Module 9: Adaptive Approaches Flashcards

1
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What are the 12 working principles?

A
  1. Continuous delivery
  2. Changing reqs
  3. Frequent delivery
  4. Daily collabs
  5. Motivate indiv.
  6. Face to face conver.
  7. Working software
  8. Sustainable dev
  9. High quality and design
  10. Simplicity
  11. Self organized teams
  12. Continuous improvement
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2
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What are the 4 guiding principles of adaptive approaches?

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  1. Individual > Process and tools
  2. Customer collaboration > contract negotiations
  3. Working software > documents
  4. Responding to change > following a plan
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3
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What is the process of “doing” agile

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Using some tactics,
short iterations

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4
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What is “being” agile

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Adopting mindset
Being flexible
Understanding its purpose

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5
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Why do you want T shaped team members in agile PLC?

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They have a willingness to learn and have swarming behavior

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6
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Leadership style where the development team receives a PM that provides resources, support and political assisstance.

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Servant leadership

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7
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What are the components of a theme?

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Epics > features > user stories > daily planning

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8
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What are two ways to know when the task/project is complete in agile?

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Acceptance criteria or definition of done checklist

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9
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Pros of iterative work style

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Quick feedback on feasibility, direction and changes.
Proactive exploration of risks.

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10
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Cons of iterative work style

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Ongoing business involvement
Difficult to chunk/evaluate problems

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11
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When do retrospective meetings occur?

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At the end of an iteration

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12
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What is this and when should it be used?

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Starfish wheel, retrospective reviews

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13
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What are logical planning units of an iteration?

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Tasks and user stories

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14
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What 8 decision points regarding the Product does the PMBOk recommend PMs review when determining which PLC to use?

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Degree of Innovation
Reqs uncertainty
Safety reqs
Regulations
Delivery Options
Scope stability
Ease of change
Risks

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15
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What 3 decision points regarding the Project does the PMBOk recommend PMs review when determining which PLC to use?

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Stakeholders
Schedule constraints
Funding availability

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16
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What 4 decision points regarding the Organization does the PMBOk recommend PMs review when determining which PLC to use?

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Org structure
Project team size
Org capacity
Culture

17
Q

____ PLCs are fixed scope with variable timeline

____ PLCs are varied scope with restricted timelines

A

Predictive

Agile

18
Q

What happens during the concept step?

A

Vision statements
Product roadmaps

19
Q

What are the three formats of a vision statement

A

Elevator, press release, vision board

20
Q

If tasks are continuously not being completed during the iterations, PM should:

A

Improve estimated techniques

21
Q

A TM is consistently reporting blockers in a standup, what should they PM do?

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Discuss the blockers in detail post stand up.

22
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A product owner is refining the backlog. Team has ask for more detail to plan the next iteration. What should the product owner focus on?

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Ensuring the acceptance criteria for each user story.

23
Q

How does a team decide on the next iteration of work?

A

Indicate next releases features
Review res of upcoming iterations

24
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What is a part of the iteration planning?

A

Review upcoming reqs
Review user stories

25
Q

What are the 6 prioritization schemes?

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Simple
MoSCoW
Dot voting
“Buy a feature”
Kano model
Stack ranking

26
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What does MoSCoW stand for?

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Must have
Should have
Could have
Wont have

27
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What prioritization scheme allows potential features to be analyzed over functional and customer satisfaction variables?

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Kano model

28
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Defn: Minimal viable product

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Concept used to define the scope of the 1st release of a solution to a customer by identifying the fewest number of features that would deliver value

29
Q

LEAN is the foundation for what other frameworks?

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Scrum and Kanban

30
Q

What is the LEAN mindset

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Improve efficiency by eliminating waste. Continuous improvement

31
Q

What is the structure of SCRUM

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Accountability, Events, artifacts, fixed sprints

32
Q

What is a Kanban

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Visual board to manage WIPs and improve workflow

33
Q

Structure of extreme programming (XP)

A

Iterative
User stories

34
Q

What are the critical concepts of XP

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Pair programming
Refactoring
Continuous integration
Collective code ownership

35
Q

What is feature driven development

A

Implementing features in a large project
Delivers features first
Shorter iterations than scrum

36
Q

What are some features of dynamic system development methodology

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Vendor independent agile
Enterprise friendly
scalable
constraint driven (prioritize scope)

37
Q

What are the principles of DSDM

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Focus on business needs
Deliver on time
Collaborate
Never compromise quality
Build incrementally
Develop iteratively
Communicate cont.
Demonstrate control

38
Q

What is the crystal method?

A

Work is based on a color code and varies on team size and how critical the outcome is.