Agile

Question 1

Scrum pillars

Answer 1

1. transparency
2. inspection
3. adaptation

Question 2

Scrum values

Answer 2

1. commitment
2. focus
3. openness
4. respect
5. courage

Question 3

Developers

Answer 3

committed to creating any aspect of a usable Increment

Question 4

Developers accountable for

Answer 4

1. Creating a plan for the Sprint, the Sprint Backlog;
2. Instilling quality by adhering to a Definition of Done;
3. Adapting their plan each day toward the Sprint Goal; and,
4. Holding each other accountable as professionals.

Question 5

Product owner accountable for

Answer 5

1. maximizing the value of the product
2. backlog management

Question 6

Backlog management includes

Answer 6

● Developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal;
● Creating and clearly communicating Product Backlog items;
● Ordering Product Backlog items; and,
● Ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood.

Question 7

Scrum Master is accountable for

Answer 7

1. establishing Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide
2. the Scrum Team’s effectiveness

Question 8

Scrum master serves the team by

Answer 8

● Coaching the team members in self-management and cross-functionality;
● Helping the Scrum Team focus on creating high-value Increments that meet the Definition of
Done;
● Causing the removal of impediments to the Scrum Team’s progress; and,
● Ensuring that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the
timebox.

Question 9

Scrum master serves the product owner

Answer 9

● Helping find techniques for effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management;
● Helping the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items;
● Helping establish empirical product planning for a complex environment; and,
● Facilitating stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed.

Question 10

Scrum master serves the organization

Answer 10

● Leading, training, and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption;
● Planning and advising Scrum implementations within the organization;
● Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact an empirical approach for complex
work; and,
● Removing barriers between stakeholders and Scrum Teams.

Question 11

Definable work

Answer 11

clear procedures that gave proved successful on similiar projects in the past

more definable work is automated

Question 12

High uncertainty work

Answer 12

high rates of change, complexity and risk => hard for systems with up front control and change request process

Question 13

Agile manifesto

Answer 13

individuals and interactions over processes and tools

working software over comprehensive documentation

customer collaboration over contract neotiation
responding to change over following a plan

Question 14

Agile approach

Answer 14

any kind of approach, technique, framework, method or practice that fulfulls the values and principles of the agile manifesto

Question 15

Lean thinking

Answer 15

1. focus on delivering value
2. respect for people
3. minimize waste
4. transparent
5. adapt to change
6. continuous imporvement

Question 16

iterative and incremental approaches

Answer 16

1. reduce waste and rework

use

1. very short feedback loops
2. frequent adaptation of process
3. reprioritization
4. regularly updated plans
5. frequent delivery

Question 17

Types of lifecycles

Answer 17

1. predictive
2. iterative
3. incremental
4. agile

Question 18

Predictive lifecycle

Answer 18

traditional approach with bulk of planning occurring upfornt, then executing a single pass

sequential process

Question 19

Iterative life cycle

Answer 19

1. approach that allows feedback for unfinished work to improve and modify that work
2. improve the product through successive prototypes or proofs of concept
3. project benefits when: frequent changes or scope is subject to differing stakeholders views of the descired final product
4. make take longer as they are optimized for learning rather than for speed of delivery

Question 20

incremental

Answer 20

provides finished deliverables that the customer may be able to use immediately

2. optimize for speed of delivery

3 use poc + evaluation criteria

Question 21

agile life cycle

Answer 21

process that is both iterative and incremental to refine work items and deliver frequently

1. team expects requirements to change

Question 22

Iteration-based agile

Answer 22

team works in timeboxes of equal duartion to deliver completed features

team does not address all the iteration work at once

Question 23

Flow based

Answer 23

team pulls features from the backlog based on its capacity to start work

keep wip sizes small to better identify isseus early and reduce rework

each feature might take different time to develop

Question 24

Hybrid life cycles as transition strategy

Answer 24

a gradual transition involves adding more iterative techniques to improve learning and alignment among teams and stakeholders. Later consider adding more incremental techniques to accelerate value and return on investment to sponsors

Question 25

Project factors that influence tailoring of agile approaches

Answer 25

1. demand pattern: steady or sporadic: use a cadence
2. rate of process imporovment required by the level of team experience
3. flow of work is often interrupted by delays or impediments? (kanban => make more visible the work)
4. quality of the product work is poor (tdd practices)
5. more than one team is needed to build a product
6. project team members are inexperienced in the use of agile approaches

Question 26

Servant leadership

Answer 26

1. focus on understanding and addressing the needs and development of team members in order to enable highest possible team performance

Question 27

Servant leader approaches the work in the following order

Answer 27

1. purpose: why - project
2. people: encourage to create environment when everyone can succees
3. process: results over perfect process

Question 28

Some characteristics of servant leadership

Answer 28

1. promote self-awareness
2. listening
3. serving those on the team
4. helping people grow
5. coaching vs controlling
6. promoting safety, respect and trust
7. promoting energy and interlligence of otehrs

focus from managing coordination to facilitating collaboration.
encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing

focuses on paving the way for the team to do its best work

Question 29

Agile teams

Answer 29

1. focus on rapid product development so that they can obtain feedback
2. team members are 100% dedicated to the teams

Question 30

Team collaborations ways

Answer 30

1. pairing
2. swarming:
3. mobbing

Question 31

Swarming

Answer 31

1. multiple team members with available time and appropriate skill sets all direct their attention to work together on one feature or user story
2. goal is to deliver high-quality results quickly by directing all available people power until the feature is up to scratch
3. swarming is for attacking blockers?

Question 32

Mobbing

Answer 32

1. a technique in which multiple team members focus simultaneously and coordinate their contributions on a particular work item.
2. If you have a story and all the developers sit down in front of one monitor and one keyboard to work on it together, you are mobbing.

Question 33

Multitasking

Answer 33

1. reduces the throughput of the team’s work and impacts the team’s ability to delivery consistently
2. ppl experience productivity loss between 20% - 40% when taks swithcing exponentially with the number o f tasks
3. people are more likely to make mistakes
4. task swithing consumes working memory and people are less likely to remember their context

Question 34

Attribute of agile teams

Answer 34

1. dedicated people
2. cross-functional team members
3. colocation or ability to manage any location challenges
4. mixed team of generalist and specialist
5. stable work environment

Question 35

At minimum, for agile project a team needs

Answer 35

1. project vision / purpose
2. clear set of working agreements

Question 36

The agile project charter needs to answer these questions

Answer 36

1. why are we doing this project?
2. who benefits and how
3. what does done mean?
4. how are we going to work together?

Question 37

Team chartering

Answer 37

helps the team learn how to work together

group social contract

goal: create an agile environment in which team members can work to the best ability of the team

1. team values
2. working agreements (what ready means)
3. ground rules
4. group norms:

Question 38

Common agile practices

Answer 38

1. retrospectives
2. backlog preparation
3. backlog refinement
4. daily standups
5. demonstration/reviews

Question 39

Standup antipatterns

Answer 39

1. turn it into status meeting
2. team starts to solver the problem once it becomes apparent => another meeting

Question 40

Story points

Answer 40

rate the relative work, risk an complexity of a requirement or story

Question 41

Measurements used by flow-based agile team

Answer 41

1. lead time
2. cycle time (see bottlenecks and delays)
3. response time

similiar features might have similiar cycle time

Question 42

Lead time

Answer 42

total time it takes to deliver an item measured from the time it is added to the board to the moment it is completed

Question 43

Cycle time

Answer 43

Time required to process an item, from start to complete

Question 44

Response time

Answer 44

the time that an item waits until the work starts