SCALED AGILE FRAMEWORK – SAFE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
5 Core Competencies - (ANSWER)Lean Agile Leadership
Team - Team and Technical Ability
Program - DevOps and release on demand
Large Solution - Business Solutions & Lean Systems
Portfolio - Lean Portfolio Management
Benefits of safe - (ANSWER)Time to market: 30-75% faster
Quality: 25-75% defect reduction
Productivity: 20-50% increased productivity
Engagement: 10-50% happier, more motivated employees
Steps in Agile - (ANSWER)Define
Build
Test
Deploy
Continuous Delivery Pipeline - (ANSWER)Continuous Exploration
Continuous Integration
Continuous Deployment
Release on Demand
Lean Portfolio Management - (ANSWER)Connect the portfolio to the enterprise strategy
Creates Lean Budgets and investment guardrails
Manages portfolio operations
Provides Lean government across value streams
SAFe core values - (ANSWER)- Alignment
, SCALED AGILE FRAMEWORK – SAFE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
- Transparency
- Built-in Quality
- Program Execution
SAFe House of Lean - (ANSWER)VALUE
- Respect for people and culture
- Flow
- Innovation
- Relentless Improvement
LEADERSHIP
Value - (ANSWER)Achieve the shortest sustainable lead time with:
- best quality and value to people and society
- high morale, safety, and customer delight
Respect for People and Culture - (ANSWER)- people do the work
- your customer is whoever consumes your work
- build long term partnerships based on trust
- cultural change comes last, not first
- to change the culture, you have to change the organization
Flow - (ANSWER)- Optimize continuous and sustainable throughput of value
- avoid start-stop-start project delays
- Build quality in
- Understand, exploit, and manage variability
- Integrate frequently
- Informed decision-making via fast feedback
5 Core Competencies - (ANSWER)Lean Agile Leadership
Team - Team and Technical Ability
Program - DevOps and release on demand
Large Solution - Business Solutions & Lean Systems
Portfolio - Lean Portfolio Management
Benefits of safe - (ANSWER)Time to market: 30-75% faster
Quality: 25-75% defect reduction
Productivity: 20-50% increased productivity
Engagement: 10-50% happier, more motivated employees
Steps in Agile - (ANSWER)Define
Build
Test
Deploy
Continuous Delivery Pipeline - (ANSWER)Continuous Exploration
Continuous Integration
Continuous Deployment
Release on Demand
Lean Portfolio Management - (ANSWER)Connect the portfolio to the enterprise strategy
Creates Lean Budgets and investment guardrails
Manages portfolio operations
Provides Lean government across value streams
SAFe core values - (ANSWER)- Alignment
, SCALED AGILE FRAMEWORK – SAFE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
- Transparency
- Built-in Quality
- Program Execution
SAFe House of Lean - (ANSWER)VALUE
- Respect for people and culture
- Flow
- Innovation
- Relentless Improvement
LEADERSHIP
Value - (ANSWER)Achieve the shortest sustainable lead time with:
- best quality and value to people and society
- high morale, safety, and customer delight
Respect for People and Culture - (ANSWER)- people do the work
- your customer is whoever consumes your work
- build long term partnerships based on trust
- cultural change comes last, not first
- to change the culture, you have to change the organization
Flow - (ANSWER)- Optimize continuous and sustainable throughput of value
- avoid start-stop-start project delays
- Build quality in
- Understand, exploit, and manage variability
- Integrate frequently
- Informed decision-making via fast feedback
