Who typically facilitates the ART Sync meeting?

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Options

• AAgile coach
• BSenior Scrum Master
• CDevelopment manager or QA manager
• DRelease Train Engineer
• EValue Stream Engineer

• A
  5% (1)
• B
  5% (1)
• E
  91% (20)

Explanation

There may be an error in this question's answer key. Based on SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) documentation, D - Release Train Engineer (RTE) is the correct answer, not E.

The RTE is the servant leader and coach for the Agile Release Train (ART) and is explicitly responsible for facilitating the ART Sync (also known as the PO Sync and Scrum of Scrums). This is one of the RTE's core defined ceremonies.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (Agile Coach): A general coaching role not formally assigned to ART-level ceremony facilitation in SAFe.
• B (Senior Scrum Master): Scrum Masters facilitate team-level ceremonies; the ART Sync operates above the team level.
• C (Development/QA Manager): Traditional management roles with no defined facilitation responsibility in SAFe's ART cadence.
• E (Value Stream Engineer): The VSE plays an analogous role to the RTE but at the Solution Train level, not the ART level.

Memory tip: Match the role to the level - RTE owns the Release Train ceremonies; VSE owns the Value Stream / Solution Train ceremonies. ART Sync = ART-level = RTE.

I'd recommend verifying this against your source material, as the answer key listing E appears to be incorrect.

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