Course 6 - Agile Project Management | Quizes & Questions

Work in progress (WIP) limits place constraints on how many items a team works on at any given time. What Scrum value do WIP limits encourage for a team?

Focus

What are signs that an Agile team may be experiencing issues with team dynamics and culture?

High team conflict Low team conflict Low team morale

Your Agile team is reducing waste in their processes. They need to reduce unnecessary documentation and ensure the client is happy with the current direction of the product. How can the team solve both forms of waste?

Increase collaboration between stakeholders and the team

Fill in the blank: The Agile Manifesto emphasizes _____ over processes and tools.

Individuals and interactions

Your Scrum team regularly holds stakeholder reviews of the completed work. These reviews ensure that the team is meeting the project's goals and there are no undesirable changes to the project. Which pillar of Scrum does this describe?

Inspection

Utilizing tools in Scrum helps make the team fully aware of progress and updates. This embodies which Scrum pillar?

Transparency

How long is a typical Sprint timebox?

between one and four weeks

Core values of the Scaled Agile Framework(SAFe) are alignment and ____.

Transparency

What is the difference between managing and coaching?

Managing is about giving direction, coaching is about teaching.

How many values and principles make up the Agile Manifesto?

4 Values 12 Principles

In Agile, what is a mission statement?

A short statement that gives your team something to work towards and stays constant throughout the project.

What is a deliverable?

A tangible outcome from a project that provides customer value

Why would you wnat to blend the Agile and Waterfall approaches?

A vendor on your project may already be following a traditional approach and the integration of teams will require blending of methods. There may be regulatory requirements that insist on certain traditional work processes, such as large requirements documents for certifications. Stakeholders may be more comfortable with traditional approaches and workflows, but, your project team is already established in Scrum and they wish to continue.

What traits whould Product Owners have?

Adaptive Customer-Focused Collaborative

During a Retrospective, you discover that your team cannot deliver the product on schedule because you set an unrealistic expectation with your stakeholders. What can you do to ensure a healthy roadmap management plan going forward?

Agree up front about how to handle new ideas and opportunities hold regular roadmap reviews with the entire team Promote knowldge sharing beteween the product owner and development team

As a Product Owner doing story estimation, you tell your team to keep their initial estimate private. Keeping their estimate private allows team members to form an independent opinion before sharing. Which effective estimation characteristic does this refer to?

Avoid anchoring bias

What is the primary role of the Development Team, also known as developers?

Build the product

What are some of your responsibilities as an Agile coach?

Celebrate and learn with the team Design the plays with the team Provide feedback to the team

What is the process of getting people to adopt a new product, approach, or value system?

Change Mangement

What are common factors that result in changes to the release plan?

Change in team velovcity better understanding of how much effort is needed Change to product scope

As a project manager or Scrum Master, which of the following strategies can help you fix issues with team dynamics and culture?

Change up the team's workflows run a team brainstorm session about how to work better together Take a training class together

Scrum Teams behave according to what core values

Commitment Focus Respect Openness

What are the key characteristics of successful Product Owners?

Customer-Focused Collaborative Optimistic

What are features of a Sprint's set of events?

Daily Scrum Sprint Review Sprint Planning Sprint Retrospective

How can you help your team build confidence and capabilities through coaching?

Encourage and appreciate them by expressing confidence in their efforts Motivate them by pointing out the value in their work Support them by acting as an accessible resource

How can the VUCA concept help you decide to use Agile or Waterfall?

It helps determine how complex your project is It helps determine if your project is too ambiguous for the Waterfall method It helps determine wheter your project is too volatile for the Waterfall method.

What is the benefit of business agility?

It helps organizations thrive in high VUCA environments

Which of the following best describes the purpose of a Product Backlog for the Scrum team?

It is the guide and roadmap of your product

When building a Product Backlog, you compare the importance of each Backlog item to the other Backlog items. This helps you rank and organize the Backlog items from highest to lowest priority. You should capture this information in which Backlog item attribute?

Item Order

When building a Product Backlog, you include how much effort the Developers state it will take to finish an item. You should capture this information in which Backlog item attribute?

Item estimate

Which Agile methodology provides transparent visual feedback to everyone who might be interested in the status of work in progress?

Kanban

What stakeholder benefit does a team provide when they have a stable velocity and refine their Product Backlog?

Know approximarely how long it will take to complete the Backlog

A Scrum Development Team is kept between three to nine members so that it is more effective at adapting to change. What could be possible downsides if the team is too small?

Lack of diverse skills Lack of diverse ideas

In the acronym VUCA, the "U" stands for "Uncertainty." What does "Uncertainty" mean in the context of VUCA?

Lack of predictiblilty

Retrospectives in Scrum happen _____ a traditional project.

More often than in

A Product Owner writes a user story for an item in a Sprint. They ensure the team can discuss the item and make adjustments as needed. Which I.N.V.E.S.T. story writing criteria are they trying to fulfill?

Negotiable

As a project manager, you plan the release dates for your new project. What release date(s) should never be moved?

Only the first

What is the project owner on your team responsible for?

Owning the inventory network Maximizing the value of the product and the work of the team.

Imagine you are a project manager for a company that adopts a new invoicing process. You schedule training sessions so each team member can develop the individual skills they need to complete the new process. Which of the six sources of influence does this scenario demonstrate?

Personal Ability

What long-term objective for the Scrum Team is included in the Product Backlog?

Product Goal

Which Scrum Role is primarily responsible for owning and updating the Product Backlog?

Product Owner

What types of projects are best suited for an Agile approach

Projects that are complex and fast paced Proejcts that are susceptible to change or uncertainty

What part of your role as an Agile coach involves reviewing your team's performance to find patterns that work or need improvement?

Provide feedback to the team

You create a new project roadmap that is visually appealing and contains all the information for the stakeholders to reference. However, this document took a lot of time to create and has caused some delays in the timeline. Which of the following roadmap pitfalls does this scenario represent?

Putting more work into it than the deliverables

As a project manager, you notice that your team members are spending a lot of time writing comprehensive documentation which contributes to a delay in delivering working software. What can you do to help your team recover from this and get back on track?

Remind your team that while documentation is important, it is more important to produce working software.

Imagine you are the Scrum Master launching the first phase of services for a company project. Your team takes a long time to finish tasks and, as a result, they are a month behind schedule. How can you diagnose the problem and help your team hit their targets?

Run more demos of soultions with the team to identify areas for improvement Use retrospectives to discover opportunities to imporce how the team is working Prioritize the right user stories and focus on only a few per Sprint

What is the first Agile principle?

Satisfy the customer through value-driven delivery

Who should be skilled in coaching team members on Scrum theory and application?

Scrum Master

What are the roles wihtin a Scrum Team?

Scrum Master Development Team Product Owner

Which scaled Agile framework coordinates multiple Scrum Teams and integrates their work to create one larger, cohesive deliverable?

Scrum of Scrums

During what Scrum event will the Scrum Master ask questions like: What has been our average velocity? Who on the team has any upcoming vacations or work conflicts? Who is responsible for what Sprint tasks?

Sprint Planning

A Development Team wants to become more effective. They have a tendency to work as individuals even when a team member is stuck on a task. What trait should they improve upon as a team?

Supportive

Imagine you are a Scrum Master coaching Developers to embrace the traits of an effective Development Team: being cross-functional, self-organizing, and supportive. Which additional trait should effective Development Teams display?

They should be customer oriented.

Imagine you are a project manager for a mobile game that is experiencing significant technical issues. While working on the update, your team members appear unhappy and arrive at work late. What can you do to boost morale and improve the quality of deliverables?

Take a training class on team dynamics and how to better work together change up workflows by pairing people to work together on hard tasks Run a team brainstorm session to identify areas for improvement

What are the benefits of Agile projects?

The Agile approach acknowledges and embraces the reality of an uncertain world. Agile projects also deliver what customers want and streamline processes along the way. An Agile project helps customers realize—and receive—the product they want. Agile projects also embrace uncertainty and streamline processes along the way. The key to streamlining is to reduce waste. Examples of reducing waste include eliminating unnecessary documentation and product features that customers ultimately aren't interested in. Agile projects also embrace uncertainty and deliver what customers want.

What is the primary responsibilities of a Product Owner?

The Product Owner is responsible for ensuring the Product Backlog is visible and transparent to everyone. They also prioritize the Product Backlog and ensure the product or service fulfills customer needs. The Product Owner is responsible for making sure the product or service fulfills the customer's needs. They also prioritize the Product Backlog and ensure it is visible and transparent to all. The Product Owner is responsible for prioritizing the Product Backlog. They also make sure that the Product Backlog is transparent and that the product or service fulfills customer needs.

What should you consider when wetting the length of a Sprint timebox?

The expected frequency of changes how much focused time the solution Developers need to build a Backlog item How much overhead- such as testing and review- goes into delivery of the product

Agile project management works well with projects that take an iterative approach. What does this mean?

The team operates within many short blocks of time. Project Processes are repeated many times during the life cycle of the project. Project deliverables improve continously based on feedback

What activities happen durring a Sprint?

The work quality improves- or at least stays the same- when compared to the last Sprint. The Product Backlog is refined byt the Product Owner as needed

The Scrum Master needs to make sure the team is able to get tasks done on time. How can they achieve this? Select all that apply.

They can help remove blockers They can prioritize issues from users

What is the primary role of the Scrum Master?

They promote and support the Scrum process by helping everyone understand and impliment scrum.

What are the benefits of timeboxes?

They provide a window of focus to improve productivity. They help the team develop a predictable rhythm to their work. They create a sense of urgency to drive prioritization.

What does VUCA stand for?

VUCA stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. VUCA defines the conditions that affect organizations in a changing and complex world and helps teams account for these changes in projects. Ambiguity refers to the possibility of misunderstanding the conditions and root causes of events or circumstances.

What is the difference between Agile and waterfall project management?

Waterfall aims for predictability and tries to avoid change, while Agile embraces the reality that the world is uncertain and unpredictable. Agile is a less linear approach than Waterfall.

When it comes to deliverables, what are the differences between Waterfall and Agile?

Waterfall project deliverable releases are often at the end of the project. (Waterfall projects often release their deliverables at the end of the project. Agile projects, on the other hand, offer smaller and more frequent releases throughout the project.) Agile project deliverable releases are smaller and more frequent throughout the project. (Agile project releases are smaller and more frequent throughout the project. Waterfall projects, on the other hand, often release their deliverables at the end of the project.)

When does a formally approved project plan work best?

When the end product is known and understood

Test first development is a best practice in what popular Agile framework?

XP

What are key characteristics of a Product Backlog?

it is a living artifact It is a prioritized list of features