SAFe 5.0 Upgrade Exam Flashcards
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SAFe 5.0 Upgrade Exam Flashcards

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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?

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?

How to measure the state of Business Agility and how to accelerate growth to improve overall economic outcomes.

What is Essential SAFe?

<p>The most basic configuration of SAFe, formerly the Program level.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the Dual Operating System?

<p>The combination of functional hierarchy and value stream network that delivers Business Agility.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is Business Agility?

<p>The entire organization, not just development, is engaged in continually and proactively delivering innovative business solutions faster than the competition.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three dimensions of Team and Technical Agility?

<p>Agile Teams, Built-in Quality, Teams of Agile Teams</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do Agile Business Teams support?

<p>Guardrails/business parameters, Infrastructure, Contracts &amp; suppliers, End-user training, Compliance, Legal guidance, Marketing, Security</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three steps of the Agile Business Team Maturity Model?

<ol> <li>Be Agile, 2. Join the Value Stream, 3. Specialize the Principles &amp; Practices</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What do Agile Release Trains deliver?

<p>Business Solutions</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the five aspects of Built-in Quality for all teams?

<p>Flow, Automation, Pairing, Definition of Done, Collective Ownership</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the seven aspects of Built-in Quality for technical teams?

<p>Agile Architecture, Agile Testing, BDD, TDD, Refactoring, Spikes, Automation</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three dimensions of Agile Product Delivery?

<p>Customer Centricity &amp; Design Thinking, Develop on Cadence; Release on Demand, DevOps &amp; Continuous Delivery Pipeline</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the five parts of Customer Centricity Mindset?

<ol> <li>Understand the customer's needs, 2. Think like the customer, 3. Know customer lifetime value, 4. Build whole product solutions, 5. Focus on the customer</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What are the four attributes of Design Thinking?

<p>Desirable, Feasible, Viable, Sustainable</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the two steps of Divergent & Convergent Thinking?

<ol> <li>Understand the problem, a. Discover, b. Define, 2. Design the right solution, a. Develop, b. Deliver</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What are stretch objectives now called?

<p>Uncommitted objectives</p> Signup and view all the answers

When should the Continuous Delivery Pipeline happen?

<p>Every iteration</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three dimensions of Enterprise Solution Delivery?

<p>Lean System and Solution Engineering, Coordinating Trains &amp; Suppliers, Continually Evolving Live Systems</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the four elements of Lean System and Solution Engineering?

<ol> <li>Continually refine the fixed/variable solution intent, 2. Apply multiple planning horizons, 3. Architect for scale, modularity, releasability, serviceability, 4. Continually address compliance concerns</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three elements of Coordinating Trains & Suppliers?

<ol> <li>Build and integration solution components and capabilities with ART's and ST's. 2. Apply continu-ish integration, 3. Manage the supply chain with systems thinking</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What are the two dimensions of Continually Evolve Live Systems?

<ol> <li>Build a Continuous Delivery Pipeline, 2. Evolve deployed systems</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three dimensions of Lean Portfolio Management?

<p>Strategy &amp; Investment Funding, Agile Portfolio Operations, Lean Governance</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three stakeholders of Strategy & Investment Funding?

<ol> <li>Enterprise Executives, 2. Enterprise Architects, 3. Business Owners</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What are the four activities of Strategy & Investment Funding?

<ol> <li>Connect the portfolio to enterprise strategy, 2. Maintain the portfolio vision, 3. Fund value streams, 4. Establish portfolio flow</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What are the two parts of Epic Implementing Phase?

<ol> <li>MVP, 2. Persevere</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What are the four investment horizons?

<p>Horizon 3 - Evaluating, Horizon 2 - Emerging, Horizon 1 - Investing &amp; Extracting, Horizon 0 - Retiring</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three tools of Strategy & Investment Funding?

<ol> <li>Portfolio Vision, 2. SAFe Startup Lifecycle, 3. Budgetary Guardrails</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three activities of Agile Portfolio Operations?

<ol> <li>Coordinates value streams, 2. Supports portfolio execution, 3. Drives operational excellence</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What are the two stakeholders of Agile Portfolio Operations?

<ol> <li>APMO/LACE, 2. RTE/SP CoP's</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What is Portfolio Sync?

<p>A monthly meeting facilitated by APMO to gain visibility into how the portfolio is progressing</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three activities of Lean Governance?

<ol> <li>Forecast and budget dynamically, 2. Measure lean portfolio performance, 3. Coordinate continuous compliance</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three stakeholders of Lean Governance?

<ol> <li>Business owners, 2. APMO, 3. Enterprise Architect</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three dimensions of Organizational Agility?

<p>Lean-thinking People and Agile Teams, Strategy Agility, Lean Business Operations</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three dimensions of Lean-thinking People and Agile Teams?

<ol> <li>Agile HR, 2. Agile workspaces, 3. Tooling and automation</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What are the two parts of Lean Business Operations?

<ol> <li>Mapping Value Streams, 2. Implementing flow everywhere</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What are the six elements of Strategy Agility?

<ol> <li>Continuous market sensing, 2. Make strategy changes decisively, 3. Organize &amp; re-organize around value, 4. Innovate like a startup, 5. Implement changes quickly, 6. Ignore sunk costs</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What are the five aspects of Learning Organization?

<ol> <li>Personal Mastery, 2. Shared Vision, 3. Team Learning, 4. Mental Models, 5. Systems Thinking</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What are the six aspects of Innovation Culture?

<ol> <li>Innovative people, 2. Time and space, 3. Go see, 4. Experimentation &amp; feedback, 5. Pivot without mercy or guilt, 6. Innovation riptides</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What are the five aspects of Relentless Improvement?

<ol> <li>Constant sense of danger, 2. Optimize the whole, 3. Problem-solving culture, 4. Reflect at key milestones, 5. Fact-based improvement</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What is the Fixed Mindset?

<p>The idea that we have a set amount of an ability that cannot change</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the Growth Mindset?

<p>The idea that our abilities are malleable qualities that we can cultivate and grow</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the new 10th SAFe Lean Agile Principle?

<p>Organize around value</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the five aspects of Leading by Example?

<ol> <li>Authenticity, 2. Decentralized Decision-making, 3. Emotional Intelligence, 4. Lifelong Learning, 5. Growing Others</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What are the five aspects of Leading Change?

<ol> <li>Change Vision, 2. Change Leadership, 3. Coalition for Change, 4. Psychological Safety, 5. Training</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What is Accelerate in SAFe Implementation Roadmap?

<ol> <li>Measure the performance of the portfolio, 2. Reinforce the basics, 3. Progress towards mastery, 4. Anchor new behaviors in the culture, 5. Apply learnings across the enterprise</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What are the six steps of the Business Agility Assessment?

<ol> <li>Facilitate effective self-assessment of biz agility, 2. Analyze the results, 3. Identify growth opportunities, 4. Prioritize and take action, 5. Integrate learning, 6. Celebrate success</li> </ol> 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

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