SAFe Certification 5.1 Study Guide 2024

values of the agile manifesto - Inidivudals and interactions over processes and tools; working software over comprehensive documentation; customer collaboration over contract negotiation; responding to change over following a plan How many principles of the agile manifesto are there? - 12 (Agile principle) what is highest priority? - Satisfy customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software (Agile principle) what do agile processes harness for the customer's competitive advantage? - Change / welcome changing requirements (Agile principle) when should working software be delivered? - Frequently- couple weeks to a couple months with preference for shorter timescale (Agile principle) who must work together throughout the project? With what frequency? - Business people and developers- daily! (Agile principle) around whom should we build projects? - Motivated people- give them environment, support, and trust needed to get the job done (Agile principle) what's the most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team? - Face to face conversation (Agile principle) what is the primary measure of progress? - Working software (Agile principle) what do agile processes promote? - Sustainable development. Sponsors, developers and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely (Agile principle) what enhances agility? - Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design (Agile principle) what is essential to maximize in agile processes? - Simplicity! The art of work not done (Agile principle) what emerges from self organizing teams? - The best architectures, requirements and designs (Agile principle) what must teams do at regular intervals? - Reflect on how to become more effective- tune and adjust behavior accordingly What is the House of Lean? - Goal (roof): Value, Foundation: Leadership, (pillars): Respect for People and culture, Product Development Flow, Innovation, relentless improvement (House of lean) key principles of flow - Understanding full value stream, visualizing and limiting WIP, reducing batch sizes, managing queue lengths, eliminating waste and removing delays What is gemba? - A go-see where the products and solutions are created and used (no useful improvement was ever invented at a desk) (House of lean) What are key parts of relentless improvement? - Optimize the whole, it parts of an org and dev process; reinforce problem solving mindset of org; apply retrospectives at key milestones; apply lean tools and techniques to determine fact based root cause of problems,; base improvements on facts What is the spanning palette? - In SAFe, the various roles and artifacts and roles that may apply to a specific team, ART, large solution or portfolio context. Can be small or large and configurable based on needs of the org. How many elements are in the spanning palette? - 8 What elements are in the spanning palette? - Vision, roadmap, milestones, shared services, COP (community of practice), system team, lean UX, metrics What are the 10 SAFe lean agile principles? - 1-Take an economic view; 2- apply systems thinking; 3- assume variability and preserve options; 4- build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles; 5- base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems; 6- visualize and limit Work in Progress, reduce batch sizes and manage queue lengths; 7- apply cadence- synchronize with cross domain planning; 8- unlock the motivation of knowledge workers; 9- decentralize decision-making; 10- organize around value What is PI planning? - Provides opp for biz and technical arms of a solution to be integrated and evaluated in one time (~6 times) on a cadence What are 3 primary purposes of PI planning? - 1- milestone to assess current state of a solution; 2- realigns all stakeholders to a shared tech and biz vision; 3- teams plan and commit to next PI. What are SAFe core values? - Alignment, quality, transparency, program execution What are the three types of culture in organizations? - Pathological, bureaucratic, generative