SAFe-Agilist Adapting and Thriving with SAFe Practice Question
During a PI System Demo, a Business Owner observes that two features demonstrated by different teams appear to conflict in the user workflow, even though each team met its own iteration goals. The Business Owner asks the RTE how the ART can catch such cross-team integration issues earlier. Which SAFe practice should the RTE recommend?
⚠ Common exam trap
The trap here is choosing a coordination ceremony such as Scrum of Scrums or a periodic checkpoint, when the issue requires continuous technical integration and testing of combined work.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Institute a continuous integration practice where teams integrate and test their work together at least daily.
Cross-team workflow conflicts typically surface only when features are integrated and exercised together. Continuous integration, where teams merge and test their combined work at least daily, detects these conflicts early and gives the ART time to adapt before the PI System Demo. This practice is a core technical enabler of the ART's ability to deliver integrated value and respond to issues while they are still inexpensive to fix.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
- ✓
Institute a continuous integration practice where teams integrate and test their work together at least daily.
Why this is correct
Continuous integration requires teams to merge and test their code together frequently, which surfaces cross-team integration and workflow conflicts early rather than at the PI System Demo. By validating the integrated solution daily, the ART detects conflicting behaviors while there is still time to adapt, directly addressing the Business Owner's concern about late discovery of integration issues.
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Schedule a mid-PI integration checkpoint where all teams demonstrate their features to each other.
Why it's wrong here
A mid-PI checkpoint improves visibility and can reveal some issues, but it is still a periodic event rather than a continuous practice. Conflicts introduced between checkpoints could persist for weeks, and the demonstration format may not exercise real integrated behavior. It is a partial mitigation, not the daily integration discipline that catches cross-team issues as they arise.
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Add a weekly Scrum of Scrums where teams report progress and blockers to the RTE.
Why it's wrong here
The Scrum of Scrums improves coordination and dependency management, but it is a status and impediment-removal forum, not a validation event. It would not have surfaced a workflow conflict visible only when integrated features are exercised end to end. The issue here is integration validation, not communication frequency, so this practice does not directly catch the conflict earlier.
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Require each team to include a system-level acceptance test in its own definition of done.
Why it's wrong here
System-level acceptance tests in a team's definition of done improve quality within that team's scope, but they do not exercise interactions between features owned by different teams. The conflict emerged only when the two teams' features were combined, so a team-local practice would not detect it. Cross-team integration requires a shared, frequent integration point, which this practice alone does not provide.
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