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Agile Trivia Flashcards

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A good user story has characteristics encapsulated by the acronym INVEST. What are these characteristics?

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Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, and Testable

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A technique used to analyze a system as a whole to identify and end wasteful activities?

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Value Stream Mapping

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Agile methodologies require what leadership style to be demonstrated most frequently?

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Servant Leadership

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How is cycle time defined?

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The amount of time it takes a work item to progress from start to finish

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In Scrum, who has formal authority to ensure process adherence?

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ScrumMaster

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In what level of conflict are two parties if there is really no alternative other than separating them?

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Level 5 - (World war)

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Task estimates are usually provided using what measure?

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In hours using ideal time

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This consensus technique involves holding up a number of fingers on one hand to demonstrate the level of agreement (from 0 - 5)?

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Fist-of-five

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This information radiator can help identify bottlenecks in workflow?

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Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD)

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This type of communication allows information to be absorbed simply by having team members in the same location?

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Osmotic

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This type of testing is written by programmers, for programmers, in a programming language?

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Unit test

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True or false-For agile to be effective, teams should be devoid of conflict?

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False - some conflict should be expected and encouraged, the most unhealthy teams are conflict avoidant

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True or false-It is acceptable for managers and executives to ask for clarification from team members in a daily Scrum?

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FALSE

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True or false-It is not acceptable to extend the end date of a sprint regardless of whether or not all functionality has been completed?

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TRUE

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What are story points?

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An arbitrary unit of measure for the relative size of a user story

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What are the 3 Scrum Roles?

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Product Owner, ScrumMaster, Development Team

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What are the 4 Scrum Ceremonies (events/meetings)?

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Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective

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What are the characteristics of a well structured product backlog?

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DEEP - Detailed Appropriately, Estimated, Emergent, and Prioritized

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What are the steps in the Test-Driven Development (TDD) cycle?

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Red - Write test that fails

Green - Write code and run test to verify it passes

Refactor - Optimize and clean up code

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What are the two parts of the Sprint Planning meeting?

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Part 1: The what” - led by the Product Owner

21
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What defines a sprint objective and can be used to help improve a team’s focus?

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The sprint goal

22
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What is a “Scrumbutt?”

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A haphazard or partial approach to implementing agile practices. We use Scrum, but we don’t do daily stand-ups because we can’t corral everyone at the same time.

23
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What is a task or activity that is used as a technical experiment to help the team investigate an approach or to help mitigate a risk?

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A spike experiment

24
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What is Agile Release Planning?

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A technique which provides a high-level, summary timeline of the release schedule, based on the product roadmap and product vision.

25
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What is an Agile Approach?

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An iterative project life cycle approach wherein the deliverables are defined at the beginning of each iteration.

26
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What is an iteration burndown chart?

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A tool that tracks the work which remains to be completed; and is used to analyze and predict likely variance at completion.

27
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What is an oversized backlog item that would need to be decomposed into smaller component user stories to be completed within a single sprint?

A

Epic

28
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What is co-location?

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A technique employed to bring together all, or a portion of the members of a project team to one physical location, for any period of time.

29
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What is consensus?

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The condition that is reached when the majority of stakeholders are in general agreement or harmony.

30
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What is Just-In-Time Management?

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A modern management strategy, usually employed in the Kanban approach, which limits the work in process and does not overload the team.

31
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What is the difference between coaching and mentoring?

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Mentoring is for transfer of knowledge and coaching is done to improve performance

32
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What is the only way to ensure code is testable?

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Create a unit test and write code to make the test pass

33
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What is the optimum size of the development team?

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7 plus or minus 2 members

34
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What is the primary objective of Sprint Planning?

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For the team to make a commitment

35
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What is the term used to define a minimal set of functionality that describes a distinct feature that is independently deliverable and adds value to the customer?

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Minimally Marketable Feature (MMF)

36
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What is the term used to describe the cost of a team per sprint?

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Burn rate

37
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What is valued more than processes and tools in the Agile Manifesto?

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Individuals and interactions

38
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What is velocity?

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A historical measure of a team’s work capacity over the period of a sprint

39
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What is WIP an acronym for?

A

Work in Progress

40
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What Scrum artifact transparently radiates sprint progress?

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Sprint Burn Down Chart

41
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What Scrum ceremony has the objective of inspecting and adapting team processes and performance?

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Retrospective

42
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What technique can be used as a means to structure and organize the product backlog?

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Story mapping

43
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What term is defined by changing code design and structure without changing its external behavior?

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Refactoring

44
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What type of estimating is T-shirt sizing?

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Affinity estimating

45
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Who holds the formal authority to abnormally terminate a sprint?

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Product Owner

46
Q

Wireframes, prototypes, and spike solutions are all types of?

A

Modeling

47
Q

With respect to user stories, what are the 3 C’s?

A

Card - Conversation - Confirmation

48
Q

What are 3 types of communication methods

A

Push — sender puts information out:
* Send an email
* Make a phone call
* On a central repository — e.g.,
SharePoint
Pull — receiver obtains:
* Retrieve information on team
message board
* Retrieve documents in electronic
repository — e.g., SharePoint
Interactive — interact in real
or near-real time using:
* Conversation (virtual or in
person)
* Workshops/collaboration
* Whiteboarding

49
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What are some communications challenges/considerations

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  • Urgency of need for information
  • Availability and reliability of technology
  • Ease of use
  • Project environment – e.g., language and formality
  • Sensitivity and confidentiality of information
  • Communications OPAs — e.g., social media protocols
  • Data protection laws/regulations
  • Accessibility requirements

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