✔Nonfunctional requirements
✔✔Manages the flow of Epics - ✔✔Portfolio Kanban System
✔✔Makes largest business initiatives visible - ✔✔Portfolio Kanban System
✔✔Brings structure to analysis - ✔✔Portfolio Kanban System
✔✔Provides WIP limits to ensure that the teams analyze responsibly - ✔✔Portfolio
Kanban System
✔✔Helps prevent unrealistic expectations - ✔✔Portfolio Kanban System
✔✔Helps drive collaboration among the key stakeholders - ✔✔Portfolio Kanban System
