Agile
What is SAFe?
A Framework, a set of values of seven core competencies of Lean enterprise
What 3 methodologies can be utilized in SAFe?
Scrum, XP, and Kanban
What are 3 different ways companies can achieve value of Alignment?
- Alignment starts with the strategy and investment decisions at the Portfolio level and is reflected in Strategic Themes, Portfolio Vision, the Portfolio Backlog, and the outcomes of Participatory Budgeting.
- Customer Centricity and Design - make sure that a diverse group of stakeholders All work is visible, debated, resolved, and transparent.
- Clear lines of content authority, starting with the portfolio. Objectives and Goals are used to communicate expectations and commitments.
-Architectures and user experience guidance and governance helps ensure that the Solution is technologically sound, robust, and scalable.
-Economic prioritization keeps stakeholders engaged based on the current context and evolving facts
What are 4 Core Values of SAFe effectiveness?
Alignment
Built-in quality
Transparency
Program Execution
What are the 7 Core Competencies of SAFe for Customer Centricity?
Enterprise Solution Delivery
Agile Product Delivery
Team & Technical Agility
Lean-Agile Leadership
Lean Portfolio Management
Organizational Agility
Continuous Learning Culture
What is ART (Agile Release Train)?
Teams of Agile Teams: Agile teams operate within the context of a SAFe Agile Release Train (ART), a long-lived, team of Agile teams that provides a shared vision and direction and is ultimately responsible for delivering solution outcomes.
Of course, SAFe won't matter if teams can’t execute and continuously deliver value. Therefore, SAFe places an intense focus on working systems and business outcomes. History shows us that while many enterprises start the transformation with individual Agile teams, they often become frustrated as even those teams struggle to deliver more substantial amounts of solution value, reliably and efficiently. That is the purpose of the ART, and that is why SAFe focuses implementation initially at Essential SAFe. In turn, the ability of Value Streams to deliver value depends on the ability of the ARTs and Solution Trains.
What are the 4 fundamentals team topologies?
Aligned team
Complicated Subsystem team
Platform team
Enabling team
How do you ensure "Transparency" when working on a project?
By taking the time to build trust with your project team. Without faith, no one can build high-performance teams and programs, nor build (or rebuild) the confidence needed to make and meet reasonable commitments.
What are 5 primary dimensions of Built-in Quality?
Flow
Architecture & Design Quality
Code Quality
System Quality
Release Quality
How do we ensure Agile Product Delivery?
Three dimensions to Agile Product Delivery:
- Customer Centricity/Design Thinking
- Develop on Cadence, Release on Demand
- Devops/Continuous Delivery Pipeline
What's DoD (Definition of Done) for SAFe Velocity measure?
Team's velocity for an iteration is equal to the sum of the points for all the completed stories which completes Definition of Done (DoD).
Average velocity is the completed story points per iteration.
Why does SAFe consider Program Execution a core value?
What are the Quality dimensions generally applicable to all teams?
Pairing
Collective Ownership
Standards
Automation
Definition of Done