Yay or Nay

Question 1

User stories are tools used in agile to capture a description of a feature from the end user’s perspective.

Answer 1

Yay

Stakeholder perspective / requirement

Question 2

User stories are only written by the product owner

Answer 2

Nay

Team members can also write them

Question 3

A good user story is independent, valuable and complex

Answer 3

Nay

I.N.V.E.S.T.

Question 4

Agile is for software development teams

Answer 4

Nay

Can be applied to other areas of the organization

Question 5

Agile is based on systems thinking

Answer 5

Nay

Lean is based on systems thinking
Disciplined Agile applies design thinking

Question 6

One of the DA principles is “be cool”

Answer 6

Nay

Be awesome or Be pragmatic

Question 7

Instead of prescribing best practices, DA provides strategies for maximizing the benefits of agile

Answer 7

Yay

Process goals and decision points - no best practices

Question 8

You can take control of your processes if you don’t know what your options are

Answer 8

Nay

Need to know options and trade-offs

Question 9

You can’t necessarily understand the behavior of a complex adaptive system by understanding its individual parts

Answer 9

Yay

Need to understand interaction of individual parts

Question 10

A DA Enterprise responds swiftly to changes in the marketplace

Answer 10

Yay

Business agility is built into the enterprise

Question 11

The foundation layer includes DAD and other enterprise aspects of Dev Ops

Answer 11

Nay

DA Dev Ops is another layer

Question 12

DA addresses all possible roles that will occur in an organization

Answer 12

Nay

Roles vary across organizations

Question 13

A person may take on several roles in parallel

Answer 13

Yay

Multiple hats common for smaller teams/organizations

Question 14

There is no room for managers in DA

Answer 14

Nay

Managers can be stakeholders or hold supporting role

Question 15

Cross-functional, “whole” teams enable agility

Answer 15

Yay

“Whole” teams include team members with the skills to address the problem that it faces

Question 16

Agile teams must be small and co-located

Answer 16

Nay

Depends on context

Question 17

Co-located teams should have a dedicated workroom

Answer 17

Yay

Ideal situation, but not prescriptive

Question 18

Members of a collaborative enterprise team become members of a work team

Answer 18

Nay

Not always - however, it is an option

Question 19

Business agility is sometimes referred to as enterprise agility

Answer 19

Yay

Question 20

It is possible to understand a complex adaptive system by understanding the individual parts

Answer 20

Nay

Complex adaptive systems cannot be understood just by understanding the individual parts

Question 21

The agile lifecycle requires a mature set of practices around continuous integration and continuous delivery

Answer 21

Nay

This applies to Continuous Delivery: Agile life cycle

Question 22

The lean lifecycle is a Kanban-based project life cycle

Answer 22

Yay

Lean is Kanban-based
Agile is Scrum-based

Question 23

A value stream begins with a great idea

Answer 23

Nay

Value stream begins and ends with the customer

Question 24

Value is realized when customer pays for the service

Answer 24

Nay

Value is defined by the customer

Question 25

Minimum business increments are about building something quickly to demonstrate to the product owner

Answer 25

Nay MBI is to build the smallest enhancement to an existing product - for revenue MVP is take the smallest step to determine viability of a new product without a customer base - for discovery

Question 26

Benefits of MBI include adding value to the customer and providing feedback that the right functionality is being built and can be validated as useful

Answer 26

Yay

Question 27

MBIs should be sequenced in order of priority

Answer 27

Nay Sequence MBI in order of what can realize the most value more quickly than others

Question 28

Hand-offs are a way to eliminate waste and delays

Answer 28

Nay Hand-offs add to waste/delay

Question 29

"Five Whys" analysis focuses on the tasks and processes within one phase that contribute to waste

Answer 29

Nay Continuous validation required to build quality in

Question 30

Delays are a major form of waste in software development

Answer 30

Yay

Question 31

Using pull is a way to manage workflow in the face of uncertain timing for getting tasks done

Answer 31

Yay Pulling work when we are ready allows us to manage our own workload level

Question 32

Kanban boards can provide much of the information that value stream maps do

Answer 32

Nay Kanban boards depicts the team’s high-level process in terms of state Value stream map depicts processes, the time spent performing them, the time taken between them, and the level of quality resulting from processes - Used to explore the effectiveness of existing processes and to propose improved ways of working

Question 33

Attendance in communities of practice is mandatory

Answer 33

Nay Voluntary

Question 34

Centre of excellence is often referred to as a guild

Answer 34

Yay

Question 35

An organization may have serval communities of practice and several centers of excellence at the same time

Answer 35

Yay

Question 36

"Context counts" is a Lean principle

Answer 36

Nay Context counts is a DA principle

Question 37

Lean seeks to optimize the whole value stream, not just individual functions and teams

Answer 37

Yay