SAFe Agilist 5.0 Questions and Answers
with Complete Solutions
SAFe Implementation Roadmap 12 steps ✔✔1. Reach Tipping Point
2. Train Lean Agile Change Agents
3. Train Executives, Managers and Leaders
4. Create a LA
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SAFe Agilist 5.0 Questions and Answers
with Complete Solutions
SAFe Implementation Roadmap 12 steps ✔✔1. Reach Tipping Point
2. Train Lean Agile Change Agents
3. Train Executives, Managers and Leaders
4. Create a LACE
5. Identify Valuestreams and ARTs
6. Create implementation Plan
7. Prepare for ART launch
8. Train teams and launch the ART
9. Coach ART execution
10. Launch more ARTs and Value Streams
11. Extend to the Portfolio
12. Accelerate
Business results from SAFe implementation ✔✔1. 30 to 75 percent faster time to market
2. 25 to 75 percent higher quality
3. 20 to 50 percent increase in productivity
4. 10 to 50 percent increase in engagement
Need for change comes from one or both of the following conditions ✔✔1. A burning platform
2. Visionary leadership
3 benefits of the vision for change ✔✔1. Purpose
2. Motivation
3. Alignment
8 stages for guiding org transformation ✔✔1. Establishing a sense of urgency
2. Creating the guiding coalition
3. Developing a vision and strategy
4. Communicating the change vision
5. Empowering employees for broad based action
6. Generating short term wins
7. Consolidating gains and producing more change
8. Anchoring new approaches in the culture
House of Lean ✔✔Roof: Value
Pillars: Respect for people and culture, flow, innovation, relentless improvement
Foundation: Leadership
10 SAFe principles ✔✔1. Take an economic view
2. Apply systems thinking
3. Assume variability, preserve options
4. Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
5. Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems
6. Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths
7. Apply cadence, synchronize with cross domain planning
8. Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
9. Decentralize decision making
10. Organize around value
3 LACE team distribution models ✔✔1. Centralized - single portfolio single instance of SAFe
modest sized dev enterprise (100s) common budget
2. Decentralized - independent BUs with own SAFe portfolios, individual BU budgets
3. Hub and Spoke - large enterprises, small LACE serves as Hub for decentralized spokes. Core
practices centrally and shared, local practices shared via hub
4 Criteria for first opportunistic ART ✔✔1. Leadership support
2. Clear products or solutions
3. Collaborating teams
4. Significant challenge or opportunity
Program Backlog contains ✔✔Set of upcoming features, NFRs and architectural work that define
the future behavior of the system
Program Kanban ✔✔Primary tool for visualizing and managing the continuous delivery pipeline
3 Large Solution roles ✔✔1. Solution Train Engineer
2. Solution Management
3. Solution Architect/Engineering
7 traditional vs lean agile approaches ✔✔1. Centralized control vs decentralized decision making
2. Project overload vs Demand Management; continuous value flow
3. Detailed project plans vs Lightweight, epic-only business cases
4. Centralized annual planning vs decent
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