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  • What must management do for a successful Agile transformation?
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o Commit to quality and be the change agent in the system

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  • How does SAFe provide a second operating system that enables Business agility?
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o By focusing on customers, products, innovation, and growth

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  • What is Business agility?
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o The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business solutions

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  • What are the last three steps of the SAFe Implementation Roadmap?
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o Launch more Agile Release Trains and Value Streams, extend to the portfolio, accelerate

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  • What can be used as a template for putting SAFe into practice with an organization?
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o SAFe Implementation Roadmap

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  • Which of the core competencies of the Lean Enterprise helps align strategy and execution?
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o keyThe Lean Portfolio Management

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  • What is the foundation of the SAFe House of Lean?
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o Leadership

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  • The House of Lean is a classic metaphor describing the mindset essential for Lean thinking. Which one of the four pillars advocates a ‘Go See’ mindset?
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o Innovation

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  • Which statement fits with the SAFe Core Value of Built-in Quality?
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o You cannot scale crappy code

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  • Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?
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o Respond to change

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  • Which statement is a principle of the Agile Manifesto?
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o Simplicity-the art of maximizing the amount of work not done is essential

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  • When basing decisions on economics, how are lead time, product cost, value, and development expense used?
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o To identify different parameters of the economic framework

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  • Which is an aspect of systems thinking?
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o Optimizing a component does not optimize the system

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  • What are the three primary keys to implementing flow? (Choose three)
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o Reduce the batch sizes of work, manage queue lengths, visualize and limit work in process (WIP)

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  • What is an example of applying cadence-based synchronization in SAFe?
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o Teams align their Iterations to the same Schedule to support communication, coordination and system integration

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  • What is one benefit of unlocking the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers?
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o To provide autonomy with purpose, mission and minimum constraints

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  • What is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision-making?
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o Delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead time

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  • What is the basic building block when organizing around value?
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o Agile Teams

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  • What is one issue when organizing around hierarchical functions?
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o Cross-functional teams

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  • Product Management has content authority over the Program Backlog. What do Product Owners have content authority over?
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o Team Backlog

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  • What is part of the role of Product Management?
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o To prioritize the Program Backlog

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  • Who is responsible for the Solution Backlog?
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o Solution Management

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  • Design thinking identifies at least four new ways to measure success.
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Desirable, Feasible, Viable, Sustainable

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  • What is considered an anti-pattern when assigning business values to team PI Objectives?
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o When teams focus on one iteration at a time, attempting to create a solid plan for iteration one, followed by a deep dive in iteration two

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  • What is the impact of Customer Centricity?
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o Greater profits, increased employee engagement, and more satisfied customers

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  • Which statement describes aspects of the team’s commitment during PI Planning?
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o A team does not commit to uncommitted objectives

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  • When is a pre-PI Planning event needed?
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o to coordinate input objectives, Milestones, and business and solution context for the ART PI planning sessions

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  • What is found on a program board?
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o Features

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  • Who has content authority to make decisions at the User Story level during Program increment (PI) Planning?
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o Product Owner

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  • In the Program Kanban some steps have work in process (WIP) limits. Why is this necessary?
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o To ensure large queues are not being built

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  • What is one of the Agile Release Train sync meetings?
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o Scrum of scrums

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  • Which statement is true about the Innovation and Planning (IP) iteration?
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o Without the IP Iteration. there is a risk that the “tyranny of the urgent” outweighs all innovation activities

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  • What is one component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
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o Continuous Exploration

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  • Which statement is true about Devops?
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o Devops is an approach to bridge the gap between development and operations

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  • lf a program repeatedly shows separate Feature branches rather than a true System Demo, which practice should be reviewed to address the issue?
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o Continuous Integration

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  • What is the best measure of progress for complex system development?
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o System Demo

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  • What can be used to map the current state of a portfolio?
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o Portfolio Canvas

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  • Which statement accurately characterizes Strategic Themes?
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o They are business objectives that connect the SAFe portfolio to the Enterprise business strategy

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  • What is a minimum viable product?
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o Is a product that has been minimally developed but still meets the requirements of the market
o MVP is a product with just enough features to satisfy early users and to provide feedback for future product development
o A minimal product that can validate a hypothesis

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  • How is the flow of Portfolio Epics managed?
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o In the Portfolio Kanban

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  • What is one Guardrail on Lean Budget spend?
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o Continuous Business Owner engagement

42
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  • What is the last step in Kotter’s approach to change management?
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o Anchor new approaches in the culture

43
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  • What can be used to script the change to SAFe?
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o The Implementation Roadmap

44
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  • Which statement accurately characterizes Strategic Themes?
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o They are business objectives that connect the SAFe portfolio to the Enterprise business strategy

45
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  • On day two of PI Planning management presents Adjustments based on the previous day’s management review and problem-solving meeting. What is one possible type of adjustment they could make?
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o Business priorities

46
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  • Which are two Scaled Agile Framework Core Values?
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o Built-in Quality
o Alignment

47
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  • What are two benefits of the Scaled Agile Framework?
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o SAFe scales to accommodate organizations with thousands of people.
o The Framework creates good code quality which is important because, “You can’t scale crappy code”

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  • Which Core Competency of Business Agility is a customer centric approach to building valuable products?
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o Agile Product Delivery

49
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  • What is one of the ART events
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o Product owner sync

50
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  • What is one way to describe a cross-functional agile team?
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o They are optimized for communication and delivery of value.

51
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  • Restoring the speed and innovation of the entrepreneurial network while leveraging the stability of the hierarchical system is a benefit of what.
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o Dual operating system

52
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  • What is one key to leading a successful change?
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o Forming a strategic vision

53
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  • Which basic agile quality practice reduce bottlenecks and ensures consistency
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o Collective ownership and standards

54
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  • What is one oft he agile release train events
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o Product Owner Sync

55
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  • What is one oft he dimensions of lean agile leadership
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o Mindeset an principles / Lead the change / Lead by example

56
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  • What represents the workflow, activities, and automation needed to deliver new functionality more frequently?
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o Continiouse delivery pipeline

57
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  • What is one example of differentiating business objectives?
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o Strategic Themes

58
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  • A confidence vote is taken at the end of a PI Planning after dependencies are resolved and risk are addressed. What best escribes the process of confidence vote?
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o The teams and the ART vote

59
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  • What ese does the SAFe principle, unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers, require besides purpose and minimum possible constraints?
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o Autonomy

60
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  • During the final plan review, ART PI risk are ROAM’ed. What do the letters in ROAM represent?
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o Resolved, Owned, Accept, Mitigated

61
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  • How does SAFe describe Customer Centricity
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o As a mindset focused on Customer behaviours that produce the best innovations

62
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  • Deploy, verify, monitor, and respond are all activities of what?
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o Continiouse deployment

63
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  • What type of thinking allows the Customer to pull value from the producer
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o Lean

64
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  • What is found on a ART Planning board
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o Features

65
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  • What is one way to describe a cross-functional Agile Team?
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o They are optimized for communication and delivery of value

66
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  • The analyzing step of the Portfolie Kanban system has a new Epic with a completed Lean business case. What best describes the next step for Epic
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o It will be moved to the ready stare in the Portfolio Kanban if it receives a “go” decision form Lean Portfolio Management

67
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  • Which basic Agile quality practice reduces bottlenecks and ensures consistency
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o Collective ownership and standards

68
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  • What is used to brainstorm potential future states
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o SWOT and TOWS

69
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  • Which SAFe Core Value includes use “common language” and “understand your customer”
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o Alignment

70
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  • What is one of the SAFe Core Value
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o Transparency

71
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  • What are lean portfolio management, agile product delivery and lean-agile leadership?
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o Steps in the business agility value streams (Antwort nicht klar)
o SAFe Core competencies
o Safe Lean Agile Principles

72
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  • Which lean budget Guardrail helps ensure the appropriate allocation of budget to balance near-term opportunities with long-term strategy and growth?
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o Guiding investments by horizon

73
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  • During the PI Planning event, when are planning adjustments agreed upon?
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o During the management review and problem-solving meeting

74
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  • What is an example of applying cadence and synchronization in SAFe
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o Conducting a PI Planning event

75
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  • Why do business owner assign business value to team PI Objectives?
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o To empower teams to make decisions

76
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  • What is one of the Agile Train events
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o Product Owner Sync

77
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  • When basing decisions on economics, how are lead time product cost, value, and development expense used?
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o To understand solution tradeoffs

78
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  • Which SAFe Lean-Agile Principle includes an emphasis on deliver early and often?
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o Take an economic view

79
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  • What in one key to leading a successful change?
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o Forming a strategic vision

80
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  • What is one dimension of lean-agile Leadership
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o Mindset and principles

81
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  • What represents the workflow, activities, and automation needed to deliver new functionality more frequently?
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o The continuous delivery pipeline

82
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  • How does SAFe recommend using a second operating system to deliver value?
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o Organize development around the flow of value while maintaining the hierarchies

83
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  • The primary goal of SAFe is to achieve what?
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o Business Agility

84
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  • A SAFe Portfolio is a collection of what
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o Development Value Streams

85
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  • Which team type is organized to assist other teams with specialized capabilities and help them become more proficient in new technologies?
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o Enabling team

86
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  • Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto
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o Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

87
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  • Who decides the Team PI Objective Business Value scoring after negotiation?
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o Business Owner

88
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  • What is the focus of Lean Thinking?
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o Reducing delays

89
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  • What is one way Lean-Agile leader lead by example?
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o By modelling SAFe-s lean Agile Mindset, value, principles and practices

90
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  • What method provides a continuous understanding of the target market?
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o Design thinking

91
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  • Which SAFE Lean-Agile Principle includes the critical part of “delaying decisions to the last responsible moment”?
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o Assume variability: Preserve options

92
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  • Restoring the speed and innovation of the entrepreneurial network while leveraging the stability of the hierarchical system is a benefit of what?
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o Dual operating system

93
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  • What triggers the need for value streams
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o Feature request

94
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  • Which statement is true about batch size?
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o Large batch size increase Variability

95
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  • Who is responsible for managing the Portfolio Kanban
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o Lean Portfolio Management

96
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  • Which statement applies to uncommitted objectives?
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o They are counted when calculating load

97
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  • What is one of the tools associated with design thinking
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o Empathy maps

98
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  • User business value and time criticality are components of what?
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o Cost of delay

99
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  • Which implementation step follows coach ART Execution on the SAFe Implementation Roadmap?
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o Launch more ARTs and Value Streams

100
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  • What is “precisely specific value by product” central to?
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o Lean Thinking

101
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  • Which type of decision should remain centralized even in a decentralized decision making environment?
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o Decisions that deliver large and broad economic benefits

102
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  • What is one issue when organizing around hierarchical functions?
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o lt is not how value flows

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