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What can be used as a template for putting SAFe into practice within an organization? ✔✔SAFe Implementation Roadmap
Which of the core competencies of the Lean Enterprise helps align strategy and execution? ✔✔Lean Portfolio Management
When basing decisions on economics, how are lead time, product cost, value, and development expense used? ✔✔To identify different parameters of the economic framework
What are the three primary keys to implementing flow? (Choose three.) ✔✔Manage queue lengths;Visualize and limit work in process (WIP);Reduce the batch sizes of work;
What is an example of applying cadence-based synchronization in SAFe? ✔✔Teams align their Iterations to the same schedule to support communication, coordination, and system integration
What is one benefit of unlocking the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers? ✔✔To provide autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints
What is one issue when organizing around hierarchical functions? ✔✔It is not how value flows
Product Management has content authority over the Program Backlog. What do Product Owners have content authority over? ✔✔Team Backlog
What is part of the role of Product Management? ✔✔To prioritize the Program Backlog
What is considered an anti-pattern when assigning business values to team PI Objectives? ✔✔All PI Objectives are given a value of 10
What is the impact of Customer Centricity? ✔✔To understand the Customer's needs
Which statement correctly describes one aspect of the team's commitment at the end of PI Planning? ✔✔A team does not commit to uncommitted objectives
What is found on a program board? ✔✔Features
- Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support
they need, and trust them to get the job done.
- The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a
development team is face-to-face conversation.
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
- Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors , developers , and
users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
- Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
- Simplicity-the art of maximizing the amount of work not done- is essential.
- The best architectures, requirements , and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
- At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and
adjusts its behavior accordingly.
What are the three pillars of scrum? ✔✔Transparency, inspection, and adaptation
What are scrum values? ✔✔Courage, Commitment, Focus, Respect and Openness
Iterations ✔✔A single development cycle where each Agile Team defines, builds, integrates, and test the stories
Duration ✔✔Each Iteration is the same length,
running back to back
Team Backlog ✔✔- Is created by the Agile Team
- Is owned and prioritized by the team's Product Owner
- Represents opportunities , not commitments
- Contains User and Enabler Stories
SAFE Lean Agile ✔✔#1 Take an economic view
#2 Apply systems thinking
#3 Assume variability; preserve options
Core Values
- Built-In Quality
- Program execution
- Alignment
Iteration plans
What is the responsibility of the Scrum Master ✔✔• Coaches the Agile Team
and facilitates team
meetings
and protects the team
from outside influence
meetings
What is the responsibility of the Product Owner ✔✔Creates, prioritizes
and accepts Stories
for team questions
Management to plan
Program Increments
What is Agile Release Training ✔✔It aligns teams to a common business value and technology mission to deliver a continuous flow of work
An effective scrum master is a team based servant leader who helps the team do what? ✔✔Embrace relentless improvement through iteration retrospectives
True or False: Scrum is a team based framework ✔✔True
Why do teams have an iteration retrospective? ✔✔To adjust and identify ways to improve.
There are two key elements of a Lean-Agile Mindset: Lean thinking and what else? ✔✔Embracing Agility
What are two critical areas that differentiate Agile from waterfall development? (Choose two.) ✔✔Fast feedback;Incremental delivery of value;
Features lend themselves to the Lean UX process model. They include a description, a benefit hypothesis, and what else? ✔✔Acceptance criteria
Why do teams have an Iteration retrospective? ✔✔
Cadence and what other critical concept are the key constructs to delivering continuous value? ✔✔
What is this statement describing?"Agile Teams continuously adapt to new circumstances and enhance the methods of value delivery." ✔✔
Who is responsible for prioritizing the Iteration backlog? ✔✔The Product Owner
What is one responsibility of a SAFe Scrum Master? ✔✔
The skills of a good Scrum Master include which three attributes? ✔✔Communicate, coordinate, cooperate
According to the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, what is a team's ultimate competitive advantage? ✔✔Teamwork
During PI Planning, which two tasks are part of the Scrum Master's role in the first team breakout? (Choose two.) ✔✔
Becoming a coach requires a shift from old behaviors to new ones. What are three examples of old behaviors? (Choose three.)
Focusing on business value delivery
Asking the team for the answers
Facilitating team problem solving
Driving toward specific outcomes
Focusing on deadlines
Fixing problems for the team ✔✔Asking team for answers
Focusing on deadlines
fixing problem for the team
An effective Scrum Master is a team-based servant leader who helps the team do what? ✔✔Embrace relentless improvement through Iteration retrospectives
How are the 5 Whys used? ✔✔
How does an effective Scrum Master help the team improve on their journey towards technical excellence? ✔✔Thinking beyond day to day
When is one time a Scrum Master may be a participant rather than a facilitator? ✔✔Scrum of Scrums
Who can change the backlog during an Iteration? ✔✔
The program board highlights Feature delivery dates, Milestones, and what else for teams on the Agile Release Train? ✔✔Dependecies?
Which demo is performed in the IP Iteration? ✔✔
Which type of Enabler does a System Architect review during a System Demo? ✔✔
What is the basis for most team conflicts? ✔✔Absence of trust
What is the main reason why some teams never reach Stage 4 (Performing) in the stages of high performing teams? ✔✔No one guides them
Good coaches do not give people the answer, but instead they do what? ✔✔Guide people to the solution
What is the name of the event where all team members determine how much of the team's backlog they can commit to delivering during an upcoming Iteration? ✔✔Iteration Planning
