Executing the Program Increment

Question 1

What are the 3 inputs of PI planning?

Answer 1

1. Business context
2. Roadmap and Vision
3. Top 10 Features from the Program Backlog

Question 2

What are 2 primary outputs of a successful PI planning event?

Answer 2

1. Committed PI objectives (SMART)

2. Program Board

Question 3

During PI Planning, PMs and POs should: Participate in ________ review.

Answer 3

PI Plan

Question 4

What should Business Owners do during PI planning?

Answer 4

Circulate and assign business value to PI Objectives

Question 5

PI Objectives are valuable because they: Validate understanding of __________

Answer 5

Intent

Question 6

PI Objectives are valuable because they: Focus alignment on ________ rather than __________.

Answer 6

Outcomes rather than process

Question 7

PI Objectives are valuable because they: Summarize data into _______ and _________ information.

Answer 7

Meaningful and steerable information.

Question 8

During PI Planning, PMs and POs should: Establish _________ with Business Owners

Answer 8

Business Value

Question 9

During PI Planning, PMs and POs should: Accept ____________.

Answer 9

Team Objectives

Question 10

During PI Planning, PMs and POs should: Provide feedback on ____________.

Answer 10

Program risks

Question 11

During PI Planning, PMs and POs should: Participate in _________, and ___________.

Answer 11

Confidence vote and planning retrospective

Question 12

What 2 types of stories make up the team backlog?

Answer 12

User stories and enabler stories

Question 13

What are the 3 primary sources of team backlog items?

Answer 13

1. Program backlog
2. Team context
3. Other stakeholders

Question 14

A Story is complete when it is satisfies the ________ and is accepted by the __________.

Answer 14

Definition of Done; Product Owner

Question 15

Who creates acceptance criteria for a story?

Answer 15

The Team and the PO

Question 16

What is the format for a user story written as Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)?

Answer 16

Given
When
Then

Question 17

What is the PO’s responsibility during estimating stories?

Answer 17

Providing clarification; POs do not estimate the work.

Question 18

During Iteration Planning, the PO defines _______; the team defines ________ and ________.

Answer 18

PO defines what; Team defines how and how much.

Question 19

The Business should commit to leaving priorities unchanged during _______.

Answer 19

The iteration; 2 weeks

Question 20

Iteration goals align team members to __________.

Answer 20

A common purpose

Question 21

Iteration goals align program teams to __________ and manage __________

Answer 21

Common PI objectives; manage dependencies

Question 22

What is the retrospective for the program called?

Answer 22

Inspect & adapt

Question 23

What are 2 examples of sync meetings?

Answer 23

1. Scrum of Scrums

2. PO Sync

Question 24

When do priority adjustments happen?

Answer 24

At iteration boundaries

Question 25

Who should attend the Iteration Review?

Answer 25

The team and its stakeholders

Question 26

Continuous Integration means that every 2 weeks, the team should ______________________.

Answer 26

Integrate with other systems and teams.

Question 27

What are 5 principles of a DevOps culture?

Answer 27

1. Culture of Shared Responsibility
2. Automation of Continuous Delivery Pipeline
3. Lean flow accelerates delivery
4. Measurement of everything
5. Recovery enables low risk releases
   (CALMR)

Question 28

What are the 3 parts of the Inspect and Adapt meeting?

Answer 28

1. PI System Demo
2. Quantitative measurement
3. Problem-solving workshop