SAFe Scrum Master Study Guide 5.0
Already Passed, Latest 2022
Agile frameworks ✔✔SAFe
Scrum
Crystal
Kanban
eXtreme Programming (XP)
Feature-driven development
What does a Scrum Master do? ✔✔- Servant leaders and
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SAFe Scrum Master Study Guide 5.0
Already Passed, Latest 2022
Agile frameworks ✔✔SAFe
Scrum
Crystal
Kanban
eXtreme Programming (XP)
Feature-driven development
What does a Scrum Master do? ✔✔- Servant leaders and coaches for an Agile Team.
- Help educate team in Scrum, XP, Kanban and SAFe, ensuring the agreed Agile process is being
followed.
- Help remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics,
continuous flow and relentless improvement.
- Facilitates team events
- Works with RTE to ensure train meets PI objectives
- Fosters normalized estimating within the team
- Assists the PO in backlog for PI and IP.
- Attends scrum of scrum meetings.
Scrum Master Responsibilities ✔✔Exhibits lean-agile leadership
Supports the team rules
Facilitates the team's progress toward team goals
Leads team efforts in relentless improvement
Facilitates meetings
Supports the PO
Eliminates impediments
Promotes SAFe quality practices
Builds a high-performing team
Protects and communicates
Responsibilities on the train
Coordinates with other teams
Facilitates preparation and readiness for ART events
Supports estimating
ART ✔✔Agile Release Train
PO ✔✔Product Owner
Program Increment (PI) Planning ✔✔A cadence-based, face-to-face event that serves as the
heartbeat of the Agile Release Train (ART), aligning all the teams on the ART to a common
mission and vision.
Innovation and Planning Iteration ✔✔Occurs every PI and serves multiple purposes. It acts as an
estimating buffer for meeting PI objectives, as well as providing dedicated time for innovation,
continuing education, and PI planning and Inspect and Adapt (I&A) events.
Inspect & Adapt (I&A) ✔✔A significant event, held at the end of each PI, where the current state
of the solution is demonstrated and evaluated by the train. Teams reflect and identify improvement
backlog items via a structured, problem-solving workshop
Iteration ✔✔A basic building block of Agile development. Each is a standard, fixed-length
timebox, where Agile Teams deliver incremental value in the form of working, tested software
and systems.
Cycle - Defines, builds, integrates, & test.
What is the recommended timebox duration for an Iteration? ✔✔2 weeks; however, 1-4 weeks is
acceptable, depending on the business context.
Who participates in the Inspect & Adapt (I&A) phase? ✔✔All stakeholders, including:
1. The Agile Teams
2. Release Train Engineer (RTE)
3. System and Solution Architect Engineering
4. Product Management, Business Owners, and others on the Train
What results from the I&A phase? ✔✔Improvement backlog items that go to the Program Backlog
for the next PI Planning event
3 parts of I&A ✔✔PI System Demo
Quantitative Measurement
Retrospective and Problem-Solving Workshop
Purpose of PI System Demo ✔✔To show all the Features the ART has developed over the course
of the PI
Leads: PM, PO, System Team
Attend: BO, Stakehlders, PM, RTE, SM & Teams
PI System Demo Timebox ✔✔~1 hr or less
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