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SAFe 6.0 Review Flashcards

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What is Business Agility?

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  • The ability to compete and thrive
  • by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities
  • with innovative and digitally enabled business solutions
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What are the 7 Core Competencies in Agile Delivery?

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Organizational Agility

Enterprise Solution Delivery
Agile Product Delivery
Team & Technical Agility

Lean Agile Leadership
Continuing Learning Culture

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What is Agile?

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  • An iterative and incremental approach
  • to performing product development in order to
  • accelerate delivery and be more adaptable to changing priorities.
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What are the 4 SAFe Core Values?

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  • Transparency
  • Alignment
  • Respect for People as Individuals
  • Relentless Pursuit of Perfection
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What is a “Value Stream?”

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A sequence of activities that turn a business hypothesis into a digitally enabled solution.

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What is an “Economic View?”

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  • SAFe Agile Principle
  • Deliver often and incrementally
  • Value declines over time
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What is “Systems Thinking?”

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  • SAFe Agile Principle
  • The system cannot evolve faster than its slowest integration point
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Describe “Assume Variability, Preserve Options”

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  • SAFe Agile Principle regarding the cone of uncertainty
  • Iterate with a set-based approach instead of a point based approach
  • Preserve options to improve economic results
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Describe “Build Incrementally Fast; Integrate Learning Cycles”

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  • SAFe Agile Principle
  • PDCA
  • Shorter cycles of development and integration yield faster learning
  • Learning loops limit development speed and depend on integration
  • Design loops need to be synchronized within ARTs
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How do you “Base Milestones On Objective Evaluation of Systems”?

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  • Avoid phase-gate milestones
  • Integrate frequently
  • Use “Innovate and Adapt” iterations
  • Reduce batch sizes to reduce queue size
  • Focus on Progress, Product, and Process metrics with planned incremental system demonstrations
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How do you “Make Value Flow without Interruptions”?

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  • Limit WIP to improve predictability, include non-comitted stories in sprint load
  • Reduce optimal batch size to manage reduce total cost and manage transaction and holding costs
  • Remember “Little’s Law” (W = L x Lambda or Completion)
  • Apply Cadence but synchronize with cross domain planning
  • Unlock intrinsic motivation with MAP (Mastery, Autonomy, and Purpose)
  • Decentralize Decision Making
  • Organize around value streams, look for the kidney shape within matrix organizations
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What are the 4 factors for estimating?

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  • Volume
  • Complexity
  • Knowledge
  • Uncertainty
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What is the modified Fibonacci Sequence?

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1,2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20

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What are the 2 SAFe methods of estimating?

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  • Relative Estimating
  • Normalized Estimation
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Describe how you perform “Normalized Estimation”

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  • 1 Story Point = 1 days worth of work (not time)
  • Use relative estimating between stories with this as a point of reference; do not say there are 8 story points is an 8 day duration…
  • Capacity is 8 Points / iteration because 2 points removed for meetings
  • This includes developing and testing
  • All stories are estimated based on this to
  • Important for ARTs
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How do you effectively use Sprint/Iteration Metrics?

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  • Reduce the gap between load and velocity to deliver effectively
  • Do not plan for velocity as a target
  • The difference is in improving the process of understanding the work
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What is “Vision” and what questions does it answer?

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  • Vision fulfills ALIGNMENT with everyone during PI Planning
  • Is fulfilled by FEATURES
  • Description of the FUTURE STATE of a product
  • How will a product solve customer problems?
  • What features does it have?
  • How will it differentiate us?
  • What NFRs will it deliver?
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Describe “Features”

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  • Features fulfill the product vision by addressing user needs and delivering business benefits
  • They reside in the ART backlog
  • Includes a “Benefit Hypothesis” that justifies development costs
  • Includes Functional and Non-Functional requirements
  • Are delivered in one Planning Interval and are prioritized by Product Management
  • 2 or more features is a capability
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What are some basic Agility Quality Practices?

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  • Shift learning left with frequent code reviews, impolementing continual integration and testing, and involving stakeholders early on within the development process
  • Pair Programming and Peer Reviews
  • Collective Ownership and T-Shaped Skills with workshops, training, and presentations from team members
  • Artifact standards, and definitions of done
  • Workflow automation for small batches of repetitive work, such as testing and code integration or deployment
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Describe an Agile Team

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  • 5 - 11 people total
  • 2 specialty roles SM or TC and Product Owner who approves completed stories
  • cross functional
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Describe an ART

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  • 5-12 teams consisting about 50-125 people
  • Goal is to deliver continuous value with minimal overhead
  • Deliver 1 feature per Planning Increment that is approved by the Business Owner at the 4th iteration
  • Roles include Release Train Engineers (RTEs), Product Management, and Systems Architect (SA)
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What are the roles and responsibilities of the Product Management team?

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  • Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and define customer needs, develop vision, and roadmap
  • Approve system demonstrations between iterations
  • Collaborates with System Team for demo feedback
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What are the roles and responsibilities of the Systems Architect?

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  • Steers the ART direction
  • Evolves the system architecture and ensures the architecture meets the ART’s needs
  • Works with the Enterprise Architect
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How do Phase-Gate Milestones produce less value?

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  • They enable large batches of work and long queues
  • They foster centralization of requirements and design choices in program management
  • They utilize and assume that point-based approaches build solutions correctly the first time

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