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1/5 · Team and Technical Agility · easy
In SAFe 6.0, an Agile Release Train (ART) is best described as which of the following?
AThe governance body responsible for Lean Portfolio Management's investment funding decisions
BA single large Scrum team of 50-125 people that shares one common Team Backlog
CA temporary project team assembled only for PI Planning and disbanded once the event ends
DA long-lived, self-organizing team of Agile teams, typically 50-125 people, that plans, commits, and executes together to deliver a continuous flow of value
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D is correct. SAFe 6.0 defines the ART as a long-lived team of Agile teams, usually 50-125 people, that aligns to a shared business and technology mission. ARTs plan, commit, and execute together, most visibly during PI Planning, and deliver value through a common ART Backlog and PI Objectives while each team still owns its own Team Backlog.
↗ the SAFe 6.0 framework (framework.scaledagile.com) + the official Leading SAFe course content - Team and Technical Agility
2/5 · Team and Technical Agility
A Team Kanban team on an ART notices that stories are piling up in the 'In Progress' column of its Kanban board, well beyond the number the column's WIP limit allows, yet team members keep starting new stories anyway. What should the team do first to restore a smooth, predictable flow?
AEnforce the existing WIP limit by having team members swarm to finish stories already in progress before pulling any new work
BAsk the Scrum Master/Team Coach to schedule an extra Iteration so the team can catch up on the backlog
CAdd more columns to the board so partially finished work has somewhere else to sit
DIncrease the WIP limit for the column so more stories can be worked on in parallel
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A is correct. Team Kanban in SAFe 6.0 relies on visualizing work and enforcing WIP limits to manage flow. When work-in-process exceeds the limit, the correct response is to stop starting new work and swarm to finish what is already in progress, which surfaces and resolves the underlying bottleneck rather than masking it.
↗ the SAFe 6.0 framework (framework.scaledagile.com) + the official Leading SAFe course content - Team and Technical Agility
3/5 · Team and Technical Agility
Which Extreme Programming (XP) practice, referenced in SAFe's Built-in Quality guidance, requires a developer to first write an automated test that fails, and then write only the production code needed to make that test pass?
ATest-driven development (TDD)
BPair programming
CCollective code ownership
DContinuous integration
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A is correct. Test-driven development is one of the XP-derived technical practices SAFe 6.0 calls out under Built-in Quality's Code Quality dimension. Its defining cycle is red-green-refactor: write a failing test, write the minimal code to pass it, then refactor, ensuring code is always covered by tests it was designed against.
↗ the SAFe 6.0 framework (framework.scaledagile.com) + the official Leading SAFe course content - Team and Technical Agility
4/5 · Team and Technical Agility · hard
SAFe 6.0 incorporates Team Topologies concepts to describe complementary team-design patterns on an ART. A team that owns and continuously evolves a deep, complex technical component (for example, a specialized video-codec engine) that other teams consume as a dependency is best classified as which type of team?
AComplicated-subsystem team
BPlatform team
CStream-aligned team
DEnabling team
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A is correct. SAFe 6.0 draws on Team Topologies to complement its Agile Team types, describing four fundamental patterns: stream-aligned, complicated-subsystem, platform, and enabling teams. A team dedicated to a deeply specialized, hard-to-understand component that other teams rely on as a service is the complicated-subsystem team pattern.
↗ the SAFe 6.0 framework (framework.scaledagile.com) + the official Leading SAFe course content - Team and Technical Agility
5/5 · Team and Technical Agility · easy
SAFe 6.0 describes the Team and Technical Agility core competency as having three dimensions. Which set correctly names all three?
AScrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming
BAgile Teams, Teams of Agile Teams, Built-in Quality
CAgile Teams, Continuous Delivery Pipeline, Release on Demand
DAgile Teams, Built-in Quality, Lean-Agile Leadership
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B is correct. Team and Technical Agility (TTA) is built from three dimensions: Agile Teams (cross-functional teams that can define, build, test and deliver value), Teams of Agile Teams (the Agile Release Train that aligns those teams to a shared mission), and Built-in Quality (the practices that make quality an attribute of the work rather than a later inspection step). Mixing in dimensions from Agile Product Delivery or the separate Lean-Agile Leadership competency is the most common confusion on this topic.
↗ the SAFe 6.0 framework (framework.scaledagile.com) + the official Leading SAFe course content - Team and Technical Agility
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