AGILE SAFE 5.1 SPC TEST 200+ QUESTIONS AND 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS LATEST | GRADED A+

AGILE SAFE 5.1 SPC TEST 200+ QUESTIONS AND 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS LATEST | GRADED A+ . Lean portfolio management - ANSWER- Aligns strategy/business and execution by applying lean and systems thinking Lean budget and guard rails - ANSWER- Funding governance practices increase development throughput while maintaining financial and fitness for use governance (support budgets) Team and technical agility core competency (core comps?) - ANSWERHas built in quality (which means?) - Implementation roadmap: what do you do after training leads - ANSWER- ID value streams and ARTs Implementation roadmap: what do you do after launching ARTs - ANSWER- launch more ARTs in the same value stream to continue/accelerate flow of value What is the tipping point? What is needed to implement change/transformation - ANSWERForcing function (which is?...) Role of business owner... - ANSWER- Adds value to team PI objectives? Role of SPC (article, be familiar...) - ANSWER- Coaches RTE roles Coaches ART execution... What 3 things are needed to launch an ART? - ANSWER- (What's on the ART checklist?) 1 2 3 Lean portfolio management and budgeting empowers stakeholders to - ANSWER- adapt the current backlog and roadmap context (lesson 5) What are dunbar's numbers? - ANSWER- # of members on a self managing, self organizing ART ARTs are most efficient with how many people? (range) - ANSWER50-125 people Whats on the agenda during an I&A (Inspect & Adapt) - ANSWER- 1. PI system demo 2. Quant qual measurement or program predictability measure update 3. Problem solving workshop ...? SAFe defines relentless improvement as... - ANSWER- applying lean problem solving tools and techniques, and reflecting at key milestones Know the agile manifesto - ANSWER- ... How does SAFe extend the agile manifesto foundation to the level of team of teams - ANSWER- By promoting face to face conversations across the teams What are principles 1-5 of lean? - ANSWER- ... Forcing function is used to start... - ANSWER- PI planning date What are principles 6-10 of lean? (most important) - ANSWERWhat is principle 10 of lean? - ANSWER- ...organizing around value What is the use of foundations? (?) - ANSWER- Train agile teams before PI planning What are 2 ways to evolve the solution intent from variable to fixed? - ANSWER- Trade studies and modeling What is the Kanban solution? - ANSWER- A tool used to manage capabilities evolution What happens after the analyzing stage? - ANSWER- Program management approves and then places in actual backlog The program predictability measure looks for what range? - ANSWER80-100% What is little's law? - ANSWER- Reduce queue lengths (faster processing time, shorter queue lengths) To leverage the full flow of a value stream, where do you launch an additional ART? - ANSWER- In the same value stream PI planning SAFe article... - ANSWERLogistics readiness? - ANSWERPurpose of PI planning review - ANSWER- Make adjustments to PI scope and make program adjustments The program board helps show - ANSWER- dependencies between teams, milestones, and features How is a confidence vote done? - ANSWER- Fist of five, each team votes, then repeated for entire ART with everyone voting What do you do if your time to market is too long? Team says the process is problematic? - ANSWER- Organize a VSM (Value Stream Map) workshop If an argument begins in LACE, what will happen - ANSWER- ARTs facing significant challenges will improve During I&A, a problem of PI commitments was found. How do you solve uncontrollable amounts of WIP? - ANSWER- Make smaller features/stories (batch sizing) New team members to Agile are having problems running events. What can SPC do? - ANSWER- Attend retrospectives Coach with a community of practice Facilitate training??? Essential SAFe is... - ANSWER- The team and program agility needed before portfolio practices can be implemented. Provides adequate for needs of most orgs. Implementation roadmap: What is the call to action for promoting SAFe with execs? - ANSWER- Train leaders and managers step What 2 significant risks can be understood from the program board? - ANSWER- Team WIP limits If a feature has an excess of dependencies and risks associated with it When LACE acts as an agile team, which practices will they be likely to use? - ANSWER- Iteration retrospective Use test driven development Daily standup As an SPC coaching I&A, make sure scrum masters... - ANSWER- are working as a single problem solving team After final PI plan review is when you... - ANSWER- groom the risks?? Why do you start a business transformation? - ANSWER- A mission critical solution (or app) is jeopardizing the enterprises continued success (the burning platform) Why is quickstarting an ART an effective approach? - ANSWERIncreases engagement Focuses everyone all at once What activities are included in the quickstart approach? - ANSWERTraining (SAFe for Teams) PI planning Workshops (SAFe) If a team has produced nothing for the product demo... - ANSWERStop working on new functionality, adjust scope based on learning Possible problems to address when coaching an ART sync - ANSWERFeatures keep moving to next iteration with nothing being removed from PI All time is spent focused on current PI with no time spent planning the next PI What is the ART sync? - ANSWERTop 2 reasons for adopting SAFe - ANSWER- Accelerate product delivery Business agility, (enhance ability to manage changing priorities) Centralized annual planning is - ANSWER- The no bueno traditional approach to lean portfolio management John Carter taught that - ANSWER- a guiding coalition helps...guide the transformation Relentless improvement accelerates... - ANSWER- the step of implementation in the beginning of another journey... You can gain trust between the business and development teams by - ANSWER- being predictable in delivery Customer centricity is a - ANSWER- mindset Every person that builds a solution should be - ANSWER- part of the development value stream (not the operational value stream) What does the Workshop toolkit do? - ANSWERWhat does the Ready checklist toolkit do? - ANSWERWhat does the SAFe toolkit do? - ANSWERWhat does the Essential SAFe (for execs) toolkit do? - ANSWERWhat does the LPM execution toolkit do? - ANSWERWhat does the I&A toolkit do? - ANSWERWhat does the PI Planning toolkit do? - ANSWERTo achieve meaningful and lasting change, author John P. Kotter notes that a ___ is needed - ANSWER- "sufficiently powerful guiding coalition" of stakeholders A powerful guiding coalition requires 4 things: - ANSWER- - Leaders who set vision, show the way, remove impediments - Practitioners, managers, change agents to implement prcs changes - organizational credibility to be taken seriously - expertise to make fast, intelligent decisions Business Agility requires what? - ANSWER- Technical Agility and Business-level commitment to Product and Value Stream thinking. Everyone uninvolved in delivering Business solutions use Lean & Agile practices. Seven Core Competencies of Business Agility - ANSWER- 1. Enterprise Solution Delivery 2. Agile Product Delivery 3. Team & Technical Agility 4. Lean Portfolio Mgmt. 5. Organizational Agility 6. Continuous Learning Culture 7. Lean-Agile Leadership What is Enterprise Solution Delivery? - ANSWER- - One of the Core Competencies of Business Agility - How to apply Lean-Agile principles & practices to specification, development, deployment, operation and evolution of the world's largest & most sophisticated systems - Coordinate & align the full supply chain - Continue to enhance value after release Dimensions of Enterprise Solution Delivery - ANSWER- 1. Lean Systems and Solution Engineering: applies Lean-Agile practices to align and coordinate all the activities necessary to specify, architect, design, implement, test, deploy, evolve, and ultimately decommission these systems 2. Coordinating Trains and Suppliers: coordinates and aligns the extended, and often complex, set of value streams to a shared business and technology mission. It uses the coordinated Vision, Backlogs, and Roadmaps with common Program Increments (PI) and synchronization points 3. Continually Evolve Live Systems: ensures large systems and their development pipeline support continuous delivery Agile Product Delivery - ANSWER- A customer-centric approach to defining, building, and releasing a continuous flow of valuable products and services to customers and users. One of the 7 Core Competencies of Biz Agility. Team & Technical Agility - ANSWER- The critical skills and LeanAgile principles that high-performing Agile teams (or team of teams) use to create hi-quality solns for customers. One of the 7 Core Competencies of Biz Agility. Roles: Agile Team, SM, PO. Teams execute w Scrum & Kanban. Lean Portfolio Mgmt - ANSWER- Aligns strategy & execution by applying Lean- and systems-thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding Agile portfolio operations, and governance. One of the 7 Core Competencies of Biz Agility. Organizational Agility - ANSWER- How Lean-thinking people and Agile Teams optimize their business, evolve strategy with clear & decisive new commitments, and quickly adapt ad needed to capitalize on new opportunities. One of the 7 Core Competencies of Biz Agility. Continuous Learning Culture - ANSWER- A set of values and practices that encourage individuals, & the Enterprise as a whole, to continually increase knowledge, competence, performance and innovation. One of the 7 Core Competencies of Biz Agility. Lean-Agile Leadership - ANSWER- How Lean-Agile Leaders drive and sustain organizational change and operational excellence by empowering individuals & teams to reach their highest potential. One of the 7 Core Competencies of Biz Agility. Built-in Quality - ANSWER- Built-In Quality practices ensure that each Solution element, at every increment, meets appropriate quality standards throughout development.