Podcast
Questions and Answers
What are the seven core competencies of the Lean Enterprise?
What are the seven core competencies of the Lean Enterprise?
Team and Technical Agility, Agile Product Delivery, Enterprise Solution Delivery, Lean Portfolio Management, Organizational Agility, Continuous Learning Culture, Lean Agile Leadership
What is the Spanning Palette?
What is the Spanning Palette?
A collection of roles and artifacts that may be applicable at any level of the framework, used to customize the framework implementation to a specific context.
What is Measure and Grow?
What is Measure and Grow?
How to measure the state of Business Agility and how to accelerate growth to improve overall economic outcomes.
What is Essential SAFe?
What is Essential SAFe?
Signup and view all the answers
What is the Dual Operating System?
What is the Dual Operating System?
Signup and view all the answers
What is Business Agility?
What is Business Agility?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the three dimensions of Team and Technical Agility?
What are the three dimensions of Team and Technical Agility?
Signup and view all the answers
What do Agile Business Teams support?
What do Agile Business Teams support?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the three steps of the Agile Business Team Maturity Model?
What are the three steps of the Agile Business Team Maturity Model?
Signup and view all the answers
What do Agile Release Trains deliver?
What do Agile Release Trains deliver?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the five aspects of Built-in Quality for all teams?
What are the five aspects of Built-in Quality for all teams?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the seven aspects of Built-in Quality for technical teams?
What are the seven aspects of Built-in Quality for technical teams?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the three dimensions of Agile Product Delivery?
What are the three dimensions of Agile Product Delivery?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the five parts of Customer Centricity Mindset?
What are the five parts of Customer Centricity Mindset?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the four attributes of Design Thinking?
What are the four attributes of Design Thinking?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the two steps of Divergent & Convergent Thinking?
What are the two steps of Divergent & Convergent Thinking?
Signup and view all the answers
What are stretch objectives now called?
What are stretch objectives now called?
Signup and view all the answers
When should the Continuous Delivery Pipeline happen?
When should the Continuous Delivery Pipeline happen?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the three dimensions of Enterprise Solution Delivery?
What are the three dimensions of Enterprise Solution Delivery?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the four elements of Lean System and Solution Engineering?
What are the four elements of Lean System and Solution Engineering?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the three elements of Coordinating Trains & Suppliers?
What are the three elements of Coordinating Trains & Suppliers?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the two dimensions of Continually Evolve Live Systems?
What are the two dimensions of Continually Evolve Live Systems?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the three dimensions of Lean Portfolio Management?
What are the three dimensions of Lean Portfolio Management?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the three stakeholders of Strategy & Investment Funding?
What are the three stakeholders of Strategy & Investment Funding?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the four activities of Strategy & Investment Funding?
What are the four activities of Strategy & Investment Funding?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the two parts of Epic Implementing Phase?
What are the two parts of Epic Implementing Phase?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the four investment horizons?
What are the four investment horizons?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the three tools of Strategy & Investment Funding?
What are the three tools of Strategy & Investment Funding?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the three activities of Agile Portfolio Operations?
What are the three activities of Agile Portfolio Operations?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the two stakeholders of Agile Portfolio Operations?
What are the two stakeholders of Agile Portfolio Operations?
Signup and view all the answers
What is Portfolio Sync?
What is Portfolio Sync?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the three activities of Lean Governance?
What are the three activities of Lean Governance?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the three stakeholders of Lean Governance?
What are the three stakeholders of Lean Governance?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the three dimensions of Organizational Agility?
What are the three dimensions of Organizational Agility?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the three dimensions of Lean-thinking People and Agile Teams?
What are the three dimensions of Lean-thinking People and Agile Teams?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the two parts of Lean Business Operations?
What are the two parts of Lean Business Operations?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the six elements of Strategy Agility?
What are the six elements of Strategy Agility?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the five aspects of Learning Organization?
What are the five aspects of Learning Organization?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the six aspects of Innovation Culture?
What are the six aspects of Innovation Culture?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the five aspects of Relentless Improvement?
What are the five aspects of Relentless Improvement?
Signup and view all the answers
What is the Fixed Mindset?
What is the Fixed Mindset?
Signup and view all the answers
What is the Growth Mindset?
What is the Growth Mindset?
Signup and view all the answers
What is the new 10th SAFe Lean Agile Principle?
What is the new 10th SAFe Lean Agile Principle?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the five aspects of Leading by Example?
What are the five aspects of Leading by Example?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the five aspects of Leading Change?
What are the five aspects of Leading Change?
Signup and view all the answers
What is Accelerate in SAFe Implementation Roadmap?
What is Accelerate in SAFe Implementation Roadmap?
Signup and view all the answers
What are the six steps of the Business Agility Assessment?
What are the six steps of the Business Agility Assessment?
Signup and view all the answers
Study Notes
Seven Core Competencies of the Lean Enterprise
- Team and Technical Agility
- Agile Product Delivery
- Enterprise Solution Delivery
- Lean Portfolio Management
- Organizational Agility
- Continuous Learning Culture
- Lean Agile Leadership
Spanning Palette
- Comprises various roles and artifacts applicable at any level of the framework
- Customizes framework implementation to a specific context
- Related to Program Level
Measure and Grow
- Measures state of Business Agility
- Accelerates growth to improve overall economic outcomes
Essential SAFe
- Formerly the Program level
- Most basic configuration of SAFe
- Team level has been eliminated
Dual Operating System
- Combination of functional hierarchy and value stream network
- Delivers Business Agility
Business Agility
- Entire organization, not just development, delivers innovative business solutions
- Faster than the competition
Three Dimensions of Team & Technical Agility
- Agile Teams
- Built-in Quality
- Teams of Agile Teams
Agile Business Teams
- Support Guardrails/business parameters
- Infrastructure
- Contracts & suppliers
- End-user training
- Compliance
- Legal guidance
- Marketing
- Security
Agile Business Team Maturity Model
- Be Agile
- Join the Value Stream
- Specialize Principles & Practices
Agile Release Trains
- Deliver Business Solutions
Built-in Quality (All Teams)
- Flow
- Automation
- Pairing
- Definition of Done
- Collective Ownership
Built-in Quality (Technical Teams)
- Agile Architecture
- Agile Testing
- BDD
- TDD
- Refactoring
- Spikes
Three Dimensions of Agile Product Delivery
- Customer Centricity & Design Thinking
- Develop on Cadence; Release on Demand
- DevOps & Continuous Delivery Pipeline
Customer Centricity Mindset
- Understand customer's needs
- Think like the customer
- Know customer lifetime value
- Build whole product solutions
- Focus on the customer
Design Thinking Attributes
- Desirable
- Feasible
- Viable
- Sustainable
Divergent & Convergent Thinking Steps
- Understand the problem
- Discover
- Define
- Design the right solution
- Develop
- Deliver
Stretch Objectives
- Now called Uncommitted objectives
Continuous Delivery Pipeline
- Happens every iteration
Three Dimensions of Enterprise Solution Delivery
- Lean System and Solution Engineering
- Coordinating Trains & Suppliers
- Continually Evolving Live Systems
Lean System and Solution Engineering
- Continually refine fixed/variable solution intent
- Apply multiple planning horizons
- Architect for scale, modularity, releasability, serviceability
- Continually address compliance concerns
Coordinating Trains & Suppliers
- Build and integration solution components and capabilities with ART's and ST's
- Apply continu-ish integration
- Manage the supply chain with systems thinking
Continually Evolve Live Systems
- Build a Continuous Delivery Pipeline
- Evolve deployed systems
Three Dimensions of Lean Portfolio Management
- Strategy & Investment Funding
- Agile Portfolio Operations
- Lean Governance
Strategy & Investment Funding Stakeholders
- Enterprise Executives
- Enterprise Architects
- Business Owners
Strategy & Investment Funding Activities
- Connect the portfolio to enterprise strategy
- Maintain the portfolio vision
- Fund value streams
- Establish portfolio flow
Epic Implementing Phase
- MVP
- Persevere
Investment Horizons
- Horizon 3 - Evaluating
- Horizon 2 - Emerging
- Horizon 1 - Investing & Extracting
- Horizon 0 - Retiring
Strategy & Investment Funding Tools
- Portfolio Vision
- SAFe Startup Lifecycle
- Budgetary Guardrails
Agile Portfolio Operations
- Coordinates value streams
- Supports portfolio execution
- Drives operational excellence
Agile Portfolio Operations Stakeholders
- APMO/LACE
- RTE/SP CoP's
Portfolio Sync
- Monthly meeting facilitated by APMO
- Gains visibility into portfolio progress
Lean Governance
- Forecast and budget dynamically
- Measure lean portfolio performance
- Coordinate continuous compliance
Lean Governance Stakeholders
- Business owners
- APMO
- Enterprise Architect
Three Dimensions of Organizational Agility
- Lean-thinking People and Agile Teams
- Strategy Agility
- Lean Business Operations
Lean-thinking People and Agile Teams
- Agile HR
- Agile workspaces
- Tooling and automation
Lean Business Operations
- Map Value Streams
- Implement flow everywhere
Strategy Agility
- Continuous market sensing
- Make strategy changes decisively
- Organize & re-organize around value
- Innovate like a startup
- Implement changes quickly
- Ignore sunk costs
Three Dimensions of Continuous Learning Culture
- Innovation Culture
- Relentless Improvement
- Learning Organization
Learning Organization
- Personal Mastery
- Shared Vision
- Team Learning
- Mental Models
- Systems Thinking
Innovation Culture
- Innovative people
- Time and space
- Go see
- Experimentation & feedback
- Pivot without mercy or guilt
- Innovation riptides
Relentless Improvement
- Constant sense of danger
- Optimize the whole
- Problem-solving culture
- Reflect at key milestones
- Fact-based improvement
Lean Agile Leadership
- Mindset & Principles
- Leading Change
- Leading by Example
Fixed Mindset
- Idea that abilities are fixed and cannot change
Growth Mindset
- Idea that abilities are malleable and can be cultivated and grown
New 10th SAFe Lean Agile Principle
- Organize around value
Leading by Example
- Authenticity
- Decentralized Decision-making
- Emotional Intelligence
- Lifelong Learning
- Growing Others
Leading Change
- Change Vision
- Change Leadership
- Coalition for Change
- Psychological Safety
- Training
Accelerate (SAFe Implementation Roadmap)
- Measure portfolio performance
- Reinforce the basics
- Progress towards mastery
- Anchor new behaviors in the culture
- Apply learnings across the enterprise
Business Agility Assessment
- Facilitate effective self-assessment of business agility
- Analyze the results
- Identify growth opportunities
- Prioritize and take action
- Integrate learning
- Celebrate success
Studying That Suits You
Use AI to generate personalized quizzes and flashcards to suit your learning preferences.
Description
Test your knowledge of SAFe 5.0 core competencies and framework with these flashcards.