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What are two main reasons why the program predictability measure is important? (Choose
two.)
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It focuses the Agile Release Train on predictable value delivery
It demonstrates the need to fix the scope at the beginning of the Program Increment
(PI)
It identifies under-performing teams
It indicates whether the Solution is ready to be released
It allows the business and other stakeholders to plan effectively
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Which role should the Release Train Engineer play related to a hackathon event?
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Ensure the teams have allocated story points in the Innovation and Planning Iteration
during the Program Increment to account for the effort
Allow the teams as much flexibility as possible to promote innovation
Work with development leaders to make sure they give clear and detailed guidance
to the developers on what is expected
Get approval for work to be done in the hackathon
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Why is it important for the RTE to understand Tuckman's group dynamic stages?
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Tuckman helps to better understand Team and ART topologies
The Tuckman dynamic nature of the stages requires that we assume variability and
preserve
options
The Tuckman four stages should be reflected in the design of the Program Kanban
An ART is a team of teams and will likely also progress through the Tuckman stages
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What best describes what stream-aligned teams do?
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Promote better flow of communications between leadership, trains, and teams
Use process-mapping to identify and eliminate process bottlenecks
Analyze value streams and transform them using lean-agile principles
Build and deliver customer value with minimal dependencies on other teams
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Several Scrum Masters seem to be deadlocked in a disagreement on what to do about a
shared issue. What is an appropriate coaching technique for the RTE to use?
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Asking powerful questions to invite creativity and new possibilities
Bringing fresh emphasis to lean-agile's respect for people and culture
Driving an empirical assessment of the problem using metrics
Being the final "decision making authority" once all views have been heard
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What is a key characteristic lean-agile leaders need to have when implementing SAFe?
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Keeping roadmaps to no more than a single PI
Ensuring compliance with process standards
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Understanding and exhibiting the values, principles, and practices
Emphasizing the enterprise objectives and KPIs
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The Agile Release Train (ART) is near the end of the final Iteration of their first Program
Increment. Integration into staging is more challenging than estimated. They add a week to
the Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration for integration and testing. Why is this a bad idea?
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It substantially decreases the predictability of the Solution Intent
It decreases job satisfaction by removing autonomy and purpose
Overall train velocity goes up and the time-to-market goes down
It reduces the overall predictability established through cadence and synchronization
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What practice can help to identify bottlenecks in the flow of work?
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Measuring lead time for all work in progress
Visualizing the flow of all work and track progress of individual items
Comparing transaction costs, holding costs and business value realization
Modeling overall process flow during value stream identification
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Which SAFe core value creates an environment where facts are always friendly?
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Innovation
Respect for People and Culture
Transparency
Flow
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At the end of day two of the Program Increment (PI) Planning event, the team's final plan
review covers what information?
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Team Features, Stories, and team-level enablers
Changes to capacity and load, final PI objectives, program risks and impediments
Changes to iteration goals, measured velocity, and dependencies
Planned Features, uncommitted objectives, and ROAMed risks