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Introduction To Agile Flashcards

1
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What is the Agile Manifesto

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• Individuals/Interactions over processes & tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Respnding to change over following a plan

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What type of thinking is Agile compatible with?

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Lean

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What are the 2 main methods within the foundation syllabus?

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• Scrum
• Kanban

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4
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Is Scrum a project management process?

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•No it is a type of approach.
•Used as Business as Usual
•Can fit into Prince2

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What is the only Agile method that is a Project Management Lifecycle and cannot be used in Prince2?

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DSDM (Dynamic Systems Development Method/Agile PM)

[Cannot be used in Prince2]

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Give a brief description of Kanban

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• A way to improve flow and provoke system improvement through visualisation and controlling work in progress

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Give a brief description of Lean Start-Up

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• First used foe startup companies
• To help deliver products to customers quickly

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Give a brief description of Scrum

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• Iterative time boxed approach to delivery
• Lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organisations generate value through adaptive solutions

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List the typical Agile behaviours

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• Collaborative
• Self-organising
• Customer-focused
• Empowered
• Trusting not blaming

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List the typical Agile concepts

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• Prioritising what is delivered
• Working iteratively & incrementally
• Not delivering everything
• Time-focused
• Inspect and adapt
• Kaizen
• Limiting Work in Progress

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List the typical Agile Techniques

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• Burn Charts
• User Stories
• Retrospectives
• Time boxing
• Measuring Flow

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What is a backlog?

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• A to-do list
• Contain requirements:
- Contain EPICS (at highest level)
- Contain user stories

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What is velocity?

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Progress against the sprint/timebox

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What can Scrum help with in projects?

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• Create a team
• Building solutions/products

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What is a sprint?

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A period of time dedicated to a single objective

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What are the key things to be created in scrum?

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• Creation of team
• Creation of a backlog (Product BL & Sprint BL)

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Summarise the Scrum method

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• A creation of a Product Backlog (EPICS and user stories)
• Creation of the development team
• DT creates a sprint backlog of a certain no. of EPICS & User Stories to work on
• Daily Scrum meetings in each sprint
• After each sprint there is a sprint review and sprint retrospective

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What people are involved in the Scrum team?

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• Product Owner (Liaising with customer translates user stories/epics into backlog)
• Develoment Team
• Scrum Master (Help all members to work better)

19
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Is there a project manager in scrum?

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• No
• Scrum is not a project management process
(No leader at all)

20
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What is the likely number of people in the Development Team?

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• 3-9 people

21
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What is involved in a sprint review?

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• Demonstrate achievements to stakeholders
• Allow to adapt to change if requested by stakeholder for next sprint

22
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What is a sprint retrospective?

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• Plan ways to increase quality & effectiveness for next sprint
• Scrum team reviews last sprint (Individuals, processes, interactions & tools)
• Identifies helpful changes

23
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What are the 5 Scrum events?

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  1. Sprint Planning
  2. The Sprint
  3. Daily Scrum
  4. Sprint Review
  5. Sprint Retrospective
24
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What creates the Sprint Backlog

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• The development team and their Sprint Planning Meeting

25
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What are Scrum Artefacts?

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  1. Product Backlog (High level objectives - EPICS & User St)
  2. Sprint Backlog (Creation of work from Prod Backlog to achieve individual objective)
  3. Increment - A block of sprints/work to create a definition of done for a stepping stone towards the product goal
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Summarise a Kanban Board.

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• Used to create an information radiator
• Normally divided into 3 categories:
- To Do
- Work in Progress
- Done

• Optional additional category of Testing/Verify

• Aids in Definition of Ready
• Aids in Definition of Done

27
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In a Kanban Board, what is the “Definition of Ready”?

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• Something is ready to move into next workstream
• Pieces of work ready to be deployed

28
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In a Kanban Board, what is the “Definition of Done”?

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• A piece of that has been tested and deployed

29
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In a Kanban Board, what are Working Progress Limits (WIP)

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• Work started but not delivered from system.
• For example because a restricted No. of people available ie. in the build workstream or Deployment workstream.
• Can indicate status for incidents, problems, changes etc.

30
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What problem does Lean Start-Up Address from the project management process?

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• The changing of customer requirements towards the end of the stage

31
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What are the features of Lean Start-Up?

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• Build, measure learn (Ready, Fire, Aim)
• Create a minimum viable product
• Fail Fast
• Validated Learning

32
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What is the Prince2 Agile/ Lean Start-Up version of a Minimum Viable Product?

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• A version of the final product allowing maximum amount of validated learning with the least effort.
• Delivered as early as possible
• The purpose is learning and may not be used.
• eg. Prototype or experiment

33
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What are the testers of MVPs called?

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Early Adopters
Beta Testers
User Acceptor Testers
Focus Groups

34
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Summarise the lifecycle of Lean Start-Up.

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  1. Leap of faith (Choose to build MVP not wait to end of project to handover)
  2. What makes a successful product?
  3. Build MVP (Prototype)
  4. Offer to early Adopters
  5. Measure success by validated learning
  6. Hypothesise & experiment to improve product
  7. Measure success by validated learning
    -7a. If successful put into mainstream
    -7b. If not hypothesise & experiment again
    Or pivot and try a new leap of faith
35
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Where can Kanban, Scrum & Lean Start-Up fit in the Prince2 processes?

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Managing Product Delivery

36
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What Agile Way of Working could be used to effectively address large amounts of work packages in a stage?

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Kanban Board

37
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Who can attend the daily Scrum meeting?

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  • Development Team
  • PM & Project can observe but not interfere
38
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Agile was first created when?

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1995

39
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What does Agile put a lot of emphasis on?

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Planning

40
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What describes the relationship between “cause and effect” of events and interactions?

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Cynefin

Its a framework to help understand the complexity of a project. If X happens and results in Y, what is the relationship

Used in start up

5 Relationships:
- Obvious
- Complicated
- Complex
- Chaotic
- Disorder

• Used to assess output, outcome or benefit
• Used to assess project environment
• Collaboratively assessed

41
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Which communication channel is favoured as a faster channel in Agile?

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Verbally face-to-face

Prince2 Agile Foundation (4 decks)

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