In the scaled agile framework consecutive iterations are grouped together into a pi. what is a pi

Program Increment sets a specific time period and objectives for the agile teams that are part of an Agile Release Train to accomplish. In the Program Increment are multiple agile teams that are part of an Agile Release Train. SAFe uses “Cadence” and “Synchronization” to assist in combining the work of multiple teams into one. These increments support teams to create a measurable unit of time and value that allows the enterprise to work on a set target. It provides a structure which connects teams and management with the long-term vision.

“A plan is not putting you in a box and forcing you to stay there. A plan is a guide to keep you on course, efficient, and safe.”– Amber Hurdle

These increments are like sprints but at a higher level. In a Program Increment planning session, management and teams sit together to set a common goal and define their dependencies among each other. After setting the PI objectives, each agile team works on their own set target and manage their work in independent Sprints.

Cadence sets a routine for the workers to work on. It encourages thorough planning and the effective use of resources which in turn helps in lowering costs of events such as planning, integration, demonstrations and retrospectives. Synchronization on the other hand, ensures that the development teams and the businesses are on the same page to achieve their goal and also involving the customer in the development process.

Just as iteration is to an agile team, a Program Increment is that to an Agile Release Train. Program increment follows the plan-do-check-adjust method.

  • PI planning is a fundamental activity which sets the tone for what has to be achieved.
  • The “do” is executing the objectives set in the Program Increment.
  • Displaying the System Demo is part of “check”
  • Lastly “adjust” is inspecting and adapting which is the final step.

Program increment lasts for 8–12 weeks. But its duration can be adjusted according to the requirements of the project.

The benefit of Program Increment is that it limits the WIP (Work in Process) to keep the teams more focused resulting in a higher quality of work. The teams become more responsive and adaptable to change and there is an emphasis on a team being cross-functional to get tasks done efficiently. Continuous integration and validation from customers allows them to actively participate in the process of development and giving them the freedom to give feedback.

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Reference Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) is a prioritization model used to sequence jobs (eg., Features, Capabilities, and Epics) to produce the maximum economic benefit. In a flow-based system, priorities are updated continuously to provide the best economic outcomes. Job sequencing, rather than individual job return on investment, produces the best result. To that end, WSJF is used to prioritize backlogs by calculating the relative CoD and job size (a proxy for the duration).

Q9. You have classified the features in your backlog according to risk and value. Which features should the development team work on first?

Reference It is suggested that high business value, high-risk items are worked on first. While that may seem counterintuitive, the earlier this work is done, the sooner the team will move to mitigate the issues and unknowns—leading to a higher quality product. If there's a failure, it will occur early and relatively inexpensively.

Q10. In the Scaled Agile Framework, what is the role of Enablers?

Q11. Which outcome is not expected of a Sprint Review?

Q12. What is not a technique used for splitting user stories?

Q13. Who decides what the team will work on?

Q14. Which choice is not a Scrum value?

Q15. What should happen if the Product Owner does not accept a story by the end of the iteration?

Q16. Which statement is not true about the product backlog?

Q17. A project has some major risks that the team wants to mitigate. What is the best way to monitor how well this effort is going?

Q18. The VP of Engineering wants to start giving out a “Team Member of the Sprint” award to recognize a top performer in each group. What advice should you give this VP?

Q19. What is a difference between a team’s task board and a Kanban?

Reference Explicit rule applies to scrum team's task board: tasks cannot be added to the scrum board in the middle of a sprint.

Q20. The team complains that “things have been falling through the cracks lately.” What should you do?

Q22. In the Cynefin framework, where are “best practices” most appropriate?

Q24. The Product Owner complains to you that the team is not working hard enough and they need to increase their velocity by at least 50%. Which action should you not take?

Q25. What is the name of the practice in which a cross-functional team collaborates intensively to develop a new product idea?

Q26. The team’s manager wants to attend the Sprint Retrospective. What should you do?

Q27. Who is responsible for a Scrum team’s performance?

Q28. Which statement concerning small, frequent releases of software is true?

Q29. What is the activity of clarifying and expanding user stories called?

Q30. Which strategy is preferred for development teams?

"…your job is to minimize output, and maximize outcome and impact." - Jeff Patton

Q31. Which statement is true about the actor in a user story?

Q32. Which statement is true about Agile?

Q33. Which statement about burndown and burnup charts is not true?

Q34. What is the name for the practice of going to see a process in use at the point of value delivery?

Q35. When the team needs to make a decision, what is the best course of action?

Q36. Which action is something the Team Facillitator should NOT do?

Q37. A team needs to do research, design, or prototyping. What is this type of story called?

Q38. Which statement about technical debt is true?

Q39. Which statement about estimating is not true?

Q40. Which ceremony should the Product Owner not attend?

Q41. Which task is not the Product Owners responsibility?

Q43. You have noticed a pattern that the most interesting stories on the Sprint Backlog get started right away, and the least interesting stories languish or don’t get done. What should you do?

Q44. What Agile practice best supports this principle: “At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly”?

Q45. On what are personas typically based?

Q46. Which statement describes Shu Ha Ri?

Q47. What does the Agile Manifesto indicate?

Q48. What is the main benefit of a working agreement?

Q50. Which is the best definition of story points?

Q51. What is a Scrum of Scrums?

Q52. What is the Product Owner’s role regarding the product backlog?

Q53. Why should a team do refactoring?

Q54. Which choice is not a benefit generally associated with product demonstrations?

Q56. According to the Agile Manifesto, your highest priority is to _.

Q57. Product development organizations sometimes use descriptions of archetypal users and their values so that developers can design the system to meet their needs and wants. What are these descriptions called?

Q58. The Product Owner is focused on testing a new system concept in the marketplace as quickly and inexpensively as possible. What is this first-generation product called?

Q59. To whom should the Product Owner report?

Q60. What happens in Sprint 0?

Q61. What does the Definition of Done mean?

Q62. Which element is most important when describing your product?

Q63. Which choice best describes the Team Facilitator?

Q64. What is the name of the technique that divides a story into smaller pieces?

Q65. A team member comes to you with a complaint about another team member. What should you do?

Q66. What is the forming-storming-norming, performing model of team development known as?

Q67. What is the name of the ceremony in which you inspect the work completed during the sprint?

Sprint Retrospective: Reflect on the previous sprint, discuss what’s working well, what could be improved, and how to improve it to be more productive. Reference Sprint Review: Discuss what has been accomplished during the sprint and whether the sprint goal has been met.

Q68. Which choice best describes an Agile Release Train (ART)?

Q69. As an Agile coach, what should be your attitude toward your team members individual goals and motivations?

Q70. Which phrase best describes an Agile team?

Q71. Which technique does not help prioritize the backlog?

Q72. What does the Definition of Ready mean?

Reference Definition of Ready means that stories must be immediately actionable. The Team must be able to determine what needs to be done and the amount of work required to complete the User Story.

Q73. Which is NOT a principle of the Scaled Agile Framework?

Source: Underlying principles of SAFe

Q74. What is the definition of capacity?

Q75. The team is complaining that they send request for clarification to the Product Owner, but these requests go unanswered. What action should you take?

Q76. Which choice is a pillar of Lean?

Reference Two pillars are (1) Continuous Improvement, and (2) Respect for People.

Q77. Which statement best describes Agile, Lean, and Six Sigma?

  1. Reference - First paragraph clearly points out that Agile is about delivering value to the customer.
  2. Lean is a subset of the Agile community and
  3. Six Sigma is Agile applied to manufacturing.

Q78. What is a user story?

Q79. What is the expected output of a Planning Poker meeting?

Q80. What is the definition of velocity?

Q81. What is most important for a successful Product Owner to understand?

Reference A Scrum Team has 3 roles - Product Owner, Scrum Master and Developers. All 3 roles generate Value in their own contexts; however, it is the Product Owner who maximizes the Value from a product or business context.

Q82. Which statement about the Agile Manifesto is true?

Q83. The team is not going to complete its Sprint Commitment. As the Team Facilitator, what should you do?

Reference, the last paragraph perfectly informs what an agile developer would do in this situation.

Q84. When a user story is further decomposed, what are the elements called?

Q85. What does collective ownership mean?

Q86. According to the Agile Manifesto, how often should developers and business people work together?

Q87. What do you call the practice of writing a test before the code is written?

Q88. What is the term for a team member who is “T-skilled”?

Q89. Which statement is not true about pair programming?

Q90. People with a fixed mindset _ .

Q91. How can you impove interaction between team members?

Q92. What is the expected outcome of the daily stand-up meeting?

Q93. What is the name of the technique in which a story is broken down, input splits the data, and it results in a new output?

ITIOO isn’t a thing, thin verticle slicing is refering to what work you prioritise, and structured code has nothing to so with stories.

Q94. What is the term for a team member who is “T-shaped”?

Reference One of the challenges for organisations when they move to Agile ways of working is the often mentioned need to build teams made up of "T-shaped" people. This can also be described as a cross-functionality.

Q95. What is a lean canvas?

Reference 1-page business plan template that helps you deconstruct your idea into its key assumptions using 9 basic building blocks.

Q96. The team is not going to complete its Sprint Commitment. As Team Facilitator, what should you do?

Reference non verified answer - extend, otherwise goes to backlog

Q97. Which of these traits is most important for being an effective Team Facilitator?

Reference non verified answer - A facilitator is someone who helps a group identify common objectives and then offers group processes to achieve defined outcomes while maintaining neutrality. A skilled facilitator consciously embodies self-awareness, self-management, and bias management, while conveying openness and enthusiasm.

Q99. What is an Empathy Map?

Q100. Which work descriptions are not written in the language of users?

Q101. The team has an incomplete story at the end of the sprint and wants to claim partial credit for the work completed. What should you do?

Q102. When planning a meeting, which action is most important?

Q103. You are facilitating a meeting and, unexpectedly, a key person doesn’t attend. What should you do?

Q104. What is Open Space?

Q105. Which choice is not an expected benefit of refactoring?

Q106. In the Scaled Agile Framework, consecutive iterations are grouped together into a PI. What is a PI?

Reference A Program Increment (PI) is a timebox during which an Agile Release Train (ART) delivers incremental value in the form of working, tested software and systems. PIs are typically 8 – 12 weeks long.

Q107. How an you improve interaction between team members?

Q108. Which scale is typically used for Planning Poker?

  • less than 1 hour, 1 to 4 hours, 4 to 8 hours, 8 to 24 hours, more than 24 hours
  • 2, 4, 6, 8, 10
  • XS, S, M, L, XL
  • 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 13, 20

Q109. You are the Scrum Master and, having just facilitated a meeting, you’re reflecting on ways to improve. What skill are you displaying?

Q111. You are facilitating a meeting to decompose user stories and, unexpectedly, a development team member cannot attend. What should you do?

Q113. What is the expected outcome of the Daily Scrum meeting?

Q114. Which statement about the actor in a user story can be true?

Reference Actors can be a person, group, or system(s).

Q115. In Agile, which of the following options is a high priority?

Reference Agile projects are characterized by a series of tasks that are conceived, executed and adapted as the situation demands and one of the priorities is working software.

Q116. What types of environments work best for Agile principles?

Reference The Agile environment appeals to quick actions, discussions, evaluations, and considerations for different approaches. It works great in dynamic environments where there is a potential for changing or evolving requirements.

Q117. What does being a Cross-Functional team mean?

Q118. What is a PBI?

Q119. Which of the following scrum events is dedicated to process improvement?

Q120. For a month-long sprint, the time-box for a sprint retrospective is _.

Q121. Which type of Kanban diagram shows the number of issues in each of the states?

Q122. Which of the following statements about a Kanban control chart is false?

Q124. Stacey’s process complexity model shows us that agile thinking is best **___**.

Q125. What is a DEEP product backlog?

Q126. Which Jira feature provides an overview of multiple projects?

Q127. Which of the following elements is not a pillar of Scrum?

Q128. What aspects of the product is the Product Owner responsible for?

Q129. In Scrum, at the end of each sprint, there is a _ meeting in which the team receives and gives feedback on their processes and their performance.

Q130. In the INVEST acronym for user stories, what does the “V” stand for?

Q131. Having a mindset focused on growth and opportunity is healty for Agile team members. How can you display a growth mindset?

Q132. The Scaled Agile Framework advocates that, if you measure only one thing, what should you measure?

Q133. Which statement about the Agile Manifesto is true?

Reference "(...)others sympathetic to the need for an alternative to documentation driven, heavyweight software development processes convened." [First paragraph]

Q134. Progress toward a sprint goal is in jeopardy becauseyou have not received sales data. What should you do?