SAFe Agilist Exam 2022 with complete solution
dual operating system
We need a ______________________ for Business Agility.
Full Configuration
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
for enterprises that are building large and complex solutions, which do not require the
constructs of the portfolio level. + Essential
Portfolio Configuration
provides portfolio strategy and investment funding. Agile portfolio operations, and Lean
governance. Usually used by C-Suite and CEO level. + Essential
Essential Configuration
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
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
Acceptance criteria; part of working agreement.
"Everything our team goes through from beginning to releasable."
Three Aspects of Team and Technical Agility
1. Agile Teams
2. Built-In Quality
3. Teams of Agile Teams
Team and Technical Agility
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
1. Customer Centricity
2. Develop on Cadence, Release on Demand
3. DevOps and the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
Agile product delivery
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
,1. Lean System and Solution Engineering
2. Coordinating Trains and Suppliers
3. Continually Evolve Live Systems
Enterprise Solution Delivery
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
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
1. lean governance
2. strategy and investment funding
3. agile portfolio operations
Organizational Agility
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
1. lean thinking people and agile teams
2. strategy agility
3. lean business operations
Continuous learning culture
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
1. learning organization
2. relentless improvement
3. innovation culture
ways to develop learning organizations
1. personal mastery
2. shared vision
3. systems thinking
4. team learning
5. mental models
ways to help relentless improvement
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
, 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
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
1. mindset and principles
2. leading by example
3. leading change
leading by example
1. authenticity
2. decentralized decision making
3. emotional intelligence
4. lifelong learning
5. growing others
leading change
1. change vision
2. change leadership
3. condition for change
4. psychological safety
5. training
psychological safety
most important aspect of leading change
measure and grow
the way portfolios evaluate their progress towards Business Agility and determine their
next improvement steps
SAFe core values
what is the whole point of SAFe?
4 SAFe Core Values
1. Alignment
2. Transparency
3. Built-In Quality
4. Program Execution
SAFe House of Lean
Leadership
What is the basis of the house of Lean?
Value
(House of Lean)
Achieve the shortest sustainable lead time
dual operating system
We need a ______________________ for Business Agility.
Full Configuration
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
for enterprises that are building large and complex solutions, which do not require the
constructs of the portfolio level. + Essential
Portfolio Configuration
provides portfolio strategy and investment funding. Agile portfolio operations, and Lean
governance. Usually used by C-Suite and CEO level. + Essential
Essential Configuration
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
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
Acceptance criteria; part of working agreement.
"Everything our team goes through from beginning to releasable."
Three Aspects of Team and Technical Agility
1. Agile Teams
2. Built-In Quality
3. Teams of Agile Teams
Team and Technical Agility
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
1. Customer Centricity
2. Develop on Cadence, Release on Demand
3. DevOps and the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
Agile product delivery
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
,1. Lean System and Solution Engineering
2. Coordinating Trains and Suppliers
3. Continually Evolve Live Systems
Enterprise Solution Delivery
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
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
1. lean governance
2. strategy and investment funding
3. agile portfolio operations
Organizational Agility
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
1. lean thinking people and agile teams
2. strategy agility
3. lean business operations
Continuous learning culture
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
1. learning organization
2. relentless improvement
3. innovation culture
ways to develop learning organizations
1. personal mastery
2. shared vision
3. systems thinking
4. team learning
5. mental models
ways to help relentless improvement
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
, 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
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
1. mindset and principles
2. leading by example
3. leading change
leading by example
1. authenticity
2. decentralized decision making
3. emotional intelligence
4. lifelong learning
5. growing others
leading change
1. change vision
2. change leadership
3. condition for change
4. psychological safety
5. training
psychological safety
most important aspect of leading change
measure and grow
the way portfolios evaluate their progress towards Business Agility and determine their
next improvement steps
SAFe core values
what is the whole point of SAFe?
4 SAFe Core Values
1. Alignment
2. Transparency
3. Built-In Quality
4. Program Execution
SAFe House of Lean
Leadership
What is the basis of the house of Lean?
Value
(House of Lean)
Achieve the shortest sustainable lead time
