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During Pl Planning, who owns the planning of Stories into Iterations?
Agile Teams
Scrum Master
Product Management
System Architect
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Coach the Scrum Masters on good retrospective techniques and ensure teams are
defining and taking a systems view approach to improvements
Share the quantitative measurement results with Product Management and lead-ership
Teams are reporting a high level of success through their individual quantitative and ask for their input
meas-urements, but the system results say otherwise.
Diagnose the differences between the measurements and the results and suggest
improvement items to each team
What should the Release Train Engineer do to help the teams deliver more
Work with the team that is struggling the most to discover patterns that can be ap-plied to
value?
the other teams
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What are two benefits of having a well-executed Innovation and Planning (IP)
Iteration? (Choose two.)
Time for teams to plan, demo and improve together
Occasional buffer time to deliver more predictably
Higher flow of program-level business value
Improved dependency management between teams
Shorter lead times before Feature delivery
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What are two main reasons why the program predictability measure is
important? (Choose two.)
It allows the business and other stakeholders to plan effectively
It identifies under-performing teams
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 indicates whether the Solution is ready to be released
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What is the Scrum Master's role in team breakout #1?
Create mitigation plans for each risk
Resolve dependencies with other teams
Raise team level risks
Facilitate the coordination with other teams for dependencies
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A Release Train Engineer should build a relationship with which SAFe role in
order to ef-fectively assign business value to a team Program Increment (PI)
Objective?
Business Owners
Lean-Agile Leaders
Objective Owners
Solution Managers
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Ask Product Management and the System Architect what the new Program Back-log
looks like just before the next Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration, so social-ization can
begin
Compile all the teams' objectives from PI Planning and send out a summary report
Coach Product Management and the System Architect to include Program Backlog
After an Agile Release Train's first Program Increment (PI) Planning event, what refinement into their cadence-based approach
action can the Release Train Engineer take to help optimize the Program
Ask the Lean Portfolio Management function to hold regular Epic review meetings so new
Backlog readiness for the next PI?
Epics will flow to the Agile Release Train
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An effective Scrum Master is a team-based servant leader who helps the team
do what?
Embrace relentless improvement through Iteration retrospectives
Understand and operate within Lean Budgets
Develop better and more specialized skill sets
Manage the team's own backlog
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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?
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
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At which Tuckman stage would an ART be if it is improving engineering
practices and fostering more effective communication?
Storming
Performing
Forming
Norming
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During the management review and problem-solving meeting, one team
raises the risk of not finishing a Feature before the end of the Program
Increment (PI) How can the management team help ensure they complete the
Feature within the PI?
Negotiate a reduction in scope of the Feature ●Use buffer resources as a guard
band●Redefine the definition of done for Features ●ROAM the risk appropriately
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Allow the problem to reach a critical point knowing that a minor failure is a tech-nique for
learning
Encourage the System Team and Product Management to meet and collaborate on a
solution
Escalate the problem to senior management to get the required action
Direct Product Management to define the use cases for the Features
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During Program Increment (PI) execution, the System Team is unclear about
how to test some of the larger Features.
What should a Release Train Engineer do?
During Program Increment (PI) Planning, a scrum of scrums occurs just before
the draft plan review. The Scrum Master from one team raises an issue that one
of the Product Managers just showed up to the planning area with a priority
There is strong alignment between business and marketing
wish list of items. These items do not align with the Feature prioritization.
Planning decisions have been centralized
Prioritization by Product Management was performed autonomously not collaboratively
What is the most likely planning anti-pattern causing this sudden impediment? There is no social network that Solution development relies on
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During the management review and problem-solving meeting, one team raises
the risk of not finishing a Feature before the end of the Program Increment (PI). Use buffer resources as a guard band
Redefine the definition of done for Features
How can the man-agement team help ensure they complete the Feature within ROAM the risk appropriately
the PI?
Negotiate a reduction in scope of the Feature
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Value Stream(s)
Enabler Epics are used to advance what in order to support upcoming Business The Continuous Delivery Pipeline
Epics?
The Architectural Runway
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How can a Release Train Engineer be aware of employee satisfaction?
Gather employee Metrics immediately after the Agile Release Train launches●Address
and resolve any problems areas●Conduct an employee Net Promoter Score
survey●Survey full-time employees
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How can a ReleaseTrain Engineer be aware of employee satisfaction?
Gather employee Metrics immediately after the Agile Release Train launches
Address and resolve any problems areas
Conduct an employee Net Promoter Score survey
Survey full-time employees
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How does a Release Train Engineer view the role of functional managers on
the Agile Release Train?
As decision makers
As developers of people
As a content authority for work
As problem solvers
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How does SAFe handle the 'fear of conflict' team dysfunction?
Reviews results at the end of every iteration
Avoids discussion of disagreements
Has teams engage in retrospectives
Uses scrum to create a safe environment for conflict
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In the SAFe work item hierarchy, Epics are decomposed into what?
Features
Stories
Capabilities
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In the SAFe work item hierarchy, Features are decomposed into what?
Stories
Sub-Tasks
Tasks
Capabilities
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Product Management is responsible for which activity?
Establishing an architectural vision for the Agile Release Release Train
Defining Program Backlog content
Prioritizing the Portfolio Backlog
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Realistic
Required
Random
Rationalized
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Organizational readiness - Strategic alignment; roles, teams, and train setup
Architectural readiness - Defining the Architectural Runway
Operational readiness - Facilitating PI events such as scrum of scrums, Iteration
Planning, and System emo
Facilities readiness - Space and logistics for the event
Process readiness - The operational rhythm that enables SAFe governance
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Program Increment (PI) Objectives should be written in the SMART format.
What does the "R" in SMART stand for?
Program Increment (PI) Planning is a major event that requires preparation,
coordina-tion, and communication.
What are two key areas a Release Train Engineer should focus on to support a
successful PI Planning event? (Choose two.)
Servant leadership
Facilitation
Test-driven development
Release Train Engineers have the opportunity to regularly practice and improve Return on investment projections
which two skills? (Choose two.)
Continuous Integration
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Release Train Engineers have the opportunity to regulary practice and improve
which two skills? (choose two)
Scrum Masters are effective by using scrum methods, supporting SAFe
principles and practices, and what else?
Managing architectural runway
Serving as a customer proxy
Writing stories and enablers
Supporting delivery using Agile practices
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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?
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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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?
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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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
Overall train velocity goes up and the time-to-market goes down
and testing.
It substantially decreases the predictability of the Solution Intent
It reduces the overall predictability established through cadence and synchroniza-tion
Why is this a bad idea?
It decreases job satisfaction by removing autonomy and purpose
The goal of Lean is to deliver the maximum customer value in the shortest
sustainable lead time while providing what else?
The highest possible quality
A Continuous Delivery Pipeline
Significant team contributions
Improved capacity allocation
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The Release Train Engineer ensures that Business Owners assign business
value to what during Program Increment (PI) Planning?
Program-level PI Objectives
Stories
Features
Team-level PI Objectives
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The team is struggling to agree on the Story point sizing of a new User Story.
The Prod-uct Owner was previously a related domain expert and feels the team
is wasting time.
Instruct the Scrum Master to resize the Story
Continue to support the team's decision on sizing
What should she do?
Suggest the team stop the sizing of the User Story and add it to the next lteration as-is
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Capacity and load estimates (Correct)
Program delivery schedule
Draft PI Objectives
Risks and impediments
The team's draft plan review consists of which three items at the end of the first Iteration Goals
day of the Program Increment (PI) Planning event? (Choose three.)
Refined team backlogs
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What are personas?
Descriptions of actual target customers or users
Key end-users the Product Owner leverages for managing the backlog
Fictional representations of target customers or users
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What are two anti-patterns for the IP Iteration? (Choose two.)
To minimize lost capacity when people are on vacation or holidays
To plan work for the IP lteration during P Planning
To allow for sufficient capacity in the Program Roadmap
To wait for the IP Iteration to fix defects
To ensure all Stories and teams' Pl plans are completed prior to the IP Iteration
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What are two benefits of having a team definition of done? (Choose two.)
To measure the team's capacity to load ratio●To improve quality●To increase
predictability●To gauge team predictability●To collect team performance Metrics
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What are two common PI Planning anti-patterns? (Choose two.)
Stories are created for the Iterations
The team decides which changes need to happen and when
Too much time is spent analyzing each Story
Scrum Masters who work with multiple teams do not have time for their teams
Too much time is spent prioritizing Features
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What are two main reasons why the program predictability measure is
important? (Choose two.)
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 underperforming 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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What best describes what stream-aligned teams do?
Analyze value streams and transform them using lean-agile principles
Build and deliver customer value with minimal dependencies on other teams
Promote better flow of communications between leadership, trains and teams
Use process-mapping to identify and eliminate process bottlenecks
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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
What best describes what stream-aligned teams do?
What does an effective Scrum Master help the team with?
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Risk mitigation
Team metrics
Relentless improvement
Deploying work
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What foundational issue most often leads to team dysfunction?
Absence of trust
Weak Lean-Agile leadership
Fear of conflict
Lack of commitment
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Ensuring compliance with process standards
Understanding and exhibiting the values, principles and practices
What is a key characteristic lean-agile leaders need to have when implementing Emphasizing the enterprise objectives and KPIs
SAFe?
Keeping roadmaps to no more than a single PI
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Keeping roadmaps to no more than a single PI●Ensuring compliance with process
What is a key characteristic lean-agile leaders need to have when implementing standards●Understanding and exhibiting the values, principles, and
SAFe?
practices●Emphasizing the enterprise objectives and KPIs
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What is an example of Scrum Master servant leader behavior?
Keeps their opinions to themselves
Strives to create a conflict-free environment
Focuses on the day-to-day team activities
Uses persuasion instead of authority
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What is included in the Inspect and Adapt agenda?
Program backlog refinement
System Demo
Quantitative and qualitative measurement
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What is one purpose of iterations?
To demonstrate the increment to stakeholders
To provide fast feedback learning cycles and frequent integration
To provide a regular cadence for producing increments of value
To provide an architectural basis for future development
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What is one way Kanbans are used in SAFe?
To manage queue length
To manage runway cadence
To manage Program Increment (Pl) Objectives
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What is one way to develop sufficient Architectural Runway for the Agile
Release Train?
Ask the teams to commit only to Enablers as their Program Increment (PI) Objec-tives
during the PI Planning event and address Features as uncommitted objec-tives for the
first PI
Create alignment with the System Architect and Product Management that the first
Program Increment (PI) is all about Enablers in order to plan for creating business value
in the second PI
Ask the Business Owner which Enablers have high business value
Work with Product Management and System Architects to identify future Features and
determine the Enablers to achieve them
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What practice can help to identify bottlenecks in the flow of work?
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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What promotes alignment between the business owners and product
management?
Quantification of transaction and holding costs
Epics supported by Lean Business Cases
Prioritized Program Backlog
Applying cadence and synchronization
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Encourage discussion of each team's product Vision as part of the final plan re-view
Verify that each team's uncommitted objectives have lower business value than the
committed PI Objectives in order to reflect proper prioritization
Facilitate the ROAMing of each team's risks
What should the Release Train Engineer do during the final plan review on Day Facilitate all teams when they are presenting their final plans to the entire Agile Release
two of Program Increment (PI) Planning?
Train
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If the entire team is present during the daily stand-up
During team breakout sessions at Pl Planning
When using ad hoc teams for Inspect and Adapt
When is one time a Scrum Master may be a participant rather than a facilitator? When the Agile Release Train does not require any team coordination
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When should a Product Owner (PO) develop preliminary Iteration Goals?
After PI Planning
During PI Planning
Prior to iteration planning
During backlog refinement
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Which behavior exemplifies servant leadership?
Creating an environment of mutual influence
Protecting the teams and train from negative reviews
Ensuring appropriate justice is served if things go wrong
Looking out for the interests of customers and stakeholders
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Which core competency describes the ability to deliver continuous value?
Agile Product Delivery●Organizational Agility●Business Agility●Lean Portfolio
Management
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Which core competency helps foster faster lead time, faster recovery, fewer
defects, and more frequent deployments?
Lean-Agile Leadership
Enterprise Solution Delivery
Team and Technical Agility
Agile Product Delivery
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Which of the Core Competencies of Business Agility emphasizes a customercentric ap-proach to defining, building, and releasing a continuous flow of
valuable products and services?
Team and Technical Agility
Enterprise Solution Delivery
Lean Portfolio Management
Agile Product Delivery
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Which one SAFe core value creates an environment where facts are always
friendly?
Transparency
Respect for People and Culture
Flow
Innovation
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Which role should the Release Train Engineer play related to a hackathon
event?
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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Which SAFe core value creates an environment where facts are always
friendly?
Innovation●Respect for People and Culture●Transparency●Flow
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Which SAFe Principle is being applied when a Release Train Engineer treats
Suppliers as partners?
Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
Assume variability; preserve options
Decentralize decision-making
Apply systems thinking
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Feature estimates are rolled up into Epic estimates
Refinement is necessary when estimating the effort needed to implement an Epic
Which statement is true about estimating and forecasting the Portfolio Backlog? WSJF is used to assign Epics to Value Streams
Which statement is true about teams?
Products are more robust when individuals on teams have specific skill sets
Agile Teams can manage daily interruptions
Teams are more productive than the same number of individuals
Changes in team composition do not impact productivity
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Key Agile Release Train stakeholders, including Business Owners, Customers, and
management can participate along with the teams
The Release Train Engineer gathers the list of problems to be solved during the fi-nal
scrum of scrums of the Program Increment (PI)
Encourage teams to sit together during the retrospective portion to ensure an ef-fective
outcome
Which statement is true about the retrospective and problem-solving part of the The improvement backlog items resulting from the problem-solving workshop should be
Inspect and Adapt workshop?
items that only leadership can address
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Which three topics are covered on the first day of the Program Increment (PI)
Planning event? (Choose three.)
Ishikawa diagrams
Team velocity Metrics
Business context
Cumulative flow diagrams
Product/Solution Vision
Architecture Vision and development practices
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Which tool can the Release Train Engineer use to visualize the flow of value?
Weighted shorted job first
Team burn-down charts
Velocity trend charts
Kanban systems
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Which tool is useful in facilitating scrum of scrums meetings?
Microsoft project schedule
Agile lifecycle management software?
Program board
Team velocity comparison report
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Which tool or activity helps the Agile Release Train evaluate the current health
of Customer Centricity and Design thinking?
1. Team performance self assesment 2. Program Increment (PI) Planning engagement
inventory 3. Agile Release Train performance Metrics
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Which two actions must the Release Train Engineer (RTE) take when
facilitating the Pro-gram Increment (PI) Planning event? (Choose two.)
Prioritize the Features
Distribute the PI Planning agenda to the Agile Teams
Purchase sugary snacks
Ensure the facilities are set up appropriately
Wear the RTE visor
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Which two activities take place during Team Breakout #1 on the first day of
Program In-crement (PI) Planning? (Choose two.)
Risks on the teams' planning boards are resolved by the Release Train Engineer
Teams use color-coding for their backlog items as a reminder that they are re-quired to
have all backlog item types on their planning boards
Draft objectives and uncommitted objectives are written
All teams' planning boards are visible and use the same color-coding
Draft objectives are written but do not include exploration Enablers
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Which two behaviors should a Scrum Master represent as a coach? (Choose
two.)
Provide subject matter expertise
Lay out the team's plan for the iteration
Encourage the team to learn from their mistakes
Set long-term goals for the team
Focus on deadlines and technical options
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Which two items should be kept under version control? (Choose two.)
Test data
Scrum of scrum results
Weighted shortest job first outcomes
Archived User Stories
Configuration Items
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Enabler Epics
Enabler Features
Enabler Capabilities
Which type of Enabler does a System Architect review during a System Demo? Enabler Stories
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Who are two key collaborators with the RTE to support the ART? (Choose two)
Release Management
System Architects/Engineers
Product Owners
Scrum Masters
Product Management
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Who can the Release Train Engineer work with to help eliminate policies and
procedures that demotivate employees?
Business Owners
Lean-Agile Leaders
Portfolio Managers
Product Management
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Why is it important for the RTE to understand Tuckman's group dynamic
stages?
The Tuckman four stages should be reflected in the design of the Program Kan-ban
Tuckman helps to better understand Team and ART topologies
The Tuckman dynamic nature of the stages requires that we assume variability and
preserve options
An ART is a team of teams and will likely also progress through the Tuckman stages
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Why is it important for the RTE to understand Tuckman's group dynamic
stages?
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 ofteams and will likely also progress through the Tuckman stages
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Why is the problem-solving workshop more effective than traditional lessons
learned documents?
Collaboration over documentation is a key recommendation of the Agile Manifes-to
Workshops are more engaging than document writing
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Why should an RTE ensure that the SAFe principles are applied appropriately?
To ensure that the SAFe House of Lean is reflected in standard operating proce-dure
To build an understanding of why the lean-agile practices work
To make sure that no modifications are made by the adopters of SAFe
To maintain a central control of key decision-making
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