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Download SAFe RTE 5.0 exam-100% verified solutions-2024.docx and more Exams Advanced Education in PDF only on Docsity! SAFe RTE 5.0 exam-100% verified solutions- 2024 What's the Best way to foster flow of value, innovation and apply Lean Budgeting in the enterprise? Implement the Lean Portfolio core Competency What are my personal Observations on being a RTE? For me, an RTE is a Scrum master at Program level; a Principle Scrum master if you ask me. Someone who can look at all the different Scrum teams that compose an ART and is able to track and coordinate all dependencies, risks, goals and features that compose it. But more than that - The RTE should champion the Agile culture and promote it through the Scrum masters while enforces a second layer of communication and relationships between team members, Scrum masters, Product owners and Stakeholders. Release Train Engineer (RTE)? The RTE facilitates Agile Release Train processes and execution. The RTE escalate impediments, helps manage risk, helps ensure value delivery, and drives continuous improvement. Which tool can the RTE use to visualize the flow of value? Kanban systems How can the RTE support Decentralized Decision-making? Empower knowledge workers to manage the dependencies with other teams What's the best way for the RTE to show progress in the current PI to Management? Use a System Demo What SAFe principle is being applied when a RTE treats suppiers as Partners? Apply Systems Thinking What is the term Alignment in SAFe? Alignment must rely on the Enterprise business objectives. It starts with the strategy and investment decisions at the Portfolio level and is reflected in Strategic Themes, Portfolio Vision, and the Portfolio Backlog. In turn, this informs the Vision, Roadmap, and the backlogs at all levels of SAFe. In order to evolve as a Leader in SAFe, what practices can the RTE recommend? Encourage personal development What's one way to secure Stakeholder commitment to the ART? Have them attend the Program Increment (PI) event Situation Question: During PI planning, the RTE sees the excitement of the team quickly decline as Product Management starts making sudden changes to Priorities - including the Top 10 Features - in the Program Backlog! What do you think is the cause? 1. Lack of Training, and; 2. Preparation for PI Planing Which two actions must the RTE take when facilitating the PI planning event? (choose two) 1. Distribute the PI planning Agenda to Agile teams 2. Ensure all Audio/Visuals are setup correctly How many iterations does one Program Increment (PI) have in SAFe PIs are typically 8 - 12 weeks long. The most common pattern for a PI is four development Iterations, followed by one Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration If a team's vote on the confidence level is high enough the aggregate set of objectives becomes ART Plan What are two ways Program Risk can be Categorized? (choose two) a. Reliable b. Owned c. Leaning out d. Resolved Owned, Resolved What are the common principles that ARTs operate on? The schedule is fixed, new system increments every two weeks, the PI timebox is fixed, the train has a known velocity, there are Agile Team, Dedicated people, Face-to-face PI Planning, Innovation and Planning (IP) iteration in the PI, Inspect and Adapt (I&A) is held, and they Develop on Cadence. Release on Demand What does the Program Predictability Measure provide as an indicator? Program Performance & Reliability At the end of each Iteration, the RTE collects and aggregates the agreed upon ART metrics to.... Better understand PI progress and ART health; Continuous Integration; Lean Flow accelerates delivery Which activity takes place during Team Breakout #2 on the second day of Program Increment (PI) Planning? Feature deliveries dependencies visualized; / SMART PI objectives developed What does the RTE coach leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in? Lean-Agile practices and mindsets What are the three key items communicated on the Program Board? Dependencies, Features delivery dates, Milestones What periodic synchronization meetings does the RTE facilitate? ART sync at the Program Level and the value stream sync for Solution Trains Situational Question: What could you typically expect after being in an RTE role, say after say 1 month? It's a personal journey, when I joined, the focus was within the Scrum level, the team level, while jumping into the SAFe framework and getting ready for the PI planning event, getting up on stage in front of many people and building the program boards & objectives. It did not take long until we had a team of excellent Scrum masters and a community of practice, on top of our Agile Comm of Practice. And now after many PI events later, our challenges are still there in many forms, but everyone can now feel the change as we drive value down the ART and what we now call the new normal What types of potential bottlenecks does the RTE help manage, track and escalate? Risks and dependencies; escalate and track impediments Which two statements describe the responsibilities of the Product Owner? Single voice for customer and stakeholders, and to own and manage team backlog The RTE is a servant leader who displays which two actions or behaviors? 1. Creates an environment of mutual influence 2. Listens and supports teams in problem identification and decision-making RTEs collaborate to ensure strategy alignment with? System Architect/Engineering and Product and Solution Management What's the size of an Agile team? 5-11 people (all cross functional, they build, design test, deploy) What's the size of an ART? 50-125+ people (virtual organization) What's the duration of an ART? 8-12 weeks Whats the duration of an ART Synch? (Think carefully) 1 hour What do we call multiple ARTs all serving a common vision? Solution Train What's the duration of a Iteration? 2 weeks How long is the Scrum of Scrum session? 30 min How long is the System Demo? 2 hours How long is the Inspect & Adapt (I &A) session? 0.5 day How long is the PO Synch session? 30-60min How long is the Daily session? Which role facilitates the Scum of Scrum meeting? RTE (done weekly) - hint: The SoS helps coordinate the dependencies of the ARTs and provides visibility into progress and impediments What are Kanban WIP Limits? (hint: think of the visual board and sticky notes) The Work in Progress (WIP) limits are displayed above each column. there are limits how many cards are in each column. They adjust demand to capacity and hep the flow through the board. The implementation of WIP limits allows you to complete single work items faster, by helping your team to focus only on current tasks. Why are Kanban Boards useful? Helps visualize the flow of work of Features & Enablers through the ART. Helps with PI planning and of course, with ongoing PI progress. Its really great for SoS, PO Synch and ART Synch sessions...and visually great for problem solving. The entire ART can see whats going on Metrics: What does the PI Burn-Down chart provide? Shows the amount of work completed and total work remaining in that PI timebox. think of a visual Glide-slope moving down. There is an X and Y axis (story points vs Iterations) - Nice for showing any scope creep. Metrics: What does the Cumulative Flow Diagram provide? It shows the amount of work in the various Kanban states (columns such as Funnel, Analyzing etc). One quickly can view any bottlenecks in througput, Lead times and WIP in the system Metrics: What does the Program Predictability Measure do? It captures actual business objectives achieved vs planned business value in a visual tabular manner. - It measures all PIs at one axis and progress to objectives on the other axis. It reflects ALL teams variances to meeting program objectives. DevOps and Release on Demand is the responsibility of Who? All, shared responsibility What is a a Scaled definition of Done? (DoD) The continuous development of incremental system functionality requires a scaled DoD. (note: read section 5.5 of Scaled Agile training notes) my observation is that there is always confusion about what Done is Done means - please read more on this! What are the 3 parts of Inspect & Adapt? PI System Demo; Quantitative Measurement ; Problem Solving workshop Why is a Fishbone diagram so important to an ART? (Also known as Cause and Effect Diagram, Fishbone Diagram, Ishikawa Diagram) it allows Agile teams to conduct problem solving simulation , you agree on the problem to solve, apply root causes to that problem, then identify root causes - restate the problem again and out of this allows team to then brainstorm solutions - the result is fantastic as that output goes into improving the Backlog list (long winded answer, I recommend some study on how to use it) Who was Charles Kettering and why's he brought up in SAFe? Well, he stated that "A problem well defined is a problem half solved" - He was interestingly enough, an American inventor, held 186 patents, and headed up General Motors back in the day. He knew alot about problems and ways to solve them. Given the SAFe mindset, we can learn from people that know how to solve problems. As an RTE you will be crucial to facilitate problem solving sessions. What is the "5 Why's" approach? It's a proven problem-solving method, used to explore cause-and-effect relationships underlying a specific problem. You start off by asking a simple why (example) "We can't seem to implement SSO for our SaaS app" to which you ask Why? "We need specific code from our internal IT team to embed into our SaaS software" and again Why? "Well, we haven't really had much response back from our IT department? They said it s easy enough to do it ourselves" Why? "Well, we believed them and now t seems we need more time to get the teams together!" Why.. . ."I haven't setup enough time between our supplier and IT Security SSO department to test it out" and finally "John, can you please stop ask me all these Whys." I now know what the problem is I need to solve As RTE, why would I care about a Pareto Analysis? The Pareto Chart is an output of the Fishbone effort, where Agile team(s) list all root causes statistically on a chart (X axis) and vote for the highest causes (y-axis). This is what is meant by the 80/20 rule or Pareto (meaning that 20% of the root causes will likely cause 80% of the problems). (hint: check it out some more and really understand how you as RTE can facilitate this) What are NFR's? Non-Functional Requirements define system attributes such as security, reliability, performance, maintainability, scalability, and usability. They serve as constraints or restrictions on the design of the system across the different backlogs. Proper definition and implementation of NFRs is critical Do NFR's occur in every Backlog? True or False True. NFR's are associated with all backlogs in SAFe. From the Team Backlog, up to the Program Backlog and then to the Solution backlog and even up to the Portfolio backlog (keep this in mind). As RTE this is important as it impacts the flow of the ART, or Solution Train if multiple ARTs Name 3 tools to use in Problem Solving? Ishikawa diagrams The 5 Why's Pareto Analysis