Agile Overview

Question 1

Who is responsible for the business decisions and maximizing the value of the product?

Answer 1

Product Owner

Question 2

What are the characteristics of those who make up the team in agile?

Answer 2

• Self-organized
• Cross-functional
• Build or maintain the product

Question 3

What are the roles of the facilitator in an agile environment?

Answer 3

• Facilitator of processes
• Coach
• Conscience
• Defender

Question 4

True or false:

The scrum master (facilitator) tells the team how to do the work.

Answer 4

False

They provide guidance, support, and leadership to help the team determine how to do the work.

Question 5

Who owns the product backlog?

Answer 5

The Product Owner

Question 6

What is the difference between the sprint backlog and the product backlog?

Answer 6

The sprint backlog is what the team will work to complete in the current sprint. The product backlog is the queue of work to be completed for the overall project.

Question 7

Something that provides customer value, functionality, and is tested and accepted while only being a small subset of the total project outcome is defined as:

Answer 7

An Increment

Question 8

What are the artifacts of Agile?

Answer 8

• Product backlog
• Sprint backlog
• Increment

Question 9

Define the term “time boxed” and advise what is the most common time box for a sprint.

Answer 9

• Time boxed means that there is a predetermined and defined length.
• The most common length of a sprint is two weeks.

Question 10

When does sprint planning take place?

Answer 10

At the beginning of the sprint.

Question 11

Who determines what is put onto the sprint backlog during sprint planning?

Answer 11

The product owner and the team collaborate to determine what items to pull into the sprint to maximize value creation.

Question 12

How long is the daily stand-up?

Answer 12

15 minutes

Question 13

What is another term for sprint review?

Answer 13

Demo

Question 14

What is the difference between a sprint review and a sprint retrospective?

Answer 14

Sprint review focuses on inspection of the product, getting customer feedback, and gaining a better understanding of what the customer needs.

Sprint retrospective focuses on processes and product development to look at what went well, what did not, and how it can be improved in the next sprint.

Question 15

What is the purpose of the product backlog?

Answer 15

The product backlog is made up of user wants and candidate work. It is owned by the product owner and helps the team complete the right things in the right order.

Question 16

Sprint planning is based on the _______. All sprint planning should start with a _______.

Answer 16

product backlog, blank state

Question 17

True or False:

During sprint planning the product owner asks the team to “consider” items and then the team comes up with how to complete them.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

The purpose of collaborative sprint planning is to produce _______.

Answer 18

optimal value creation

Question 19

What should be communicated during a daily scrum/daily stand up?

Answer 19

What work was completed yesterday.

What issues were experienced.

What will be completed today.

Question 20

What is the purpose of the daily scrum/daily stand-up?

Answer 20

To achieve fast cycles of learning.

To get a better plan to deliver the value.

Question 21

What is the purpose of a sprint review (demo)?

Answer 21

To determine if the product meets the customers’ needs.

To determine if the product is fit for purpose.

To give the team learning feedback and update the product backlog.

Question 22

What is the purpose of a sprint retrospective?

Answer 22

For the team to determine what they can do better next time. (In terms of processes and possibly product)

This meeting is not about blame but about finding root causes and planning action items.

Question 23

Describe the planning process in an agile life cycle.

Answer 23

The team plans and replans as more information becomes available from review of frequent deliveries.

Question 24

What are the two types of agile life cycles?

Answer 24

Iteration-based agile and flow-based agile

Question 25

A team works in timeboxes of equal duration. Is this iteration-base agile or flow-based agile?

Answer 25

Iteration-Based

Question 26

A team pulls from the backlog based on its capacity to start work. Is this iteration-base agile or flow-based agile?

Answer 26

Flow-Based

Question 27

A team works on features in order of importance. Is this iteration-base agile or flow-based agile?

Answer 27

Iteration-Based

Question 28

The team and business stakeholders determine the most appropriate schedule for planning, product reviews, and retrospectives. Is this iteration-base agile or flow-based agile?

Answer 28

Flow-Based

Question 29

A project that uses some agile approaches like short iterations, daily stand ups, and retrospectives but also uses upfront estimation, work assignment, and progress tracking is considered: A) agile B) hybrid C) predictive D) none of the above

Answer 29

B) hybrid It would be misleading to call the approach agile since it clearly does not completely embrace the agile mindset, values, and principles. However, it would also be inaccurate to call it predictive since it is a hybrid approach.

Question 30

Agile is about _______ delivery on a frequent basis. That delivery creates _________ for the team.

Answer 30

Customer based; feedback

Question 31

A _______ helps team to visualize the flow of work, make impediments easily visible, and allow flow to be managed by adjusting work in process limits.

Answer 31

Kanban board