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WorksheetsLeading SAFe 6.0 Study Guide
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
Which one is NOT a Flow Accelerator?
Visualize and Limit WIP
ART Flow
Minimize Handoffs and Dependencies
Remediate Legacy Policies and Practices
The Inspect and Adapt event always starts with which activity?
Retrospective and Problem Solving Workshop
The ART System Demo
Quantitative measurement
Agreement on the problems to solve
Little’s Law is associated with which Flow Accelerator?
Reduce Queue Length
Remediate Legacy Policies and Practices
Address Bottlenecks
Get Faster Feedback
Which factor helps unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers?
Autonomy
Team performance incentives
Pay-for-performance
Parallel development
What is an example of an ART event?
Iteration Review
Team Sync
Coach Sync
Innovation and Planning
Which activity is key to successfully implementing the Scaled Agile Framework?
Use the Innovation and Planning iteration instead of the PI Planning process
Replace the PI Planning process with the Inspect and Adapt workshop when possible
Remove blocks such as Portfolio estimation
Use a cadence-based PI Planning process
What are the four levels of the Scaled Agile Framework?
Essential, Large Solution, Portfolio, Full
Exploration, Integration, Deployment, Release
Epic, Capability, Feature, Story
Portfolio, Value Stream, ART, Team
If the PI System Demo shows the current state of the Solution, then who is this demo intended for?
The Product Owner
The Business Owners
The Agile Team
The ScrumMasters
Which statement is true about Iteration planning for SAFe Kanban teams?
Kanban teams find high value in trying to plan the Iteration in detail
Kanban teams do not commit to Service Level Agreements
Kanban teams publish Iteration Goals
Kanban teams estimate their velocity
Which responsibility belongs to the Product Owner in the team?
To facilitate team meetings and drive Agile behavior
To sequence backlog items to ART priorities, events, and dependencies
To foster adoption of Agile technical practices
To foster normalized estimating within the team
What is an example of a modified Fibonacci sequence?
...1, 1, 3, 5, 5...
...5, 8, 13, 20, 40...
...5, 8, 13, 21, 34...
... 2, 4, 5, 9, 11...
Which concepts are part of SAFe Kanban for teams?
Develop incrementally, build quality-in, maintain Iterations
Establish flow, preserve options, improve relentlessly
Build iteratively, demo frequently, maintain Iterations
Visualize work flow, limit WIP, improve flow
Why do Lean-Agile Leaders try to connect the silos of business, system engineering, hardware, software, test, and quality assurance?
To optimize vertical communication
To enforce organizational boundaries between functions
To align around value
To reduce friction between the teams
Which practice promotes built-in quality?
Test-Driven Development
Iteration planning
Backlog refinement
Iteration goals publishing
What is the role of the ScrumMaster / Coach?
To facilitate Agile Release Train processes and Solution Train execution
To be a stakeholder who has the primary business and technical responsibility for fitness for use
To coordinate Portfolio Epics through the Portfolio Kanban system
To act as a servant leader who helps teams self-organize, self-manage, and deliver using effective Agile practices
An Agile Team reviews the Iteration metrics they have agreed upon during which part of the team retrospective?
During the qualitative part of the team retrospective
During the features agreement retrospective
During the quantitative part of the team retrospective
During the time and materials retrospective
What is the role of the System Architect/Engineer?
To implement continuous improvement methods
To manage dependencies
To guide the teams and support the Architectural Runway
To define the design for the system
Which statement describes a cadence-based PI Planning event?
It is not a required event but tasks move forward at higher velocity when the meeting occurs
It is very important and should be postponed until all participants can attend
It is an all-hands, two day event with the goal to identify impediments that could happen
As many team members as possible should attend remotely to reduce travel costs
What are the SAFe Core Values?
Commitment, Competency, Collocation, Culture
Respect for People, Relentless Improvement, Alignment, Transparency
People and Culture, Transparency, Collaboration, Respond to Change
Quality, Feedback, Alignment, Trust
Which statement is true about Work-In-Process (WIP) limits?
Lower WIP limits improve flow
Higher WIP limits result in lower utilization
Higher WIP limits provide richer feedback
Lower WIP limits result in fewer Stories being completed
What is the role of the Release Train Engineer?
To serve as the ScrumMaster for the Agile Release Train
To coach teams to improve their results
To serve as the content authority at the ART level
To ensure the technical integrity of all development in the Agile Release Train
Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, and Backlog Refinement are examples of which type of event?
Sync event
PI event
ART event
Team event
What replaces detailed requirements documents?
Pair work
Task Boards
User Stories
Unit Tests
The Agile Release Train aligns teams to a common mission using a single Vision and what else?
Release on demand
Weighted Shortest Job First
ART Backlog
Team Backlog
Why is the modified Fibonacci sequence used when estimating?
It serves as a way to estimate large ranges
It can be used to predict unit test coverage
It results in greater precision
It reflects the inherent uncertainty of the job being estimated
Which practices are demonstrated during the Inspect and Adapt event?
Forward focus, develop, cross-domain plan, and expedite execution
Move forward, analyze future Stories, integrate, and iterate
New start, job sequence, funnel, and enable
Reflect and identify improvement backlog items via structured problem-solving workshop
Which statement is true about the PI Planning event?
It involves only the team members who are most qualified to estimate the work
It involves ART Portfolio Management to prioritize the Stories presented by teams during the final plan review
It involves Product Management and Product Owners on the first day and the rest of the teams on the second day
It involves everyone in the ART over a two-day period
What visibility should Scrum Masters/Team Coach provide during the Agile Release Train Sync?
Visibility into progress and impediments
Visibility into System Solution Intent
Visibility into collaboration deployment
Visibility into single source design decisions
What is the purpose of the Iteration Review?
To measure the team’s progress by showing working Stories to the stakeholders and getting feedback from them
To show the backlog items and work on possible solutions for the backlog items
To identify where there is too much work in the system and where the teams are being overloaded
To serve as a forecasting meeting where the work is estimated for the Planning Intervals
What is critical to successfully implementing quality in a Lean-Agile environment?
Separation of Dev and Ops
A phased-gate rollout
Component teams
Making quality everyone’s responsibility
