LEAN-AGILE LEADERSHIP CORE COMPETENCY EXAM

PDF Download

LEAN-AGILE LEADERSHIP CORE COMPETENCY EXAM

QUESTIONS

Actual Qs and Ans Expert-Verified Explanation

This Exam contains:

-Guarantee passing score -34 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation

Question 1: The Lean-Agile Leadership Competency describes .....

Answer:

How Lean-Agile leaders drive and sustain organisational change and operational excellence by empowering individuals and teams to reach their highest potential.They do this by leading through examples, learning and modelling SAFes Lean-Agile mindset, values, principles, and practices, and leading the change to a new way of working.

Question 2: Transparency - SAFe Core Value

Answer:

Visualise all relevant work. Take ownership and responsibility for errors and mistakes. Admit missteps while supporting others who acknowledge and learn from theirs. Never punish the messenger. Instead, celebrate learning. Create an environment where the facts are always friendly and transparency.Question 3: Three distinct dimensions to help leaders develop and establish lean-agile leadership as a core competency are ....

Answer:

• - Leading by example
• - Mindset and Principles
• - Leading Change

Question 4: Lean Agile Leaders .......

Answer:

• - Organise and reorganise around value.
• - Identify queues and excess Work in Progress WIP
• - Continually focus on eliminating waste and delays.
• - Eliminate demotivating policies and procedures
• - Inspire and motivate others
• - Create a culture of relentless improvement
• - Provide the space for teams to innovate.

Question 5: Becoming a Lean enterprise is neither simple or easy , knowledge alone won't be enough ....

Answer:

It starts with business leaders exemplifying behaviours that will inspire and motivate the organisation to pursue a better way of working. Lean-Agile leaders must do more than simply support the transformation, they must actively lead the change, participating in and guiding the activities necessary to understand and continuously optimise the flow of value through the enterprise.

Question 6: 10 SAFe Principles

Answer:

• - Take an Economic View
• - Apply systems thinking
• - Assume variability; preserve options
• - Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
• - Base Milestones on objective evaluation of working systems
• - Visualise and limit WIP , reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths
• - Apply Cadence, synchronise with cross-domain planning
• - Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
• - Decentralise decision making

10 - Organise around value

Question 7: Built-in Quality - SAFe Core Value

Answer:

By refusing to accept or ship low-quality work. Lean-agile leaders demonstrate their commitment to quality. They support investments in capacity planning for maintenance and to reduce technical debt, ensuring that the concerns of the entire organisation - including design thinking, UX, architecture, operations, security, and compliance - are part of the regular flow of work.

Question 8: Leading Change Dimension of Lean-agile Leadership

Answer:

Being a Lean-thinking manager-teacher provides leaders with the though processes and practical tools they'll need to start building the lean enterprise and achieving business agility. The benefits of delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead time, creating flow, and producing customer delight - all with happy engaged employees are clear. The transformation to Lean-Agile and DevOps with SAFe inevitably leads to significant organisational change.

Question 9: Generative - Performance Oriented Behaviour - Westrum

Answer:

• - High cooperation
• - Messengers trained
• - Responsibilities shared
• - Collaboration encouraged
• - Failure leads to improvement
• - Innovation implemented

Question 10: Mindset and Principles Dimension of Lean-agile Leadership

Answer:

Change to what? To lead the organisation through the transformation needed to achieve business agility requires a mindset that reflects the core values and principles of Lean, Agile and SAFe.

Question 11: Bureaucratic - Rule Oriented Behaviours - Westrum

Answer:

• - Modest cooperation
• - Messengers neglected
• - Narrow Responsibilies
• - Collaboration tolerated
• - Failure leads to justice
• - Innovation leads to problems

Question 12: SAFe Principles

Answer:

SAFe is based on ten immutable, underlying Lean and Agile principles. These are the fundamental tenets, the basic truths and economic underpinnings that drive the roles and practices that make SAFe effective.

Question 13: Each core competency of the Lean Enterprise is supported by .....

Answer:

A specific assessment, which enables the enterprise to assess their proficiency. These assessments along with recommended improvements are available from the measure and grow article.

Question 14: SAFe Implementation Roadmap

Answer:

Waterfall Go SAFe Train Lean-Agile Change Agents Train Executives, Managers and Leaders Identify Value Streams and ARTs Create the Implementation Plan Prepare for ART launch Train Teams and Launch ART Coach ART Execution Launch more ARTs and Value STreams Extend to the Portfolio Accelerate

Question 15: What is 'earned authority'

Answer:

Power gained through trust, respect, expertise or action - which engenders greater engagement and commitment to organisation aims than positional authority. Such leaders inspire others to follow their direction and to incorporate the leaders example into their own personal development journey.

Question 16: Sound Organisational Change Management Practices - John Kotter

Answer:

Establish a sense of urgency Create the guiding coalition Develop the vision and strategy for change Communicate the change vision Empower employees for broad-based action Generate short term wins Consolidate gains and produce more change Anchor new approaches in the culture