SAFe 5 Agilist Exam 2026/2027 (4pages)

What is the last step in Kotter's approach to change management? - anchor new approaches in the culture what is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision-making - delivering value in shortest sustainable lead time which statement is a value from the agile manifesto - respond to change which statement is true about the innovation and planning (IP) iteration - there is a risk that the "tyranny of the urgent" outweighs all innovation which statement correctly describes one aspect of the team's commitment at the end of PI planning - a team does not commit to uncommitted objectives the agile release train uses which type of teams to get work done - cross-functional teams when is a pre-PI planning event needed - When multiple Agile Release Trains working on the same Solution need to align and coordinate what is found on a program board - features in the program kanban some steps have work in progress (WIP) limits. why is this necessary? - to ensure large queues are not being built what is one guardrail on lean budget spend? - Continuous Business Owner engagement what is one issue when organizing around hierarchical functions - It is not how value flows what can be used to script the change to SAFe - the implementation roadmap what can be used as a template for putting SAFe into practice within an organization - SAFe implementation roadmap what is the foundation of the safe house of lean - leadership what is business agility - the ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business solutions the house of lean is a classic metaphor describing the mindset essential for lean thinking. which one of the four pillars advocates a 'Go See' mindset - innovation design thinking identifies at least four new ways to measure success. what are two of those ways? (choose two) - 1. desirability 2. sustainability which of the core competencies of the lean enterprise helps align strategy and execution - lean portfolio management what is an example of applying cadence and synchronization in safe - Teams align their iterations to the same schedule to support communication, coordination, and system integration how does SAFe provide a second operating system that enables business agility - by focusing on customers, products, innovation, and growth what are the last 3 steps of the SAFe implementation roadmap? - Launch more Agile Release Trains and Value Streams, extend to the portfolio, accelerate what is the basic building block when organizing around value? - agile teams what are the three primary keys to implementing flow? - 1. visualize and limit WIP 2. reduce batch sizes of work 3. manage queue lengths what is a minimum viable product? - a minimal version of a new product used to test a hypothesis what is considered an anti-pattern when assigning business values to team PI objectives? - 1. Business Owners assign high values to important enabler work - NO 2. Assigning business values to uncommitted objectives - NO when basing decisions on economics, how are lead time, product cost, value, and development expense used? - To identify different parameters of the economic framework product management has content authority over the program backlog. what do product owners have content authority over? - team backlog what is one benefit of unlocking the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers? - provide autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints