What does implementing 1,2,3 Strategy include?

Train SPC's as Change Agents, Training leadership with Leading SAFe

What reflects the role of Strategic Themes in SAFe Portfolio?

Influence the Vision guidance on Economics

What layers do the SAFe Taxonomy include?

Team, Program, Value Stream, Portfolio

What SAFe core values would you use to "sell" SAFe to executives and leadership?

Built in Quality, Program Execution, Alignment, Transparency

What reasons do NOT support using Kanban at the Portfolio level to manage flow?

Maintain flow of Epics to Program or Value Stream on cadence

What are the 3 behavioral components of Intrinsic Motivation?

Autonomy, Mastery, Self-Direction

What are the 3 components of an Inspect and Adapt meeting?

System Demo, Problem Solving workshop, Quantitative Measure

Suggested formats of a Vision include

Draft Press Release, Rolling Wave, Vision Document

Solution Intent describes:

The future direction of the Solution

To determine the optimum batch size we find the U Curve of what?

Transaction Costs and Holding Costs

We limit WIP to encourage

Focus on the most important thing to do next

What is a core component of a Guiding Coalition?

Make the Enterprise Transformation their primary goal, Create a Vision and Roadmap to accomplish the Transformation

What is an output of the Post-Planning meeting?

Consolidated Value Stream PI Objectives

Lean Agile Center of Excellence

Set Based Design is critical to:

Find the optimum solution in the shortest amount of time

Epics are located at what levels?

Portfolio, Value Stream, Program

A challenge of a Leader as Expert are:

Focus on technical problems to a detriment of human factors

What is NOT a function of the Enterprise Architect?

Breakdown architectural Epics into User Stories

Who is typically involved in deciding when to release a solution to customers?

Release Management, Product Manager, System Team

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1
Who owns the PI Objectives?
The PO
The PM
The RTE
The BO
2
In SAFe, WSJF is used at what levels for economic prioritization?
Value Stream, Program, Team
Portfolio, Value Stream
Portfolio, Value Stream, Program
Program, Value Stream
3
Features are the required, primary, functional system definition element.
False
True
4
Development Value Streams support Operational Value Streams.
False
True
5
What does implementing 1,2,3 Strategy include?
Mapping the steps to launch a SAFe instance
Determining cultural changes needed to enact change
Train SPC's as Change Agents
Training leadership with Leading SAFe
6
What is "ba"?
Workers know more than their bosses
We win or lose together
The feeling of self-worth
Effective leadership
7
The Value Stream level should be used whenever the underlying ART count exceeds 3?
False
True
8
What reflects the role of Strategic Themes in SAFe Portfolio?
Determine the people needed on each ART for the upcoming PI
Determine who is needed in governance decisions
Control spending of budget and provide governance decisions
Influence the Vision guidance on Economics
9
What layers do the SAFe Taxonomy include?
Portfolio, Value Stream
Program, Team
Team, Program, Value Stream, Portfolio
Portfolio, Abstraction, Value Stream, Program
10
Features state a solution to a problem that need to be implemented.
False
True
11
The System Team provides processes and tools to integrate and evaluate assets early and often.
False
True
12
Feature teams provide fast velocity, minimize dependencies and develop T-shaped skills.
True
False
13
What SAFe core values would you use to "sell" SAFe to executives and leadership?
Leadership, Self-Empowerment, Cadence, Synchronization
Built in Quality, Intrinsic Motivation, Alignment, Execution
Built in Quality, Program Alignment, Executive, Transparency
Built in Quality, Program Execution, Alignment, Transparency
14
What reasons do NOT support using Kanban at the Portfolio level to manage flow?
Maintain flow of Epics to Program or Value Stream on cadence
Maintain visibility to opportunities being discussed
To control the number of opportunities being discussed
To help ensure we are focusing on the right opportunities
15
What are the 3 behavioral components of Intrinsic Motivation?
Autonomy, Mastery, Self-Direction
Knowledge, Mastery, Skills
Autonomy, Mastery, Self-Organization
Self-Direction, Self-Control, Self-Motivation
16
What are the 3 components of an Inspect and Adapt meeting?
System Demo, Problem Solving workshop, PI Planning prep
Quantitative Measurement, Feature review, Solution Demo
Team Demo, Self-Assessment, Problem Solving workshop
System Demo, Problem Solving workshop, Quantitative Measure
17
Suggested formats of a Vision include
Rolling Wave, Project Plan, Draft Press Release
Portfolio Backlog, Rolling Wave, Draft Press Release
Vision Document, SharePoint Site, Hallway Posters
Draft Press Release, Rolling Wave, Vision Document
18
Who facilitates the ART Synch?
ART Coach
Lead Scrum Master
RTE
Product Manager
19
Feature backlog refinement is completed by:
The PM, RTE, Arch and BO
The PO and Team
The PM, PO, SM, RTE, Arch and BO
The PM and PO
20
Pivot without mercy or guilt and GEMBA are part of which pillar in the House of Lean?
Relentless improvement
Respect for people and culture
Flow
Innovation
21
Agile teams, System team and Enterprise Arch collaborate to design the effective solution
True
False
22
When teaching SAFe prepare, execute, improve and repeat.
False
True
23
Strategic Themes connect each SAFe portfolio to the enterprise business strategy.
False
True
24
The PO Sync is facilitated by:
Alternating POs
RTE
RTE or PM
PM
25
Solution Intent describes:
The future direction of the Solution
The vision of the Solution
The current environment in which we work
The intent set forth in the Value Stream Backlog
26
The Value Stream is the set of interconnected steps that you go through to deliver value.
True
False
27
Two of the four pillars of the SAFe House of Lean are:
Respect for People/Culture, Value Stream Mapping
Innovation, WIP limit
Kaizen, Flow
Flow, Innovation
28
To determine the optimum batch size we find the U Curve of what?
WIP Limits and Capacity
Holding Costs and Batch Size
Feature Size and Transaction Costs
Transaction Costs and Holding Costs
29
Some patterns for "splitting work" are:
Breaking out a spike
Use case scenarios and deferring system qualities
All or the above
Work flow steps, major effort and operations
30
We limit WIP to encourage
Team members being account for User Story completion
Focus on the most important thing to do next
Add visibility to what is in progress
Getting more work in progress at one time
31
Strategic Themes are an input to the strategy formulation process.
True
False
32
Design must be grown incrementally by the Enterprise Architect.
True
False
33
A successful Pre-PI planning will deliver what artifacts?
SMART objectives for the VS
A VS planning board
All of the Above
A vote of confidence/commitment
34
What is a core component of a Guiding Coalition?
Identify and map all SAFe related Epics and Features
Make the Enterprise Transformation their primary goal
Create a Vision and Roadmap to accomplish the Transformation
Provides budget allocation and governance to SAFe
35
What is included in the spanning palette?
MBSE
Modernization
User Experience
Automation
36
What is an output of the Post-Planning meeting?
Consolidated Value Stream PI Objectives
Updates to the ART visions
A set of features for every ART
Retrospective
37
A balance between emergent design & intentional architecture is required for speed of developmt
True
False
38
What is LACE?
Lean Agile Center of Excellence
Large Aligned Center of Execution
Lean Agile Center of Impediments
Lean Agile Center of Execution
39
Business Value is assigned to Team Objectives by Business Owners using Modified Fibonacci.
True
False
40
Set Based Design is critical to:
Find the optimum solution in the shortest amount of time
Control Batch sizes
Determine the best design with the fewest touch points
Determine transaction costs
41
Epics are located at what levels?
Portfolio, Value Stream, Program
Portfolio, Program
Portfolio, Value Stream
Portfolio, Team
42
A 2.5 day agenda is never recommended for PI Planning
False
True
43
Complexity of large software makes centralized decision-making highly inefficient.
True
False
44
A challenge of a Leader as Expert are:
Conflict tend to push upward for the boss to fix
Uses systems and procedures to control work
Narrows the focus of direct reports to their own areas
Focus on technical problems to a detriment of human factors
45
Leadership is tied to which titles?
Mid-level Management
C Suite and VPs
Team Leads
None of the above
46
The roadmap states commitment for the next PI and a forecast for a few following PI's
True
False
47
De-Centralize decision making for:
Significant economies of scale decisions
Infrequent decisions
Time Critical decisions
Long-lasting decisions
48
What is WSJF?
Weighted Smallest Job First
Weighted Size of Job First
Weighted Shortest Job First
49
What is NOT a function of the Enterprise Architect?
Breakdown architectural Epics into User Stories
Facilitates communication of business drivers and technical
Drive Strategy and key initiatives
50
Who is typically involved in deciding when to release a solution to customers?
Release Management, Product Manager, System Team
Development Manager, Release Manager
Release Manager
System Architect, Release Manager
51
Strategic Themes influence:
All of the Above
Program Vision and Roadmap
Portfolio Backlog
ART funding
52
Enablers exist on what levels of SAFe?
Value Stream, Program, Team
Portfolio, Value Stream
Value Stream, Program
Portfolio, Value Stream, Program, Team
53
Value follows cross-functional silos.
False
True
54
Who participates in the Scrum of Scrums?
SMs, RTE and other select team members
RTE, SMs, Arch/Eng, SMEs
SMs, POs, PM and SMEs
RTE, PM, SMs and Coaches
55
SAFe enterprises help suppliers improve their processes to the economic benefit to both orgs.
False
True
56
Unplanned work is unpredictable.
False
True
57
Best practices for Solution Intent are:
Solution Intent is a collaboration and KISS
All of the Above
Favor models over documents and keep options open
Document items in only one place and keep it high level
58
The timebox for the System Demo should be:
1 hour
10 minutes per team
2 hours
1-2 hours
59
Under which of the following conditions should the SAFe Value Stream layer be applied?
Value delivered requires complex conversations around intent
Significant number of cross-train dependencies exist
All of the above
Multiple ARTs need to work towards a common outcome/intent
60
A System Demo
Ensures alignment for the teams iteration planning
Is held at or shortly after the end of each iteration
Ensures integration across all the teams work
Allows validation of the feature acceptance criteria
61
Innovation Accounting is measuring and solving the right problems for our customers.
True
False
62
Feature estimates are aggregated into the Epic estimate as part of a lightweight business case.
True
False
63
The Transformation Team is designated champions of culture, processes and technical practices.
True
False
64
What is the goal of Lean thinking?
Product development, value, speed
Speed, value, product development, flow
Speed, quality, value
Agility, speed, quality
65
What has enough powerful people to drive change?
Business Owners
Troika
PPM
Guiding Coalition
66
Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles means to
Incorporate DevOps practices to deploy faster
Reduce batch sizes
Apply PDCA cycles wherever possible
Have developers and testers work together continuously
67
Value Stream mapping happens only at the Value Stream level.
True
False
68
What is the acceptable control band in predictability measures?
80% - 100%
60% - 80%
80% - 90%
75% - 90%
69
Little's Law is:
Batch size=queue length/processing time
Process time=wait time/queue length
Wait time=queue length/processing rate
Queue length=wait time/process rate
70
Suppliers are needed at which Value Stream level events?
Pre, Post, PI Planning, Solution Demos
Pre, Post, PI Planning
Pre, Post, PI Planning, System Demos
Pre and Post PI Planning and Team Demos
71
Leadership in the House of Lean includes:
Consider facts carefully, then act quickly
Avoid start-stop-start project delays
Provide time and space for creativity
Inspire and align with mission; minimize constraints
72
SAFe Foundations is useful for what?
Leverages the Lean Agile center of excellence
Understanding the problem
Provides guidance for Lean Agile Leaders
Focuses on the need and how SAFe can help
73
Cadence :
Makes waiting times for new work predictable
Provides routine dependency management
Facilitates cross-functional tradeoffs
Provides multiple feedback perspectives
74
Unlock Intrinsic Motivation of Knowledge Workers means:
Allow local decision making
Environment supporting autonomy, mastery, self-direction
Encourage team learning and development
Free up time for developer innovation
75
The best way to improve the cycle time of items in a queue is to
Reduce the number of items in the queue
Increase processing speed for each item
Reduce the size of the items in the queue
Distribute the queue across teams
76
Complete the following statement- Nothing beats an Agile Team except...
A team of Agile managers
A team of Lean teams
A team of Agile teams
A team of Agile trains
77
According to Respect for People, you should build partnerships based on trust & mutual respect.
False
True
78
CoD is defined as:
Change of Design
Department Costs
Cost of Delay
Cost of Development
79
WIP limits should always match the number of people that work in that state
False
True
80
PI Objectives are required at what level?
Value Stream, Program, Team
Portfolio, Program, Team
Portfolio, Value Stream, Program, Team
Program, Team
81
A system can evolve no faster than it slowest integration point is part of which principle?
Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
Decentralize decision-making
Take an economic view
Apply systems thinking
82
The WSJF calculation is:
Estimate Cost/Job Size
(UBV+TC+RROC)/Job Size
(SP+FP+EP)/Job Size
(UUBV+TC+RROC)/PI Length
83
Innovation Accounting is a core Lean Agile Budgeting concept
True
False
84
What does SAFe say about Release and Development cadences?
Release must happen at each iteration boundary
Development cadence should match Release cadence
Develop on cadence and Release any time
Release and Development happen in the IP iteration
85
Which meeting can Architects attend?
Backlog refinement meetings
All of the above
Sprint planning meetings
Demo meetings
86
Architecture evolves hand-in-hand with business functionality and is tested only in IP sprint.
True
False
87
What is the size of ARTs based on?
Built in Quality
Economic Framework
Dunbar's Number
Set-Based Design
88
What is the core role of the Portfolio Program Management group?
Strategy, Vision, Funding, Team allocation
Managing the budget and assigning to Epics
Grooming the Portfolio backlog, Strategy, Vision
Strategy, Investment funding, program management, governance
89
Which of the following is NOT true about spikes?
They are a hindrance
They create technical stories and refactors
They fill out Architectural Features
We should reserve time for them during PI Planning
90
Which of the following enables design simplicity?
Follow design principles (open/close single responsibility)
All of the above
Keep the model close to the domain
Continuous refactoring
91
Value Stream Capabilities are fully managed by:
Solution Management
VSE
Solution Architect
VS Troika
92
What is the means to help ensure that the system behaves as intended?
System Architecture
Capabilities
Domain-level models
Traceability
93
What is demonstrated in a Team Demo?
All stories and spikes
All stories and NFRs
All stories, spikes and NFRs
All stories, spikes, refactors and NFRs
94
Assume Variability - Preserve Options means to:
Document all plan changes to account for variability
Allow plans to change based on new requirements
Allow time to learn before deciding requirements, flexible
Determine requirements early to account for variability
95
Built in Quality
Includes a heavy dose of XP Practice
Requires additional training of all team members
Includes a continue commitment to good technical practices
Is ensured by the System Team
96
Capabilities are high-level solution behaviors.
True
False
97
Backlogs in SAFe behave just like queues.
True
False
98
The components of Cost of Delay are:
Time Criticality, Risk Reduction & Opportunity Enablement
All of the Above
User and business value, Time criticality and Risk Reduction
Opportunity enablement and time criticality
99
Use Component teams when you want fastest velocity & high technical specifications.
True
False
100
Emergent design is enough to scale software.
False
True
101
A story point represents:
Uncertainty, knowledge worker, complexity and volume
Knowledge, uncertainty, volume and complexity
Velocity, complexity, knowledge and uncertainty
Volume, difficulty, knowledge and complexity
102
What is the key to PI Planning?
Uncover dependencies on others
Plan you work for the next 12 weeks
Understand the risks and dependencies
Understand the work and dependencies
103
What is the literal meaning of Gemba?
The place of work
The economic prioritization used in SAFe
The place that teams are located
The way managers align work with teams
104
The elements of an economic framework include:
Value Developer Cost, Risk, Time Criticality
Cycle Time, Value, User/Business Value, Risk
Innovation Accounting, Value Cycle Time, Developer Cost
Risk, Value Developer Cost, Product Cost, Cycle Time
105
All Value Stream Epics stem from Portfolio Epics
False
True
106
Reciprocal commitment means Teams commit to delivering specific value.
False
True
107
How does Lean Agile budgeting suggest to allocate funding?
Fund each team of the year
Fund the Program, allow Program to decide utilization
Fund Value Streams, allow Value Stream to decide utilization
Allocate money to Business Owners to distribute as needed
108
Which of these management styles is a lack of collaboration?
Leader as Expert
Leader as Conductor
Leader as Developer of People
109
The Solution Demo is a synchronized-based event.
True
False
110
Apply Systems Thinking means to:
Visualize the steps needed to deliver value, then optimize
Think like a System Deisgner
Optimize the entire system at the same time
Map out all the applications used in the system
111
When something is too big to code it out, model it out.
False
True
112
If a System demo happens at the end of every iteration we do not need to do Team demos?
True
False
113
What is the optimum path for succeeding in "Assume Variability, preserve options?
Preserve flex in sys functions & design fixed solution intnt
Assume variability of scope, have fixed Solution Context
Preserve flexibility in system functionality and design
Assume variability of scope and preserve options for release
114
What are the three types of Enablers?
Innovation, Research, Exploration
Exploration, Architecture, Infrastructure
Innovation, Exploration, Infrastructure
Architecture, Infrastructure, Spikes
115
The main purpose of SAFe Principles is to
Steer the Program team with Economic Prioritization
Guide our decision when no direct guidance exists
Align with the Agile Manifesto Principles
Help us understand how to deliver value
116
The Value Stream level enables hierarchy, therefore the RTE's should report to the VSE's
True
False
117
What Program role is best suited to enhance communication across the ART?
Development Manager
Release Train Engineer
System Architect
Product Manager
118
Opportunistic Value Streams are found at the intersection of converging factors.
True
False
119
Capabilities fit within one Program Increment
True
False
120
The bigger the system, the bigger the Architectural runway
True
False
121
At which Increment level of the Definition of Done does "NFRs met" occur?
System, Solution and Release
Solution, System and Team
Release, Solution, System and Team
Team and System
122
Phase Gates are damaging because
They assume point based solutions
Not everyone is involved in the go/no go decision
Only leadership is involved in the go/no go decision
The reporting needed is expensive
123
Value Stream Capabilities modify
Feature prioritization
Solution Context and Intent
Program Vision and Roadmap
Economic Prioritization
124
What is the highest level of PI Objectives?
Program
Team
Value Stream
Portfolio
125
A system demo should only demonstrate the components that actually communicate with each other?
False
True
126
The Value Stream Troika consist of what roles?
Value Stream Engineer, Customer, Solution Manager/Arch/Eng
Solution Arch/Eng, Solution Manager, RTE
Value Stream Engineer, Product Manager, System Arch/Eng
Solution Manager, Value Stream Engineer, Solution Arch/Eng
127
SMART Objectives are:
Simple, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-bound
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-bound
Simple, Measurable, Acceptable, Real, Timely
Specific, Measurable, Acceptable, Realistic, Timely
128
Who owns the team backlog?
The PM
The SM
The Team
The PO
129
Understanding the full Value Stream allows you to focus on the delays.
True
False
130
What is the goal of the Pre-Planning meeting?
All of the above
Match solution demand to ART capacities
Align PMs, Archs and stakeholders to a common vision
Helps building an aligned plan for the next PI
131
Value Stream mapping maps out the steps, people, systems, etc. to deliver value.
True
False
132
Coming out of PI Planning, Program Objectives are:
An aggregation of Team Objectives
Given a Business Value by Business Owners
Assigned by the Product Manager
Determined by the Business Owner
133
Features are best stated
In bullet point list of requirements
In User Story format
As the feature name and the benefit
Specific to the implementation needed

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