Questions and CORRECT Answers
SAFe - CORRECT ANSWER - Scaled Agile Framework - a knowledge base of proven
success patterns for achieving business agility.
Agile Manifesto - CORRECT ANSWER - While there is value in the items on the right, we
value the items on the left more.
*Individuals & Interactions* over Processes & Tools
*Working software* over Comprehensive
Documentation
*Customer Collaboration* over Contract Negotiation
*Responding to Change* over Following a plan
Business Agility requires what? - CORRECT ANSWER - EVERYONE involved in delivering
solutions use Lean & Agile practices to continually deliver innovative, high-quality products and
services faster than the competition.
SAFe for Lean Enterprises - CORRECT ANSWER - A knowledge base of proven, integrated
principles, practices, and competencies for achieving business agility by implementing Lean,
Agile, and DevOps at scale.
SAFe draws from 4 primary bodies of knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER - - Agile
Development
- Systems Thinking
- Lean Product Development
- DevOps
What are the 4 SAFe configurations? - CORRECT ANSWER - - Essential
,- Portfolio
- Large Solution
- Full
Essential SAFe - CORRECT ANSWER - Contains the minimal set of roles, events, & artifacts
required to continuously deliver business solutions via an Agile Release Train as a Team of Agile
Teams.
3 Core Competencies
- Team & Technical Agility
- Agile Product Delivery
- Lean-Agile Leadership
When is the Essential SAFe configuration used? - CORRECT ANSWER - For Basic SAFe
implementations - it provides the minimal elements to be successful with SAFe.
Portfolio SAFe - CORRECT ANSWER - Portfolio SAFe aligns enterprise stategy by
organizing the Lean-Agile Enterprise around the flow of value through one or more value
streams; delivering the basic budgeting & necessary governance mechanisms.
Essential SAFe Configuration + (3 addlt competencies)
Lean Portfolio Management +
Continuous Learning Culture +
Organizational Agility
When is the Portfolio SAFe configuration used? - CORRECT ANSWER - Enterprises
building solutions that require a modest number of Agile teams. It supports the development of
multiple solutions which have minimal dependencies on one another.
,Large Solution SAFe - CORRECT ANSWER - Describes additional roles, practices, and
guidance to build and evolve the world's largest applications, networks, and cyber-physical
systems.
Essential SAFe Configuration +
Enterprise Solution Delivery competency
This configuration includes a stronger focus on capturing requirements in the Solution Intent,
coordinating multiple ARTs & Suppliers, & ensuring compliance with regulations and standards.
When is the Large Solution SAFe configuration used? - CORRECT ANSWER - Enterprises
that are building large and complex solutions that require multiple Agile Release Trains and
Suppliers to develop and which do not require the constructs of the portfolio level.
SAFe for Government - CORRECT ANSWER - A set of success patterns that help public
sector organizations implement Lean-Agile practices in a government context.
Connected to Large Solution SAFe configuration.
Full SAFe Configuration - CORRECT ANSWER - Full SAFe represents the most
comprehensive configuration. It supports maintaining portfolios of large and complex solutions
that typically require hundreds of people or more to develop and maintain.
Includes all 7 core competencies
Seven Core Competencies of Business Agility - CORRECT ANSWER - - Enterprise Solution
Delivery
- Agile Product Delivery
- Team & Technical Agility
- Lean Portfolio Mgmt
- Organizational Agility
, - Continuous Learning Culture
- Lean-Agile Leadership
Enterprise Solution Delivery - CORRECT ANSWER - How to apply Lean-Agile principles &
practices to specification, development, deployment, operation and evolution of the world's
largest & most sophisticated SW apps, networks, and cyber-physical systems.
* Core Competencies of Business Agility.*
Enterprise Solution Delivery 3 dimensions - CORRECT ANSWER - - Lean System &
Solution Engineering
- Coordinating Trains & Suppliers
- Continually Evolve Live Systems
Lean System & Solution Engineering - CORRECT ANSWER - Applies Lean-Agile practices
to align & coordinate all activities necessary to specify, architect, design, implement, test, deploy,
evolve, & ultimately decommission these systems.
Coordinating Trains & Suppliers - CORRECT ANSWER - Coordinates & aligns the extended
set of value streams to a shared business & technology mission. It uses the coordinated Vision,
Backlogs, & Roadmaps with common Program Increments (PI) and synchronization points.
Continually Evolve Live Systems - CORRECT ANSWER - Ensures both the development
pipeline & large systems themselves support continuous delivery of value, both during & after,
release into the field.
Agile Product Delivery - CORRECT ANSWER - A customer-centric approach to defining,
building, and releasing a continuous flow of valuable products and services to customers and
users.
* Core Competencies of Business Agility.*
Agile Product Delivery 3 dimensions - CORRECT ANSWER - - Customer Centricity &
Design Thinking