AT&T Academy Review Questions

Which of the following statements are true of using Velocity?

Velocity measures the rate of work acceptance over time. Calculated by counting the total number Story Points assigned to User Stories accepted by the Product Owner (PO) within the timebox.

Which of the following are responsibilities of the Product Owner (PO) in and Agile Team?

Voice of the Customer. Content Authority.

Which of the following are some of the responsibilities of an Agile delivery team member?

Commit and execute work. Design, Develop, and Test Work. Estimate the size and complexity of work.

Which of the following are important factors of Teamwork?

Communicated and collaborate openly and honestly. Demonstrate a collective responsibility and hold each other accountable. Trust each other. Provide visibility and transparency. Respect for people.

The "Definition of Done" may include additional criteria such as:

Completion of automated unit testing. Ensuring performance standards have been met. Necessary documentation or user guides are up to date.

Which of the following are true statement about an Agile Team?

Contain five to nine core members. Commit to work based on team velocity and capacity. Have all the skill sets necessary to develop, test, and deliver.

What must be done of a defect cannot be absorbed within the current iteration at AT&T?

Create capacity for higher priority defects. Move lower priority defects to the backlog to be re-prioritized.

What are the benefits of limiting Work in Progress (WIP)?

Creates a better workflow on your Kanban board. Focuses on correct decisions, completion, and quality. Get more done by completing tasks instead of starting new tasks.

Which Agile fundamental puts the customer central to all work efforts?

Customer Centricity

Which of the following Agile goals and practices support and complement the transformation of our mindset and culture across all the companies in the Enterprise?

Customer first. Collaborative open communication. Breaking down silos. One-team philosophy.

Which of the following Agile goals and practices support and complement the transformation of our mindset and culture across all the companies in the Enterprise?

Customer first. Collaborative open communication. Breaking down silos. One-team philosophy.

What are some of the expected benefits of using Agile at AT&T?

Faster time to market. Increased Quality. Earlier visibility into risks Improved customer satisfaction. Increased flexibility and agility. Quicker return on development investment.

What are some of the expected benefits of using Agile at AT&T?

Faster time to market. Increased quality. Earlier visibility into risks. Improved customer satisfaction. Increased flexibility and agility. Quicker return on development investment.

Which of these are valid questions for considering and quantifying how to prioritize work at AT&T?

How much business value does this work provide? Is this work time critical? Is there an associated cost of delay? Is this necessary to enable future value? Is this work mandated or required by law? What is the potential return on investment on this?

What are the responsibilities of the Delivery Team members when resolving defects at AT&T?

Identify and Communicate findings. Reduce technical debt and maximize code reuse. Ensure all Delivery Teams are aware of code changes. Demonstrates improvements and defect resolutions via a demonstration.

Which of the following are reasons why sustainable pace in essential to achieving flow?

Improves time to market by delivering value frequently. Aids in forecasting and creating roadmaps. Optimizes utilization by removing start/stop fluctuation. Allows time and space to experiment, learn, and innovate.

Kanban board should be...

In a place where they can be easily seen and accessed. Configured with recognizable descriptive cards. Configured to match the way you operate.

Which of the following is the method used by the Scrum Teams to size User Stories by comparing one User Story to other User Stories?

Relative Estimation

What are the four pillars of the House of Lean?

Respect for People & Culture, Flow, Innovation, Relentless Improvement

During which activity does the Agile Team discuss what went well and what can be improved next iteration?

Retrospective

Which of the following Agile Events is an event focused on 'What went well' and 'What can be Improved'?

Retrospective

What are the primary frameworks that AT&T implements?

Scrum and Kanban for workflow. XP for technical practices. Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) for work in large, interrelated groups.

Which of the following are the responsibilities of the Scrum Master (SM) in an Agile Team?

Servant-leadership. Facilitation.

What are the benefits of using Kanban?

Simplifies communication. Focus on workflow productivity. Visual representation of work.

Which of the following are true about tasks in Agile?

Smallest unit of work required to complete a User Stories. Track Progress towards completion of a Story. Based on effort and can be measured in time or hours. Any given task can be accomplishes in no more than one or two days.

Which of the following statements are true about the dimensions of agility?

There is no single set of best practices that provides you with agility, only instructions of how to start. Each principle, pattern, and framework practice has the goal to move towards agility.

In short, Scrum requires a Scrum Master to foster an environment where:

A PO orders the work for a complex problem into a Product Backlog. The Scrum (delivery) team turns a selection of the work into an increment of value during a Sprint. The Scrum (delivery) team and its stakeholders inspect the results and adjust for the next Sprint.

Who is responsible for resolving defects that are discovered while a story is in progress, mid-iteration, at AT&T?

Agile Team Memeber

Trust and transparency are essential to which Agile fundamental?

Collective responsibility

Which of the following are true about agile?

Agile is an iterative and incremental approach to developing software Delivers the highest-value items first, early, and often. Clients must actively participate in the Agile process. Agile includes small, dedicated, self-organizing teams who work in close collaboration.

What is Agile?

Agile is an iterative and incremental approach to developing software. Delivers the highest-value items first, early, and often. Clients must actively participate in the Agile process. Agile includes small, dedicated, self-organizing teams who work in close collaboration.

Which of the following are true statement of a culture of agility?

Agile requires a growth mindset, one that fosters a culture on communication and collaboration. The key to unlocking the potential of the Agile methodology is in the behaviors of its people in building a culture of agility.

Which of the following are true about Waterfall Development?

All requirements must be gathered before any development occurs. Functionality and value are delivered as a completed product at the end of the cycle. Utilizes a baselined set of business requirements to drive a sequential development.

Which of the following statement are true about flow?

Also known as 'being in the zone'. The mental state in which a person is performing some activity is fully immersed and energized in the process of the activity. Characterized by the completion absorption in what does and loss sense of time.

Which of the following Agile Events provides the team a flexible agenda to create a clear understanding of upcoming work, ensure priority, or discuss and size stories?

Backlog Refinement

Which of the ways can sustainable pace be maintained?

Cadence Capacity Commitment

Which of the following are considerations for planning work into iterations?

Capacity. Priority. Dependencies. Risks.

Which of the following are the main characteristics of an Agile Team?

Collaboration and Communication. Transparency. Building in Quality. Limiting Work in Progress (WIP).

Which of the following Agile Events should be quick and concise so that team members can participate in no more than 15-30 minutes, ideally 15 minutes?

Daily Standups

Which Agile fundamental allows as many decisions as possible to occur at the level closest to where the work is being done?

Decentralized Decision Making

A User Story at AT&T...

Describes functionality to be implemented from a customer's perspective. Is providing information in a consumable, interactive, conversational way. Is typically written in a three-part format.

Which of the following are considerations across the dimensions of the efficiency, responsiveness, and productivity in the Speed attribute?

Early & Often Time to Market. Reduced Queue Lengths. Short Cycles. Just In Time. On Time Delivery.

What are the 3 factors considered by the Agile Team when Analyzing and Evaluating User Stories for Size?

Effort. Complexity. Level of Doubt.

Which Agile fundamental is about observation, inspection, experimentation, adaptation, being pragmatic, and fundamentally based on experiences?

Empiricism

Which of the following represents the four values of the Agile manifesto?

Individual and interactions over process and tools. Working deliverables over comprehensive documentation. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation. Responding to change over following a plan.

Why is innovation an important pillar in the House of Lean?

Innovation is essential to any lasting business and encourages one to try new things and improve.

What is the model used at AT&T to ensure User Stories are consistently created in their content and quality?

Invest

Which of the following Agile Events provides the team the opportunity to understand scope of work, associated priority, determine capacity and load, and commit to a goal?

Iteration Planning

Which of the following Agile Events highlights the deliverables completes during the iteration?

Iteration Review

Which Agile fundamental focuses on delivering value early and often?

Iterative & Incremental

Which of the following are fundamentals of Agile?

Iterativelt and incrementally delivers value early and often in small batches. Based in empiricism, evidence based, data-driven, experimentation, continous learning, and improvement. Fosters collective responsibility through transparency, collaboration, and communication. Promotes empathy and customer-centric view to focus on desirable, feasible, viable, and sustainable solutions. Operates through decentralized decision making on small, self-organizing, cross functional, adaptable, persistent, stable, dedicated, and collaborative teams.

What is the foundation of the House of Lean?

Leadership

How is Agile transforming the way we think, manage, and practice our end-to-end product development lifecycle?

Maximizes speed to market by delivering high quality products and services as soon as possible. Improves customer satisfaction by providing products and services with the highest value. Provides responsiveness and flexibility needed to change course in response to market conditions.

How is Agile transforming the way we think, manage, and practice our end-to-end product development lifecycle?

Maximizes speed to market by delivering high quality products and services as soon as possible. Improves customer satisfaction. Provides responsiveness and flexibility needed to change course in response to market conditions.

Which of the following is true of a backlog?

Multiple levels/types can exist for context and scale. It is an ordered to-do list based on priority. The top pf the backlog has the most refined, well-known, and highest priority work items.

Which of the following statements about Acceptance Criteria are correct?

Not be too complex. Not be too low level. Not have too much detail.

Which of the following are attributes that embody agility discussed in this course?

Perception to sense and adapt to surroundings. Dexterity to be skilled in execution and to bend not break. Constitution to be sound health, fitness, and fortitude.

Which of the dimensions of agility focuses on your team's ability to meet commitments and objectives and achieve repeatable performance levels, reduce risk over time, and make decisions that reduce uncertainty?

Predictability

Which of the following are components of the Agile Scrum Framework?

Product Backlog. Iteration Planning. Daily Standup. Iteration Review. Retrospectives.

Who is consulted on prioritization if a defect is identified after delivery at AT&T?

Product Owner

Who prioritizes the Product Backlog during wither the Backlog Refinement or Prioritization

Product Owner

Which of the following Agile team roles is the content authority of a backlog?

Product Owner (PO)

Which are the two specific individual roles of an Agile Scrum team at AT&T?

Product Owner (PO) Scrum Master (SM)

Which of the following Agile team roles can contribute to a backlog?

Product Owner (PO). Agile Team Member. Architect. Product Management.

An Agile Team can improve results in analysis, estimation, and planning by having which if the following?

Productivity, Efficiency, Sustainability, Predictability

Which of the following backlogs contains features shared by multiple teams?

Program Backlogs.

Which of the following are different views and levels of a Product Backlog?

Team Backlogs. Program Backlogs. Solution Backlogs. Portfolio Backlogs.

What is needed to ensure quality is built within a team?

Technical Competence

What are the four components to achieving technical agility on an Agile Team?

Test first. Design Simply. Pair Work. Automate.

What are some common mistakes to avoid when creating User Stories?

The User should always be the person getting the benefit from the "want". Avoid creating a "want" that is too ambiguous, too complex, or too technical. Avoid creating a "want" that is too low level. Avoid creating a "want" that is too detailed.

Which of the following principles of the Agile Manifesto at AT&T?

The highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of value. Respond and adapt to changing business needs to increase competitive advantage. Working products/ systems/ solutions are the primary measure of progress.

When is it appropriate to consider using Agile?

When the desire to deliver and adapt quickly exists. When the scope of work can be delivered in small batches. When the clients are engaged and proactive. When leadership is supportive of decentralized decision making.

Which of the following situations should you prepared for when a defect is found?

While developing or testing, during the middle of an iteration. While integrating or testing in a staging environment, post-iteration. In production or after delivery.