Project Management Test 1

Complete the rest of this statement from the Agile Manifesto: Working software over ____________.

Comprehensive documentation

Complete the rest of this statement from the Agile Manifesto: Customer collaboration over ____________.

Contract Negotiation

Which of the following is the best way to complete the sentence: In Crystal methods,____________ increases with team size.

Criticality

Which of the following is the highest priority of the 12 major principles?

Customer Satisfaction

One Scrum ceremony or activity is the team getting together to discuss what they will do today, what they did yesterday, and anything standing in their way. This is known as which of the following?

Daily Scrum

One of your key stakeholders comes to you after a meeting and says, "I don't see you doing a lot of normal paperwork associated with project management. Instead, I see you talking to your team a lot. Why aren't you doing your management duties?" How would you respond to this statement?

"In Agile project management, my role is that of a servant leader. I do an appropriate amount of documentation, but I serve mostly as a coach and leader for my self-directed team."

You are the product owner and have just started working on a new Agile team. One of the team members wants to know what your job entails. What do you tell them?

"My job is to own the product backlog and make sure customer value is realized."

One of your team members comes to you with a problem about something that they are experiencing with key stakeholders on the project. They seem upset and are looking for you to provide some feedback. If you are actively listening to your team member, what thoughts should be running through your mind?

"My team member is upset about something and needs to express him- or herself and gain support."

Bill is a key stakeholder in your organization and has recently learned about your usage of an Agile framework on your current project. You've invited Bill to a planning meeting, and he says, "I thought you didn't do formal planning in Agile." How should you respond?

"We do plan our projects, but we keep our focus on the immediate items and we value working software over comprehensive documentation during planning."

What percentage of time should an Agile project manager spend communicating daily?

90 percent

Which of the following items does your team need to produce a working, viable product or service?

A definition of done

Which of the following best describes Scrum?

A framework

Complete the rest of this statement from the Agile Manifesto: Individuals and interactions over ____________.

Processes and tools

You are a Scrum Master, and you hear during a daily Scrum that your team is a bit behind schedule. The impediments they mention are having to do too many updates to stakeholders and too much paperwork. What is the best thing to do?

Take on administrative work as needed to help your team.

Your team is currently a bit behind schedule, and it is worried that it won't complete the work before the iteration ends. If you are practicing good servant leadership, what should you do first?

Take on administrative work as needed.

Who were the creators of the Agile Manifesto?

The Agile Alliance

Seventeen developers met in Snowbird, Utah, in February 2001 to discuss better ways of managing software projects. What was the result of that meeting?

The Agile Manifesto

In the Agile Manifesto, it is more important to respond to changes than to do which of the following?

Follow Plan

Complete the rest of this statement from the Agile Manifesto: Responding to change over ____________.

Following a Plan

Other than defects, which of the following is included in the seven wastes of Lean software development?

Handoffs

The basics of a stand-up meeting are to achieve which of the following?

Identify problems and describe what has been accomplished since the last meeting.

What is the first value in the Agile Manifesto?

Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools

What does the Agile Manifesto mean by "individuals and interactions over processes and tools"?

It means that individuals and interactions are valued more than processes and tools.

What is the main reason organizations should not jump into a hybrid method if they are new to Agile approaches?

It takes practice to implement Agile effectively on an organizational level. It's better to practice one method and become proficient before trying to combine two.

Julie has just joined your organization as a new team member. She has heard of Agile as a concept and has a bit of Scrum experience, but she is confused about the sprint backlog and where it came from. What is an effective way to explain to Julie what the sprint backlog is?

It's basically the product backlog with the items chosen by the development team based on what they can accomplish during the sprint rather than a totally separate list or artifact.

Using Kanban methodology, which of the following is the best way to show performance and WIP to the team and to the customer?

Kanban Board

A key stakeholder has asked for information on the team's progress through the iteration. What would be the best way to present information about team progress?

Kanban board

During your 15-minute stand-up meeting, two of your team members start discussing a solution to one of the issues that they ran into the day before. As the Scrum Master or Agile project manager, what should you do?

Make sure you help them resolve the issues after the meeting but not during.

Lean was originally designed for which of the following?

Manufacturing

Leadership tasks are designed to help your team be most successful and to remove roadblocks preventing the team's success. Which of the following best describes this mindset?

Motivate, compensate, and encourage

When is it an acceptable time to cancel a sprint in the middle of a project?

Never

The Satir model correctly predicts why some organizations have a challenging time changing methodologies. What is the reason for that based on the model?

Organizations often determine that the new method isn't working because they have not reached the integration stage and have only seen the chaos.

On a colocated team, what is one of the major benefits of everyone sitting together in the same work space?

Osmotic communication is enhanced.

Which of the following best practices are unique to eXtreme Programming?

Pair programming

Why was Feature-Driven Development created?

To accommodate larger teams

What would be the reasoning behind having an Iteration Zero?

To determine a process that works

Why is a pull system so important in the practice of Kanban?

To limit work in progress

Why is using the MoSCoW Approach in DSDM so important?

To make sure that the most important features are in the ultimate solution no matter what

Empirical process control has three main aspects to it. What would those three be?

Transparency, inspection, and adaptation

Which of the following is a correct statement?

Waste is the opposite of value.

Adaptive software development replaces ____________ with a repeating series of speculate, collaborate, and learn cycles:

Waterfall

In the past, your team has run projects using a more formal Waterfall method and now is incorporating Agile methodologies. What will be the biggest difference in how you manage your projects?

Waterfall preplans the entire project before execution, and Agile only plans out just far enough to create a workable increment that is valuable to the customer.

Daily stand-up meetings or daily Scrums are designed to work through three questions. What did we do yesterday? What will we do today? Which of the following is the third question?

What impediments are in our way?

You and the team are working with a visible master list of work to be done and are constantly reviewing and updating it with requirements that will be reorganized and reprioritized repeatedly. This is an example of which of the following?

Working with the team to groom the backlog

Your customer is asking you to describe what you mean by self-organizing and self-managing teams. How would you describe them?

Your team can make local decisions about how to produce the result of each iteration based on a shared knowledge of the definition of done.

The team space is key in Agile projects. What is the one thing that is recommended above all others for Agile teams?

Colocation

Your new Scrum team is looking forward to practicing the time box methodologies of Scrum and Agile. When asked how long the stand-up meetings will be time-boxed for, what will you say?

Stand-up meetings will require 15 minutes every day.

If you are leading an Agile team and spend most your time focusing on inspiring and collaborating with your team, what kind of leadership are you practicing?

Adaptive leadership

You are working to implement Agile in your organization, and a key stakeholder asks you to explain Agile to them. What would be the best answer to explain Agile to someone who doesn't know anything about it?

Agile is a mindset that allows an organization to focus on better ways to produce value for the customer and practice continuous improvement.

Mission focused, feature based, iterative, timeboxed, risk-driven, and ____________ are all characteristics of an ASD life cycle.

Change-tolerant

Which of the following is not a core value of XP?

Coaching

Agile project teams work best in what dynamic?

Collocated

In the Declaration of Interdependence, which of the following increases by making continuous flow of value the focus?

ROI

Which of the following is not a Scrum artifact?

Retrospective

You are a practicing Agile project manager, and you are explaining to your new team the value of retrospectives. What will the team understand about retrospectives once you have explained it to them?

Retrospectives are a planned review and reflection point.

The Pareto principle is seen in many project management and quality methodologies. Why is the principle so important to use when determining cause and effect?

Roughly 80 percent of the effects come from 20 percent of the causes.

What is the best way to explain Agile project teams based on the values of the Agile Manifesto?

Self-directed and self-managed

As an Agile project manager, you want your team to be which of the following?

Self-organizing and self-managed

As an Agile project manager, you explain to your team that, as their coach, you are there to provide for the team's needs and remove any roadblocks to their progress. This is also described as which of the following?

Servant leadership

Who is responsible for the product backlog?

The product owner

Which of the following best describes why Waterfall project management isn't the most effective way to manage software development projects?

The rapid pace and constant changes make it difficult to preplan and create baselines.