Intro to SAFe
SAFe stands for this
What is Scaled Agile Framework?
Unrelated to paintings and sculptures, this acronym describes teams of agile teams formed around value streams
What isn an ART?
Iterations are typically this long
What is 2 weeks?
This is one of the four activities of Continuous Deployment
Deploy to production
Verify the solution
Monitor for problems
Respond and recover
PI Planning typically lasts this many days
What is 2 days?
This SAFe core value is all about understanding strategy, vision, objectives and goals
What is Alignment?
In addition to being self-organized, agile teams should be this
What is cross-functional?
These are short descriptions of a small piece of desired functionality, written in the user’s language
What is a story?
This is a cadence-based event that serves as the heartbeat of the Agile Release Train
What is PI Planning?
This event is one of many team events
Standup
Iteration Review
Backlog Refinement
Iteration Retrospective
Iteration Planning
SAFe challenges you to open your mind by adopting this mindset
What is a growth mindset?
Agile teams contain these 2 specialty roles
What are scrum master and product owner?
We called iterations without committed work a Tech Debt Siesta. In SAFe they are called this
What is an Innovation and Planning Increment?
In order to achieve Continuous Deployment you need to separate these two things
What are deploying and releasing?
PI Planning occurs this often
What is every 8 - 12 weeks or 4 - 6 iterations?
What is one way to improve flow and achieve sustainable lead times?
What is limit WIP, reduce batch sizes or manage queue lengths?
This team type is organized to assist other teams with specialized capabilities and help them become proficient in new technologies.
What is an enabling team?
Refactoring and SPIKE work is considered this type of story
What is an enabler story?
This activity happens at the end of PI planning
What is a vote of confidence?
This board tracks dependencies between features
What is the program board?
This role owns the Program Backlog and works closely with the Product Owner, who owns the team backlog
What is Product Manager?
This role acts as the chief Scrum Master for the agile release train.
What is Release Train Engineer?
The acronym I-N-V-E-S-T, when discussing writing good stories, means this
Independent
Negotiable
Valuable
Estimable
Small
Testable
These are 2 of the 5 items in S-M-A-R-T team Pl Objectives
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Realistic
Time-bound
These 2 events are part of the ART sync
PI Planning
Scrum of Scrums
PO Sync
System Demo
Inspect & Adapt