(Select 2) What would you examine when identifying Value Streams in an enterprise moving to SAFe?

Question

Options

• AThe project cost accounting procedures in place.
• BThe internal departments which are supported.
• CThe number of ARTs which would be contained in the Portfolio.
• DThe current products which the company sells.

• A
  18% (7)
• B
  76% (29)
• C
  5% (2)

Explanation

Identifying Value Streams requires looking at what a company delivers (products/services) and to whom (departments or customers served) - making B and D the correct choices. Products the company sells (D) are the most direct expression of value flowing to external customers, while internal departments supported (B) reveal operational value streams that exist to serve internal stakeholders. Option A is wrong because SAFe explicitly moves away from project-based cost accounting toward value stream budgeting - accounting procedures describe how money is tracked, not where value flows. Option C is wrong because ARTs are organized within value streams after they are identified; counting ARTs before mapping value streams reverses the correct order.

Memory tip: Ask "What do we deliver, and who receives it?" - products (D) = external delivery, departments (B) = internal delivery. If it's about budgets or teams, you're already past the identification step.

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