What is a benefit of Program Increment (PI) Objectives?
- To promote Business Agility by giving teams options on how they might deliver features
- To provide the proper allocation of capacity
- To promote the creatio
...
What is a benefit of Program Increment (PI) Objectives?
- To promote Business Agility by giving teams options on how they might deliver features
- To provide the proper allocation of capacity
- To promote the creation of fixed plans that will deliver predictable revenue - ANSWER To promote Business Agility by giving teams options on how they might deliver features
Which two options are part of the SAFe Core Values? (Choose two.)
- Program Execution
- Transparency
- Innovation
- Working Software - ANSWER Program execution and transparency
What does assigning business value to a team's PI Objectives Influence?
- How teams plan the implementation
- How the Kanban work in process limits are set
- How to achieve objectives - ANSWER How teams plan the implementation
Which statement is true about estimating features using story points?
- More than one team may be involved in the estimation
- T-shirt sizing is the best way to estimate features
- Feature estimation is performed solely by Product Managers - ANSWER More than one team may be involved in the estimation
Features are sized or split to fit what duration?
- An iteration
- A program increment
- A release - ANSWER A program increment
What is an input to the Program Increment Planning process that highlights how Product Management plans to accomplish the Vision?
- Business context
- Program board
- Top ten features - ANSWER Top ten features
How can Product Management leverage market rhythms?
- Adjust the delivery of features to better meet market needs
- Improve the prioritization of features
- Improve the scheduling of Program Increment Planning - ANSWER Adjust the delivery of Features to better meet market needs
Why is the problem solving workshop more effective than traditional lessons learned documents?
- Workshops are more engaging than document writing
- Collaboration over documentation is a key recommendation of the Agile Manifesto
- It makes improvements actionable through backlog items for the nest Program Increment - ANSWER It makes improvements actionable through backlog items for the nest Program Increment
Who provides Agile Release Train context and Vision during PI Planning?
- Product Owner
- Product Management
- Business Owner - ANSWER Product Management
SAFe recommends separating deployment from release. What can help with this practice?
- Release new functionality to end users as soon as it is deployed to production
- Use a staging environment that mimics the development environment
- Hide all new functionality under feature toggles - ANSWER Hide all new functionality under feature toggles
What is one of the questions the Product Management team must answer in order to create a Vision?
- Which problem will the solution solve
- Which themes are on the Roadmap
- How many features have already been released to the Customer - ANSWER Which problem will the solution solve
The Customer is asking for a forecast for when a specific Feature will be available. Where could Product Management find this information?
- Development Manager
- Program Backlog
- Solution Roadmap - ANSWER Solution Roadmap
Which situation indicates the presence of an innovation riptide?
- When teams spend more than half their capacity on innovation
- When team and Agile Release Train innovations turn into portfolio-level strategic initiatives
- When innovations are presented during every System Demo - ANSWER When teams spend more than half their capacity on innovation
What is the purpose of Iteration Goals?
- To hold the team accountable to their PI Objectives
- To align the team members and the Product Owner to the mission
- To summarize the business outcomes an Agile Team intends to achieve during the program Increment (PI) - ANSWER To align the team members and the Product Owner to the mission
The SAFe definition of DevOps includes which concept?
- Well-defined handoffs between Dev and Ops
- Culture
- Clear separation of responsibilities between Dev and Ops - ANSWER Culture
During Program Increment Planning, the Product Owner coordinates primarily with their Agile Team, other Product Owners, and who else?
- The System Architect/Engineer
- The Solution Train Engineer
- Product Management - ANSWER Product Management
Product Management is expected to collaborate in planning the amount of upcoming Enabler work by establishing what?
- Team Backlog prioritization
- Completed Epic acceptance criteria
- Capacity allocation - ANSWER Capacity allocation
What is one way in which the SAFe House of Lean might influence a Product Owner?
- Develop Roadmaps that guide future activities
- Help Agile Teams gain a clear understanding of their Customers
- Defer improvements so that the team can spend more time creating stories - ANSWER Help Agile Teams gain a clear understanding of their Customers
What is a common anti-pattern related to System Demo?
- System demo takes more than 15 minutes
- Team demos are accepted in place of a System Demo to avoid redundancy
- People from outside the Agile Release Train attend the System Demo - ANSWER Team demos are accepted in place of a System Demo to avoid redundancy
How do SAFe Continuous Delivery Pipeline activities map to the teams' work each Iteration within the Program Increment (PI)?
- Early Iterations focus on exploring, the later iterations focus on integrating and deploying, and releasing
- Each iteration in the PI, teams are exploring, integrating, deploying, but releasing only occurs at the end of the PI
- Each iteration in the PI, team are exploring, integrating, deploying, and potentially releasing new value - ANSWER Each iteration in the PI, team are exploring, integrating, deploying, and potentially releasing new value
Which statement is true about nonfunctional requirements?
- They operate as constraints on the design of the system
- They stay in the portfolio backlog until implementation capacity is available
- They are split into Features and acceptance criteria is established - ANSWER They operate as constraints on the design of the system
The team is struggling to agree on the Story point sizing of a new User Story. The Product Owner was previously a related domain expert and feels the team is wasting time. What should she do?
- Suggest the team stop the sizing of the user story and add it to the next iteration as-is
- Instruct the Scrum master to resize the story
- Continue to support the team's decision on sizing - ANSWER Continue to support the team's decision on sizing
What is the primary focus of an Operational Value Stream?
- Improving business operations
- Lowering operational costs
- Delivering end-user value - ANSWER Delivering end-user value
What is the purpose of the Solution Context?
- To identify critical aspects of a Solution's operational environment
- To guide Product Management in prioritizing Features
- To assist sales and service organizations in configuring complex solutions - ANSWER To identify critical aspects of a Solution's operational environment
What is an input to the Vision?
- Feature context
- Customer feedback
- Portfolio Backlog - ANSWER Customer feedback
Who should attend the PO Sync?
- The product owners, product management, and other stakeholders as needed
- The scrum of scrums participants and the product owners
- Everyone on the train - ANSWER The product owners, product management, and other stakeholders as needed
Iteration Goals serve what purpose?
- To set preliminary PI Objectives
- To align team members to a common purpose
- To define the what, the how, and the how much - ANSWER To align team members to a common purpose
Product Management is responsible for which activity?
- Establishing an architectural vision for the Agile Release Train
- Prioritizing the Portfolio Backlog
- Defining Program Backlog content - ANSWER Defining Program Backlog content
The recommended Structure for writing User Stories is?
- Given, When, Then
- As a, When, Then
- As a, I want, So that - ANSWER As a, I want, So that
The first three elements of the continuous delivery pipeline work together to support delivery of small batches of new functionality which are released in accordance with what?
- Market needs
- Program backlog prioritization
- Release management governance - ANSWER Market needs
When should a dependency be raised as a program risk?
- When an Enabler can fix it
- When it must be accepted
- When it can be resolved - ANSWER When it must be accepted
Which responsibility belongs to the product owner?
- Prioritizing the team backlog
- assigning PI Objectives
- Testing Features - ANSWER Prioritizing the team backlog
Which statement is true about WSJF?
- it identifies minimum economic outcomes
- The item with the highest cost of delay is prioritized first
- It includes cost of delay and the unit of size - ANSWER It includes cost of delay and the unit of size
Which design-thinking tool is most likely to help an Agile Release Train (ART) during Program Increment (PI) Planning to ensure that the PI will deliver a Solution that is differentiated from competitive offerings?
- Personas
- Whole-product thinking
- Empathy interviews - ANSWER Whole-product thinking
Agile Team capacity allocations often include which major category of work?
- Features
- User stories
- Hackathons - ANSWER User stories
What is a strategy a product owner can use during Program Increment Planning to minimize dependencies?
- Move stories on their team's backlog to another team
- Reprioritize Epics
- Change the definition of done - ANSWER Move stories on their team's backlog to another team
When should a product owner (PO) develop preliminary Iteration Goals?
- During PI Planning
- Prior to iteration planning
- During backlog refinement - ANSWER Prior to iteration planning
Communicating the Vision to the agile release train during program increment planning supports which SAFe Core Value?
- Program Execution
- Alignment
- Transparency - ANSWER Alignment
A product owner is noticing that overall quality is staring to degrade. What might they do to address the problem?
- Add a QA Iteration to address quality issues
- Reinforce the definition of done
- Allocation more capacity to Enablers - ANSWER Reinforce the definition of done
What happens to improvement items identified during the Iteration Retrospective?
- They are given to the Scrum Master who resolves them
- They are ROAMed with the rest of the risks
- They are entered as stories in the Team backlog - ANSWER They are entered as stories in the Team backlog
Who typically participates as the ART's Business Owners to approve the team's PI Objectives?
- System Architects
- Product Owners
- Product Management - ANSWER Product Management
Which statement is true about the SAFe backlog model?
- Stories are in the Solution Backlog
- Features are in the Program Backlog
- Capabilities are in the Program Backlog - ANSWER Features are in the Program Backlog
Which of the following should always attend the Agile Team's Iteration Review?
- The release train engineer
- All business owners
- The team's product owner - ANSWER The team's product owner
What is the purpose of a Program Epic?
- To capture agile release rain initiatives that cannot be
[Show More]
