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What is Business Agility?

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The ability of an organisation to respond rapidly and cost effectively to change while continuing to deliver value.

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What does VUCA stand for?

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Volatility Uncertainty Complexity Ambiguity

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Which aspect of VUCA relates to lack of predictability?

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Uncertainty

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Which aspect of VUCA relates to multiple interconnected factors?

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Complexity

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Why does AgilePM emphasise agility in projects?

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Because traditional predictive approaches struggle in VUCA environments.

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What is the Agile Manifesto?

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A statement of values and principles for agile software development adapted for project contexts.

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What are the four Agile Manifesto values?

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Individuals and interactions over processes and tools | Working solutions over comprehensive documentation | Customer collaboration over contract negotiation | Responding to change over following a plan

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What does the final sentence of the Agile Manifesto clarify?

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That items on the right still have value but the left are valued more.

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How does project management differ from product development?

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Projects deliver a defined outcome while product development focuses on continuous value delivery.

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Which is MOST suited to managing uncertainty: predictive or agile?

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Agile

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What is Scrum?

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A lightweight framework for developing delivering and sustaining complex products.

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What are the Scrum values?

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Commitment Focus Openness Respect Courage

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Which Scrum value encourages honesty?

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Openness

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What are the Scrum Team roles?

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Product Owner Scrum Master Developers

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Which role maximises product value?

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Product Owner

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Which role removes impediments?

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Scrum Master

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What are the five Scrum Events?

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Sprint Sprint Planning Daily Scrum Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective

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Which event inspects the Increment?

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Sprint Review

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What are the Scrum artifacts?

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Product Backlog Sprint Backlog Increment

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What are the three pillars of empiricism?

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Transparency Inspection Adaptation

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Which pillar enables informed decision making?

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Transparency

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What is the AgilePM philosophy?

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Delivering business value early and continuously while embracing change.

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What underpins AgilePM?

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An agile mindset supported by principles people process and practices.

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What are the four project variables in AgilePM?

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Time Cost Quality Scope

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Which variables are fixed in AgilePM?
Time and Cost
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Which variable is flexed?
Scope Features
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How many AgilePM principles are there?
Eight
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Why is Quality not flexed in AgilePM?
Because reducing quality undermines long term value.
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What does AgilePM add to Scrum?
Governance business focus and project level control.
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What ensures AgilePM principles are made real?
Process People Project Artifacts and Practices.
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What is Agile Leadership?
Leadership that empowers people and adapts style to context.
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How many Agile Leadership principles are there?
Nine
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Which leadership style is MOST appropriate in AgilePM?
Situational and empowering
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What are the three domains of interest?
Value Ownership Solution Delivery Delivery Enablement
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Who owns business value?
Business Sponsor and Business Visionary
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Who ensures continued business viability?
Business Sponsor
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What is the role of the Business Visionary?
To ensure alignment with business goals and vision.
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Who owns the technical design?
Solution Architect
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What is the Project Manager responsible for?
Overall project coordination and governance.
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How does the Scrum Master support the project?
By facilitating Scrum removing impediments and supporting improvement.
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Who represents the business to the delivery team?
Business Ambassador Product Owner
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What is collaboration?
People working together toward shared goals.
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What is effective communication?
Clear timely and appropriate information exchange.
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Why does poor communication cause project failure?
It leads to misunderstanding loss of trust and misalignment.
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What does transparency enable?
Trust early issue detection and informed decisions.
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Which is prioritised in AgilePM: documentation or conversation?
Conversation
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What supports collaboration in AgilePM?
Trust shared understanding and empowerment.
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What are the AgilePM lifecycle phases?
Pre Project Feasibility Foundations Delivery Deployment Realisation
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Which phase confirms the business case?
Feasibility
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Which phase establishes firm foundations?
Foundations
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Which phase delivers the solution?
Delivery
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What is an Increment?
A timeboxed delivery of a usable subset of the solution.
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Can increments be delivered more than once?
Yes multiple increments are common.
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What is a requirement?
A capability or condition needed to deliver value.
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What is the User Story format?
As a role I want feature so that benefit
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What are the 4 Cs of User Stories?
Card Conversation Confirmation Context
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What does INVEST stand for?
Independent Negotiable Valuable Estimable Small Testable
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What does MoSCoW stand for?
Must Should Could Wont this time
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Which MoSCoW category is mandatory?
Must
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What is the Minimum Usable Subset?
The minimum set of features required to deliver value.
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Why is contingency built into scope?
To protect time and cost.
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When should detailed requirements be defined?
At the last responsible moment.
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What are the three AgilePM planning concepts?
Planning at different levels Planning throughout lifecycle Planning based on priorities
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What are the four tracking and control concepts?
Transparency Outcome based measurement Responding to change Management by exception
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What is outcome based measurement?
Measuring value delivered rather than tasks completed.
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What is Project Sprint Planning?
A project level event coordinating multiple Scrum teams.
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How does AgilePM respond to change?
By embracing it within controlled timeboxes.
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What demonstrates control in AgilePM?
Transparency frequent review and adaptive planning.
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What is risk?
The possibility of an uncertain event impacting objectives.
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What causes most risk in AgilePM?
VUCA
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How is risk managed in AgilePM?
Continuously and proactively within delivery.
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What is approach based risk?
Risk arising from inappropriate use of agility.
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What is the Project Approach Questionnaire for?
To assess and mitigate approach based risk.
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What is governance?
A framework of authority accountability and decision making.
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What is empiricism?
Decision making based on observation and evidence.
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What is the Cone of Uncertainty?
A model showing estimate accuracy improves over time.
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How does Agile governance differ from traditional?
It aligns with agile values and embraces change.
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How does Agile financial governance work?
Fixed time and cost with flexible scope.
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Why are artifacts important?
They provide transparency governance and control.
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