SAFe 5.1 RTE Lesson 5

Question 1

What are the core five ceremonies of an agile iteration?

Answer 1

• Iteration Planning,
• Daily Standup,
• Backlog Refinement,
• Iteration Demo,
• Iteration Retrospective

Question 2

Are completed User Stories (PBIs) demonstrated at the Solution Demo?

Answer 2

No. Only completed Features are demonstrated.

Question 3

Does the whole ART attend the Iteration Demo?

Answer 3

No. The ART attends the Solution Demo.

Question 4

Who owns the Iteration Demo?

Answer 4

The Agile Team

Question 5

What is the intended purpose of Iteration Goals?

Answer 5

Align the Agile Team to a common purpose.

Question 6

ART metrics should track progress toward the achievement of what?

Answer 6

PI Objectives

Question 7

ART metrics should track the completion of what?

Answer 7

PI Objectives

Question 8

During PI Execution, the ART Program Board represents what?

Answer 8

The active (committed) PI Plan

Question 9

The RTE uses what program visual for Scrum of Scrums?

Answer 9

Program Board

Question 10

The RTE uses what program visual during ART Sync?

Answer 10

Program Board

Question 11

What is program visual is used to forecast performance during PI Execution?

Answer 11

Burn Down / Burn Up chart

Question 12

ART metrics focus on the flow of what scale of work items?

Answer 12

Features

Question 13

What are the five core ceremonies at the ART level?

Answer 13

• PI Planning,
• Scrum of Scrums,
• Product Owner Sync,
• Solution/System Demo,
• Inspect & Adapt

Question 14

The ART may opt to hold an ART sync. The ART sync is composed of what two ceremonies?

Answer 14

• Scrum of Scrums,
• Product Owner Sync

Question 15

A Kanban board visualizes work as it flows through what?

Answer 15

defined workflow States (or Stages)

Question 16

The boundary between workflow states on a Kanban board are defined by what?

Answer 16

Explicit Policies (Definition of Ready and Definition of Done)

Question 17

WIP stands for what?

Answer 17

Work in Progress

Question 18

WIP limits are determined by…

Answer 18

the throughput of the following downstream workflow state.

Question 19

When should you apply a WIP limit to a workflow state?

Answer 19

When the workflow state begins to bottleneck flow.

Question 20

What is another name for a Kanban policy?

Answer 20

Working agreement.

Question 21

A Program level Kanban shows the flow of what?

Answer 21

Features

Question 22

In Kanban, Lead Time refers to the measurement of what?

Answer 22

The time a work item spends in the system after it’s been pulled from the backlog and before it is accepted.

Question 23

The last iteration of a PI is known as what?

Answer 23

The Innovation and Planning iteration.

Question 24

IP stands for what?

Answer 24

Innovation and Planning

Question 25

PI stands for what?

Answer 25

Program Increment

Question 26

IA stands for what?

Answer 26

Inspect & Adapt

Question 27

The IA workshop is the PI equivalent of what Agile Team ceremony?

Answer 27

Iteration Retrospective

Question 28

Backlog Grooming is the ceremony where work items are refined. (True or False)

Answer 28

False. 'Grooming' is an illegal activity. Backlog Refinement is the correct ceremony.

Question 29

The House of Lean has how many pillars?

Answer 29

Four (4)

Question 30

What are the pillars in the House of Lean?

Answer 30

* Respect for People and Culture, * Flow, * Innovation, * Relentless Improvement

Question 31

The IA workshop comes after PI Planning in the IP iteration. (True or False)

Answer 31

False

Question 32

What are the three parts of the IA workshop?

Answer 32

* Solution Demo, * Quantitative and Qualitative Metrics Review, * Problem Solving Workshop

Question 33

What is the single most important metric for PI Execution?

Answer 33

Predictability Measure

Question 34

The Predictability Measure conveys what information?

Answer 34

The empirical achievement of ART objectives.

Question 35

What does the acronym C.A.L.M.R. stand for?

Answer 35

* Culture, * Automation, * Lean Flow, * Measurement, * Recovery

Question 36

Which DevOps segment most often overlooked?

Answer 36

Recovery

Question 37

Which SAFe group is responsible for the Continuous Exploration segment of the DevOps pipeline?

Answer 37

Product Management

Question 38

What is the primary control for built in quality in the DevOps pipeline?

Answer 38

Definition of Done