Topic D- Empower Team Members & Stakeholders

Question 1

Enablers

Answer 1

Organize around team strengths, Support team task accountability, Evaluate demonstration of task accountability, determine and bestow levels of decision-making authority.

Question 2

Deliverables

Answer 2

Decisions & Estimates

Question 3

Tools

Answer 3

Team Decision-making tools, Fist of Five, Roman voting, Polling, Planning poker, Dot voting, Retrospective

Question 4

SWOT Analysis

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats

Answer 4

used to identify team strengths and weaknesses that may be addressed during the project.

Question 5

What project document should be used to manage conflict resolution & help with decision making?

Answer 5

the Team Charter

Question 6

Estimating tasks

Answer 6

• Traditional Approach, a PM uses hours of effort to identify the length of time a task will take. ie: 3-point estimate
• Agile Approach tends to avoid using absolute time estimate as the level of uncertainty in the work is often high. Instead, a relative measure like Story Point estimating is used.

Question 7

Retrospective

Answer 7

time set aside for the team to reflect on its performance & practices, identify and solve problems & identify specific proposed improvements for how the team works together.

Question 8

Identify the 5 steps for running a retrospective

Answer 8

1. Set the stage- do some kind of check-in activities to engage the team
2. Gather and Share data- team performance metrics, earned value analysis, etc
3. Generate Insights- what is working? Where are challenges? Problem analysis
4. Make Decisions- agree on 1-3 improvements / changes to try in the subsequent iteration
5. Close- new information, appreciation and thank-yous.