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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

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