Team Performance

Question 1

Proxy customer

Answer 1

Representitive of large stakeholders org.

Question 2

Adaptive leadership

Answer 2

Directing in forming (low competence and high commitment)

Coaching in storming (some competence and low commitment)

Supporting in norming (high competent and variable commitment)

Delegating in performing (high competence and high commitment)

Question 3

Dreyfus model

Answer 3

Novice: follow rules and make analytical decisions

Advanced beginner: still follow rules but based on experience, better understand the context of the rules

Competent: determining which rules are best for each situation

Proficient: actively choosing the best strategy rather than relying on rules

Expert: decision making becomes intuitive

Question 4

Divergence and convergence

Answer 4

Divergence means team will argue and debate

Convergence means team will agree on the best solution

Question 5

mutual accountability

Answer 5

Promotion of empowerment so that the team operate as a whole

Question 6

Tabaka’s model for high-performing team

Answer 6

self-organization
empowered to make decision
belief in vision and success
committed team
trust each other
participatory decision making
consensus-driven
construction disagreement

Question 7

Three C’s of user stories

Answer 7

Card

Conversation

Confirmation

Question 8

INVESTing in user stories

Answer 8

Independent

Negotiable

Valuable

Estimable

Small

Testable

Question 9

Risk exposure

Answer 9

The product of likelihood of the risk occurring and the size of loss if the risk occurs (probability * impact)

Question 10

The Fibonacci Sequence

Answer 10

Starting with 0 add the two numbers in the sequence

1,2,3,5,8,13..

Question 11

T-shirt sizing

Answer 11

It is a common estimation technique used by agile project teams for quick and simple way to estimate the relative sizes of user stories from X Small to X Large

Question 12

Decision spectrum

Answer 12

decision spectrum is a participatory decision model that teams use to engage the stakeholders and to help stakeholders contribute to the decision making process. This tool is the only choice listed that would help the team to prioritize the issues that should be addressed in the next iteration.

Question 13

How should an agile team view failure?

Answer 13

Failure is better when it occurs early rather than late.