SAFe Agilist Cert Word Scramble

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What are the SAFe Core values?	Alignment, Transparency, Built in Quality, Program Execution
What are the 4 House of Lean Pillars? Foundation? Roof?	1. Respect for people & culture 2. Flow 3. Innovation 4. Relentless Improvement Foundation: leadership Roof: Value
13 - SAFe Implementation Road Map - 4 Stages	1. Building a Guiding Coalition 2. Designing the Implementation 3. Implementing ARTs, Solution Trains and a Lean Portfolio 4. Sustain & Improve
13 - 12 Steps of the Implementation Roadmap (First 6)	1. Reaching the Tipping Point 2. Train Lean-Agile Change Agents 3. Train Executives, Managers, and Leaders 4. Create a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence 5. Identify Value Streams and ARTs 6. Create the Implementation Plan
13 - 12 Steps of the Implementation Roadmap (Last 6)	7. Prepare for ART Launch 8. Train Teams and Launch the ART 9. Coach ART Execution 10. Launch More ARTs and Value Streams 11. Extend to the Portfolio 12. Accelerate
What is one issue when organizing around hierarchical functions? Choose 1: It reduces political tensions It is not how value flows It moves the decision to where the information is It creates Agile business teams	It is not how value flows
What is found on a program board?	Features, Feature Delivery, Dependencies, Milestones & Events
True or False: DevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between development and operations	True
How does SAFe provide a second operating system that enables Business Agility?	By focusing on customers, products, innovation, and growth
What are Dr. Kotter's 8 steps for leading change?	Establish a sense of urgency Create a powerful guiding coalition Develop the vision and strategy Communicate the vision Empower employees for broad-based action Generate short-term wins Consolidate gains and produce more wins Anchor new approaches
What is the last step in Kotter's approach to change management?	Anchor new approaches in the culture
True/False: DevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between development and operations	True
What are the 4 aspects of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?	Continuous Exploration (CE) Continuous Integration (CI) Continuous Deployment Release on Demand
What are the the first 5 Lean-Agile Principles (1-5)?	#1 Take an economic view #2 Apply systems thinking #3 Assume variability; preserve options #4 Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles #5 Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems
What are the last 5 Lean-Agile Principles (6-10)?	#6 – Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage #7 – Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning #8 – Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers #9 – Decentralize decision-making #10 – Organize around value
Which are the quality practices that apply to Agile teams?	– Establish flow – Peer review and pairing – Collective ownership and standards – Automation – Definition of done
What are the three primary keys to implementing flow?	Reduce the batch sizes of work Visualize and limit work in process (WIP) Manage queue lengths
What must management do for a successful Agile transformation?	Commit to quality and be the change agent in the system
What is used to capture the current state of the Portfolio and a primer to the future state?	Portfolio Canvas
When basing decisions on economics, how are lead time, product cost, value, and development expense used?	To identify different parameters of the economic framework
What are the principles of the Agile Manifesto?	12 Principles (too long to show here, see other documentation)
Who has content authority to make decisions at the User Story level during Program Increment (PI) Planning?	Product Owners
What is the impact of Customer Centricity?	Greater Profits Increased Employee Engagement More Satisfied Customers
What are Strategic Themes?	They are business objectives that connect the SAFe portfolio to the Enterprise business strategy
What can be used to script the change to SAFe?	The Implementation Roadmap
What are the 7 Core Competencies of Business Agility aka the Lean Enterprise?	Team & Technical Agility Agile Product Delivery Enterprise Solution Delivery Lean Portfolio Management Organizational Agility Continuous Learning Culture *Lean Agile Leadership
What is one of the Agile Release Train sync meetings?	Scrum of scrums
On day two of PI Planning, management presents adjustments based on the previous day's management review and problem solving meeting. What is one possible type of adjustment they could make?	Adjust business priorities
What is the best measure of progress for complex system development?	System Demo
If a program repeatedly shows separate Feature branches rather than a true System Demo, which practice should be reviewed to address the issue?	Continuous Integration
Which statement fits with the SAFe Core Value of Built-in Quality?	You cannot scale crappy code
What is a minimum viable product?	A minimal version of a new product used to test a hypothesis
***Which statement correctly describes one aspect of the team's commitment at the end of PI Planning?	???Maintain Predictability with uncommitted objectives
What is an example of applying cadence-based synchronization in SAFe?	Teams align their Iterations to the same schedule to support communication, coordination, and system integration
The House of Lean is a classic metaphor describing the mindset essential for Lean thinking. Which one of the four pillars advocates a 'Go See' mindset?	Innovation
What is the foundation of the SAFe House of Lean?	Leadership
What is part of the role of Product Management?	To prioritize the Program Backlog
What are the roles of Product Management?	Owns, defines, and prioritizes the Program Backlog, owns feature priorities, create valuable products in the lean enterprise.
***Which statement is true about the Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration?	??? Facilitate reliability, Program Increment readiness, planning, and innovation
Which of the core competencies of the Lean Enterprise helps align strategy and execution?	Lean Portfolio Management
In the Program Kanban some steps have work in process (WIP) limits. Why is this necessary?	To ensure large queues are not being built
Design Thinking identifies at least four new ways to measure success. What are two of those ways? (Choose two.) -Scalability -Reliability -Sustainability -Marketability -Desirability	Desirability & Sustainability
What is one component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline? Continuous Improvement Continuous Exploration Continuous Planning Continuous Cadence	Continuous Exploration
What is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision-making?	Delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead time
What is one benefit of unlocking the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers?	To provide autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints
Which is an aspect of systems thinking?	Optimizing a component does not optimize the system
How is the flow of Portfolio Epics managed?	??? Is a Solution Development initiative
Explain what a Portfolio Epic is?	typically cross-cutting, typically spanning multiple Value Streams and PIs
Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto? Respect for people and culture Limit work in process Respond to change Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles	Respond to change
What can be used as a template for putting SAFe into practice within an organization?	SAFe Implementation Roadmap
What is considered an anti-pattern when assigning business values to team PI Objectives?	All PI Objectives are given a value of 10
What are the last three steps of the SAFe Implementation Roadmap?	Launch more Agile Release Trains and Value Streams, extend to the portfolio, accelerate
***Which two statements are true about uncommitted objectives? (Choose two.)	???Uncommitted objectives are not included in the team's commitment ???The work to deliver the uncommitted objectives is not planned into the iterations during PI Planning
What is one Guardrail on Lean Budget spend?	Continuous Business Owner engagement
The Agile Release Train uses which type of teams to get work done?	Cross-functional teams
Product Management has content authority over what?	Program Backlog
Product Management has content authority over the Program Backlog. What do Product Owners have content authority over?	Team Backlog
What does establishing flow mean?
Which two quality practices apply to Agile teams? (Choose two.) -Establishing flow -Using nonfunctional requirements -Decentralized decision-making -Peer review and pairing -Providing architectural runway	-Establishing flow -Peer review and pairing
Which statement is a principle of the Agile Manifesto?	Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount of work not done–is essential
What is the basic building block when organizing around value? Agile Release Trains Individuals Hierarchies Agile Teams	Agile Teams
What is the Portfolio Canvas?	a template for identifying a specific SAFe portfolio. It defines the domain of the portfolio and other key elements
What is PI Planning? Explain.	Program Increment (PI) Planning is a cadence-based event that serves as the heartbeat of the Agile Release Train (ART), aligning all teams on the ART to a shared mission and Vision
Individuals & Interactions over _________? (Agile Manifesto)	Processes & Tools
Working Software over _________? (Agile Manifesto)	comprehensive documentation
Customer Collaboration over _________? (Agile Manifesto)	contract negotiation
Responding to change over _________? (Agile Manifesto)	following a plan
Who has the responsibility is to manage the timebox, the dependencies, and the ambiguities	Scrum Master
Who has the responsibility is to define user Stories, plan them into the Iteration, and work out interdependencies with other teams	Agile Team
What does WSJF stand for?	Weighted shortest job first prioritization
What is design thinking?	a clear and continuous understanding of the target market, Customers, the problems they are facing, and the jobs to be done.
Design Thinking identifies at least four new ways to measure success. What are they?	Desirable, Viable, Feasible, and Sustainable
What are the Agile Quality Practices?	– Establish flow – Peer review and pairing – Collective ownership and standards – Automation – Definition of done
Explain the difference between, Integration Revoew and Integration Retrospective?

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