Section3: Value Driven

Question 1

Customer Value Prioritization

Answer 1

Works with highest value items to customers first

P.O. is responsible for prioritizing items by business value

When changes are added to backlog, they must be prioritized for value

Customer is the person who will declare what success looks like

Team will discuss with the customer at end of each iteration the priority of remaining items

Question 2

MoSCoW Prioritization Scheme

Answer 2

Popular in DSDM

Must have, Should have, Could have and Wont have

Business case includes must have and should have

Contingency includes could have

Question 3

Kano Analysis

Answer 3

Five categories of Customer Preferences:

1. Must be quality: Ignored when met and dissatisfied when not met, for ex. When click printer expect to print…
2. One-dimensional quality: promises..
3. Attractive quality: nice to have but not required
4. Indifferent quality: customers don’t care
5. Reverse quality: some customers will love other will hate

Question 4

Kano Analysis categories

Answer 4

Delighters exciters

Satisfiers

Dissatisfiers

Indifferent

Question 5

Requirements Prioritization Model

Answer 5

Uses scale of 1 to 9

Benefit, penalty, cost and risk for every feature

Question 6

Relative Prioritization Ranking

Answer 6

Priority of features

Simplest features from most important to least important

Meet budget and schedule

Changes may change the prioritize list

Changes may bump some priorities from the list

Question 7

Prioritized Backlog

Answer 7

Do it with P.O.

Priorities can change with each grooming and don’t change during the iteration

Question 8

Law tech / high touch tools

Answer 8

Cards, charts,info radiator

Question 9

Gulf of Evaluation

Answer 9

The difference between what is said and what is understood

Intangible projects often experience this gulf

Question 10

Examples of Verification and Validation in XP

Answer 10

Pair programming

Unit testing

Customer collaboration

Standup meeting

Accepting testing

Iteration demonstrations

Product release

Question 11

Exploratory Testing

Answer 11

Discover unexpected issues and behaviors

Question 12

Scripted testing

Answer 12

We have scripts to follow the testing

Question 13

Usability testing

Answer 13

How a user will respond to the system under realistic conditions

How easy is it? Improvements?

Question 14

Kanban board for distributed team?

Answer 14

Yes can be done through low tech high touch tools

Question 15

Little’s Law

Answer 15

Long line means long waiting

Limit WIP means complete the work faster

Lead time: work in progress divided by avg. time it takes to complete each piece of work

Question 16

Graduated Fixed Price Contract

Answer 16

Both parties share some of the risk and reward

No sandbagging (changing cost)

Focus on result not hourly rate

Question 17

Fixed Price Work Packages

Answer 17

Fixed price

Work packages are estimated for cost

Changes in scope means new work packages

Question 18

Compliance

Answer 18

The conformity of a product to a rule such as in specification, policy, standard or law

Question 19

Carver

Answer 19

The criticality, accessibility and vulnerability of the objective aspect and mission of a project

Question 20

Who is responsible for tracking the total work remaining in the sprint backlog so as to achieve the sprint goal?

Answer 20

Scrum team

Question 21

Three pillars of scrum

Answer 21

Transparency, inspection and adaption

Question 22

Shu-Ha-Ri

Answer 22

Shu: obeying the rules

Ha: moving away from the rules

Ri: go beyond the rules