SAFe 6.0 - Scrum Coach Flashcards
(110 cards)
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True/False: Agile teams work within iterations to plan, execute, demonstrate, and review solutions.
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True
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What are the key events in a SAFe® team iteration?
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Planning, review, and retrospective
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Who is responsible for defining the iteration goals?
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Product Owner
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What is the primary purpose of the daily stand-up?
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To report progress and impediments
5
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Which role in SAFe® Scrum is responsible for ensuring the team adheres to agile principles?
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Scrum Coach
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What is the main objective of the iteration review?
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To showcase completed work and gather feedback
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True/False: Agile teams should strive to deliver complete end-user value independently from other teams.
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False
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What is discussed during the iteration retrospective?
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Team performance and process improvements
9
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Which principle does SAFe® Scrum emphasize for continuous improvement?
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Lean-Agile leadership
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True/False: The team backlog holds all upcoming work needed to advance the solution, including user stories and other activities.
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True
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What is a characteristic of a high-performing team that a Scrum Coach should support?
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Self-management
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True/False: The Iteration Review is the last event of the iteration.
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False
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How should a Scrum Coach approach stakeholder collaboration?
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Facilitate and support collaboration as needed
14
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Which event helps teams synchronize their work with other teams?
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PI Planning
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Who typically attends the iteration retrospective?
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The entire Scrum Team
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True/False: The Product Owner has the final say on prioritization of the team backlog.
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True
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What role helps the team improve continuously and adopt SAFe® practices?
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Scrum Coach
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During which event are team dependencies discussed and managed?
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Iteration Planning
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True/False: Continuous delivery and integration are essential practices in SAFe® Scrum.
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True
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What is the outcome of iteration planning?
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Defined iteration goals and tasks
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True/False: The Scrum Coach is responsible for removing impediments to the team’s progress.
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True
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What is the primary role of a Scrum Coach?
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Servant leader and coach
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Which characteristic is essential for a Scrum Coach?
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Empathetic
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True/False: A Scrum Coach should provide solutions to all team problems directly.
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False
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True/False: A Scrum Coach helps improve team performance during iterations by facilitating Daily Stand-Ups (Team Syncs), removing impediments, and fostering collaboration.
True
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What type of environment does a Scrum Coach strive to create for their team?
Collaborative and transparent
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True/False: The role of the Scrum Coach in team conflicts is to foster trust by creating a safe environment, and encourage discussion of disagreement.
True
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What is a Scrum Coach's role in iteration reviews?
Facilitating the review and feedback process
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True/False: The Scrum Coach works with the Product Owner to ensure the backlog is well-organized and ready for the next iteration.
True
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True/False: The Scrum Coach should ensure that the team follows the Agile principles and practices.
True
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Which event does the Scrum Coach facilitate to ensure the team reflects on their process and improves?
Iteration retrospective
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How does a Scrum Coach help teams build solutions correctly from start-to-finish?
By coaching Built-in Quality practices
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True/False: The Scrum Coach encourages the development of T-shaped skills.
True
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How does the Scrum Coach help the team to focus on daily and iteration goals?
By ensuring adherence to agile principles
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True/False: The Scrum Coach has a key role in promoting a culture of collaboration.
True
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True/False: The Scrum Coach does not interact with other teams.
False
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True/False: The Scrum Coach is responsible for ensuring that the team members do not have any conflicts.
False
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True/False: The Scrum Coach improves team flow by setting up and managing the Kanban board, measuring flow, and Building quality in.
True
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True/False: The Scrum Coach teaches stakeholders and non-Agile teams how to interact with Agile-teams effectively.
True
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Which is the first event of a scrum team’s iteration?
PI Planning
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True/False: The purpose of backlog refinement is to eleminate unnecessary tasks/items from the team’s agenda.
False
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True/False: Scrum teams work within the cadence of the ART.
True
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Who facilitates iteration planning events?
Scrum Coach
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True/False: New solution functionality evolves within each iteration.
True
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True/False: All teams on the ART plan, demo, and learn together.
True
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Who attends the System Demo?
Everyone on the ART
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True/False: The Product Owner understands the needs of the customer, manages the team backlog, and seeks feedback from stakeholders
True
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Which of the following is NOT a key component of a Kanban system?
- Visualize work
- Limit work in progress (WIP)
- Continuous delivery
- Annual performance reviews
Annual performance reviews
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True/False: Kanban teams apply a flow-based process to their daily work.
True
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How does Kanban help with continuous improvement?
By visualizing bottlenecks and improving flow
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What is the primary purpose of Kanban in SAFe®?
To visualize and improve the flow of work
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True/False: Kanban encourages teams to have fixed roles and responsibilities for each task.
False
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True/False: Kanban boards are used to make the work stages and tasks visible to everyone.
True
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True/False: Implementing Kanban often leads to increased work overload.
False
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How often should teams update their Kanban board?
Continuously
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Which type of work items are visualized on a Kanban board?
All work items, including in-progress and completed
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True/False: Kanban operates on a pull-based system to optimize the flow of value.
True
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What is an Agile Release Train (ART)?
A long-lived team of Agile teams
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Which role is primarily responsible for facilitating ART execution and removing impediments?
Release Train Engineer (RTE)
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How often does the System Demo occur in an ART?
At the end of every iteration
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True/False: Business Owners in an ART have final responsibility for business outcomes.
True
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What key event generates alignment within the ART?
PI Planning
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Which role in an ART helps define and manage features in the ART Backlog?
Product Management
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True/False: ARTs use a Lean-Agile approach to facilitate continuous delivery.
True
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True/False: The Release Train Engineer is primarily responsible for defining the solution features in an ART.
False
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What is the main goal of an ART?
Delivering effective solutions to the customer
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What is a primary benefit of using cadence and synchronization in an ART?
It ensures the system iterates as a whole
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True/False: The ART is responsible for managing individual team member tasks.
FALSE
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What is the primary component of an ART’s high development velocity?
Fast Feedback
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What approach is used by the ART to discover new, valuable product capabilities?
Design Thinking
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True/False: An ART seeks to continuously improve in delivering value.
TRUE
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What is a critical part of maintaining alignment in an ART?
Regularly engaging with portfolio stakeholders
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How many people typically make up an ART?
50-125
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True/False: The ART is responsible for coordinating dependencies across teams.
TRUE
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Which SAFe® core value emphasizes alignment, built-in quality, transparency, and program execution?
Lean-Agile Leadership
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What is the main responsibility of a Scrum Coach?
To facilitate Scrum events and remove impediments
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True/False: The System Demo provides an integrated view of the new features delivered by all the teams in the ART.
TRUE
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True/False: PI Objectives are used to align the work of the Agile Teams with the business goals.
TRUE
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What is the main focus of the Inspect and Adapt (I&A) event?
To review and adjust progress toward PI objectives
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What is an agile team?
A self-organizing, cross-functional group that defines, builds, and tests solutions
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What event marks the beginning of a new iteration in Scrum?
Iteration Planning
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What does the Scrum Coach do during the Daily Stand-up?
Facilitate the meeting and ensure it stays within the timebox
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What is the primary goal of the Iteration Retrospective?
To discuss the Iteration and find ways to improve
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True/False: Dependencies between teams should be identified and managed during PI Planning.
TRUE
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True/False: The purpose of the Daily Stand-up is to review the team’s progress towards the PI objectives.
FALSE
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Which event is the cornerstone of the Agile Release Train?
PI Planning
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What is the purpose of a Program Increment (PI)?
To provide an opportunity for the ART to work together and align on a common mission
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What is the role of the Product Owner?
To prioritize the Team Backlog
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How often are System Demos typically held?
Every Iteration
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True/False: PI Objectives are used to align the work of the Agile Teams with the business goals.
TRUE
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Which role is responsible for ensuring that the Scrum Coach's work aligns with business objectives?
Business Owner
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Who typically facilitates the PI Planning event?
Release Train Engineer
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Which role is responsible for the overall alignment and integration of the end-to-end solution?
Solution Train Engineer
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True/False: The Scrum Coach is responsible for writing user stories.
FALSE
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What is a key characteristic of a high-performing agile team?
They are self-organizing and empowered
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What is the duration of a typical Scrum iteration?
2-4 weeks
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True/False: The Iteration Retrospective is an event where the team discusses what went well and what could be improved.
TRUE
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Which artifact provides transparency into the work planned for the iteration?
Sprint Backlog
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During which event does the Scrum Coach help the team reflect on their processes and make improvements?
Iteration Retrospective
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What does the Scrum Coach do if there are conflicts within the team?
Helps the team resolve them through facilitation
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True/False: The primary purpose of PI Planning is to align all teams on the ART to a shared mission and vision.
TRUE
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How does the Scrum Coach support the Product Owner?
By facilitating communication between the Product Owner and the team
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True/False: The Scrum Coach helps the team maintain their focus on the Iteration Goals.
TRUE
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What principle does the ART apply to organize around value?
Systems thinking
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True/False: The acronym CDP stands for Continuous Delivery Pipeline.
TRUE
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Which role in an ART helps teams with aspects of ART operations and improvement?
Scrum Coach
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What is a primary goal of the System Team within an ART?
To assist in building and maintaining development and test environments
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What is a major benefit of frequent releases in an ART?
Enhanced visibility of technical debt
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True/False: “Built-in Quality” refers to incorporating quality practices into every aspect of the development process.
TRUE
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True/False: The Product Backlog is owned and managed by the Scrum Coach.
FALSE
