SAFe, LeSS & Nexus Scaling Flashcards
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Which scaling framework relies most heavily on Communities of Practice (CoPs) to spread learning across teams?
Answer: LeSS
LeSS explicitly emphasizes Communities of Practice as a primary mechanism for sharing knowledge and growing expertise across multiple feature teams.
What is an 'Enabler' in the SAFe context?
Answer: Work items that support the architecture, infrastructure, or exploration needed to deliver future Business Features
Enablers are SAFe work items (Spikes, Architecture, Infrastructure, or Compliance) that build the technical foundation enabling future business Features.
In Nexus, what does the Nexus Sprint Retrospective include that standard Scrum retrospectives do not?
Answer: A cross-team retrospective to identify systemic issues before individual team retros
The Nexus Sprint Retrospective starts with a cross-team session to identify systemic impediments, then teams hold their individual retros informed by those cross-cutting insights.
In SAFe, what is the difference between a Feature and an Epic?
Answer: An Epic is a large initiative that spans multiple ARTs or PIs; a Feature is deliverable within a single PI by one ART
In SAFe, Epics are large work items requiring a Lean Business Case and spanning multiple PIs, while Features deliver specific functionality within one PI by one ART.
Which of the following best describes 'Overall Retrospective' in LeSS?
Answer: A cross-team retrospective held after the Sprint Review to improve the overall system and multi-team process
The Overall Retrospective in LeSS is attended by the Product Owner, ScrumMasters, team representatives, and managers to inspect and improve the overall system of work.
What does SAFe's 'Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration' serve as within a PI?
Answer: A buffer Sprint for PI-level Retrospective, innovation, planning, and hardening
The IP Iteration is the final Iteration in a PI, used for PI System Demo, Inspect & Adapt, innovation time, and PI Planning preparation.
When a CST teaches Nexus, which foundational prerequisite should they emphasize teams must have BEFORE adopting Nexus?
Answer: Each team must be proficient in single-team Scrum
Nexus assumes each constituent Scrum team already understands and practices Scrum effectively, since Nexus builds directly on single-team Scrum.