SPC EXAM -QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS
Core Competencies of the Lean Enterprise - ✔✔Lean-Agile Leadership
Team and Technical Agility
DevOps and Release on Demand
Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering
Lean Portfolio Management
SAFe Configurations - ✔✔Full
Large Solution
Portfolio
Essential
SAFe Core Values - ✔✔Alignment
Transparency
Built-in Quality
Program Execution
Steps of SAFe Implementation Roadmap - ✔✔Reaching the Tipping Point
Train Lean-Agile Change Agents
Train Executives, Managers, and Leaders
Create a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence
Identify Value Streams and ARTs
Create the Implementation Plan
Prepare for ART Launch
Train Teams and Launch the ART
,Coach ART Execution
Launch More ARTs and Value Streams
Extend to the Portfolio
Sustain and Improve
Why SAFe? - ✔✔Engagement
Time-to-Market
Quality
Productivity
Pillars of SAFe House of Lean - ✔✔Respect for people and culture
Flow
Innovation
Relentless improvement
What is the purpose of the House of Lean? - ✔✔To deliver value in the shortest sustainable
lead time.
Value Statements of Agile Manifesto - ✔✔Individuals and interactions over processes and
tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
Principles of Agile Manifesto - ✔✔• Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through
early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
• Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change
for the customer's competitive advantage.
, • Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a
preference to the shorter timescale.
• Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
• Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they
need, and trust them to get the job done.
• The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a
development team is face-to-face conversation.
• Working software is the primary measure of progress.
• Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users
should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
• Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
• Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.
• The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
• At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and
adjusts its behavior accordingly.
SAFe Lean-Agile Principles - ✔✔• Take an economic view
• Apply systems thinking
• Assume variability; preserve options
• Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
• Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems
• Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes and manage queue lengths
• Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning
• Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
• Decentralize decision-making
If you only quantify one thing, what should it be? - ✔✔The cost of delay
ANSWERS
Core Competencies of the Lean Enterprise - ✔✔Lean-Agile Leadership
Team and Technical Agility
DevOps and Release on Demand
Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering
Lean Portfolio Management
SAFe Configurations - ✔✔Full
Large Solution
Portfolio
Essential
SAFe Core Values - ✔✔Alignment
Transparency
Built-in Quality
Program Execution
Steps of SAFe Implementation Roadmap - ✔✔Reaching the Tipping Point
Train Lean-Agile Change Agents
Train Executives, Managers, and Leaders
Create a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence
Identify Value Streams and ARTs
Create the Implementation Plan
Prepare for ART Launch
Train Teams and Launch the ART
,Coach ART Execution
Launch More ARTs and Value Streams
Extend to the Portfolio
Sustain and Improve
Why SAFe? - ✔✔Engagement
Time-to-Market
Quality
Productivity
Pillars of SAFe House of Lean - ✔✔Respect for people and culture
Flow
Innovation
Relentless improvement
What is the purpose of the House of Lean? - ✔✔To deliver value in the shortest sustainable
lead time.
Value Statements of Agile Manifesto - ✔✔Individuals and interactions over processes and
tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
Principles of Agile Manifesto - ✔✔• Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through
early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
• Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change
for the customer's competitive advantage.
, • Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a
preference to the shorter timescale.
• Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
• Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they
need, and trust them to get the job done.
• The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a
development team is face-to-face conversation.
• Working software is the primary measure of progress.
• Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users
should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
• Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
• Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.
• The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
• At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and
adjusts its behavior accordingly.
SAFe Lean-Agile Principles - ✔✔• Take an economic view
• Apply systems thinking
• Assume variability; preserve options
• Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
• Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems
• Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes and manage queue lengths
• Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning
• Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
• Decentralize decision-making
If you only quantify one thing, what should it be? - ✔✔The cost of delay
