ISQS 4348 - Business Systems Analysis

A team's velocity is calculated based on its performance last year. On an average the team has completed 9.2 story points in each sprint. So the velocity of the team should be stated as:

10

What is a typical time-boxed period for Release Planning?

3 to 6 months

Planning poker uses the "wisdom of the single biggest expert" to estimate how long it will take to implement user stories. True or False?

False

Which of the following techniques is used for estimating effort?

Planning Poker

A Product Owner wants a story to be completed in four days. The Development Team working on the Story reckons it will take seven days. The Scrum Master feels it should take five days. A subject matter expert, who has worked on similar Stories in the past, thinks it should take a maximum of three days. Whose estimate should be used from planning?

The Development Team's

Which items on the product backlog should be small?

The items at the top of the Product Backlog.

In adopting Agile, Support and Maintenance tams have to primarily become used to ___________.

Working with a product backlog.

Resistance to change necessitated from transitioning to Agile methodology is likely to come from

star performers team members customers

Which of the following statements describes SCRUM?

A light weight framework designed to develop and manage complex products in an iterative and incremental way.

A planning poker session results in the following estimates from the 5 members of the development team: 1, 5, 5, 5, and 8. What will be the next step?

Allow the team members who had extreme score to explain their view point and redo the estimation process until consensus is achieved.

Toward the end of the Sprint, the development team realizes that it will not be able to complete the stories it has committed to. What is the ideal course of action for the development team?

Ask the product owner to decide which stories can be delayed until the next sprint

How often should retrospective meetings be held?

At the end of each Sprint, because they enable the Development Team to inspect its processes, adapt them and thereby constantly improve.

Which of the following types of information radiators provides a daily measure of work remaining in an iteration?

Burn down chart

Which of the following is the highest priority for an Agile project?

Customer Satisfaction

What is a story point in the agile model? Choose one from the given options.

Estimate of the size of a user story

A Fixed Price contract is best suited for an Agile Project. True or False?

False

Collocation of the team members is essential for all agile projects and hence team members have to work within the same physical team space. True or False?

False

What is the effect of having a large visible story board on a wall?

It continuously communicates progress within the team and with other stakeholders

How long should it take a 5 member Scrum Team to finalize the Sprint Planning for a 3 week Sprint?

No more than 6 hours

A Scrum of Scrums is a meeting between ___________.

One or two members from each Scrum team

Who is responsible for prioritizing the product backlog?

Product owner

The stakeholders of a company decide to transition the software development team to SCRUM. They already have project coordinator who facilitates interactions, removes impediments, and acts as the team's coach. What should this role be called after the transition?

Scrum master

__________ is commonly used for estimating user stories and _____________ is used for estimating the tasks needed to complete a user story.

Story points and ideal time/elapsed time

During the Sprint Planning meeting, the amount of work necessary for fulfilling the items requested by the Product Owner seems greater than the Development Team's capacity. Which action makes more sense?

The Development Team and Product Owner collaborate, with a view to removing or modifying items.

What is the best way of transitioning from a traditional approach to Agile?

Treat the transition like an agile project and start with an influential sponsor who can act as the product owner for the transition

Agile was developed for small teams and small projects. However, SCRUM can be adapted to deal with large distributed projects that involve multiple teams. True or False?

True

During a Release planning, the Product Backlog items are grouped into smaller releases that drive toward the product roadmap. True or False?

True

Which of the following are the questions that are asked during a Daily scrum? (Select 2 options)

What are the impediments to your work? What will be accomplished before the next meeting?

Escaped defects refer to defects that were not found by

the quality assurance team