Agile mindset

Question 1

Individuals & interactions over?

Answer 1

processes & tools

Question 2

working software over

Answer 2

comprehensive documentation

Question 3

customer collaboration over

Answer 3

contract negotiation

Question 4

responding to change over

Answer 4

following a plan

Question 5

what is the role of the product owner?

Answer 5

designated person that represents the customer on the project

Question 6

what is the role of the agile project manager / scrum master?

Answer 6

manages the agile project

Question 7

what is the product backlog?

Answer 7

project requirements from the stakeholders

Question 8

what happens in a sprint planning meeting?

Answer 8

team discusses which tasks should be prioritized in the next sprint.

Question 9

what is the sprint backlog?

Answer 9

work the team selects to get done in the next sprint

Question 10

what is a sprint?

Answer 10

a short iteration where the project teams work to complete the work in the sprint backlog (1-4weeks)

Question 11

what are daily stand up meetings?

Answer 11

a quick meeting each day to discuss project statuses, led by the scrum master. usually 15 minutes

Question 12

what is a sprint review?

Answer 12

an inspection done at the end of the sprint by the customers

Question 13

what is sprint retrospective?

Answer 13

Scrum master identifies what went well during the spring and what could have been done better.

A possible topic is the timing of the stand up. If team members are showing dissatisfaction with the current schedule then this is the meeting to discuss the issue.

Question 14

what happens when a product is partially completed?

Answer 14

customers demo the product and provides feedback. this feedback adjust the next sprint priorities.

Question 15

what is a release?

Answer 15

several sprints worth of work directed to operations for possible rollout and testing.

Question 16

what is a product increment?

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part of the product that is complete after each sprint.

Question 17

what does DoD stand for? and what does it mean?

Answer 17

Definition of Done (DoD) is a shared understanding of what it means when work is considered done,

should be defined at the beginning of the project, and

it applies globally to the project.

a checklist of the required criteria for considering a product ready for delivery.

Question 18

what is XP or Extreme Programming?

Answer 18

prioritizing work and getting feedback

Core Values: Simplicity, Communication, Feedback, Courage, Respect

Question 19

product owner is equivalent to

Answer 19

customer, business representative to project

Question 20

scrum master is equivalent to

Answer 20

coach, agile project manager

Question 21

sprint is equivalent to

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interation, fixed-length period of time (time box)

Question 22

release is equivalent to

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small release, release to production

Question 23

sprint/release planning is equivalent to

Answer 23

planning game, agile planning meetings

Question 24

product owner is equivalent to

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customer, business representative to project

Question 25

development team is equivalent to

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team, empowered cross-functional team

Question 26

daily scrum is equivalent to

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daily standup, breif daily status meeting

Question 27

what is kanban?

Answer 27

means “signboard” , helps visualize the workflow.

method that involves pulling work into the system only when the team is capable of handling it.

Kaban method prioritizes productivity and efficiency through its workflow approach.

A kaban team does not have predefined/ formal roles.

Question 28

what is Tuckman’s five stages of team development?

Answer 28

Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Adjourning

Question 29

what do burnup charts represent?

Answer 29

work that has been done

Question 30

what do burndown charts represent?

Answer 30

work that remains to be done

Question 31

what do velocity charts represent?

Answer 31

show how the team is performing

Question 32

what is meant by decomposing requirements from largest to smallest?

Answer 32

Epics [Largest]
Features
Stories
Tasks [Smallest]

Question 33

what is affinity estimating?

Answer 33

grouping estimates into categories or collections.

Question 34

what is T-shirt sizing?

Answer 34

placing stories in sizes of t-shirts

Question 35

what are story maps?

Answer 35

serve as the “product road map”

Question 36

what does Kaizen mean?

Answer 36

kaizen is a process for continuous improvement and follows (PDCA - Plan-Do-Check-Act)

Question 37

What is the recommended agile team size?

Answer 37

3 to 9 members, it’s better to have two teams of 5 than one team of 10z

Question 38

What is a adaptive approach?

Answer 38

Welcomes change and uses them for frequent planning.

During each iteration, the team focuses in producing a subset of the products features, while continuously refining and reprioritizing the product backlog items to meet new or modified requirements.

Change requests are not automatically approved; instead they are discussed with the product owner first and then get prioritized in subsequent iterations.

Question 39

What happens in a backlog refinement meeting?

Answer 39

Address topics like the feature of tracking activities.

How to fix the regression of a feature of a product.

Question 40

when should a project manager involve key stakeholders?

Answer 40

the project manager should involve key stakeholders from the very beginning of the project to help reduce and uncover risks, as well as increase “buy-in”

Question 41

What is the quality control process?

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Process that focuses on identifying defects.

Question 42

What is the quality assurance process?

Answer 42

Process that focuses on defect prevention.

Question 43

Agile favors empirical and value based measurements instead of predictive measurements and is based on?

Answer 43

Based on observations of reality, facts, experiences and evidence.