Implementing Safe

Question 1

The point at which the overriding momentum is to change, rather
than to remain the same is called …………….

Answer 1

The tipping point

Question 2

What are the two primary reasons to change

Answer 2

Buring Platform
Proactive Leadership

Question 3

SAFe guiding coalition comprises of ….

Answer 3

SPC
Traine Lean-Agile leaders
Lace

Question 4

SPC Areas of Responsibility

Answer 4

Employ a LEan-Agile Mindset
Lead the change
Implement SAFE
Coaching Flow
Accelerating Business Agility

Question 5

LACE areas of responsibility

Answer 5

Facilitating the Transformation
Managing the Transformation Backlog
Fostering Lean-Agile Learning
Coaching Leadership
Supporting Lean Portfolio Management

Question 6

What are these benefits indicative of:
► Fewer handoffs and faster value delivery
► Easier to build in quality
► Built-in alignment between the business and technology
► Optimizing the system as a whole
► Result: Faster delivery, higher quality, and higher Customer satisfaction

Answer 6

Organizing around value

Question 7

…………… value stream is the sequence of activities needed to deliver a product or service to a customer. Examples include manufacturing a product, fulfilling an e-commerce order, admitting and treating a patient, providing a loan, and delivering a professional service.

Answer 7

Operation value Stream

Question 8

…………… Value Streams is the sequence of activities needed to convert a business hypothesis into a technology-enabled solution that delivers customer value. Examples include designing and developing a medical device, developing and deploying a CRM system, and an e-commerce website.

Answer 8

Development Value Streams

Question 9

…………………. ARTs are aligned to a single, valuable stream of work, empowered to build and deliver customer or user value as quickly, safely, and independently as possible, without requiring hand-offs to other ARTs to perform parts of the work.

Answer 9

Stream Aligned ARTs

Question 10

……………….. ARTs are responsible for building and maintaining a part of the system that depends heavily on specialist knowledge, thereby reducing the cognitive load on other ARTs.

Answer 10

Complicated subsystem ARTs

Question 11

……………… ARTs provide the underlying internal services required by streamaligned ARTs to deliver higher-level services or functionalities, thus reducing their cognitive load.

Answer 11

Platform ARTs

Question 12

………… ARTS are found at the intersection of these converging factors.
Significant challenge or opportunity
Collaborating teams
Leadership support
Clear products or solution

Answer 12

Opportunistic ARTs

Question 13

…………… defines how to:
- Incrementally implement the transformation
- Inspect and adapt for course correction

Answer 13

Transformation Roadmap

Question 14

What will minimize the expansion of work during PI preparation and ART Launch

Answer 14

Scheduling the PI Planning event and create the timebox in which the preparation must happen

Question 15

………………. team: Organized around
the flow of work and has the ability to
deliver value directly to the customer or end user

Answer 15

Stream Aligned Team

Question 16

……….. team is Organized around specific subsystems that require deep specialty skills and expertise

Answer 16

Complicated susbsystem team

Question 17

………….. team is Organized around the development and support of platforms that provide services to other teams

Answer 17

Platform team

Question 18

……………… team is Organized to assist other teams with specialized capabilities and help them become proficient in new technologies

Answer 18

Enabling Team

Question 19

How are the following benefits achieved:
► Accelerated learning
► A common scaled Agile paradigm
► Cost efficiency
► Collective learning

Answer 19

By training all the teams on the ART together

Question 20

…………. is key to problem identification and correction

Answer 20

Clearly stating the problem

Question 21

………….. is a proven problem-solving technique used to explore the cause and effect relationships underlying a particular problem

Answer 21

The Five Whys

Question 22

6 steps of Problem Solving Board

Answer 22

1. Original problem statement
2. Root cause analysis
3. Biggest root cause
4. Restate problem
5. Brainstorm solutions
6. Identify improvement backlog items

Question 23

a statistical decision technique used to narrow down the number of actions that produce the most significant overall effect

Answer 23

80/20 rule also known as the Pareto analysis

Question 24

Responsibility areas of VMO

Answer 24

Supporting Transformation
Enabling Strategy & Inv Funding
Coordinating Agile portfolio Operations
Applying Lean Governance

Question 25

Which portfolio event assures strategic alignment and portfolio health

Answer 25

Strategic Portfolio Review

Question 26

Which portfolio event advances portfolio progress

Answer 26

Portfolio Sync

Question 27

Value stream KPIs create the feedback loop back to the ............

Answer 27

portfolio

Question 28

................ is the ability to change and implement new strategies quickly and decisively when necessary and to persevere on the strategies that are working—or will work—if given sufficient focus and time

Answer 28

Strategy agility

Question 29

LPM Implementation Plan

Answer 29

Align Organize Strategize Operate Govern Measure & Grow

Question 30

4 Outcome Metrics

Answer 30

Key performance indicators (KPIs) Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) PI objectives Iteration goals

Question 31

3 use cases for OKR's in SAFe

Answer 31

► Enhancing strategic alignment across a SAFe Portfolio ► Defining business outcomes for epics and Lean Business Cases ► Setting improvement goals for the SAFe transformation

Question 32

3 characteristics of OKR's

Answer 32

► Value-based ► Measurable ► Gradable

Question 33

How should SPC coach flow

Answer 33

1. Facilitate Value Stream Mapping 2. Establish the Kanban systems 3. Measure flow 4. Apply the eight flow accelerators 5. Foster a flow mindset

Question 34

..................... are system qualities that guide the design of the solution and often serve as constraints across the relevant backlogs.

Answer 34

Nonfunctional Requirements (NFRs)

Question 35

............... are persistent qualities and constraints typically revisited as part of the definition of done (DoD) for each Iteration, PI, or release. They influence Teams, ART, Solution Train, and Portfolio backlogs.

Answer 35

NFRs

Question 36

............... are associated with backlogs and constrain the design of the system

Answer 36

NFRs