SAFe SAFe Roles and Responsibilities 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is the role of the Scrum Master in a SAFe team?
- To assign stories to developers daily
- To serve as a servant leader, facilitating team ceremonies, coaching Agile practices, and removing impediments (Correct answer)
- To own the Team Backlog and prioritize stories
- To define the technical architecture for the team
Correct answer: To serve as a servant leader, facilitating team ceremonies, coaching Agile practices, and removing impediments
The SAFe Scrum Master is a servant leader who facilitates team ceremonies, coaches Agile practices, and removes impediments to help the team self-organize and improve.
Question 2: What is the 'Solution Manager' responsible for in a SAFe Solution Train?
- Managing individual team backlogs
- Defining and managing Capabilities in the Solution Backlog to guide multiple ARTs toward a common Solution (Correct answer)
- Facilitating PI Planning for all ARTs
- Hiring and managing the Solution Train team members
Correct answer: Defining and managing Capabilities in the Solution Backlog to guide multiple ARTs toward a common Solution
The Solution Manager works at the Solution Train level, defining Capabilities in the Solution Backlog and coordinating with multiple ARTs to deliver a large solution.
Question 3: What is the 'Solution Train Engineer (STE)' in SAFe?
- A senior developer responsible for the solution architecture
- The chief servant leader for the Solution Train, equivalent to the RTE but at the solution level (Correct answer)
- A business analyst for large solutions
- A portfolio manager for multiple ARTs
Correct answer: The chief servant leader for the Solution Train, equivalent to the RTE but at the solution level
The STE is the servant leader and coach for the Solution Train, facilitating Solution Train events and coordinating multiple ARTs toward a shared solution.
Question 4: In SAFe, what does the 'Epic Owner' do?
- Manages the entire Program Backlog
- Champions a Portfolio or Solution Epic, managing it from definition through implementation (Correct answer)
- Writes user stories for Epics
- Assigns Epics to teams during PI Planning
Correct answer: Champions a Portfolio or Solution Epic, managing it from definition through implementation
The Epic Owner is accountable for an Epic's Lean business case, collaborates with stakeholders to define scope, and coordinates with the ART to implement it.
Question 5: What is the 'Customer' role in SAFe?
- An internal user of the software product
- An active participant in SAFe who provides feedback, helps define Epics, and validates the solution (Correct answer)
- A stakeholder who approves the annual IT budget
- An external auditor of SAFe compliance
Correct answer: An active participant in SAFe who provides feedback, helps define Epics, and validates the solution
In SAFe, the Customer is a key stakeholder who actively participates in defining value, providing feedback, and validating that the solution meets their needs.
Question 6: What is the primary accountability of a SAFe Product Owner (PO) during a Sprint?
- Facilitating daily standups
- Ensuring the team has a ready and well-understood Sprint Backlog and accepts completed stories (Correct answer)
- Writing acceptance criteria for all Features
- Managing cross-team dependencies
Correct answer: Ensuring the team has a ready and well-understood Sprint Backlog and accepts completed stories
The PO maintains a ready and prioritized Team Backlog, clarifies story intent, and accepts completed stories that meet the Definition of Done.
SAFe SAFe Roles and Responsibilities 2
What is the role of the Scrum Master in a SAFe team?