SA Agile Release Train (ART) 2

Question 1

What are PI Objectives in SAFe?

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Business and technical goals the ART commits to achieving during a Program Increment

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KPIs tracked by business owners on a quarterly basis separate from PI execution

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Individual performance targets assigned to each team member at PI Planning

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Technical debt items to be resolved in future Program Increments

Question 2

What is the purpose of the Program Board created during PI Planning?

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A visual display mapping team objectives, features, milestones, and cross-team dependencies across iterations

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To track defects found in production systems across the PI

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To document architecture decisions made during the PI

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To assign work items to individual team members throughout the PI

Question 3

What is an Architectural Runway in SAFe?

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Existing code, components, and infrastructure that support near-term business features without requiring additional enabler work

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The timeline for decommissioning legacy systems at the end of their lifecycle

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A series of architecture reviews conducted before each PI planning event

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A migration plan for transitioning to new technical infrastructure

Question 4

How does an ART measure its predictability in SAFe?

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By measuring the ratio of planned business value to actual business value delivered at the PI System Demo

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By counting the total number of user stories completed per iteration

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By tracking individual developer productivity and throughput metrics

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By monitoring customer satisfaction scores on a monthly basis

Question 5

What is the role of Business Owners in the Agile Release Train?

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Providing business context, validating PI Objectives, and assigning business value scores to team objectives

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Managing daily standups and sprint retrospectives for each Agile team

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Writing detailed technical specifications for all features in the Program Backlog

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Approving all pull requests and code reviews before merging to the main branch

Question 6

What happens during the Inspect and Adapt (I&A) event at the end of a PI?

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The ART reviews PI results, holds a quantitative and qualitative retrospective, and runs a problem-solving workshop

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Teams plan their next sprint's user stories and allocate capacity

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Business owners review and formally approve feature requests for the next PI

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The Release Train Engineer assigns new roles and responsibilities for the upcoming PI

Question 7

What is a 'Feature' in the SAFe Program Backlog?

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A service or function that delivers business value to stakeholders and is sized to be completed within a single PI

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A small piece of work completed in a single iteration by one developer

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A technical task assigned to an individual team member during sprint planning

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A business requirement captured in a traditional waterfall project charter