Disciplined Agile Flashcards
Deck for learning for the DA certification
How many levels of scaffolding does DA provide?
3 (three)
- Life cycles
- Process goals
- Practices/strategies
How many Life cycles does DA supports?
DA supports 6 Life Cycles
What are the Life Cycles of DA?
Agile Lean Exploratory Programm Continuous Delivery: Agile Continuous Delivery: Lean
How is the DA tookit organized?
The DA Toolkit is organized in 4 levels
- Foundation
- Discplined DevOps
- Value Stream
- Disciplined Agile Enterprise
What are the PRINCIPLES of a DA mindset?
The 8 PRINCIPLES of a DA mindset are:
- Delight Customers
- Be awesome
- Context Counts
- Be pragmatic
- Choice is good
- Optimize flow
- Organize around product/services
- Enterprise awareness
What are the PROMISES of a DA mindset?
The 7 PROMISES of a DA mindset are:
- Create psychological safety and embrace diversity
- Accelerate value realization
- Collaborate proactively
- Make. all work and workflow visible
- Improve predictability
- Keep workload within capacity
- Improve continuously
What are the primary roles on DAD teams?
The 5 primary roles on DAD teams are:
- Team Lead
- Product Owner
- Architecture Owner
- Team Member
and Stakeholder
What are the supporting roles for an DAD team?
The 5 supporting roles for an DAD team are:
- Specialist
- Independent Tester
- Domain Expert
- Technical Expert
- Integrator
What is the role of an Team Lead in an DAD team?
The Team lead is part of the primary roles.
- Leads the team
- helping the team to be successful
Similar role the the Scrum Master Role in Scrum
What is the role of an Product Owner (PO) in an DAD team?
The Product Owner is part of the primary roles.
- Responsible for working with the stakeholders
- identify work to be done
- prioritize the work
- help the team to understand the stakeholders need
- help the team to interace effectively with stakeholders
What is the role of an Architecture Onwer (AO) in an DAD team?
The Architecture Owner is part of the primary roles.
- guides the team through architecture and design decisions
- working closely with the TEAM Lead and Prodcut Owner when doing so.
What is the role of an Team Member AO) in an DAD team?
The Team Member is part of the primary roles.
- working together to produce the solution
- are ideally generalizing specialists
- cross-skilled people
What is the role of a **Stakeholder in an DAD team?
The Stake Holder is part of the primary roles.
- someone who is affected by the work of the team
- including but not limited to end users
- support engineers, operation staff, financial poeple, auditors, enterprise architects, senior leadership
AKA called Customer in some agile methods
How many process goales does DAD includes?
DAD includes a collection of 21 process gaols.
Please name the process goals in Inception phase?
the 8 process goals in inception phase are:
- Form Team
- Align with enterprise direction
- Explore Scope
- Identify Architecture Strategy
- Plan the Release
- Develop Test Strategy
- Develop Common Vision
- Secure Funding
Please name the process goals in Construction phase?
the 5 process goals in inception phase are:
- Prove Architecture Early
- Adress Changing Stakeholder Needs
- Produce a Potentially Consumable Solution
- Improve Quality
- Accelerate Value Delivery
Please name the process goals in Transition phase?
the 2 process goals in Transition phase are:
- Ensure Production Readiness
- Deploy the Solution
Please name the process goals in Ongoing (Non-Phase)
The 6 process goals for Ongoing are:
- Grow Team Members
- Coordinate Activities
- Adress Risk
- Evolve Way of Working (WoW)
- Leverage and Enhance Existing Infrastructure
- Govern Delivery Team
Q1. Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) supports several lifecycles?
A. True
B. False
TRUE
Q2. The Inception phase ends when you have proven the architecture with working code.
A. True
B. False
FALSE
Which is a primary role on a Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) team? A. Product Owner B. Agile Architect C. Scrum Master D. Agile Project Manager
A
Question #4: The benefit of expressing requirements in the form of user stories is:
A. User stories are customer centric
B. User stories are developed collaboratively
C. User stories are easy to evolve
D. All of the above
D
Question #5: Which statement is true about test-first development (TFD)?
A. TFD focuses only on validation
B. TFD focuses only on verification
C. TFD focuses on both verification and specification
D. TFD focuses on both verification and validation
C
Question #6: What is the cost of delay?
A. The cost, usually in terms of lost revenue or opportunity, caused by the delay
between conceiving an idea and beginning work on it.
B. The cost, usually in terms of lost revenue or opportunity, caused by the delay
between conceiving an idea and having customers realize value from it.
C. The cost, usually in terms of calendar time, of the delay between conceiving
an idea and beginning work on it.
D. The cost, in terms of calendar time, caused by the delay between conceiving
an idea and having customers realize value from it.
B
Question #7: Is “Mindset” one of the four architecture views of the Disciplined Agile (DA) toolkit?
A. True
B. False
TRUE
Question #8: On a process goal diagram, an arrow to the left of a list of options indicates:
A. That you should start with the strategy at the bottom of the list then improve by repeatedly adopting the next strategy above that one
B. That the strategies towards the top of the list are generally more effective than the strategies towards the bottom of the list
C. That the strategies are described in the PMBOK GuideTM.
D. None of the above
B
Question #9: Any given team is part of nor more than one value stream.
A. True
B. False
FALSE
Question #10: Disciplined Agile (DA)’s Guided Continuous Improvement (GCI) strategy is:
A. A process blade at the Disciplined Agile Enterprise (DAE) level.
B. The primary strategy applied by Certified Disciplined Agile Coaches (CDACs)
to help a team to choose their way of working (WoW).
C. An extension of the kaizen strategy of continuous improvement where you
apply the DA toolkit to identify new ways of working (WoW) to experiment
with in the context of their situation.
D. The combination of a Center of Excellence (CoE) and Community of Practice
(CoP) focused on enterprise transformation.
C
