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A set of questions and answers related to the safe product owner certification exam. It covers various aspects of the scaled agile framework (safe), including pi planning, agile release trains (arts), continuous delivery pipelines, and core safe values. Useful for individuals preparing for the safe product owner certification exam or those seeking to understand the fundamentals of safe.
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What is one benefit of PI Planning? - ANSWER It aligns ART demand to capacity During which event does the team preview and elaborate on upcoming Stories? -ANSWER Backlog Refinement
What element improves when Features and Stories are related to personas? -ANSWER Design
One anti-pattern associated with system demos is ________. ANSWER Team demos areaccepted instead of a system demo to prevent redundancy
Who usually represents the ART's Business Owners to approve the team's PIObjectives? ANSWER Product Management
What is the one influence on the vision? ANSWER Strategic Themes What is generally used to explore new ideas or determine the viability of Epics? -ANSWER Spikes
Which of the following is true about the SAFe backlog model? -in the ART Backlog ANSWER Features are
Which of the following can enable Team Flow? - ANSWER WIP limits Who presents the Vision during PI Planning? - ANSWER Product Management
What enables flow through the Continuous Delivery Pipeline? -Kanban ANSWER The ART
Which of the following is true about Weighted Shortest Job First? -into account cost of delay and size of the job ANSWER It takes
What does SAFe Kanban encourage? - ANSWER Collaboration What does Continuous Exploration help Product Management understand? -Customer needs ANSWER
Which tools visualize dependencies during PI Planning? -Board ANSWER ART Planning
What is the SAFe Core Value observable when explaining the reason behind choosingthe top 10 Features for PI Planning? - ANSWER Transparency
What is the recommended format for writing User Stories? -that. ANSWER As a.I want. So
What do the Product Owners use as input to inform the teams following PO Sync? -ANSWER Adjustments
Where are the systems, people doing the work, and the flow of information and materialrepresented? - ANSWER Within a value stream
What is one of the responsibilities of the Product Owner? -Team Backlog ANSWER Prioritize the
An Operational Value Stream - focuses primarily on
Which work-item can be split from Epics? - ANSWER Features One responsibility of Product Management is to - ANSWER Develop the ART Backlog One outcome of Iteration Retrospective is -Backlog ANSWER Improvement items in the Team
One benefit for using PI Objectives is to -Business Owners ANSWER Obtain immediate feed back from
A team requires support to reach consensus on the estimation of stories. The ProductOwner is a subject matter expert in the work the team is estimating. What does the Product Owner do next concerning estimation? -discussion of the team on estimation ANSWER Continue supporting the
Which event does involve teams working on new ideas often added to the ART Kanban?- ANSWER Hackathon
One responsibility of the Product Owner is to do which of the following?Obtain and apply feedback ANSWER
Which role provides processes and tools for integrating and evaluating work productsearly and often? ANSWER System Team
How do Agile Teams perform Continuous Delivery Pipeline activities during the PI?ANSWER They explore, integrate, deploy and release new value during each iteration
What can be achieved by PI Planning? - ANSWER Ability to release value sooner When is a Story done? - ANSWER It meets the Definition of Done
Which one of the following is an Agile Manisfesto principle? -software is the primary measure of progress ANSWER Working
Which increment is reviewed at the System Demo? - ANSWER Full system increment What is one purpose of Iteration Goals? -common purpose ANSWER To align team members to a
Product owner - ANSWER working at the team level Program Increment (PI) -delivers incremental value in the form of working, tested software and systems. They ANSWER A timebox in which an Agile Release Train (ART) are typically eight to twelve weeks long, and the most common pattern for one is fourdevelopment iterations, followed by one Innovation and Planning (IP) iteration.
Continuous Delivery Pipeline - ANSWER known as the DevOps pipeline Core SAFe - ANSWER program level Release Train Engineer - ANSWER The servant leader and coach for the Agile ReleaseTrain at the program level. Facilitates the major events and processes, and assists the teams in delivering value. Communicates with stakeholders, escalate impediments, helpmanage risk, and drive continuous improvement. Chief Scrum Master
Agile Release Train (ART) - ANSWER a team of agile teams, 5 -12 teams, deliveringaround the same vision or value stream
Value Stream - ANSWER value-added and non-value-added activities that are essentialin designing, ordering, and providing a product from concept to launch, order to delivery, and raw materials to customers.
Agile Team Responsibilities - ANSWER create and refine stories and acceptancecriteria; define, build, test and deliver stories; develop and commit to team PI objectives and iteration plans Product Owner Responsibilities - ANSWER contribute to the vision and roadmap, acts asthe customer for team questions, creates and accepts stories and owns and prioritizes the team back log product manager - ANSWER drives the PI and product product owner - ANSWER drives the iteration product managers have authority over - ANSWER program backlog content project owners have authority over - ANSWER team backlog content
PO sync - ANSWER usually every other week, SM's usually not invited PI Planning - ANSWER -two days in person or 4 days if virtual, every 8-12 weeks (10weeks typical) -Input= Vision and Top 10 Features-Output= Team and Program PI objectives and program board
IP Iteration -for Innovation. Cadence-based Planning. BUFFER Iteration. WEEK 1: Leftover work, ANSWER Innovation & Planning Iteration. Last 2 weeks of PI. Opportunity Final verifications, Innovation, PI Planning prep. WEEK 2: Edu, I&A Evnt, PI Planning (2days).
product management owns -owner to break down into stories ANSWER owns feature priorities, working with product
PI Planning -and stakeholders ANSWER Establish personal communication across all team members Building the social network the ART depends on Aligning development to business goals with the business context, Vision, and Team andProgram PI objectives Identifying dependencies and fostering cross team and cross ART collaborationProvide the opportunity for just the right amount of architecture and Lean User Experience guidance Matching demand to capacity, eliminating excess work in process (WIP)Fast decision making
PI objective -one another ANSWER may align to features but they should not be a 1:1 aggregate to
PI Objectives - ANSWER PROGRAM Increment Objectives are a summary of the
and occur at all levels of the Framework feature - ANSWER service that meets a stakeholder need. Each one includes a name, abenefit hypothesis and acceptance criteria. It's sized or split to be delivered by an ART in a PI. Does not go through a business case. Business epics - ANSWER Large initiatives in SAFe that drive business value andtypically cross the organizational boundaries, release trains, time boundaries, or both.
Enabler Epic -Runway and is typically technical in nature, in support of upcoming business epics. ANSWER An epic that supports the extension of the Architectural
Definition of Done -and builds shared understanding of what work was completed as part of the increment ANSWER represents the completeness of an increment of value
Definition of Done has distinct areas of concern -validate deliverables, required tasks that reflect technical practices, required tasks that ANSWER policies about how to reflect product management practices Human Acceptance criteria ensures -expected ANSWER ensures functionality BEHAVES as vision - ANSWER a description of the future state of the product or solution. a postcard from the future. aspirational, yet realistic and achievable motivational enough to engage others on the journey vision questions - ANSWER where are we headed with this product or solution?
what problem does it solve? what features and benefit hypotheses do we think it provides? for whom does it provide them? what non-functional requirements does the Solution provide? for example, performance,reliability, platform, etc.
program vision -feedback and learnings of the ART ANSWER developed by product management, iterates with customer
epic -captures the more significant investments that occur within a portfolio ANSWER a container for an important Solution development initiative that
feature -benefit hypothesis, acceptance criteria, and is sized or split as necessary to be ANSWER a service that fulfills a stakeholder need. Each includes a name, a delivered by a single ART in a PI. stories -from the perspective of the user and sized to fit a single Iteration for one team. ANSWER short descriptions of a small piece of desired functionality, written
enabler -to provide future business functionality. ANSWER supports the activities needed to extend the Architectural Runway
enablers are captured in various backlogs throughout SAFe. epic description -epic in a clear and concise way.> ANSWER <an elevator pitch (value statement)_ that describes the
Convey the problems customers face in their own context their work environment andkey triggers for using the product
Capture rich, concise information photographs, family stories, jobs, etc. that inspiregreat products without unnecessary details
kanban - ANSWER visual tool for monitoring and managing workflow columns represent steps in the work process work items (features, enablers, stories, and 'pulled' across the board as capacity allows explicit process policies define how and when a work item moves across the board work-in-process (WIP) promotes flow and the continuous delivery of value user and business value - ANSWER relative value to the Customer or business -what do they prefer? -what is the revenue impact?-are there potential penalties or other negative impacts?
time criticality - ANSWER How user/business value decays over time -is there a fixed deadline? -will they wait for us to move to another solution?-what is the current effect on Customer satisfaction?
Risk reduction & Opportunity enablement (RR & OE) - ANSWER what else does this do
for our business -reduce the rick of this or future delivery? -Is there value in the information we will receive?-will it enable new business opportunities?
PI Planning - ANSWER Cadence-based meeting, which is the heartbeat of the AgileEnterprise.
Two days every 8-12 weeks. Everyone attends in-person if possible. Product management owns feature priorities Agile Teams own story planning and high-level estimates. Architect/Engineering and UX work as intermediary for governance, interfaces, anddependencies
Vision - ANSWER a description of the future state of the product or solution. product manager - ANSWER owns the PI and product owns program backlog defines features, PIs, and releases Owns vision, roadmap, pricing, licensing, ROI
customer cooperation - ANSWER.over contract negotiation Agil Manifesto reacting to change - ANSWER.over following a path Agil Manifesto Value streams are a series of steps an organization uses to implement solutions thatprovide a continuous flow of value to the customer.
Are used to define and realize portfolio-level business objectives and organize AgileTeams to deliver value more rapidly.
Include the systems, the people doing the work, and the flow of information andmaterials.
solutions - ANSWER the output of Value Streams. Products, services or systemsdelivered to the customer (internal/external).
A solution may be a product line, product, set of systems or a service that enables anoperational Value Stream
respect for people and culture flowinnovation relentless improvement - ANSWER 4 pillars of the House of Lean Agile Product Delivery - ANSWER The customer is the center of your product strategy Develop on cadence and release on demand
Continuously explore, integrate, deploy, and innovate Team and Technical Agility - ANSWER high-performing, cross-functional, Agile teams business and technical teams build business solutions quality business solutions delight customers PI Planning -for the ART, aligning all terms on the ART to a shared mission and vision? ANSWER a SAFe term that refers to a cadence-based, face-to-face event
PI objectives -and the overall ART intend to accomplish in the next PI ANSWER summary of the business and technical goals that each team
built largely bottom-up as the teams estimate and identify them during PI Planning should reflect what is important to business as well as other stakeholders Specific MeasurableAchievable RealisticTime bound - ANSWER attributes of PI Objectives:
iteration goal - ANSWER should have value that is deployable at every iteration agile risk categories - ANSWER ROAM resolved, owned, accepted, mitigated User Stories -sized so they can be completed in a single iteration, created during PI planning ANSWER short description of a small piece of desired functionality and
enabler stores support -compliance ANSWER exploration, architecture, infrastructure, and
components of user stories - ANSWER user role, activity, business value characteristics of user stories -Estimatable, Small, and Testable. ANSWER Independent, Negotiable, Valuable,
When does a user story is complete? -accepted by the product owner ANSWER Satisfies the definition of done and is
By Whom, the acceptance criteria of a User story created? -the product owner ANSWER the team and
Write acceptance criteria using - ANSWER behavior driven development Who should attend the Iteration review - ANSWER team and it's stakeholders Iteration Retrospective Attributes - ANSWER 30-60 minutes, select 1 or 2 items that canbe done better for next iteration, insert improvement items into the team backlog
Continuous Delivery Pipeline - ANSWER continuous exploration, continuous integration,continuous deployment, ready to release
story map - ANSWER a design thinking tool that captures the workflow of a user and theuser stories that support the workflow
benefits of story mapstime by showing how successive stories can improve the solution, validate that the design workflows, manage the improvement of the product over stories in the backlog support all the steps needed to accomplish the goal Iteration Planning Flow- Story analysis & estimation - ANSWER -Establishing capacity usages
Innovation Riptide -building momentum ANSWER can happen anywhere in the org and can take affect,
spike - ANSWER an exploration enabler story designed to gain knowledge necessary toreduce the risk, better understand a requirement or increase the reliability of a story estimate three parts of Inspect and Adapt (I&A) problem solving workshop - ANSWER PI systemdemo, quantitative and qualitative measurement and problem solving workshop