SAFE DevOps Questions and Answers
Activity Ratio - ANS-Measures activity efficiency (PT/LT)
Analyzing - ANS-Step 2 on Program Kanban
Features that best align with the vision are refined with key attributes, including the
business benefit hypothesis and acceptance criteria.
Architect - ANS-Activity of Continuous Exploration.
Describes the practices necessary to envision a technological approach that enables
quick implementation, delivery, and support of ongoing operations
ART Sync - ANS-Ceremony
The combination of SoS and PO Sync
Benefit Hypothesis - ANS-Justifies feature implementation cost and provides business
perspective when making scope decisions
Build - ANS-Activity of Continuous Integration
Describes the practices needed to create deployable binaries and merge the
development branches into the trunk
Built-in Quality - ANS-Practice to ensure ability to deliver new functionality with the
shortest sustainable lead time, and adapt to rapidly changing business environments by
avoiding the cost of delays (CoDs) associated with recalls, rework, and fixing defects
CALMR approach to DevOps - ANS-- Culture: Establish and culture of shared
responsibility for development, deployment and operations
- Automation: Automate the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
- Lean flow: Keep batch size small, limit WIP, and provide extreme visibility
- Measurement: Measure the flow through the pipeline. Implement application telemetry
- Recovery: Architect and enable low-risk releases. Establish fast recovery, fast
reversion, and fast fix-forward.
**IMPLEMENTED IN REVERSE
Collaborate & Research - ANS-Activity of Continuous Exploration.
Describes the practices required to work with customers and stakeholders to refine the
understandings of potential needs
, Continuous Delivery Pipeline - ANS-Represents workflows, activities, and automation
needed to support functionality from ideation to value to the end user.
Continuous Deployment - ANS-Section of Continuous Delivery Pipeline whose business
objective = Separation of Deployment and release/Feature Validation (reducing
transaction cost and risk of production deployments) and is broken down into the
following domains: Deploy, Verify, Monitor and Respond
Continuous Exploration - ANS-Section of Continuous Delivery Pipeline whose business
objective = Alignment and is broken down into the following domains: Hypothesize,
Collaborate & Research, Architect, Synthesize
Continuous Integration - ANS-Section of Continuous Delivery Pipeline whose business
objective = Quality and is broken down into the following domains: Develop, Build, Test
end-to-end, and Stage
Builds quality into the development process by integrating ongoing work of Agile Teams.
All work is version controlled, and new functionality is built and continuously integrated
into a full system or solution and tested end-to-end before being validated on a staging
environment.
Cost of Delay - ANS-User & Business Value + Time criticality + Risk Reduction &
Opportunity Enablement.
This is the numerator for WSJF
Current State of Delivery Pipeline - ANS-Visualized by laying out: Steps - Roles -
Measure Steps - Calculate Total Metrics
Delay Time - ANS-Measurement
The time when no work is happening
Deploy - ANS-Activity of Continuous Deployment
Describes the practices necessary to deploy a solution to a production environment
Deploying to production - ANS-Step 6 on Program Kanban
When capacity is available, features are deployed into the production environment,
where they await release.
Develop - ANS-Activity of Continuous Integration
Activity Ratio - ANS-Measures activity efficiency (PT/LT)
Analyzing - ANS-Step 2 on Program Kanban
Features that best align with the vision are refined with key attributes, including the
business benefit hypothesis and acceptance criteria.
Architect - ANS-Activity of Continuous Exploration.
Describes the practices necessary to envision a technological approach that enables
quick implementation, delivery, and support of ongoing operations
ART Sync - ANS-Ceremony
The combination of SoS and PO Sync
Benefit Hypothesis - ANS-Justifies feature implementation cost and provides business
perspective when making scope decisions
Build - ANS-Activity of Continuous Integration
Describes the practices needed to create deployable binaries and merge the
development branches into the trunk
Built-in Quality - ANS-Practice to ensure ability to deliver new functionality with the
shortest sustainable lead time, and adapt to rapidly changing business environments by
avoiding the cost of delays (CoDs) associated with recalls, rework, and fixing defects
CALMR approach to DevOps - ANS-- Culture: Establish and culture of shared
responsibility for development, deployment and operations
- Automation: Automate the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
- Lean flow: Keep batch size small, limit WIP, and provide extreme visibility
- Measurement: Measure the flow through the pipeline. Implement application telemetry
- Recovery: Architect and enable low-risk releases. Establish fast recovery, fast
reversion, and fast fix-forward.
**IMPLEMENTED IN REVERSE
Collaborate & Research - ANS-Activity of Continuous Exploration.
Describes the practices required to work with customers and stakeholders to refine the
understandings of potential needs
, Continuous Delivery Pipeline - ANS-Represents workflows, activities, and automation
needed to support functionality from ideation to value to the end user.
Continuous Deployment - ANS-Section of Continuous Delivery Pipeline whose business
objective = Separation of Deployment and release/Feature Validation (reducing
transaction cost and risk of production deployments) and is broken down into the
following domains: Deploy, Verify, Monitor and Respond
Continuous Exploration - ANS-Section of Continuous Delivery Pipeline whose business
objective = Alignment and is broken down into the following domains: Hypothesize,
Collaborate & Research, Architect, Synthesize
Continuous Integration - ANS-Section of Continuous Delivery Pipeline whose business
objective = Quality and is broken down into the following domains: Develop, Build, Test
end-to-end, and Stage
Builds quality into the development process by integrating ongoing work of Agile Teams.
All work is version controlled, and new functionality is built and continuously integrated
into a full system or solution and tested end-to-end before being validated on a staging
environment.
Cost of Delay - ANS-User & Business Value + Time criticality + Risk Reduction &
Opportunity Enablement.
This is the numerator for WSJF
Current State of Delivery Pipeline - ANS-Visualized by laying out: Steps - Roles -
Measure Steps - Calculate Total Metrics
Delay Time - ANS-Measurement
The time when no work is happening
Deploy - ANS-Activity of Continuous Deployment
Describes the practices necessary to deploy a solution to a production environment
Deploying to production - ANS-Step 6 on Program Kanban
When capacity is available, features are deployed into the production environment,
where they await release.
Develop - ANS-Activity of Continuous Integration
