Practice Test Flashcards
What are the 7 core competencies of Business Agility?
- Enterprise Solution Delivery
- Agile Product Delivery
- Team and Technical Agility
- Lean Portfolio Management
- Organizational Agility
- Continuous Learning Culture
- Customer Centricity
What are the 4 agile configurations that provide the right solution for each enterprise?
- Full
- Large Solution
- Portfolio
- Essential
What is the key concept behind Agile?
Value and quality driven
What are the 4 pillars to the house of lean?
- Respect for people and culture
- Flow
- Innovation
- Relentless Improvement
What pillar most aligns with the “Gemba” method?
Innovation
What dose Gemba mean?
The place where value is created
What are the top and bottom pieces for the house of lean?
Value and Leadership
What is the benefit of having smaller batch sizes?
To ensure a higher throughput with lower variability
What is one benefit of normalized story point estimating?
It provides the economic basis for estimating within and across programs
What are 3 elements that make up a program board?
Features
Milestones
Dependencies
How should user stories be written?
As a…I want… so that…
The product owner is involved in which activity?
ART sync (Agile Release Train Sync up)
In SAFe, which two items belong in the Team Backlog?
Stories
Features
When is the System Demo conducted during Program Execution?
At the end of every Iteration
Which backlog contains user stories a team may be working on?
Team Backlog
What do burn-up charts show in the iteration progress?
Planned vs Actual
What practice provides the basis for Technical Agility?
Quality
What are the 3 roles of the Agile Team?
- Agile Team
- Scrum Master
- Product Owner
T/F - The Scrum Master creates and refines User Stories and acceptance criteria
FALSE. The Agile Team does this.
What role on the Agile team acts as the customer for any developer questions?
Product Owner
What does ART stand for?
Agile Release Train
Who owns, defines and prioritizes the Program Backlog?
Product Management
What does NFR stand for?
Nonfunctional requirements
What is the difference between features and stories?
Features are services that fulfill a users needs and are aligned to the program backlog where Stories are a subset of a feature and are aligned to the team backlogs. Stories also have a benefit hypothesis and acceptance criteria.
What are the elements of writing a good story? (INVEST)
I - Independent N - Negotiable V - Valuable E - Estimable S- Small T - Testable
For planning, who defines the ‘what,’ ‘how’ and ‘how much’
‘What’ is defined by with Product Owner
‘How’ and How Much is defined by the Team
What 3 purposes do iteration goals provide?
Provide clarity, commitment and management information
T/F - WIP limits improve the flow of work
True!
What is required for high, sustainable development velocity?
Technical Agility
What are CFD’s, and what can you learn about them?
CDF = Cumulative Flow Diagram
You can learn about the duration of WIP, Lead Time and Done status within a story
