SAFe Scaled Agile For Enterprise Certification Exam 2022
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House of Lean
Goal: Value Foundation: Leadership, Respect for People and Culture, Development Flow, Innovation, Relentless Improvement
Lean Goal
Speed, quality, value. sustainably shorted lead time, best quality and value to people and society, most customer delight, lowest cost, high morale, safety
Respect for People
Lean principle, your customer is whoever consumes your work. Develop individuals and
teams, empower teams, build partnerships based on trust and mutual respect
Kaizen
Lean principle,. We can do better.Reflection, continuous improvement as an enterprise value
Leadership
Lean foundation, management is trained, take responsibility, develop people
Product development flow
Lean principle. 1. Take an economic view. 2. Actively manage queues. 3. Understand and exploit variability. 4. Reduce batch sizes. 5. Apply WIP constraints. 6. Control flow under uncertainty; cadence and synchronization. 7. Get feedback as fast as possible. 8.
Decentralized control
Take an economic view
Lean principle of product development flow. #1. Base your decisions on economics. The
goal is to optimize the time from concept to cash
Actively manage queues
Lean principle of product development flow. #2. Understand Little's Law. Control wait times by controlling queue lengths
Understand and exploit variability
Lean principle of product development flow. #3. Risk taking is central to value creation
Reduce Batch Size
Lean principle of product development flow. #4. Smaller batches go through the system faster, with lower variability and risk. Large batch sizes and high utilization increase variability, causing project slippage. Co-location and good infrastructure enable small batches
Apply WIP constraints
Lean principle of product development flow. #5. WIP constraints force capacity matching, increases flow. Time box, purge lower value projects when WIP is too high, constrain local WIP pools, make WIP continuously visible. High WIP and utilization cause reduction throughput
Control flow under uncertainty
Lean principle of product development flow. #6. Cadence + Synchronization. Cadence transforms unpredictable events into predictable events, requires scope or capacity margin, makes waiting times predictable, helps manage load by limiting available time. Regular systemwide integration provides higher fidelity tests and objective solution assessment
Get fast feedback
Lean principle of product development flow. #7. Product development is the process of converting uncertainty to knowledge. Fast feedback accelerates knowledge
Decentralized control
Lean principle of product development flow. #8. Centralize control for decisions that are infrequent and can be applied globally, have significant economies of scale or high-risk. Decentralized control for time critical, local decisions
Planning is for alignment
Lean principle of product development flow. #9. There is more value created with overall
alignment than with local excellence. Agile aims to change the plan when something changes
Agile values: Individuals and interactions
Over processes and tools
Agile values: working software
Over comprehensive documentation
Agile values: customer collaboration
Over contract negotiation
Agile values: responding to change
Over following a plan
Agile drivers in the triangle.
Value and quality driven, the vision creates feature estimates, fix the dates and float the scope
Agile benefits
Early value delivery drives first to market, fast feedback, profitability, makes money faster, reduces risk, delivers better fit for purpose
SAFe core values
Alignment, Code quality, Transparency, program execution
Four SAFe business results
Increased employee engagement, 20-50% increase in productivity, 30-70% faster time to market, 50% defect reduction
Describe an Agile team
Empowered, self organizing, self managing, cross functional, deliver fully tested code every two weeks
How does an Agile team deliver value?
In user stories
Describe a SAFe team that is scaled to program level
Self organizing, self managing team of Agile teams, continuous value delivery, aligned to a common mission via a single program backlog
How do program level safe teams deliver value?
In features and benefits
Describe how SAFe is scaled to the portfolio level.
Using Lean approaches to strategy and investment funding, program management, and
governance. Centralized strategy and decentralized execution. Objective metrics support governance and kaizen
