Safe Product Owner Questions

What is one responsibility area of a Product Owner?

• Getting and applying feedback
• Getting Solutions built
• Getting value to and from the Customer
• Getting strategy and Vision into roadmaps

What is one benefit of PI Planning?

• It allows leaders to get their objectives planned
• It ensures teams can work on anything they want
• It ensures teams do not have dependencies
• It aligns ART demand to capacity

What is the primary focus of an Operational Value Stream?

• Delivering end-user value
• Improving business operations
• Orchestrating supply chain networks
• Lowering operational costs

Who often participates as the ART’s Business Owners to approve the team’s PI Objectives?

• System Architects
• Scrum Masters/Team Coaches
• Product Owners
• Product Management

Which increment is reviewed at the System Demo?

• Team increment
• Value stream increment
• Portfolio increment
• Full system increment

What does SAFe Team Kanban promote?

• Compliance
• Collaboration
• Separation of duties
• Leadership

What enables flow through the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

• Cost of delay
• The ART Kanban
• Capacity allocation
• The Solution Vision

What is one responsibility of Product Management?

• Prioritizing the Portfolio Backlog
• Establishing an architectural Vision for the ART
• Managing the ART Backlog
• Developing Story acceptance criteria

Where are workflows, activities, and required automation represented?

• In the Lean Startup Cycle
• In the Team Kanban
• In the Architectural Runway
• In the Continuous Delivery Pipeline

What is one activity an Agile Team performs during Iteration Review?

• Demonstrate a working, tested team increment
• Identify opportunities for improvement
• Gather Feature requirements from stakeholders
• Modify Iteration Goals

What is one anti-pattern related to System Demos?

• System demo takes more than 15 minutes
• Different team members conduct the demo each Iteration
• People from outside the Agile Release Train attend the System Demo
• Team demos are accepted in place of a System Demo to avoid redundancy

What is one benefit of using PI Objectives?

• To obtain immediate feedback from Business Owners
• To achieve commitment from management
• To commit to specific Features
• To promote centralized decisions

Where are systems, people who do the work, and the flow of information and materials represented?

• Within a Solution Train
• Within a Value Stream
• Within a Continuous Delivery Pipeline
• Within an Architectural Runway

What is commonly used to explore new ideas or determine the feasibility of Epics?

• Design thinking
• Spikes
• Supplier showcases
• Hackathons

When is a Story considered complete?

• It is accepted by the Customer
• It satisfies the Definition of Done
• The team is done working on it
• The scope has been negotiated

What information do Product Owners communicate to their teams after PO Sync?

• Adjustments
• Impediments
• Improvement items
• Risks

What is one benefit of PI Planning?

• It allows leaders to get their objectives planned
• It ensures teams can work on anything they want
• It aligns ART demand to capacity
• It ensures teams do not have dependencies

What can assist in facilitating Team Flow?

• ART Planning Board
• Test cases
• WIP limits
• Solution Roadmap

During PI Planning, which activity happens after dependencies are resolved and risks are addressed?

• Team breakouts
• Retrospective
• Confidence vote
• Management Review and Problem-Solving session

Which statement is true about Weighted Shortest Job First?

• It considers the cost of delay and the job size
• It is equal to the cost of delay
• It identifies specific economic outcomes
• The item with the highest cost of delay is prioritized last

Which event involves teams working on new ideas often added to the ART Kanban?

• Coach Sync
• Hackathon
• Supplier showcase
• PI Planning

Which increment is reviewed at the System Demo?

• Full system increment
• Portfolio increment
• Team increment
• Value stream increment

How do Agile Teams carry out Continuous Delivery Pipeline activities during the PI?

• They explore during the early Iterations and integrate, deploy, and release during the later Iterations
• They explore, integrate, deploy, and release new value during each Iteration
• They explore Features in one PI, then given to the teams in later PIs for integrating and deploying, and then released in a future PI
• They explore, integrate, and deploy during each Iteration, but release at the end of the PI

What is one outcome of the Iteration Retrospective?

• Agreement on Stories for the next Iteration
• Improvement items in the Team Backlog
• A plan for upcoming milestones
• Identification of dependencies with other teams

Which of the following questions does a Vision answer?

• What Stories are needed to support the Solution?
• What problem(s) will the Solution solve?
• What Solutions are competitors offering?
• When will the Solution be delivered?

What is one responsibility of the Product Owner?

• Prioritizing the Team Backlog
• Estimating Stories
• Testing Features
• Assigning PI Objectives

What is one influence on the Vision?

• Portfolio Backlog items
• Value Stream budgets
• Lean Budget Guardrails
• Strategic Themes

What can be revealed during PI Planning?

• Opportunity to modify investment strategy
• Opportunity to change Solution Vision
• Opportunity to update the development value stream
• Opportunity to release value sooner

What is the primary focus of an Operational Value Stream?

• Orchestrating supply chain networks
• Lowering operational costs
• Improving business operations
• Delivering end-user value

What is one purpose of Iteration Goals?

• To set preliminary PI Objectives
• To define “the what, the how, and the how much”
• To align team members to a common purpose
• To identify nonfunctional requirements

What work-item can be split from Epics?

• Spikes
• Tasks
• Features
• Stories

Which concept provides a set of tools that supports the creation of Features?

• Customer Centricity
• Flow Acceleration
• Design Thinking
• Agile Quality

Where can Product Management find information about when a specific Epic will be completed?

• The System Architecture Designs
• The Solution Roadmap
• The Development Manager
• The ART Backlog

Who should attend the PO Sync?

• The Coach Sync participants and the Product Owners
• The teams and the RTE
• The Product Owners, Product Management, and other stakeholders as needed
• Everyone on the train

Which tool shows dependencies during PI Planning?

• ART PI Risks Board
• Management Review and Problem-Solving session
• PI Objectives
• ART Planning Board

What does Continuous Exploration help Product Management understand?

• Solution performance
• Release strategy
• Supplier proposals
• Customer needs

When are adjustments made to the initial sequencing of Stories?

• During the PO Sync
• At Iteration boundaries
• At the mid point of the PI
• During the Team Sync

How can Product Management leverage market rhythms?

• Adjust the timing of marketing campaigns
• Adjust the delivery of Features to meet market needs
• Improve Features prioritization
• Improve PI Planning scheduling

Which SAFe Core Value is demonstrated when explaining why the top 10 Features were chosen for PI Planning?

• Relentless Improvement
• Transparency
• Innovation
• Respect for People