SAFE Agilist Exam
dual operating system -ANSWER✅✅✅✅We need a ______________________ for
Business Agility.
Full Configuration -ANSWER✅✅✅✅represents the most comprehensive
configuration. It supports building large, integrated solutions that typically require
hundreds of people or more to develop and maintain. Focus on *lean budgeting*.
Portfolio + Large Solution + Essential
Large Solution Configuration -ANSWER✅✅✅✅for enterprises that are building large
and complex solutions, which do not require the constructs of the portfolio level. +
Essential
Portfolio Configuration -ANSWER✅✅✅✅provides portfolio strategy and investment
funding. Agile portfolio operations, and Lean governance. Usually used by C-Suite and
CEO level. + Essential
Essential Configuration -ANSWER✅✅✅✅the most basic configuration of the
framework and it provides the minimal elements necessary to be successful with SAFe.
Seven Core Competencies of Business Agilty -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. Enterprise Solution
Delivery
2. Agile Product Delivery
3. Team and Technical Agility
4. Lean Portfolio Management
5. Organizational Agility
6. Continuous Learning Culture
7. Lean-Agile Leadership
Definition of Done -ANSWER✅✅✅✅Acceptance criteria; part of working agreement.
"Everything our team goes through from beginning to releasable."
Three Aspects of Team and Technical Agility -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. Agile Teams
2. Built-In Quality
3. Teams of Agile Teams
Team and Technical Agility -ANSWER✅✅✅✅describes the critical skills and lean-
agile principles and practices that high-performing agile teams and teams of agile teams
use to create high-quality solutions for their customers
,3 aspects of Agile Product Delivery -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. Customer Centricity
2. Develop on Cadence, Release on Demand
3. DevOps and the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
Agile product delivery -ANSWER✅✅✅✅customer-centric approach to defining,
building, and releasing a continuous flow of valuable products and services to
customers and users
3 aspects of enterprise solution delivery -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. Lean System and
Solution Engineering
2. Coordinating Trains and Suppliers
3. Continually Evolve Live Systems
Enterprise Solution Delivery -ANSWER✅✅✅✅describes how to apply lean-agile
principles and practices to specification, development, deployment, operation, and
evolution of the world's largest most sophisticated software applications, networks, and
cyber-physical systems.
Takes place at the Large Solution layer.
Lean Portfolio Management -ANSWER✅✅✅✅aligns strategy and execution by
applying Lean- and systems- thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding
Agile portfolio operations, and governance.
3 aspects of lean portfolio management -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. lean governance
2. strategy and investment funding
3. agile portfolio operations
Organizational Agility -ANSWER✅✅✅✅describes how lean-thinking people and agile
teams optimize their business process, evolve strategy with clear and decisive new
commitments, and quickly adapt the organization as needed to capitalize on new
opportunities
3 aspects of organizational agility -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. lean thinking people and agile
teams
2. strategy agility
3. lean business operations
Continuous learning culture -ANSWER✅✅✅✅describes a set of values and practices
that encourage individuals, and the enterprise as a whole, to continually increase
knowledge, competence, performance, and innovation
3 aspects of continuous learning culture -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. learning organization
2. relentless improvement
, 3. innovation culture
ways to develop learning organizations -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. personal mastery
2. shared vision
3. systems thinking
4. team learning
5. mental models
ways to help relentless improvement -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. constant state of danger
2. optimize the whole
3. problem solving culture
4. reflect key milestones
5. fact-based improvement
ways to create an innovation culture -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. innovative people
2. time and space
3. go see
4. experimentation and feedback
5. pivot without mercy or guilt
6. innovation riptides
Lean-Agile leadership -ANSWER✅✅✅✅describes how lean-agile leaders drive and
sustain organizational change and operational excellence by empowering individuals
and teams to reach their highest potential
3 aspects of lean agile leadership -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. mindset and principles
2. leading by example
3. leading change
leading by example -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. authenticity
2. decentralized decision making
3. emotional intelligence
4. lifelong learning
5. growing others
leading change -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. change vision
2. change leadership
3. condition for change
4. psychological safety
5. training
psychological safety -ANSWER✅✅✅✅most important aspect of leading change
measure and grow -ANSWER✅✅✅✅the way portfolios evaluate their progress
towards Business Agility and determine their next improvement steps
dual operating system -ANSWER✅✅✅✅We need a ______________________ for
Business Agility.
Full Configuration -ANSWER✅✅✅✅represents the most comprehensive
configuration. It supports building large, integrated solutions that typically require
hundreds of people or more to develop and maintain. Focus on *lean budgeting*.
Portfolio + Large Solution + Essential
Large Solution Configuration -ANSWER✅✅✅✅for enterprises that are building large
and complex solutions, which do not require the constructs of the portfolio level. +
Essential
Portfolio Configuration -ANSWER✅✅✅✅provides portfolio strategy and investment
funding. Agile portfolio operations, and Lean governance. Usually used by C-Suite and
CEO level. + Essential
Essential Configuration -ANSWER✅✅✅✅the most basic configuration of the
framework and it provides the minimal elements necessary to be successful with SAFe.
Seven Core Competencies of Business Agilty -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. Enterprise Solution
Delivery
2. Agile Product Delivery
3. Team and Technical Agility
4. Lean Portfolio Management
5. Organizational Agility
6. Continuous Learning Culture
7. Lean-Agile Leadership
Definition of Done -ANSWER✅✅✅✅Acceptance criteria; part of working agreement.
"Everything our team goes through from beginning to releasable."
Three Aspects of Team and Technical Agility -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. Agile Teams
2. Built-In Quality
3. Teams of Agile Teams
Team and Technical Agility -ANSWER✅✅✅✅describes the critical skills and lean-
agile principles and practices that high-performing agile teams and teams of agile teams
use to create high-quality solutions for their customers
,3 aspects of Agile Product Delivery -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. Customer Centricity
2. Develop on Cadence, Release on Demand
3. DevOps and the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
Agile product delivery -ANSWER✅✅✅✅customer-centric approach to defining,
building, and releasing a continuous flow of valuable products and services to
customers and users
3 aspects of enterprise solution delivery -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. Lean System and
Solution Engineering
2. Coordinating Trains and Suppliers
3. Continually Evolve Live Systems
Enterprise Solution Delivery -ANSWER✅✅✅✅describes how to apply lean-agile
principles and practices to specification, development, deployment, operation, and
evolution of the world's largest most sophisticated software applications, networks, and
cyber-physical systems.
Takes place at the Large Solution layer.
Lean Portfolio Management -ANSWER✅✅✅✅aligns strategy and execution by
applying Lean- and systems- thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding
Agile portfolio operations, and governance.
3 aspects of lean portfolio management -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. lean governance
2. strategy and investment funding
3. agile portfolio operations
Organizational Agility -ANSWER✅✅✅✅describes how lean-thinking people and agile
teams optimize their business process, evolve strategy with clear and decisive new
commitments, and quickly adapt the organization as needed to capitalize on new
opportunities
3 aspects of organizational agility -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. lean thinking people and agile
teams
2. strategy agility
3. lean business operations
Continuous learning culture -ANSWER✅✅✅✅describes a set of values and practices
that encourage individuals, and the enterprise as a whole, to continually increase
knowledge, competence, performance, and innovation
3 aspects of continuous learning culture -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. learning organization
2. relentless improvement
, 3. innovation culture
ways to develop learning organizations -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. personal mastery
2. shared vision
3. systems thinking
4. team learning
5. mental models
ways to help relentless improvement -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. constant state of danger
2. optimize the whole
3. problem solving culture
4. reflect key milestones
5. fact-based improvement
ways to create an innovation culture -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. innovative people
2. time and space
3. go see
4. experimentation and feedback
5. pivot without mercy or guilt
6. innovation riptides
Lean-Agile leadership -ANSWER✅✅✅✅describes how lean-agile leaders drive and
sustain organizational change and operational excellence by empowering individuals
and teams to reach their highest potential
3 aspects of lean agile leadership -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. mindset and principles
2. leading by example
3. leading change
leading by example -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. authenticity
2. decentralized decision making
3. emotional intelligence
4. lifelong learning
5. growing others
leading change -ANSWER✅✅✅✅1. change vision
2. change leadership
3. condition for change
4. psychological safety
5. training
psychological safety -ANSWER✅✅✅✅most important aspect of leading change
measure and grow -ANSWER✅✅✅✅the way portfolios evaluate their progress
towards Business Agility and determine their next improvement steps