CORRECT ANSWERS UPDATED 2025/2026
Business Agility requires what? >>CORRECT ANS>>Technical Agility and Business-level
commitment to Product and Value Stream thinking.
Everyone uninvolved in delivering Business solutions use Lean & Agile practices.
Seven Core Competencies of Business Agility >>CORRECT ANS>>1. Enterprise Solution
Delivery
Agile Product Delivery
Team & Technical Agility
Lean Portfolio Mgmt.
Organizational Agility
Continuous Learning Culture
Lean-Agile Leadership
What is Enterprise Solution Delivery? ---ANSWER One of the Core Competencies of
Business Agility
How to apply Lean-Agile principles & practices to specification, development, deployment,
operation and evolution of the world's largest & most sophisticated systems
Coordinate & align the full supply chain
Continue to enhance value after release
Dimensions of Enterprise Solution Delivery >>CORRECT ANS>>1. Lean Systems and Solution
Engineering: applies Lean-Agile practices to align and coordinate all the activities necessary to
specify, architect, design, implement, test, deploy, evolve, and ultimately decommission these
systems
Coordinating Trains and Suppliers: coordinates and aligns the extended, and often complex, set
of value streams to a shared business and technology mission. It uses the coordinated Vision,
Backlogs, and Roadmaps with common Program Increments (PI) and synchronization points
Continually Evolve Live Systems: ensures large systems and their development pipeline support
continuous delivery
Agile Product Delivery >>CORRECT ANS>>A customer-centric approach to defining, building,
and releasing a continuous flow of valuable products and services to customers and users. One
of the 7 Core Competencies of Biz Agility.
,Team & Technical Agility >>CORRECT ANS>>The critical skills and Lean-Agile principles that
high-performing Agile teams (or team of teams) use to create hi-quality solns for customers.
One of the 7 Core Competencies of Biz Agility. Roles: Agile Team, SM, PO. Teams execute w
Scrum & Kanban.
Lean Portfolio Mgmt >>CORRECT ANS>>Aligns strategy & execution by applying Lean- and
systems-thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding Agile portfolio operations, and
governance. One of the 7 Core Competencies of Biz Agility.
Organizational Agility >>CORRECT ANS>>How Lean-thinking people and Agile Teams
optimize their business, evolve strategy with clear & decisive new commitments, and quickly
adapt ad needed to capitalize on new opportunities. One of the 7 Core Competencies of Biz
Agility.
Continuous Learning Culture >>CORRECT ANS>>A set of values and practices that encourage
individuals, & the Enterprise as a whole, to continually increase knowledge, competence,
performance and innovation. One of the 7 Core Competencies of Biz Agility.
Lean-Agile Leadership >>CORRECT ANS>>How Lean-Agile Leaders drive and sustain
organizational change and operational excellence by empowering individuals & teams to reach
their highest potential. One of the 7 Core Competencies of Biz Agility.
Built-in Quality >>CORRECT ANS>>Built-In Quality practices ensure that each Solution
element, at every increment, meets appropriate quality standards throughout development.
Agile Manifesto >>CORRECT ANS>>* Individuals & Interactions OVER Processes & Tools; *
Working Software OVER comprehensive documentation; * Customer Collaboration OVER
contract negotiation; Responding to Change OVER following a plan.
Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CDP) >>CORRECT ANS>>Continuous Exploration ->
Continuous Integration -> Continuous Deployment -> Release on Demand. CE -> CI -> CD ->
RoD.
Measure & Grow >>CORRECT ANS>>The way portfolios evaluate their progress towards Biz
Agility and determine their next steps.
SAFe Core Values >>CORRECT ANS>>Alignment, Built-in Quality, Transparency, Program
Execution. The four Core Values represent the fundamental beliefs that are key to SAFe's
effectiveness. These guiding principles help dictate behavior and action for everyone who
participates in a SAFe portfolio.
Alignment >>CORRECT ANS>>Constant communication, constantly check for understanding.
, Built-In Quality >>CORRECT ANS>>Ensures that each Solution element, at every increment,
meets appropriate quality standards throughout development.
Transparency >>CORRECT ANS>>visualize relevant work, admits mistakes, support others.
SAFe House of Lean >>CORRECT ANS>>Illustrates the goal of delivering VALUE through the
pillars of Respect for people and culture, Flow, Innovation, and Relentless improvement.
LEADERSHIP provides the foundation on which everything else stands.
Respect for people and culture >>CORRECT ANS>>House of Lean. Generative Culture;
People do all the work; Customer is whomever consumes your work; Build long-term
partnerships based on trust; To change the Culture, Change the Organization.
Flow >>CORRECT ANS>>House of Lean. Optimize sustainable Value delivery; Build in Quality;
Understand, exploit & manage variability; Move from Projects to Products.
Innovation >>CORRECT ANS>>House of Lean. Innovative people, provide time & space for
Innovation, Go see; Experimentation & Feedback; Innovation riptides; Pivot without mercy or
guilt.
Relentless improvement >>CORRECT ANS>>House of Lean. Constant sense of danger;
Optimize the whole; problem-solving culture; Base improvements on facts; Reflect at Key
Milestones.
Value >>CORRECT ANS>>House of Lean. Achieve the shortest sustainable lead time with The
best Quality & Value to People & Society; high Morale, Safety and Customer Delight.
Leadership >>CORRECT ANS>>House of Lean.Lead by example; Adopt growth mindset (why
do it this way?); Exemplify values & principles of Lean-Agile & SAFe; Develop people; Lead the
change; Foster psychological safety.
Lean-Agile Principles >>CORRECT ANS>>SAFe is based on ten immutable, underlying Lean-
Agile principles which inspire and inform the roles and practices of SAFe: *Take an economic
view; *Apply systems thinking; *Assume variability; *Build incrementally with fast, integrated
learning cycles; *Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems; *Visualize & limit
WIP, reduce batch sizes, manage Q lengths; *Apply cadence, sync with x-domain planning;
*Unlock intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers; * Decentralize decision-making; *Organize
around value.
Take an Economic view >>CORRECT ANS>>Lean-Agile Prin. * Deliver Value early & often. &
incrementally; Solution economic trade-offs.: * Sequence jobs for maximum benefit; * Do not
consider Sunk Costs; * Make economic choices continuously (pivot relentlessly);
*Empower local decision making; * Quantify the Cost of Delay.