SAFe SGP
Why does fixing requirements and designs too early tend to result in schedule and budget overruns?
The emergence of new facts means adjustments must be negotiated and approved
Why is it important to decentralize decision-making?
To enable team success without unnecessary delays
An agency is unable to release anteing new and significant and the quality of the product offering is unable to match the user expectations. What is the initiate step that this agency must take to fix the problem?
Train the leaders of the agency on the benefits of Lean-Agile Mindset
True statements about Epics
Visualized and tracked using Kanban with WIP Enabler Epics are used to help lay the architectural Runway
Individuals and interactions over
processes and tools
What enables Lean estimating and forecasting?
Cadence based development
Two statements associated with a growth mindset
Challenges help me grow my effort and attitude determine my abilities
An ART has teams from two different companies, as well as government teams. Once CTR team reports that the other CTR teams are withholding information vital to completing features. What must the GVT do?
Clarify expectations for cooperation and collaboration with ART members
How to Business Owners support Continuous Exploration and Innovation in SAFe?
Collaborate with Program Management
What is the best option for building quality and compliance into every feature?
Create quality and compliance stories and definition of done criteria
What is a benefit of frequent integration points?
Faster Learning
What is the fastest way to reduce time-to-deploy for new features?
Focus on the delays.
What should be done with the inputs from PI Planning Retro?
Form actionable backlog items
According to Westrum's model for organizational cultures, which culture is performance-oriented, with high cooperation and collaboration?
Generative
Working software over...
comprehensive documentation
Customer Collaboration over
contract negotiation
Responding to change over
following a plan
Synchronization with cross-domain planning occurs...
in PI Planning
A SAFe implementation Roadmap...
is used as a guide to successful transformations
How should objectives and goals be re-prioritized as a mission changes?
Adjust the ART backlog.
What do the teams that make up an Agile Release train do?
Align tp a common business and technology mission
How will most problems in the development process surface?
As delays
A new requirement emerges for a program (SAFe). This program has 2 ARTs. What must be done first in order to forecast when Features(s) can be delivers to fulfill said new requirement?
Ask technical experts from the ARTs to provide a rough order-of-magnitude estimate in Story Points for the features required to complete the requirement.
Which SAFe principle emphasizes Plan-Do-Check-Adjust (PDCA)?
Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
The two primary types of Epics in SAFe
Business Enabler
What is the fastest way to reduce time-to-deploy for new Features?
Eliminate wasteful delays
Configurations of SAFe
Essential; Large Solution; Portfolio; Full
Agile Manifesto Values
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan
How is the ROAM chart used throughout the PI, after PI Planning?
It is regularly viewed during SoS, PO syncs, and ART syncs
Why is communicating vision an important responsibility for leaders in SAFe?
It motivates Knowledge Workers
Managing the Lean flow of Epics
Kanban stages can be adjusted to align with required agency stage-gates
How are silos overcome in a government setting?
Open and clear communication and collaboration.
Define ROAM:
Resolved - The teams agree that the risk is no longer a concern. Owned - Someone on the train takes ownership of the risk since it cannot be resolved during PI planning. Accepted - Some risks are just facts or potential problems that must be understood and accepted. Mitigated - Teams identify a plan to reduce the impact of the risk.
What is designed for large numbers of teams?
SAFe for Lean Enterprises
An Agile Team held a SDU and raised an issue concerning a roadblock related to the ES group. The scrum Master identified who in that group was capable or removing the roadblock.
Scrum Master should go in person (face to face) ASAP to remove the roadblock.
How to Embrace the Inspector
Seek ways to improve program practices from inspectors Provide maximum transparency and access to inspection teams;
What are best practices of Lean-Agile, critical to Lean Budgeting in SAFe?
Stable, long-lived Agile Teams and ARTs Cadence and synchronization
What is a benefit of Lean-Agile estimating and forecasting with cadence-based development?
Supports capacity planning and Roadmapping
What is the first and most important question to address in communicating a vision for Change?
THE WHY
High performing agile teams...
Take collective ownership of the problem to be solved
Under a Lean Startup model in SAFe, what must be delivered within an Epic in order to test a benefit hypothesis?
The minimum set of Features
What is true about uncommitted objectives?
They are used to identify work that can vary within the scope of a PI
What are two reasons Strategic Themes are important for improving agency technology development outcomes?
They enable decentralized decision-making by ARTs and Agile Teams They align development activities with Agency priorities
is it possible to create high-performing teams with a mixture of government and contractor personnel?
Yes, if government encourages and rewards team-centric behaviors
