Ceremonies
Agile Release Train
Hodge Podge
Scrum/SAFe
SAFe Roles
100

This is the ceremony that enables the team to constantly improve.

What is the Retrospective?

100

a virtual organization (50 – 125 people) that plans, commits, and executes together

What is the Agile Release Train (ART)?

100
A formal proclamation of four key values and 12 principles to guide an iterative and people-centric approach to software development.
What is the Agile Manifesto?
100
The unit used when estimating effort for a Story.
What are story points?
100
Team responsible for system-level continuous integration and end-to-end testing.
What is the System Team
200
This ceremony is for scrum masters to discuss dependencies and to escalate impediments to leadership
What is the scrum of scrums?
200

These items encapsulate the exploration, architectural & infrastructural work needed to support future functionality

What are Enablers?

200
This board helps facilitate the flow of value by visualizing work flow and establishing WIP limits
What is Kanban board?
200
This is what IP sprint stands for
What is Innovation & Planning?
200
This person is responsible for the content authority and prioritization at the team level.
What is the Product Owner
300
What did I do yesterday, What am I going to do today and do I have any impediments?
What are the three questions in the daily stand up?
300

This is a summarized description of the specific goals and business values intended for the upcoming PI(s).

What are PI Objectives?

300

The foundation of the House of Lean

What is Lean-Agile Leadership?

300

An agile approach to bridge the gap between development and operations to deliver value.

What is DevOps?

300
Person facilitating program level processes and program execution, escalates impediments, manages risk, and helps drive program-level continuous improvement
Who is the Release Train Engineer
400
This event happens every 8-12 weeks and produces team and train level objectives
What is the PI Planning Event?
400

These are maintained in the Program Backlog and are sized to fit in a single PI

What is a Feature (and/or Enablers)?

400

the 4 steps in the iterative learning cycle

What is Plan, Do, Check, Adjust?

400

This is a zen-like energy of a self organizing team.

What is Ba

400
This role is responsible for defining and prioritizing the program backlog—the single backlog that drives the program’s value delivery
What is Product Management
500
This ceremony is used to ensure that the backlog is full and that the team has stories that are ready.
What is Backlog refinement
500

The existing technical infrastructure necessary to support the implementation of upcoming features

What is the Architectural Runway

500

Planning is done on a cadence to create this.

What is Alignment

500

This defines how a team will know that the intent of a story has been achieved.

What are Acceptance Criteria

500
this role has design authority for technological decisions
Who is the Architect
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