Introduction to Safe
Built on transparency, inspection, adaptation, and short learning cycles.
What is Scrum?
Servant leaders and coaches for an Agile Team. They help educate the team in Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Kanban, and SAFe, ensuring that the agreed Agile process is followed. They also help remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.
What is the Scrum Master?
Services that fulfill stakeholder needs
What are features
Improve the flow of work
What are WIP limits?
A cadence-based event that serves as the heartbeat of the Agile Release Train (ART), aligning all teams on the ART to a shared mission and Vision.
What is PI Planning?
Team, Program, Large Solution, Portfolio
What are the four levels of the Scaled Agile Framework?
Member of the Agile Team responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components for the team
What is a Product Owner?
Contains all the work for the team
What is the Team Backlog?
Flow distribution, flow velocity, flow time, flow load, flow efficiency, flow predictability
What are the SAFe defined six flow metrics?
Vision, program backlog, top 10 features
What is input to PI planning?
The combination of beliefs, assumptions, attitudes, and actions of SAFe leaders and practitioners who embrace the concepts of the Agile Manifesto and Lean thinking. It’s the personal, intellectual, and leadership foundation for adopting and applying SAFe principles and practices.
What is the Lean-Agile Mindset
Stream-aligned team, complicated sub-system team, platform team, enabling team
Short descriptions of a small piece of desired functionality, written in the user’s language
What are user stories?
Agile testing, behavior-driven development, test-driven development, refactoring, code quality, and Agile architecture
What are built-in quality practices for software teams?
Team and program PI objectives and program board
Output of PI planning
Take an economic view, Apply systems thinking, Assume variability; preserve options, Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles, Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems, Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths, Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning, Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge worker, Decentralize decision-making, Organize around value
What are SAFe Lean-Agile Principles?
Cross-functional, self-organizing entities that can define, build, test, and where applicable, deploy increments of value
What are Agile Teams?
Establishing capacity, story analysis and estimating, detailing stories, developing iteration goals, committing to iteration goals
What is the Iteration Planning Flow?
Culture, Automation, Lean Flow, Measurement, Recovery
What is a CALMR approach to DevOps?
Used to coordinate progress
ART Sync
Enterprise Solution Delivery, Agile Product Delivery, Team and Technical Agility, Lean-Agile Leadership, Continuous Learning Culture, Organizational Agility, Lean Portfolio Management
What are the seven core competencies?
5-11 team members, create and refine stories and acceptance criteria, define, build and deploy stories, build quality into each increment of the solution, develop and commit to team PI objectives and iteration goals
What are the Responsibilities of the Agile Team?
A singular number that represents volume, complexity, knowledge, and uncertainty.
What is a story point?
A preview and elaboration of upcoming Stories
What is backlog refinement?
Occurs every Program Increment (PI) and serves multiple purposes. It acts as an estimating buffer for meeting PI Objectives and provides dedicated time for innovation, continuing education, PI Planning, and Inspect and Adapt (I&A) events.
What is the Innovation and Planning Iteration?