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◍ Agile Manifesto. Ans: 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?. Ans: 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. Ans: 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. Ans: - Agile
Development
- Systems Thinking
- Lean Product Development
,- DevOps
◍ What are the 4 SAFe configurations?. Ans: - Essential
- Portfolio
- Large Solution
- Full
◍ Essential SAFe. Ans: 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?. Ans: For Basic
SAFe implementations - it provides the minimal elements to be
successful with SAFe.
◍ Portfolio SAFe. Ans: 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?. Ans: 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. Ans: 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?. Ans:
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. Ans: 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. Ans: 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. Ans: - Enterprise
Solution Delivery
- Agile Product Delivery
- Team & Technical Agility
- Lean Portfolio Mgmt
- Organizational Agility
- Continuous Learning Culture
- Lean-Agile Leadership
◍ Enterprise Solution Delivery. Ans: 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.