SAFe POPM · Scaled Agile · Leadership for PI Planning · Bank updated 2026-07-03
SAFe POPM practice questions: Leadership for PI Planning
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1/5 · Leadership for PI Planning · easy
During the team breakout sessions of PI Planning, who is primarily responsible for facilitating the team's own planning process, such as timeboxing discussions and helping resolve planning impediments?
ASystem Architect
BRelease Train Engineer
CScrum Master/Team Coach
DBusiness Owner
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2/5 · Leadership for PI Planning
During the Day 2 ROAM session, a team surfaces a risk that depends on a decision another team won't make until later in the Program Increment. The ART cannot resolve it on the spot, so a named individual agrees to track it and report status at future ART syncs. How should this risk be categorized?
AResolved
BAccepted
COwned
DMitigated
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3/5 · Leadership for PI Planning
During a Day 1 team breakout session, the team needs to clarify acceptance criteria and break a Feature down into candidate stories for the Team Backlog. Which role primarily leads this content-level work with the team?
ABusiness Owner
BProduct Manager
CProduct Owner
DRelease Train Engineer
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4/5 · Leadership for PI Planning · easy
On the Titan Agile Release Train, several new Scrum Masters are unsure which role owns timeboxing the agenda, arranging logistics, and keeping the PI Planning event moving across both days. Which role holds this responsibility?
AThe Product Manager, since the event exists to plan delivery of the program backlog
BThe Release Train Engineer, who serves as chief planner and facilitator of ART events including PI Planning
CThe Solution Train Engineer, because only Solution-level roles may facilitate any ART-level event
DThe Product Owner, since teams are the ones executing the resulting plan
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B is correct. SAFe assigns facilitation of the PI Planning event—agenda, logistics, and keeping the two days on track—to the Release Train Engineer as a servant leader for the train. Product Management and Product Owners contribute essential content and decisions during the event but do not run it. This distinction is a common point of confusion for POPM candidates who conflate 'owning content' with 'facilitating the event.'
↗ the SAFe 6.0 framework (framework.scaledagile.com) — POPM — Leadership for PI Planning
5/5 · Leadership for PI Planning
During a team breakout session, the Product Owner for Team Phoenix is expected to actively contribute to several planning activities. Which of the following best reflects that expected involvement?
AIndependently assigning business value scores to the team's own PI objectives before the Business Owners arrive
BWorking with the team to identify and prioritize stories, and helping formulate the team's draft PI objectives
CBuilding the program board for every team on the train to ensure a single consistent format
DDeciding the team's iteration-by-iteration velocity alone, without input from the rest of the team during breakout
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B is correct. During breakout sessions, the Product Owner works closely with the team to define and prioritize stories, negotiate content, and help shape the team's draft PI objectives, which are later refined with Business Owner input. Business value scoring, team capacity decisions, and cross-team artifacts remain shared or other-role responsibilities. Overstating the Product Owner's solo authority in these areas is a common exam distractor pattern.
↗ the SAFe 6.0 framework (framework.scaledagile.com) — POPM — Leadership for PI Planning
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