SAFe 5 Scrum Master Exam Study Guide
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Waterfall Development ✔✔- Too much WIP
- Frequent context switching
- Increased overhead
- Delivery of value at the end
Agile Development ✔✔
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SAFe 5 Scrum Master Exam Study Guide
Questions and Answers Already Passed
Waterfall Development ✔✔- Too much WIP
- Frequent context switching
- Increased overhead
- Delivery of value at the end
Agile Development ✔✔- Reduced and visualized WIP
- Incremental development
- Early and continuous value delivery
The Agile Manifesto ✔✔1. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
2. Working software over comprehensive documentation
3. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
4. Responding to change over following a plan
The 3 pillars of Scrum ✔✔transparency, inspection, and adaptation
Scrum values ✔✔Focus, Courage, Openness, Commitment, Respect
PDCA ✔✔Plan, Do, Check, Adjust
-Occurs throughout the entire iteration
Iteration ✔✔a single development cycle where each Agile Team defines, builds, integrates and
tests the stories from their Iteration Backlog
What should you avoid during iteration process? ✔✔-avoiding adding scope once the iteration has
begun
Who creates the team backlog? ✔✔The agile team
Who owns and prioritizes the team backlog? ✔✔The product owner
What does the team backlog represent? ✔✔Opportunities, not commitments
What does the team backlog contain ✔✔user and enabler stories
Incremental development ✔✔- stories are implemented in vertical slices
-enables a short feedback cycle
-allows for refinement of understanding of functionality
-facilitates more frequent integration of working systems
What is one of the most important (1 of 7) SAFe Lean-Agile Principles? ✔✔- apply cadence,
synchronize with cross-domain planning
What is an agile team? ✔✔-a cross-functional, self-organizing entity that can define, build, test,
and where applicable deploy increments of value
How are agile teams optimized? ✔✔-for communication and delivery of value
Responsible for creating and refining stories and acceptance criteria ✔✔the agile team
Responsible for defining, building, testing and delivering user stories ✔✔the agile team
Responsible for developing and committing to team PI objectives and iteration plans ✔✔the agile
team
Coaches the agile team and facilitates team meetings ✔✔scrum master
Removes impediments and protects the team from outside influence ✔✔scrum master
Attends scrum of scum meetings ✔✔scrum master
Creates, prioritizes and accepts stories ✔✔product owner
Owns backlog ✔✔product owner
Acts as the customer ✔✔product owner
Works with product management to plan PI ✔✔product owner
What does the team use for Team Agility? ✔✔Kanban and scrum
Behavior Driven Development (BDD) ✔✔-a test-first, Agile testing practice that provides BuiltIn quality that creates a shared understanding of requirements between the business and the agile
team
Built-In Quality ✔✔ensures the each solution
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