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A product manager wants to start a new product-related project. She wonders whether Agile methods would add value to this. You can say that the project would be suitable for Agile methods if
Agile methods are most suitable when the requ...
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A product manager wants to start a new product-related project. She wonders
whether Agile methods would add value to this. You can say that the project
would be suitable for Agile methods if
Agile methods are most suitable when the requirements are likely to change frequently
during the project duration.
A team could not agree whether the stories in a sprint were complete or not.
When can the team decide that the stories are completed successfully?
Each scrum team should have a documented and agreed-upon definition of done. Basis
this, the team should determine completeness of the stories and sprints.
A scrum master is new to the role. Which of the following is aligned with this
role?
Scrum masters should help teams when product owners act too pushy and demanding.
Which of the following extreme programming techniques helps the most in
knowledge sharing across the team?
Pair programming involves two people working on the same task. This helps knowledge
sharing across the team.
A project involves a lot of uncertainty. How should this be handled in timeboxed
projects where there is a firm commitment on deadlines?
Features buffer means that low-priority features can be removed from scope if the team
runs out of time.
Use of information radiators is important for Agile projects. Which of the
following is NOT a characteristic of a good information radiator?
Information radiators should not be fixed. They should focus on a specific problem and
be refreshed with new set of targets.
Jeff wanted the team to start using a new tool to improve the quality of their
deliverables by automating some key processes. Where should Jeff bring this up
for discussion?
Sprint retrospective is an opportunity to discuss process improvement opportunities
within the team.
An Agile team received a number of suggestions on how to increase the value
proposition of a product at a trade conference. How should these suggestions be
reflected in the product backlog?
Sprint retrospective is an opportunity to discuss process improvement opportunities
within the team.
The product backlog for a particular product contains too many stories. A
product owner came across a product idea that is valuable but may not be
worked on immediately. What should be done about this?
The product owner may often add stories at the epic level for requirements that will be
worked on in the future.
In a burndown bar chart, the bottom of the bar in a particular sprint move
downwards by 50 points. What does this indicate?
The bottom of the bar moving downwards indicates that scope of the project was
increased.
, A scrum master is new to an organization. She is unable to help the teams with a
lot of the blocking issues. This means team members don't always get the help
that they need. What should be done about this?
The scrum master's primary responsibility is to help the team overcome obstacles.
Scrum masters can be coached about how to grow into the role, but if they are unable
to do so, they need to be replaced.
A product owner wanted to know not just the overall project status but also epic-
and story-level status. Which information radiator will help the product owner get
this information?
A parking lot chart reflects the status per epic and user story.
The team completed 5 stories in a sprint of sizes 5, 2, 13, 8, and 1. Simultaneously
they worked on stories worth 30 points which they partly completed but could not
complete per the definition of done. What is the velocity of the team?
Velocity considers the stories that are completed per the definition of done. Therefore,
the velocity is the sum of the completed stories, which is 29 points.
A team decided to try pair programming as a practice. One of the advantages of
pair programming is that:
Pair programming should lead to better quality due to online review. It may or may not
lead to other benefits.
A team's workload expanded, so they moved from one scrum team to over three
scrum teams. The product owner is stressed because of the workload from all
three teams. What is the best way forward?
Typically one PO should support one team. More than that is likely to lead to more
stress for the PO.
An organization decided to use scrum. They knew that their existing system was
broken, and they had heard good things about scrum from other organizations.
Few months later, they got disillusioned with scrum and decided to abandon the
experiment. Each team came up with a different way of defining scrum roles and
duties. None of the teams had a full time scrum master or product owner. There
was confusion and chaos. What could have been done to make the transition
successful?
Per the ADAPT framework, the organization does not seem to have spent time and
energy in coaching the teams on scrum due to which they struggled.
An Agile coach wants the organization transitioning to scrum to invest heavily in
technical practices. Which of the following is a potential challenge in introducing
technical practices early in an Agile transition?
The team which already has a lot on its plate may push back or resist the adoption of
these practices. But this challenge needs to be overcome, as technical practices give a
very high RoI.
An organization wonders if Agile would be a good fit for the work it does. Which
of the following characteristics of the work will make it most suitable for use of
Agile methods?
The important advantage of Agile methods is that it helps you adapt to changes quickly,
therefore the most suitable conditions for Agile is if the work is dynamic and
changeable.
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