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PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)The Agile Manifesto values what over processes and tools? - ANS-Individuals and interactions.
The Agile Manifesto values what over comprehensive documentation? - ANS-Working software.
The Agile Manifesto values what over contract negotiation? - ANS-Customer collaboration.
The Agile Manifesto values what over following a plan? - ANS-Responding to change.
The Agile Manifesto values individuals and interactions over what? - ANS-Processes and tools.
The Agile Manifesto values working software over what? - ANS-Comprehensive documentation.
The Agile Manifesto values responding to change over what? - ANS-Following a plan.
The Agile Manifesto values customer collaboration over what? - ANS-Contract negotiation.
When was the Agile Manifesto first written? - ANS-February 11-13, 2001.
What happened on February 11-13, 2001? - ANS-The Agile Manifesto was written.
Name 3 disciplines that gave rise to the Agile Manifesto. - ANS-Extreme Programming,
SCRUM, Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM), Adaptive Software Development,
Crystal, Feature-Driven Development, Pragmatic Programming.
What is the Agile Manifesto's highest priority? - ANS-To satisfy the customer through early and
continuous delivery of valuable software.
According to the Agile Manifesto, at what point in development are changing requirements no
longer welcome? - ANS-None. Changing requirements are welcome, even late in
development.
According to the Agile Manifesto, Agile processes harness what for the customer's competitive
advantage? - ANS-Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.
According to the Agile Manifesto, Agile processes harness change for what? - ANS-Agile
processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.
One of the Agile Manifesto's principles is to deliver working software _________________. -
ANS-One of the Agile Manifesto's principles is to deliver working software frequently, from a
couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.
,The Agile Manifesto says that who must work together, and how often? - ANS-Business people
and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
According to the Agile Manifesto, how should projects be built? - ANS-Build projects around
motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get
the job done.
The Agile Manifesto says that motivated individuals working on a project need what 3 things? -
ANS-The 1., environment and 2., support they need, and 3., trust them to get the job done.
True or False: The Agile Manifesto says that the most efficient and effective method of
conveying information to and within a development team is by thorough and rigorous project
documentation. - ANS-False. The most efficient and effective method of
conveying information to and within a development
team is face-to-face conversation.
According to the Agile Manifesto, what is the primary measure of progress? - ANS-Working
software is the primary measure of progress.
What does the Agile Manifesto say about sustainable development? - ANS-Agile processes
promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to
maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
According to the Agile Manifesto, paying continuous attention to what 2 things enhances agility?
- ANS-Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
How does the Agile Manifesto define "simplicity"? - ANS-Simplicity - the art of maximizing the
amount of work not done - is essential.
According to the Agile Manifesto, the best architectures, requirements, and designs
emerge from what? - ANS-The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from
self-organizing teams.
According to the Agile Manifesto, what emerges from self-organizing teams? - ANS-The best
architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
What does the Agile Manifesto say teams should do at regular intervals/ - ANS-At regular
intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its
behavior accordingly.
According to Ken Schwaber, in Agile Project Management With SCRUM, what is likely to break
down the more complex a system becomes? - ANS-The more complex the system, the more
likely it is that central control systems will break down.
,According to Ken Schwaber, in Agile Project Management With Scrum, what is a time-honored
approach to dealing with complexity? - ANS-Relinquishing central control to independent
agents.
Scrum moves control from central authority to what? - ANS-The individual teams doing the
work.
Why are complete increments important? - ANS-Partial answers often fool us into thinking that
an approach will work, when in reality, it does not work upon closer examination.
Scrum's philosophical underpinnings focus on what 2 things? - ANS-Empowering the
development team and satisfying customers.
Scrum uses what kind of process control? Why does it use this? - ANS-Scrum uses empirical
process control because of the complexity of intermediate activities makes defined process
control far less effective.
What is "defined process control," and how does it related to Agile or Scrum? - ANS-Defined
process control is laying out a process that repeatably will product acceptable quality output.
Agile and Scrum take a very different approach called "empirical process control."
What are the three "legs" that hold up every implementation of empirical process control? -
ANS-Visibility, inspection, and adaptation.
Describe what happens in a Scrum iteration. - ANS-Having looked at requirements, considered
the available technology, evaluated its own skills and capabilities, the team collectively
determines how to build the functionality, revising its approach daily as it encounters new
complexities, difficulties, and surprises.
How many different roles are there in Scrum? Name them. - ANS-There are only 3 Scrum roles:
Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Team.
What are the Scrum Product Owner's responsibilities? - ANS-The Product Owner is responsible
for representing the interests of everyone with a stake in the project and its resulting system.
How does the Scrum Product Owner acheve initial and ongoing funding for a project? - ANS-By
creating the project's initial overall requirements, return on investment (ROI) objectives, and
release plans.
What is the list of prioritized requirements called in Scrum? - ANS-The Product Backlog.
, Define "Product Backlog" in Scrum. - ANS-The Product Backlog is a list of functional and
nonfunctional requirements that, when turned into functionality, will deliver the vision of the
system to be developed.
What is the Product Owner responsible for doing with the Product Backlog? - ANS-The Product
Owner is responsible for frequently prioritizing the Product Backlog to ensure that the most
valuable functionality is produced first and built upon.
What is the role of the Team in Scrum? - ANS-The Team is responsible for figuring out how to
turn the Product Backlog into an increment of functionality within an iteration, and managing
their own work to do so.
What are the 3 main characteristics of a Scrum Team? - ANS-The Team is self-managing,
self-organizing, and cross-functional.
What is the role of the Scrum Master? - ANS-The Scrum Master is responsible for the following:
- Removing barriers between development and the Product Owner so that the Product Owner
directly drives development.
- Teach the Product Owner how to maximize ROI and meet the objectives through Scrum.
- Improve the Team's life by facilitating creativity and empowerment.
- Improve the Team's productivity in any way possible.
- Improve engineering practices and tools so that each increment of functionality is potentially
shippable.
- Keep information about the team's progress up to date and visible to all parties.
A Scrum project starts with what? - ANS-A vision of the system to be developed.
What is the duration of a Sprint, as it is defined in Scrum? - ANS-A Sprint is an iteration of 30
consecutive calendar days.
In Scrum, what happens during the Sprint planning meeting? - ANS-In the Sprint Planning
meeting, two things happen:
1. The Product Owner and Team discuss content, purpose, meaning, and intentions of the
highest priority items in the Product Backlog.
2. The Team selects as much of the Product Backlog as it feels it can turn into an increment of
potentially shippable functionality as it can deliver by the end of the Sprint.
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