Product Managers are expected to collaborate in planning the amount of upcoming Enabler work by establishing what?
Accurate user story sizing
Capacity allocation
Completed Epic acceptance criteria
Team Backlog prioritization
What does assigning business value to a team’s PI Objectives influence?
How the Kanban WIP limits are set
How to achieve objectives
How often team deploys
How teams plan the implementation
Features in Program Backlogs can result from what?
Splitting Epics or Capabilities
Refining the Team Backlog
Aggregating stories into Features
Decomposing Enabler Stories
An organization is conducting their first PI Planning session, and the new teams are asked to provide their capacity. Which three actions are part of the initial capacity planning process? (Choose three.)
Use eight points per person (adjust for part-time employees)
Compare final team capacity across all teams and make individual team adjustments
Ensure Product Owner/Product Manager approval for all capacity adjustments based on time
Add the points for all the recently completed Features and use that as a baseline for future capacity
Find a small story that takes about a day to develop and call it a one
Subtract one point for every team member’s vacation day, public holiday, or training day
Which statement is true about fast feedback?
It accelerates planning and delivery
Smaller batch sizes enable faster feedback loops
It supports SAFe Lean-Agile Principle #3 – Assume variability; preserve options
The shorter the feedback cycle, the higher the utilization
Which two job roles are good candidates for becoming a Product Owner? (Choose two.)
Subject Matter Experts
Scrum Masters
Business Analysts
UX Experts
Line Managers
The Lean Governance collaboration include the Enterprise Architect, Agile PMO, and which other function?
Product Managers
Solution Management
Epic Owners
Business Owners
Which attribute describes the Product Manager role in the SAFe enterprise?
Uses Iteration Goals to communicate with management
Collaborates and sets expectations with Product Owners, stakeholders, customers, architects
Provide governance and spending practices for value streams
Plans the activities for the Inspect and Adapt event
What is the purpose of an Epic Hypothesis Statement?
It helps define the pipeline with the assets and technologies needed to deliver solution value
It is the artifact Epics use to get approval to go on the Portfolio Backlog from the Lean Portfolio Management
It defines an idea that can be validated using the plan, do, check, and adjust cycle
It provides enough detail to run the business and keep long-term commitments from interfering with changing business priorities
Kanbans are the primary mechanism to achieve SAFe Principle #6, which includes visualizing and limiting Work-in-Process, reducing batch sizes, and what else?
Managing runway cadence
Managing non-functional requirements in the backlog
Managing queue length
Managing PI Objectives
Epics require an Epic Owner and what else?
A Lean Business Case
A Solution Intent
A Definition of Done
An Economic Framework
What is one benefit of constant customer feedback?
It reduces the amount of changes to the Features
It reduces the need for face-to-face collaboration
Teams can better align working days with a customer’s schedule
Fast learning cycles
Which two types of items are maintained in the Team Backlog? (Choose two.)
Enabler Stories
User Stories
PI Objectives
Epic Enablers
Business Epics
What is the goal of Lean thinking?
Relentless improvement
Best quality and value for people and society
Leadership support
Respect for people and culture
What is one way to establish a team’s velocity?
Add the story points for all Features completed in the Iteration
Calculate the percentage planned versus actual story complete for an Iteration
Add the story points for all the stories planned for the Iteration
Look at the average story points completed from the last Iterations
The customer is asking for a forecast for when a specific Feature will be available for release at the beginning of the next fiscal year. Where could the Product Manager find this information?
Development Manager
System Architecture Designs
Roadmap
Program Backlog
A Lean Business Case can identify the impact on sales and which other two areas? (Choose two.)
Profit
Decomposition
Deployment
Architecture
Distribution
SAFe recommends separating deployment from release. What can help with this practice?
A staging environment that emulates testing
Deploying to staging every 4 to 8 weeks
Manually test Features and non-functional requirements
Hide all new functionality under feature toggles
Which statement describes the Team and Technical Agility enterprise competency?
A collaboration that creates Lean budget and investment guardrails
A Community of Practice that leads the transformation
Cross-functional, self-organizing teams that define, build, test and possibly deploy valuable things
Solution trains that coordinate multiple Agile Release Trains and suppliers
Product Management is involved in the assessment of metrics including the evaluation of business value achieved versus plan. They are also active participants in what else?
Daily Stand-ups
Team Retrospectives
Lean budget establishment
The Inspect and Adapt event
Iteration Goals serve what purpose?
To define the what, the how, and the how much
To align team members to a common purpose
To identify non-functional requirements
To set preliminary PI Objectives
What are three outputs of Synthesis? (Choose three.)
Portfolio Kanban
Iteration Goals
Strategic Themes
Program Backlog
Program Roadmap
How do Business Owners quantify the value of PI Objectives?
By estimating return on investment
By totaling the Epic budget
By assigning story points
By assigning business value
What is the importance of the Definition of Done?
It creates a clear understanding of when items are complete
It creates standardized work between all Agile teams
It provides a way for Scrum Masters to enforce quality
It prioritizes the work of testers on the team
Which role is responsible for working with customers and creating the Vision?
Product Manager
Product Owner
Release Train Engineer
System Architect
The Work-in-Process limit at the Analyzing step of the Program Kanban is based on the overall availability of Product Management, other subject matter experts, and the capacity of which two other roles? (Choose two.)
Lean Agile Center of Excellence
Agile Portfolio Operations
Release Train Engineer
System Architects
Business Owners
What is one non-Lean behavior that organizations demonstrate when prioritizing?
Accepting that a high return on investment (ROI) is always more important than a Feature with a low ROI
Reducing the duration will decrease the Cost of Delay
Cost of Delay is the same as WIP
Cost of Delay is directly related to the size of the queue
Which two concepts drive the mindset for SAFe implementation? (Choose two.)
House of Lean
Enterprise Agility
Scrum Manifesto
Agile Manifesto
Lean Enterprise Systems
Three collaborations make up the Lean Portfolio Management competency: Strategy and Investment Funding, Lean Governance, and what else?
Agile Portfolio Operations
Scrum Master
Business Owners
System Architect
Why would Product Owners and Product Managers be key collaborators in the enterprise?
They plan all the key events for the Program Increment
They are key roles in steering and sequencing the Agile Release Train priorities
They provide governance and spending practices for the value streams
They plan Portfolio strategy horizons for the enterprise
The first three elements of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline work together to support delivery of small batches of new functionality. These continuous elements include Exploration, Integration, and what else?
Execution
Deployment
Automation
Compliance
Predictable incremental delivery occurs based on which two practices? (Choose two.)
Architecture Governance
Cadence
Solution Intent
Solution Context
Synchronization
What is the relationship between a Product Owner (PO) and a Product Manager (PM)?
The PO drives PI Objectives; the PM drives Iteration Goals
The PO identifies market needs; the PM is solution, technology, and team facing
The PO contributes to the Program Backlog; the PM establishes Story acceptance criteria
The PO is team-oriented; the PM is market-oriented
Epic Owners collaborate with which two other roles in a typical Portfolio Kanban system? (Choose two.)
System and Solution Architect/Engineering
Business Owners
Release Train Engineer
Product Owners
Scrum Masters
Which cycle is embraced by the Lean startup movement?
Plan-Do-Check-Review
Explore-Integrate-Deploy-Release
Hypothesize-Build-Measure-Learn
Plan-Execute-Review-Retro
The goal is a fast delivery process, ideally requiring little manual effort. What is one capability used to achieve this?
Quiet releases
Feature toggles
Soft launches
Non-functional requirements
What does the Lean UX process begin with?
A collaborative design
A benefit hypothesis
A minimum marketable feature
An evaluation
What should a team do if they cannot meet their commitments?
Move what cannot be accomplished into stretch objectives
Escalate immediately to Product Manager through the Product Owner
Deliver what the team can complete with open issues
Review the objectives and reset them to fit what can be done
How frequently should the Program Backlog be reviewed?
Before every PI
Every week
Continuously
When the Epic owners are defining the Epic Value Statement
What are two inputs to the Solution Vision? (Choose two.)
Feature context
Portfolio Enablers
Strategic Themes
Customer feedback
Portfolio Backlog
What are two examples of team level events? (Choose two.)
System Demo
Backlog Refinement
PI Planning
Daily Stand-up
Scrum of Scrums
The team is struggling to agree on the story point sizing of a new user story. The Product Owner was previously a related domain expert and feels the team is wasting time. What should she do?
Make the team aware of her expertise and decide the size for them
Suggest the team stop the sizing of the user story and add it to the next Iteration as is
Continue to support the team’s decision on sizing
Instruct the Scrum Master to resize the story
The Product Manager has content authority for the Program Backlog including: the Vision, the Roadmap, driving the PI Objectives, and what else?
Working with business stakeholders and Solution and System Architects to implement holistic technology across Value Streams
Establishing Features and Benefit Hypothesis
Managing risk, helping to ensure value delivery, and driving continuous improvement
Accepting stories and team increments
Which statement describes the Scaled Agile Framework?
It provides guidelines for Project Managers
It provides strict guidelines for all daily activities
It synchronizes alignment, collaboration, and delivery for large numbers of teams
It scales Scrum to multiple Agile Teams
Which role has the responsibility for accepting stories and team increments?
Product Owner
Product Manager
Scrum Master
Release Train Engineer