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SAFe 5 Advanced Scrum Master
How does a Scrum Master lead a team's in relentless improvement? - answerBy facilitating the Iteration Retrospective
An effective decision-making framework provides which two ultimate outcomes? - answer1 - Unlocks the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers 2 - Improves flow
What are two Release Train Enginner responsibilities? - answer1 - Drive relentles improvement through Inspect and Adapt 2 - Facilitate PI Planning readiness and the event itself
What is one way to improve the skills of a team member? - answerPair-work with other team members
Who should vote on root causes? - answerThe team members working on that problem
One of the Scrum Master's main responsibilities is to communicate with management and outside stakeholders to hel the team in what way? - answerProtect them from uncontrolled addition of work
A team's Product Owner (PO) takes an unexxpected leave of absence for the last week of the Iteration. Trhee of the team's Sotires have been completed and are waiting to be accepted.
The Scrum Master asks the Product Manager (PM) to attend the Iteration Review and accept the Sotires. The PM responds that he is not familiar enough with the intent to feel comfortable accepting these responsabilities. He suggest keeping the iteration open for additional week and waiting for the PO to come back. What should the team's Scrum Master do? - answerWork with the Release Train Enginner to find a solution
The Agile Team need to learn or acquire new skills. Where is this list of skills found? - answerIn the Improvement backlog
Who participates in the Inspect and Adapt event? - answerThe entire Agile Release Train
What are three Interation Retrospective anti-patterns? - answer1 - When only some of the team attends 2 - When the Scrum Master decides what the retrospective topic(s) will be and directs the team on specific improvement items to work on 3 - When the team's people manager comes in to observe
What are two examples of tasking anti-patterns? (Choose two.) - answer1 - The team focuses on task completion over Story completion and acceptance criteria; 2 - The team provides updates only on tasks during the daily stand up meeting
Wich two actions enhance an Agile Release Train's performance? - answer1 - Collaboration 2 - Team alignment
How does the Scrum Master hel teams address the challenges of modern Enterprises? - answerBy actively addressing impediments
What is the skill type Scrum Masters try to get the Agile Team to achieve? - answerT-Shaped
One state on the team Kaban board has people waiting while the previous stage is overloaded. What should the Scrum Master consider doing? - answerEncourage and coach the people in the under-utilized stage to hel with the work of the overloaded stage
How can learning Milestones be used? - answerTo test the conecpt of a new Feature or Capability
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What are two key areas a team should be organized aroung? - answer1 - Enablers 2 - Features
What anti-pattern can emerge during the Scrum of Scrums? - answerScrum Masters report on the teams' tasks status each day
A team achieved less than 80% predictability during the quantitative measurement of the Inspect and Adapt event. What would be an unacceptable action for this team's Scrum Master take? - answerDecide improvement actions for the team to implement
In complex systems development, what do local integration points ensure? - answerThat each Capability of the systems is meeting its responsibilities in contributing of the overall Solution Intent
Wich SAFe organizational construct allows businesses to build large and complex systems wich require hundreds of people in a Lean-Agile manner? - answerSolution Train
Achieving the goals of Release on Demand requires an understanding of how to decouple what? - answerThe release from deployment
What improves collaboration between Scrum Masters and System Architects, System Teams and Operations? - answerProgram Kanban
What is the most effective way to estabilish Built-in Quality? - answerPerform as many types of testing within the Iteration boundaries as possible
What action should be taken on relentless improvement backlog items from the problem-solving worshop? - answerUse the items as direct input into the PI Planning event that follows
How do Kanban Teams implement the SAFe Lean-Agile mindset of relentless improvement? - answerBy using cumulative flow diagrams to objectively measure bottlenecks and variation which could be due to systemic factors
Wich SAFe configuration requires having a Vision? - answerAll SAFe configurations
What are two typical anti-patterns with Product Owners (POs)? - answer1 - POs design the Solution before brining the intent to the team; 2 - POs and Product Management are not aligned with business intent
What is a recommended Story-Splitting technique for Agile Teams? - answerImplement the 'happy path' first and the rest of the scenarios afterwards
What is the first step in the problem-solving workshop? - answerAgree on the problem to solve
What are three benefits a community of practice offers? (Choose three.) - answer1 - To drive craftsmanship; 2 - To facilitate the adoption of new methods and techniques; 3 - To provide a place to acquire knowledge;
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/communities-of-practice/
What provides objective evidence that the system is iterating? - answerSystem Demo
Wich statement is true about the phase-gate Milestone model? - answerIt does not mitigate risk as intended
pull work from the previous state when they can do so without impacting their current state WIP constraint
What are the responsibilities of a SAFe Scrum Master on a ART that go beyond basic team facilitiation? (Choose three) - answer1 - Participate in the scrum of scrums 2 - Facilitate preparation for the System Demo 3 - Facilitate team preparation for PI Planning
What is the value of periodic resynchronization? - answerIt limits variance to a single time interval
What are three distinct traits a group must have to be considered a Community of Practice? (Choose three.) - answer1 - Practice 2 - Domain 3 - Community
Where does a team document new practicies they want to incorporate into their collective skill set? - answerImprovement Backlog
During Iteration Planning, the Product Owner (PO) introduces a new Story to the team. They cannot come to a consensus on the size of the new Story and ask the PO for more details.
After a lot of discussion, multiple dependencies with other teams emerge, so the team decides to leave the Story in the Team Backlog and not commit. Is the scenario portraying an anti-pattern? - answerNo; The team left the Story in the Team Backlog for futher refinement with the PO
How should decentralized decision-making be used with respect to system design? - answerWhen Agile Teams are empowered, self-organized, and the design is allowed to emerge
Responsibilities of a SAFe Scrum Master - answer- Supports the team rules
- Facilitates the team's progress toward team goals
- Leads team efforts in relentless improvement
- Facilitates meetings
- Supports the Product Owner
- Eliminates impediments
- Promotes SAFe quality practices
- Builds a high-performing team
- Responsibilities on the train
- Coordinates with other teams
- Supports SAFe adoption
- Enables organizational effectiveness
- Facilitates preparation and readiness for ART events
- Supports estimating
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/scrum-master/
Milestones - answer1 - PI Milestones - These support the ability to objectively evaluate profress towards the technical or business hypothesis. These occur on the PI cadence 2- Fixed-date Milestones - Not everything, however, occurs on cadence. System building also relies on external events, third-party deliverables, and external constraints. These are often fixed-date milestones that are distinct from the development cadence. 3- Learning Milestones - In addition, learning milestones help validate business opportunities and hypotheses.
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/milestones/
Learning Milestones - answerTesting a concept of a new capability with a focus group, building and releasing a minimum viable product (MVP), or validating Lean UX assumptions for a
10 - Organize around value
#1 Take an economy view - answer1 - Operating within lean budgets and guardrails 2 - Understanding solution economic trad-offs 3 - Levarging suppliers 4 - Sequencing jobs for the maximum benefit
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/take-an-economic-view/
Understand Solution Economic Trade-Offs - answerDevelopment expense - the cost of labor and materials required to implement a capability Lead time - the time needed to implement the capability (described as 'Cycle time' in Reinertsen's work) Product cost - the manufacturing cost (of goods sold) and/or deployment and operational costs Value - the economic worth of the capability to the business and the customer Risk - the uncertainty of the solution's technical or business success
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/take-an-economic-view/
#2 Apply Systems Thinking - answer1 - The solution itself is a system 2 - The enterprise building the system is a system too 3 - Optimize the full value stream (People, Teams, System, Process, Software/Hardware) 4 - Lead Time vs Touch Time
#3 Assume variability; preserve options - answer1 - You cannot possibly know everything at the start 2 - Requirements and designs must be flexible to build an optimal Solution
3 - Iterative, incremental development can reduce uncertainty over time
#4 build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles - answer1 - The interative learning cycle 2 - Reduces the cost of risk-taking by truncating unsuccessful paths quickly 3 - Is facilitated by small batch sizes 4 - The shorter the cycles, the faster the learning
#5 Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems - answer1 - Build the system in increments, each of which is an integration point that demonstrates some evidence of the feasibility of the solution proccess 2 - Objective milestones facilitate learning and allow for continuous, cost-effective adjustments towards an optimum Solution
#6 Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths - answer1 - When there's too much WIP, there's no visibility into bottlenecks, and the system is usually highly inefficient
How can we reduce lead times? - answer1 - Reduce size of work 2 - Reduce bottlenecks 3 - Reduce waiting 4 - Increase swarming 5 - Improve quality
The importance of small batches - answer1 - Large batch sizes increase variability 2 - High utilization increases variability 3 - Severe project slippage is the most likely result 4 - The most important batch is the transport
Anti-patterns associated with The Product Owner - answer1 - Team has more than one Product Owner 2 - Partially completed Stories are being carried over from Iteration to Iteration 3 - Developers don't work collaboratively on Stories 4 - Lack of coordination with other teams leads to excessive WIP
Key responsibilities of the Product Owner - answer1 - Facilitate Team Backlog refinement 2 - Prepare for and participate in Iteration Planning 3 - Elaborate Stories and Enablers just-in-time 4 - Address team questions; be the voice of the customer 5 - Accept Stories 6 - Participate in the Iteration Review and Retrospective 7 - Coordinate with other Prodcut Owners to manage dependencies
Big Stories Anti-Patterns - answer1 - Big Stories do not support team Iteration 2 - Smaller Stories allow for faster, more reliable implementation 3 - Splitting bigger stories into smaller ones is an essential skill
Ways to split a Story - answer1 - By business rules variations 2 - By use case scenario 3 - By simplicity or complexity
PO and Backlog, planning, and commitment anti-patterns - answer1 - Product Owner and team do Iteration Planning without preparation 2 - There is more than one PO per team 3 - PO is not sufficiently involved during Iteration execution 4 - Planning is based on tasks, not on User Stories and acceptance criteria
5 - Team does not commit to clear Iteration goals
Execution, Demos, and Retrospective anti-patterns - answer1 - Developers don't work collaboratively on User Stories 2 - Waterfalling Iterations: Team integrates and tests Stories only at Iteration end 3 - Done isn't 'done': Debt is carried forward Iteration to Iteration 4 - Story reported but not demonstrated (non-UI Stories, spikes, refactors, etc) 5 - 'Idea fest' instead of focus on near-team, incremental improvements
The Agile Release Train - answer1 - A virtual organization of 5-12 teams (50-125+) that plans, commits, and executes together 2 - Program Increment (PI) is a fixed timebox; default is 10 weeks 3 - Synchronizes Iterations and PIs 4 - Aligns to a common mission via single Program Backlog 5 - Operates under architectural and UX guidance 6 - Frequently produces valuable and evaluable system-level Solutions
Organizing teams around value - answerOrganize for the large purpose: Maximize velocity by minimizing dependencies and handoffs while sustaining architectural robustness and system qualities A team can be organized around: Features and Components Far less desirable organizing factors: Architectural Layer (Platform) or Programming language
Feature and Component teams - answerFeature Teams 1 - Increased valocity 2 - To minimize dependencies 3 - To develop T-shaped skills Component Teams
Collaboration - Poor collaboration often leads to: - answer1 - Low velocity 2 - Poor product quality 3 - Low morale, low engagement , lack of commitment , poor working environment , and lack of trust 4 - Missed commitments and poor results
The PO/PM team steers the ART - answer1 PM owns Program Backlog with 2 - 4 Product Owners 1 PO owns Product Backlog with 1 - 2 Agile Teams
Fostering collaboration (fomentando a colaboração) - answerFostering collaboration is one of the most important tasks of a Scrum Master. Weak collaboration often exists:
- Between developers and testers (late testing, poor quality, low velocity)
- Among developers (technical debt, poor knowledge sharing, too much WIP)
- Between the PO and the rest of the team (unnecessary rework due to misunderstood acceptance criteria, low velocity)
- With other teams (uncontrolled dependencies, sense of false progress)
PI Planning - answer1 - Two days every 8 - 12 weeks (10 weeks is typical) 2 - Everyone attends in person if at all possible 3 - Product Management owns Feature priorities 4 - Agile Teams own Story planning and high-level estimates 5 - ArchitecUEngineering and UX work as intermediaries for governance , interfaces , and dependencies
Help team members develop new skills - answerNarrow specialization of skills on the team is not supportive of any fluctuations in flow.
- Consider moving from an /-shaped skill set model to a T, or even an E-shaped skill set
- T-shaped example: A Java developer can do a bit of DB development, a bit of configuration management, and has rudimentary knowledge in building web UI
- E-shaped example: A Python developer, who also knows Java very well, is deep into SQL and databases
Product/Solution Vision - answerProduct Management presents the Vision and the high-priority Features.
Starting fast with normalized Story points - answer1 - For every full-time developer and tester on the team , give the team eight points (adjust for part-timers) 2 - Subtract one point for every team member vacation day and holiday. 3 - Find a small Story that would take about a half-day to develop and a half-day to test and validate. Call it a 1. 4 - Estimate every other Story relative to that one. 5 - Never look back (don't worry about recalibrating).
Scrum of Scrums - answerThe hourly Scrum of Scrums checkpoint helps keep teams on track and supports early identification of risk.
Hourly scrum of scrums planning checkpoint:
- Keeps teams on track with hourly planning Milestones
- Helps drive out risks, impediments, and dependencies
Management review and problem-solving - answerCommon questions during the managers ' review:
- What did we just learn?
- Where do we need to adjust Vision? Scope? Resources?
- Where are the bottlenecks?
- What Features must be de-scoped?
- Demo from a staging environment, resembling production as much as possible
Innovation and Planning Iteration - answer- Innovation: Opportunity for innovation spikes, hackathons, and infrastructure improvements
- Planning: Provides for cadence-based planning
- Estimating guard band for cadence-based delivery
Build an improvement Roadmap - What are communities of practice? - answer"Communities of practice are groups of people who share a common concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly." (Etienne Wenger, Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity)
- Community - A group of individuals with a shared passion about a topic
- Domain - An area of shared interest
- Practice - Shared knowledge and experiences
ARTs release value on demand - answerContinuous Delivery Pipeline
- Continuous Exploration
- Continuous Integration
- Continuous Deployment This tree results in Release on Demand
Build an improvement Roadmap - Benefits of CoPs - answerBenefits to the organization - Short-term value Improves business outcomes
- Arena for problem-solving
- Quick answers to questions
- Reduced time and costs
- Improved quality of decisions
- More perspectives on problems
- Coordination/synergy across units
Benefits to the organization - Long-term value Develops organizational Capabilities
- Be able to execute a strategic plan
- Gain credibility with clients
- Increase retention of talent
- Exploit unplanned Capabilities
- Enable competitive benchmarking
- Leverage advances in technology
- Harness the power of social networks
Who is DevOps? - answerMaximum Maximum and Speed Stability
1 - Compliance 2 - Operations 3 - Development 4 - Security 5 - Business 6 - Architecture
CALMR approach to DevOps - answer- Culture - Establish a culture of shared responsibility for development , deployment , and operations.
- Automation - Automate the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.
- Lean flow - Keep batch sizes small , limit WIP, and provide extreme visibility.
