SAFe-RTE SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) Questions and Answers

Stories are created for the Iterations

The team decides which changes need to happen and when

Too much time is spent analyzing each Story

Scrum Masters who work with multiple teams do not have time for their teams

Too much time is spent prioritizing Features

Delivery can be stifled incrementally

Bottlenecks can be hard to identify and resolve

Technical debt can grow uncontrollably

Teams can have no time for fixing bugs

To facilitate the System Demo

To escalate and track impediments

To formulate and direct decisions on risks

To make decisions on resource issues for critical bottlenecks

To direct the management of the communities of practice

An estimating guard band

An opportunity to integrate and perform end-to-end testing

Building in quality and compliance

Additional planned work

Absence of trust

Weak Lean-Agile leadership

Fear of conflict

Lack of commitment

It enables more effective time tracking

It ensures all value streams in the portfolio are appropriately funded

It ensures different types of backlog items are not compared against one another

Release Train Engineer

Solution Architect/Engineer

Product Management

Business Owner

Drive teams to specific outcomes

Provide answers about Features

Coach leaders to increase alignment

Encourage teams to self-organize

Manage dependencies for teams

Coordinating with other teams

Owning the daily stand-up

Facilitating the Scrum of Scrums

Prioritizing the Team Backlog

Establish personal KPIs to be able to quantify progress

Identify personal challenges and create personal actions to be taken

Use personal gemba to find useful improvements

Frequently execute the SAFe individual self-assessment

Driving an empirical assessment of the problem using metrics

Asking powerful questions to invite creativity and new possibilities

Being the final "decision making authority" once all views have been heard

Bringing fresh emphasis to lean-agile's respect for people and culture

To build objectives for the Program Increment

To assess progress of the Program Increment and adjust scope and priority as needed

To align with the scrum of scrums participants on the status of the Program Increment

To demonstrate the increment to stakeholders

To provide fast feedback learning cycles and frequent integration

To provide a regular cadence for producing increments of value

To provide an architectural basis for future development

Instruct the Scrum Master to resize the Story

Continue to support the team's decision on sizing

Suggest the team stop the sizing of the User Story and add it to the next lteration as-is

By providing solution ideas

By changing team composition

By listening to the team

By escalating to senior management

lt is an ideal method for static design requirements

lt is a team-based framework

lt is a Lean system engineering technique

lt is a set of technical software practices

Gather employee Metrics immediately after the Agile Release Train launches

Address and resolve any problems areas

Conduct an employee Net Promoter Score survey

Survey full-time employees

Change the definition of done

Move Stories on their team's backlog to another team

Reprioritize Epics

Which themes are on the Roadmap

How many Features have already been released to the Customer

Which problem will the Solution solve

Establishing an architectural vision for the Agile Release Release Train

Defining Program Backlog content

Prioritizing the Portfolio Backlog

A culture

Strong organizational structure

A set of technical practices

A mindset

A high performing DevOps team

Combined deployment and release

Share the outcomes of preparation meetings with local Scrum Masters so they can arrange local rooms

Have a single RTE and technical support person that acts as a central point of communication for all locations

Adjust the PI agenda to 2.5 – 3 days, allowing for overlapping hours

Split up the PI Planning event per time zone and then have the final plan review, confidence vote, and planning retrospective as one centralized meeting

Arrange and test presentation audio and video connectivity in all locations

Inspect and Adapt event

Iteration retrospective

Product Owner sync

Release management meeting

Transparency

Program Execution

Alignment