Scaled Agile Study guide
Comprehensive Questions (Frequently
Tested) with Verified Answers Graded
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What are the four parts of the Agile Manifesto - Answer: * individuals and iterations over tools
and processes
* customer collaboration over contract negotiation
* responding to change over following a plan
* working software over comprehensive documentation
What are the six parts to the house of lean - Answer: * Top: The goal: value
* Respect People and cultures
* flow
* innovation
* relentless improvement
* Foundation: Lean-agile Leadership
Tell me more about the Goal: value - Answer: * Sustainable Shortest lead time
* Best Quality and value to people and society
* High morale, safety and customer delight
Tell me about five elements of respect for culture and people - Answer: 1) People do all the
work
,2) Your customer is whomever consumes your work: a) don't overload them, b) don't make
them wait c) don't make them do wishfull thinking , d) don't force them to do wasteful work
3) Build long-term relationships built on trust
4) Culture change comes last not first
5) To change the culture, change the organization
(wishful thinking when lack of integration and you don't know if thing are really working)
What are the five elements of flow - Answer: 1) Optimize continous and sustainable throughput
of value
2) Build in quality, flow depends on it.
3) Avoid start-stop-start delays
4) Understand, exploit and manage variabiltiy
5) use informed decision making via fast feedback
6)
5 rules of innovation - Answer: 1) Producers innovate, customers validate
2) Get out of the office
3) Provide time and space for creativity
4) Apply innovation accounting (metrics)
5) Pivot without mercy or guilt
Relentless Improvement: What are 5 elements - Answer: 1) a Constant sense of Danger
(remember the competition)
2) Optimize the whole
3) Consider facts carefully, then move quickly
4) Apply lean tools to identify and address root causes
, 5) Reflect at key milestones, identify and address shortcomings
What is the foundation of the house of lean. What are it's foundations - Answer: * Management
applies and teaches lean. THey are in charge of charge, they play an active part.
what are the 9 SAFe principles - Answer: ESVIM
WC
MD
1) Take the economic view
2) Apply system's 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 intrinsice motivation of knowledge workers
9) decentralize decision making.
What are two parts of take the economic view - Answer: 1) Deliver early and often 2)
understand economic tradeoff paramaters (Rienertsen)
What is Reinertsen's five pieces of understanding economic tradeoffs - also about economic
framework - Answer: 1) Development expense, cycle time (time it takes you to build), risk,
value, cost (of materials). This is shown in a graphic where everything in interconnected.
What are the four values of safe? - Answer: Alignment
Comprehensive Questions (Frequently
Tested) with Verified Answers Graded
A+
What are the four parts of the Agile Manifesto - Answer: * individuals and iterations over tools
and processes
* customer collaboration over contract negotiation
* responding to change over following a plan
* working software over comprehensive documentation
What are the six parts to the house of lean - Answer: * Top: The goal: value
* Respect People and cultures
* flow
* innovation
* relentless improvement
* Foundation: Lean-agile Leadership
Tell me more about the Goal: value - Answer: * Sustainable Shortest lead time
* Best Quality and value to people and society
* High morale, safety and customer delight
Tell me about five elements of respect for culture and people - Answer: 1) People do all the
work
,2) Your customer is whomever consumes your work: a) don't overload them, b) don't make
them wait c) don't make them do wishfull thinking , d) don't force them to do wasteful work
3) Build long-term relationships built on trust
4) Culture change comes last not first
5) To change the culture, change the organization
(wishful thinking when lack of integration and you don't know if thing are really working)
What are the five elements of flow - Answer: 1) Optimize continous and sustainable throughput
of value
2) Build in quality, flow depends on it.
3) Avoid start-stop-start delays
4) Understand, exploit and manage variabiltiy
5) use informed decision making via fast feedback
6)
5 rules of innovation - Answer: 1) Producers innovate, customers validate
2) Get out of the office
3) Provide time and space for creativity
4) Apply innovation accounting (metrics)
5) Pivot without mercy or guilt
Relentless Improvement: What are 5 elements - Answer: 1) a Constant sense of Danger
(remember the competition)
2) Optimize the whole
3) Consider facts carefully, then move quickly
4) Apply lean tools to identify and address root causes
, 5) Reflect at key milestones, identify and address shortcomings
What is the foundation of the house of lean. What are it's foundations - Answer: * Management
applies and teaches lean. THey are in charge of charge, they play an active part.
what are the 9 SAFe principles - Answer: ESVIM
WC
MD
1) Take the economic view
2) Apply system's 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 intrinsice motivation of knowledge workers
9) decentralize decision making.
What are two parts of take the economic view - Answer: 1) Deliver early and often 2)
understand economic tradeoff paramaters (Rienertsen)
What is Reinertsen's five pieces of understanding economic tradeoffs - also about economic
framework - Answer: 1) Development expense, cycle time (time it takes you to build), risk,
value, cost (of materials). This is shown in a graphic where everything in interconnected.
What are the four values of safe? - Answer: Alignment
