#1 | SAFe - Introducing SAFe

34. ow do you brin in cane

The entire development value stream from concept to deployment must be leaner and more responsive to change.

61. What is the purpose of ART

To deliver large amounts of solution value reliably and efficiently

29.For SAFe to be successful what will you do

Train everyone

33. Portfolio is SAFe is ________

Transformational

36. What does Agile Manifesto

Unlocking intrinsic motivation of those who do tee work

15. how would you prevent from the organization from operating from large batches of unverified, invalidated work

Using Built-in Quality

" 13. Vendors or Teams that are following waterfall fall in..

Value Stream

28. Four important factors required to change the company

Values, Mindset, Language, Behaviors

49. Give an example that relates to Alignment

When cars go out of alignment, it is hard to steer and change direction. You cannot go to the destination as decided

27. Name the two types of patterns

Standard company patterns, defined patterns

48. Core values are the guiding p_________ that dictate b_______ and a____

principles, behavior, action

58. Transparency is an enabler for ________

trust

53. Alignment does not emply and encourage _______

Command and Control

18. What principles does aspect of built in quality focus on

Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances ability.

40. What is the main oal of Lean

Continuous evaluation of existing processes wit the oal of eliminating easte and delays

41. how will you deliver value in the shortest sustainable lead time

Continuous evaluation of existing processes wit the oal of eliminating easte and delays

14. What must be defined w.r.t Suppliers

Dependencies

59. What is the most imporatnt fact in SAFe

Execute and continiously deliver value

62. Why should SAFe focus on program level initially

Focus is on ART...to deliver large amounts of solution value reliabily and efficiently

" 31. SAFe is a _______ level execution pattern

Program

27. SAFe focus implementation initially at..

Program level

47. Core values are fundamental __________ of a person

beliefs

25. SAFe is rich in _________ ; light in __________

converation, documentation

" 45. Effects of Quality

"* Decrease in defects * Deployment impact. * Expense decrease. * Increase in client satisfaction

" 46. Effects of Time-to-market

"* Decreased time-to-market. * Increase in level of Quality * Deliver I value business results

" 30. What is the need for change..

"* Development methods must keep pace wit complex and interconnected world. * Maintenance of legacy systems. * Failure of critical systems - unacceptable social and economic consequences * Protecting from cyber attacks. * Teft of digital information.

" 31. Wen did traditional methods actually work

"* Development tools and processes were less complex * Rate of innovation was slower

42. What are the main principles of Lean

"* Empowering the leadership. * Focus on understanding the full value stream. * Developing and managing a sustainable flow of value * Respecting people and culture * Accelerating innovation by releasing a Min Viable Product. * Culture of continuous improvement

24. Name different ways in SAFe supports alignment

"* Strategic themes > Portfolio Backlog >> Vision >> Roadmap >> Program Backlog >> Team backlog * Program architecture, User experience and governance help ensure tat the solution is technologically sound, robust and scalable * Content Authority : Solution Mgmt. >> Product Mgmt. >> Product Owner role * Commitments : PI Objectives >> Team Objectives. * Lean prioritization keeps the stakeholders engaged in a continuous agreed to rolling wave prioritization based on the then-current context and fact patterns. * Cadence and Synchronization are applied to ensure that ins are in alignment

1. Name primary reasons for failure

"1. Development practices have not kept pace with the changing needs. 2. Agile could bring in value; but is designed for small teams

" 44. What are the advantages of SAFe

"1. Emaement,Productivity, I quality, Time-to-market 2. Built in Quality, Alignment, Transparency and Program Execution

6. Team characteristics

"1. Empowered, Self Organizing, Cross Functional, Self Managing Teams. 2. Make use of Scrum Agile Framework. 3. Value Delivery : Use Stories. 4. Deliveries : tested, valuable working system

" 8. Value Stream Characteristics

"1. Integration of suppliers as partners. 2. Synchronization of ART Value Streams. 3. Manage Solution Intent. 4. Value delivery : Epics. 5. Delivery of Large Solutions

50. ________ scales

Alignment Scales

26. _______ is a set of patterns

SAFe

" 12. Issues when bringing change

"1. Not able to define a coalition. 2. Underestimate the power of vision. 3. Undercommunicate the power of vision. 4. Permitting obstacles to vision. 5. Failure to create short term wins. 6. Declaring victory too soon. 7. Neglecting to anchor changes

" 9. Agile Portfolio Characteristics

"1. Organized along the flow of value. 2. Agile Budgeting. 3. Kanban systems - portfolio visiblity. 4. Enterprise Architecture - Technology decisions. 5. Objective metrics - support governance and improvement. 6. Value delviery : Epics

" 7. Team and Team Characteristics

"1. Self Organizing, Cross functional Team, Self Managing 2. Operates with Solution Vision, Architecture and UX guidelines. 3. Common Iteration Length 4. Common Estimation. 5. Face-to-Face collaboration, Alignment and adaptation. 6. Value delivery : Features. 7. Delivers integrated system increments.

" 11. Char of Business Results

"1. Time-to-market. 2. Higher Quality. 3. Higher Productivity. 4. Engagement

" 10. What is 1-2-3 impl strategy

"1. Train the Change agents. 2. Train the Team members. 3. Train the Leaders

30. What format will you follow when conversing with stakeholders

"<Pattern Name> <One-line definition> <Other details>

34. Refer to the SAFe values and explain how it is achieved

"Code Quality : Engineering practices Alignment : Enterprise objectives to Team level stories Transparency : Workpipeline transparency + Visibility in demos Program Execution : Launch ARTs quickly

54. Alignment provides a foundation for _________

"Enterprise where - busienss objectives and outcomes are the continued focus - Decentralized technical and economic decision making

21. Name the hardware practices

"Frequency design cycle and integration. Collaborative design Set based design Model based system engineering.

" 22. Practices tat provide solution level quality include..

"Frequent system level integration Frequent solution level integration Solution level functional testing. Solution level non-functional requirements testing. Solution demo System demo.

51. Why is alignment important...

"It is a necessary condition... ...address the business reality of fast paced change... ...turbulent competitive forces ...geographically distributed teams ...Empowering agile teams.

29. Enterprises must learn to adapt to...

"Must adapt quickly to changing ... * Tecnology * Economic conditions

44. Effect of Productivity

"Organization productivity, Team productivity Single defect ets fixed only once now

38. Name two aspects of systems thinking tat is important

"System built for the benefit of the customer. Organization building the system

" 25. ow does SAFe provide Transparency

* Teams and programs commit to sort term, clear and visible commitments. * All programs gave visibility into Team backlogs and program backlogs. * All teams and programs gave visibility into business and architecture Epic Kanban system. * Programs Inspect and Adapt wit all stakeholders, lessons learnt are incorporated. * All stakeholders can see the portfolio Kanban and program backlogs. * All stakeholders can see the PI objectives of each train. * Everyone can understand the velocity and WIP of teams. * Status reporting is based on objective measure of working systems. "

" 43. Effect of Employee Engagement

* higher productivity, higher morale, happier teams

35. Name te tree important body of knowlede

1. Aile development 2. Systems tinkin 3. Lean product development

" 2. Name the main problems identified - during the retrospective

1. Low visibility | 2. High Complexity | 3. SDLC frameworks are not effective. | 4. Problems are identified very late | 5. Design is accepted at a early stage | 6. Under estimated dependencies | 7. Delivery is very late | 8. No way to improve systematically | 9. Hard to mange distributed teams | 10. Poor Morale

5. What are the core values of SAFe

1. Quality Code | Transparency | 2. Alignment | 3. Program Execution.

19. Name the 3 important aspects of Built in quality

1. Software practices 2. adware practices 3. System integration

37. Relationship between the system and the environment

A system operates in its own environment, the context in wic its delivers its value. The operation of a new system canes the environment

28. Ability of value stream to deliver value depends on...

Ability of the ARTs

63. Ability on the Value stream to deliver value depends on...

Ability of the ARTs

26. What is the main purpose of Agile Release Train#

Ability to deliver large amounts of solution value reliably and efficiently

4. What does SAFe synchronize

Alignment, Collaboration and Transparency

17. What is mandatory in large scale systems

Built in Quality

23. SAFe is a _________ lead initaitve

Business

" 23. Alignment must be based on ?

Enterprise business objectives

" 52. Alignment must be based on ____________

Enterprise business objectives

64. What makes the team to deliver better and better..

Inspect and adapt..

3. Define SAFe

Is a set of integrated practices (or a set of patterns) that will help scale agile

22. SAFe is a _________ based intiative

Leadership

57. what encourages rapid adaptation

Lower cost of change

" 39. A system must be ________ in order to be effective

Managed

" 32. What is NOT the source of problems

NOT poor employee performance

16. What is the reason for excess rework and slower velocity

Outcome of the organization working in large batches of unverified and invalidated work

20. Name the software practices

Pair Programming, Refactoring, Code Ownership, Test Driven Dev., Acceptance Driven Dev., Behaviour Driven Dev., Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment.

24. ________ is a team based initiative

Scrum

" 55. What is considered as an investment ares ______

Software

56. ________ is the source of many solution defects

Software

32. Scrum is a _______ level execution pattern

Team

65. What is importatnt for successful SAFe implementation..

Team based and leadership based execution

33. What is the source of problems

Wit the system in which the employees work

60. SAFe places an intense focus on ______

Working systems and business outcomes