SAFe Events
Agile Release Train
Hodge Podge
SAFe Concepts
SAFe Roles
100
This is the ceremony that enables the team to constantly improve.
What is the Retrospective?
100

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

What are PI Objectives?

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

This is when an enterprise is using Portfolio, Program and Team levels of SAFe.

What is Portfolio SAFe?

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

SAFe uses this calculation to prioritize work.

What is Weighted Shortest Job First?

300

When taking an economic view Don Reinertsen says if you are going to quantify one thing it should be this.

What is Cost of Delay?

300

This is the "ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business solutions."

What is Business Agility?

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

Continuous Exploration, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment

What is the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

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 activity 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

"Unlocking the Intrinsic Motivation of knowledge workers' is one of these.

What are the SAFe Principles

500

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

What are Acceptance Criteria

500

This person has responsibility for creating the business case of an epic and shepherding the epic through its lifecycle.

Who is the Epic Owner?