(Select 3) What primary roles are most responsible for ensuring successful execution at the Value Stream Level?

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• ASolution Management
• BValue Stream Engineer
• CSolution Architect/Engineer
• DCustomer
• ERelease Management

• A
  90% (35)
• D
  8% (3)
• E
  3% (1)

Explanation

At the Value Stream Level in SAFe, three roles form the leadership triad responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering large solutions across multiple ARTs: Solution Management owns the solution backlog and prioritizes capabilities; the Value Stream Engineer (Solution Train Engineer) serves as servant leader and coach, facilitating the Solution Train's processes; and the Solution Architect/Engineer defines and stewards the shared technical vision. These three mirror the Product Manager / RTE / System Architect triad at the ART level, just one level up.

D (Customer) is wrong because customers are key stakeholders and collaborators, but they are external participants - not a role within the Value Stream responsible for its execution. E (Release Management) is wrong because it is primarily an operational/ART-level concern focused on deployment coordination, not a designated leadership role at the Value Stream Level.

Memory tip: Think "MEC" - Management (what to build), Engineer/Coach (how the train runs), and Architect (how it's built). These are the three internal Value Stream "drivers" - the Customer rides along, and Release Management works a level below.

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