CST SAFe, LeSS & Nexus Scaling 3 â Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which SAFe event directly replaces the individual team Sprint Review at the ART level?
- PI Planning
- System Demo (Correct answer)
- Inspect & Adapt
- ART Sync
Correct answer: System Demo
The System Demo is an ART-level event held each Iteration where all teams demonstrate their integrated work to stakeholders.
Question 2: In LeSS, how many Product Owners are there for all teams?
- One per Scrum team
- One per Feature Team
- One overall Product Owner for the whole product (Correct answer)
- Twoâone for technical and one for business
Correct answer: One overall Product Owner for the whole product
LeSS maintains a single Product Owner who owns the one Product Backlog shared across all teams, preserving the Scrum principle of one PO per product.
Question 3: What is a key differentiator of the Nexus framework compared to SAFe and LeSS?
- Nexus requires a separate portfolio layer
- Nexus is designed specifically for 3â9 Scrum teams and adds minimal roles/events (Correct answer)
- Nexus replaces the Scrum Master with a Release Train Engineer
- Nexus mandates quarterly PI Planning
Correct answer: Nexus is designed specifically for 3â9 Scrum teams and adds minimal roles/events
Nexus is a lightweight scaling framework for 3â9 teams that adds only one role, a few events, and one artifact on top of standard Scrum.
Question 4: In SAFe, what is the role of the Release Train Engineer (RTE)?
- Managing the product backlog of Features
- Serving as the chief ScrumMaster who coaches ART practices and facilitates ART-level events (Correct answer)
- Writing acceptance criteria for Program-level Epics
- Approving code releases to production
Correct answer: Serving as the chief ScrumMaster who coaches ART practices and facilitates ART-level events
The RTE is the ART's servant leader and coach, facilitating PI Planning, ART Syncs, and System Demos while removing impediments at the ART level.
Question 5: Which LeSS principle emphasizes that teams should be organized around customer-facing features rather than technical components?
- Empirical Process Control
- Feature Teams over Component Teams (Correct answer)
- Whole Product Focus
- Systems Thinking
Correct answer: Feature Teams over Component Teams
LeSS strongly favors Feature Teamsâcross-functional teams capable of delivering end-to-end customer featuresâover siloed Component Teams.
Question 6: In Nexus, the Nexus Daily Scrum is attended by whom?
- All developers from all Scrum teams
- The Product Owner and all ScrumMasters
- Representatives from each Scrum team (often ScrumMasters or delegates) (Correct answer)
- Only the Nexus Integration Team
Correct answer: Representatives from each Scrum team (often ScrumMasters or delegates)
The Nexus Daily Scrum involves representatives from each team who inspect cross-team integration progress and surface impediments that affect multiple teams.
Question 7: In SAFe's Continuous Delivery Pipeline, which stage focuses on verifying that features meet customer needs through testing in production-like environments?
- Continuous Exploration
- Continuous Integration
- Continuous Deployment (Correct answer)
- Release on Demand
Correct answer: Continuous Deployment
Continuous Deployment deploys to staging or production-like environments to verify that built features meet quality and performance standards before release.
CST SAFe, LeSS & Nexus Scaling 3
Which SAFe event directly replaces the individual team Sprint Review at the ART level?