CST SAFe, LeSS & Nexus Scaling 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In SAFe, what is the primary purpose of the Agile Release Train (ART)?
- To replace the Product Owner role at scale
- To align multiple Agile teams to a shared mission and deliver value together on a fixed cadence (Correct answer)
- To manage the enterprise portfolio budget
- To conduct quarterly PI Planning ceremonies
Correct answer: To align multiple Agile teams to a shared mission and deliver value together on a fixed cadence
The ART is a long-lived team-of-teams that aligns up to 125 people around a shared mission, delivering value on a regular cadence through Program Increments.
Question 2: In LeSS, which role is explicitly ELIMINATED compared to single-team Scrum?
- Product Owner
- ScrumMaster
- Team Member
- Project Manager (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Project Manager
LeSS deliberately removes the Project Manager role, distributing project management responsibilities across the Product Owner, teams, and ScrumMasters.
Question 3: What is the Nexus Integration Team's primary responsibility?
- Writing integration code for all teams
- Coaching teams and coordinating integration work across the Nexus (Correct answer)
- Owning the product backlog for all Scrum teams
- Running all Nexus Sprint Reviews
Correct answer: Coaching teams and coordinating integration work across the Nexus
The Nexus Integration Team coaches teams on integration practices and coordinates the work needed to reduce dependencies and produce an Integrated Increment.
Question 4: In SAFe's Program Increment (PI) Planning, who is responsible for presenting the Vision and top Features to all teams?
- Release Train Engineer
- Business Owners
- Product Management (Correct answer)
- System Architect
Correct answer: Product Management
Product Management presents the Vision, top Features, and priorities at the start of PI Planning to align all ART teams on what to build.
Question 5: In LeSS Huge, what structure is used to manage large product domains with thousands of people?
- Program Increments and ARTs
- Requirement Areas with Area Product Owners (Correct answer)
- Nexus Integration Teams
- Portfolio Epics and Value Streams
Correct answer: Requirement Areas with Area Product Owners
LeSS Huge introduces Requirement Areas—temporary groupings of related requirements—each served by an Area Product Owner to manage scale beyond 8 teams.
Question 6: What artifact is unique to Nexus that does NOT exist in single-team Scrum?
- Sprint Goal
- Product Backlog
- Nexus Sprint Backlog (Correct answer)
- Definition of Done
Correct answer: Nexus Sprint Backlog
The Nexus Sprint Backlog is unique to Nexus and visualizes all the work selected by the teams for the Sprint plus their cross-team dependencies.
Question 7: In SAFe, what is the cadence of a Program Increment (PI)?
- 1 week
- 2 weeks
- 8–12 weeks with multiple Sprints (Correct answer)
- 6 months
Correct answer: 8–12 weeks with multiple Sprints
A PI typically spans 8–12 weeks and contains 4–6 Iteration (Sprint) cycles, providing a longer planning horizon for ART-level delivery.
CST SAFe, LeSS & Nexus Scaling 2
In SAFe, what is the primary purpose of the Agile Release Train (ART)?