SAFE Study Guide 2026
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📋 SAFE Exam Format at a Glance
📚 SAFE Topics to Study (21)
✍️ Sample SAFE Questions & Answers
1. Flow Efficiency in SAFe is calculated as:
Flow Efficiency = (Active Time / Total Flow Time) × 100%. In most organizations this is surprisingly low (5–15%), revealing how much time is spent waiting rather than actively working.
2. In SAFe, what is 'Shared Leadership' at the team level?
Shared Leadership means the Scrum Master, PO, and team members each lead within their domain — the SM leads process, the PO leads vision, and the team leads technical decisions.
3. What does the 'Program Board' track during PI Planning?
The Program Board visualizes Features planned by each team, with dependency threads (strings or lines) showing inter-team dependencies and delivery milestones.
4. What is 'Flow' in the context of SAFe's Lean-Agile principles?
Flow in SAFe means work items move continuously from backlog through development to delivery without queuing, rework, or waiting — optimizing for throughput.
5. In SAFe, what is the 'Minimum Viable Product (MVP)' used for?
An MVP is the smallest experiment that tests the most critical assumption of a business hypothesis, generating real user data to inform the next build-measure-learn cycle.
6. How many core competencies make up the SAFe Business Agility model?
SAFe defines seven core competencies of Business Agility: Lean-Agile Leadership, Team and Technical Agility, Agile Product Delivery, Enterprise Solution Delivery, Lean Portfolio Management, Organizational Agility, and Continuous Learning Culture.