(Select 3) Which of the following have acceptance criteria?

Question

Options

• ABusiness Capabilities
• BPortfolio Enabler Epics
• CStrategic Themes
• DEnabler Features
• ESpikes
• FProgram Epics

• A
  78% (36)
• B
  13% (6)
• C
  7% (3)
• F
  2% (1)

Explanation

In SAFe, acceptance criteria belong to items that represent deliverable, verifiable work: Business Capabilities (large-solution-level work items verified by acceptance tests), Enabler Features (PI-level work with defined done conditions), and Spikes (time-boxed research stories whose acceptance criteria describe what question must be answered or artifact produced).

Distractors: Portfolio Enabler Epics (B) and Program Epics (F) are governed by a Lean Business Case, not acceptance criteria - they are too large and uncertain to be accepted as-is; they get decomposed into Features/Capabilities that do carry acceptance criteria. Strategic Themes (C) are enterprise-level objectives that provide portfolio direction, not backlog items at all, so they have no acceptance criteria.

Memory tip: Ask "Can this item be accepted as done in a PI?" - if yes, it needs acceptance criteria. Epics are always too big (they decompose first), and Strategic Themes are never "done." Think: CAFeS - Capabilities, featurEs (And enabler variants), and Spikes all carry acceptance criteria.

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