One of the roles of Product Management is to assign business value to Features. Features are services provided by the system that fulfill stakeholder needs. They are the primary artifact for defining, managing, and prioritizing the work of the Agile Release Train (ART). Product Management is responsible for defining and prioritizing the features in the Program Backlog, as well as assigning a business value to each feature based on its expected benefits and costs. The business value is used to guide the economic decision-making and trade-offs during PI Planning and execution. Product Management also collaborates with other roles, such as Solution Management, System Architects, and Business Owners, to ensure that the features align with the solution vision and roadmap, and meet the quality standards and nonfunctional requirements. References: Features - Scaled Agile Framework, Product Management - Scaled Agile Framework
Question 2
What are Lean Portfolio Management, Agile Product Delivery, and Lean-Agile Leadership?
Options:
A.
Steps in the Business Agility Value Stream
B.
Agile values
C.
SAFe Core Competencies
D.
SAFe Lean-Agile Principles
Answer:
C
Explanation:
Explanation:
Lean Portfolio Management, Agile Product Delivery, and Lean-Agile Leadership are three of the seven SAFe Core Competencies. These competencies are essential to achieving Business Agility, which is the ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business solutions1. The SAFe Core Competencies are as follows2:
Lean-Agile Leadership: Inspires, empowers, and coaches the people who design, build, and support the world’s solutions
Team and Technical Agility: Drives high-quality, innovative solutions that delight customers and operate reliably
Agile Product Delivery: Builds solutions that customers love, delivered with high frequency and quality
Enterprise Solution Delivery: Builds and evolves the world’s largest and most sophisticated software, hardware, cyber-physical, and systems-of-systems solutions
Lean Portfolio Management: Aligns strategy and execution by applying Lean and systems thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance
Organizational Agility: Adapts quickly to changing market conditions and customer needs by reconfiguring strategy, structure, processes, people, and technology toward value-creating and value-preserving opportunities
Continuous Learning Culture: Improves the competency and skills of individuals and teams, fosters a culture of innovation, and creates organizational resiliency References: 1: Business Agility - Scaled Agile Framework2: Core Competencies - Scaled Agile Framework
Question 3
Which of the following activities does SAFe recommend as the first activity of the Inspect and Adapt event?
Options:
A.
Quantitative measurement
B.
PI System Demo
C.
Retrospective and problem-solving workshop
D.
Agreement on the problems to solve
Answer:
B
Explanation:
Explanation:
The PI System Demo is the first activity of the Inspect and Adapt event, which shows all the Features that the Agile Release Train (ART) has developed during the Program Increment (PI)1. It provides an opportunity for the ART to evaluate the current state of the Solution and collect feedback from the stakeholders2. The other options are not the first activity of the Inspect and Adapt event, but rather subsequent activities that follow the PI System Demo. Quantitative and qualitative measurement is the second activity, which involves reviewing the PI performance and progress metrics3. Retrospective and problem-solving workshop is the third activity, which involves identifying and prioritizing the improvement opportunities for the next PI4. Agreement on the problems to solve is a step within the retrospective and problem-solving workshop, which involves reaching a consensus on the most critical issues to address5.