Leading SAFe Scale agile multiple questions and answers

An Enterprise has just adopted the SAFe Implementation Roadmap and is in the process of training executives, managers, and leaders. What is their next step?

• Train the leaders in Portfolio and Product Management to solve problems before fixing symptoms
• Identify Value Streams and Agile Release Trains to start alignment of the organization
• Perform process mapping on the current state
• Train Lean-Agile change agents to push out the roadmap and build consensus

What is one example of differentiating business objectives?

• Enterprise Goals
• Solution Intent
• Portfolio Vision
• Strategic Themes

Optimizing flow means identifying what?

• Delays
• Predictability issues of the train
• Key performance indicators
• Activities that lack innovation

The program board shows which two items? (Choose two.)

• Risks
• Features
• Epics
• Capacity and Load
• Significant dependencies

How can trust be gained between the business and development?

• Maintain Iterations as a safe zone for the team
• Release new value to production every day
• Automate the delivery pipeline
• Deliver predictability

During the final plan review, Program risks are addressed using ROAM. What do the letters in ROAM represent?

• Resolved, Assigned, Mitigated, Owned
• Owned, Mitigated, Active, Resolved
• Resolved, Owned, Approved, Mitgated
• Owned, Mitigated, Resolved, Accepted

How does SAFe recommend using a second operating system to deliver value?

• Reorganize the hierarchies around the flow of value
• Build a small entrepreneurial network focused on the Customer instead of the existing hierarchies
• Organize the Enterprise around the flow of value while maintaining the hierarchies
• Leverage Solutions with economies of scale

Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?

• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Customer collaboration over a constant indefinite pace
• Customer collaboration over following a plan
• Individuals and interactions over contract negotiation

What is one way Lean-Agile leaders lead by example?

• By using the SAFe Implementation Roadmap to script the way for change
• By applying empathic design and focusing on Customer Centricity
• By mastering the Seven Core Competencies of the Lean Enterprise
• By modeling SAFe’s Lean-Agile Mindset, values, principles, and practices

The analyzing step of the Portfolio Kanban system has a new Epic with a completed Lean business case. What best describes the next step for the Epic?

• It will remain in the analyzing step until one or more Agile Release Trains have the capacity to implement it
• It will be implemented if it has the highest weighted shortest job first (WSJF) ranking
• It will be moved to the Portfolio Backlog if it receives a ‘go’ decision from Lean Portfolio Management
• It will be implemented once the Lean business case is approved by the Epic Owner

Which two types of decisions should remain centralized even in a decentralized decision-making environment? (Choose two.)

• Decisions unlikely to change in the short term
• Decisions that require local information
• Decisions that come with a high cost of delay
• Decisions that are made frequently
• Decisions that deliver large and broad economic benefits

Why is it important to decouple deployment from release?

• To allow inspection of Agile maturity based on different cycle times
• To enable releasing functionality on demand to meet business needs
• To remove the need to respond quickly to production issues
• To make deploying of assets a business decision

Who decides the Team PI Objective Business Value scoring after negotiation?

• The Scrum Team
• Product Manager
• The Agile Team
• Business Owner

Why do Business Owners assign business value to team PI Objectives?

• To override the decisions made in WSJF prioritization
• To ensure the teams do not work on architectural Enablers
• To determine the highest value using WSJF
• To provide guidance on the business value of the team objectives

Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?

• Customer collaboration over ongoing internal conversation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Customer collaboration over a constant indefinite pace
• Customer collaboration over feature negotiation

Which pillar in the House of Lean focuses on the Customer being the consumer of the work?

• Flow
• Value
• Respect for People and Culture
• Innovation

During the PI Planning event, when are planning adjustments agreed upon?

• During the management review and problem-solving
• During breakout sessions
• During the draft plan review
• During Scrum of scrums

Which statement is true about batch size?

• When stories are broken into tasks it means there are small batch sizes
• Large batch sizes ensure time for built-in quality
• Large batch sizes limit the ability to preserve options
• When there is flow it means there are small batch sizes

What is one of the tools associated with Design Thinking?

• Solution Canvas
• Empathy maps
• Divergent Feature Decomposition
• Behavior driven development

Which pathway would a LACE use on the Agile growth lifecycle?

• Agile Maturity Roadmaps
• The 7 Core Competencies of Business Agility
• The Scaled Agile Framework
• The SAFe Implementation Roadmap

SAFe’s first Lean-Agile Principle includes “Deliver early and often” and what else?

• Deliver value incrementally
• Apply cadence
• Apply systems thinking
• Decentralize decision-making

Which team type is ‘organized to assist other teams with specialized capabilities and help them become more proficient in new technologies’?

• Platform team
• Complicated subsystem team
• Enabling team
• Stream-aligned team

Which role serves as the servant leader for the Agile Release Train?

• Release Train Engineer
• Agile Coach
• Business Owner
• Scrum Master

According to SAFe Principle #10, what should the Enterprise do when markets and customers demand change?

• Apply development cadence and synchronization to operate effectively and manage uncertainty
• Create a reliable decision-making framework to empower employees and ensure a fast flow of value
• Create an Agile Release Train to focus on value
• Reorganize the network around the new value flow

What are the three dimensions of Lean-Agile Leadership? (Choose three.)

• SAFe Core Values
• Mindset and principles
• Emotional intelligence
• Support organizational change
• Lead by example
• Lead the change

How does SAFe describe Customer Centricity?

• As a way of working to include the Customer in daily work processes and planning
• As a mindset focused on Customer behaviors that produce the best innovations
• As a strategy to meet the needs of an ever-changing Customer market
• As a set of practices employed to make products focused on the Customer

What is an example of applying cadence and synchronization in SAFe?

• Creating cross-functional teams
• Conducting a PI Planning meeting
• Using a Portfolio Kanban system
• Allocating budgets to Agile Release Trains

The primary need for SAFe is to scale the idea of what?

• Organizational and Functional Alignment
• Technical Solution Delivery
• Lean Portfolio Management
• Business Agility

What does the Continuous Delivery Pipeline enable?

• Continuous refactoring
• Delivery of large batches
• Ongoing learning
• Increased technical debt

Which statement is true when continuously deploying using a DevOps model?

• It lessens the severity and frequency of release failures
• It increases the transaction cost
• It ensures that changes deployed to production are always immediately available to end-users
• It alleviates the reliance on the skill sets of Agile Teams

When should new approaches be anchored in an organization’s culture?

• Culture change needs to happen before the SAFe implementation can begin
• Culture should not be changed because SAFe respects current culture
• Culture change comes last as a result of changing work habits
• Culture change comes right after a sense of urgency is created in the organization

What is part of the role of the Scrum Master?

• To escalate ART impediments
• To prioritize and identify what is ready for Iteration Planning
• To facilitate all team events
• To coach the interactions with the Scrum Framework

What are the top two reasons for adopting Agile in an organization? (Choose two.)

• Enable changing priorities
• Reduce project cost
• Centralize decision-making
• Reduce changes
• Accelerate product delivery

Who is responsible for managing the Portfolio Kanban?

• Product Management
• Release Train Engineer
• Solution Management
• Lean Portfolio Management

What else does the SAFe principle, unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers, require besides purpose and mission?

• Incentive-based compensation
• Transparency
• Minimum possible constraints
• Innovation

Which statement is true about ART events?

• The Inspect and Adapt is the only ART event required to create a closed-loop system
• ART events run inside the team events, and the team events create a closed-loop system
• Team events run inside the ART events, and the ART events create a closed-loop system
• The daily stand-up is an ART event that requires the scrum of scrums and Program Owner sync involvement in the closed-loop system

What is one output of enterprise strategy formulation?

• Portfolio Governance
• Portfolio Vision
• Portfolio Budgets
• Portfolio Canvas

What is one component of a Guardrail in Lean Portfolio Management?

• Capacity allocation of the Value Stream compared to process mapping
• Participatory budgeting forums that lead to Value Stream budget changes
• Allocation of centralized vs decentralized decisions in the Enterprise
• Determining if business needs meet the Portfolio Threshold

At the end of PI Planning after dependencies are resolved and risks are addressed, a confidence vote is taken. What is the default method used to vote?

• A vote by team normalized for the train
• A single vote by every person for the train
• A vote by every person then normalized for the train
• A vote by team then a vote of every person for the train

What are two of the SAFe Core Values? (Choose two.)

• Flow
• Culture
• Program execution
• Transparency
• Relentless improvement

Which core competency of the Lean Enterprise helps drive Built-in Quality practices?

• Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering
• Team and Technical Agility
• Lean Portfolio Management
• DevOps and Release on Demand

What is the goal of the House of Lean?

• Aligning principles and values to a fixed cause
• Lean-Agile Leadership as an organizational culture
• Building a Grow Lean Mindset as opposed to Fixed Mindset
• Value with the shortest sustainable lead time

What is one key purpose of DevOps?

• DevOps joins development and operations to enable continuous delivery
• DevOps enables continuous release by building a scalable Continuous Delivery Pipeline
• DevOps focuses on automating the delivery pipeline to reduce transaction cost
• DevOps focuses on a set of practices applied to large systems

Which statement is true about a Value Stream that successfully uses Devops?

It has objective measurements with automation

It has a lower threshold of defects approved to production

It has a closed loop process of learning

It has a technology stack without legacy code

What are two ways to describe a cross-functional Agile Team? (Choose two.)

• They are made up of members, each of whom can define, develop, test, and deploy the system
• They deliver value every six weeks
• They are optimized for communication and delivery of value
• They can define, build, and test an increment of value
• They release customer products to production continuously