1. While every context is different, what type of planning is preferred to enable business agility? a. High Level b. Critical Path c. Progressive Elaboration d. Detailed Planning .
2. Which two concerns are resolved in the storming phase of team formation? (choose two) a) Hierarchy in the development team b) Technical expertise gaps c) Establishment of rules d) Structure of team story.
Which four options from the coordinate activities process are considered useful in coordinating efforts across multiple teams? (choose four) acde a) Open space or 'unconferences" where agendas are set real time by participants. b) Plan releases with relative sizing or planning poker concepts. c) Architecture owners from each of the sub teams work together and guide the overall program. d) Visualize work and workflow. perhaps leveraging Kanban boards or digital tools such as Jira. e) Program manager guides the overall program and coordinates efforts among the team of learns. f) Prove architecture early by working on architecture spikes or proof-of-concept user stones.
A leadership team is deciding on a methodology to measure their agile teams. The leadership team wants to measure all their teams on the same company specific outcomes. The leadership team still plans to request team specific information from individual teams when necessary.
Based on the govern delivery team process goal, which type of measurement strategy will meet the leadership teams needs? a) Consistent metrics b) Popular metrics c) Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) d) Goal Question Metric (GQM).
A disciplined agile team has completed the forming phase. and from the team's behavior it is evident that they are deeply into the storming phase.
How should the team lead manage the resulting conflict? a) Suppress conflict as much as possible because of the negative impact it has on team morale. b) Avoid conflict because open conflict increases risk and likelihood of issues. c) Address conflict as it arises and resolve it as a team to ensure it is managed in a healthy manner. d) Provide decisive solutions to any conflict to affirm the team lead's authority over the team.
The data team for a project requires an IT support team member to help with a particular task in a few specific iterations. How should the teams be structured in order to optimize value creation? a) Have the data team borrow the IT support team member, but have the IT support member attend coordination meetings for both teams. b) Keep the IT support team member with the IT support team, but have the IT support team member focus solely on the data team meetings during the iteration. c) Reassign the IT support team member to the data team for the duration of the iteration. d) Add the IT support team member to the core team so that the team member is readily available during the identified iteration.
The following disagreement arises during a team meeting:
Tester: "I think we need to use a different algorithm for this next iteration. The original model doesn't really fit the data we are seeing.'
Developer: "Let's not make assumptions. Before we start modifying the algorithm, we should look at the data details. There may be some outliers that should be removed from the data before we determine how well the model fits."
How should the team lead respond?
a) You've both made some good points. We all want the model to be accurate. Anyone else have an opinion on what our next step should be? b) I know the testing team may be feeling pressured to pass the model so we can move on to the next feature, but that is no reason to throw out our existing work. Let's clean the data set and move on. c) The development team is always overly cautious. If the algorithm isn't fitting the data. let's move on to the next model. d) We can't have any disagreements diverting the focus of the team. Let's stick to the plan and move on with the next iteration.
How does a "test-first" method improve quality? a) By pairing potential defects to specified requirements b) By allowing for earlier detection of defects c) By identifying tests that more efficiently detect defects d) By reducing the number of defects introduced into the code.
According to the Thomas-Killman conflict resolution model. how will someone who is low in both assertiveness and collaboration deal with conflict? a) Attempt to win the conflict to assert rank. b) Avoid the conflict altogether. c) Collaborate to find a creative solution that works for both. d) Yield to the other person's opinion.
How can value delivery be accelerated in disciplined agile? a) By improving technical skills. b) By reducing the sprint duration. c) By adopting an infrastructure as code strategy. d) By using Kanban to manage resources.
During inception, which two of the following scope types do disciplined agile teams typically focus on planning? (choose two)(a,c) a) Release b) Daily c) Solution d) Portfolio.
How is emotional intelligence defined? a) The recognition that one is responsible for one's decisions, choices and their consequences. b) Being aware of. understanding and appreciating the feelings and thoughts of others. c) Ability to identify, assess and manage one's emotions, and then influence and guide the emotions of others. d) Ability to express feeling. beliefs and thoughts opening without being aggressive or abusive.
Which of the Thomas-Kilmann conflict resolution modes is recommended for disciplined agile teams? a) Accommodation b) Competing c) Collaboration d) Compromise.
A leadership team is deciding on a methodology to measure their agile teams. The leadership team wants to measure all their teams on the same company specific outcomes. The leadership team still plans to request team specific information from individual teams when necessary.
Based on the govern delivery team process goal, which type of measurement strategy will meet the leadership teams needs?
a) Consistent metrics b) Popular metrics c) Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) d) Goal Question Metric (GQM).
Which option describes the second stage of Tuckman's team formation process? a) With hard work and structured processes, the team is likely to achieve its goals efficiently. b) Individuals will be unsure of the team's purpose. how they fit in. and whether they'll work well with one another. c) People start to resolve their differences. appreciate one another's strengths, and respect your authority as a leader. d) People start to push against the established boundaries. Conflict or friction can also arise between team members and their preferred ways of working.
Which criteria can be used as a DoD (definition of done) a) The iteration timeline b) Product scope document c) The developer's criteria for composes d) Passed Peer rots.
A new product owner (PO) has joined a team and wants to introduce collaboration software to make it easier for them to report to senior management. However, the team is performing very well using sticky notes on a kanban board. The team discusses the proposal in the retrospective and concludes that a new tool will not improve the team velocity. The PO accepts the team's assessment and the team continues to use their kanban board. The PO provides a celebration at the end of the retrospective.
What emotional intelligence domain did the PO apply?
a) Self Management b) Social Skills c) Social Awareness d) Self Awareness.
In a team's -forming' stage, what is one of the first things the team should do as part of establishing its initial Way of Working (WOW)? a) Conduct a retrospective. b) Select a lifecycle that best fits current needs. c) Measure existing WOW. d) Deliver value by producing a consumable solution.
How can a team increase the diversity of opinions expressed by team members? a) By creating psychological safety in the team. b) Through coaching sessions. c) Through brainstorming sessions. d) By easing team members’ Contributions.
Who is Use main beneficiary of the goal question metric (GQM), method? a) The client, because it aligns the outcomes with their goals and needs. b) The product owner. because it helps in prioritizing the important items first. c) The organization. because it provides alignment with organization’s goals and values. d) The team, because it provides a view on effectiveness of process improvement actions.
What strategies are applied at the storming phase of the Tuckman team development model? a) Recognizing behavior of individuals on the team b) Coaching and conflict management c) Establish clear objectives d) Focus on achieving common goals.
What is the role of the leadership in team formation? a) To create an effective environment that fosters joy through a focus on content, process and feelings. b) To provide an efficient environment by focusing the teem on selecting the right processes. c) To foster joy in the team by focusing on their feelings through the Tuckman model. d) To develop an elective environment by allowing the team to identify the content focus.
An organization wants to use disciplined agile to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the product development process. reduce waste. and deliver products faster to the market. Which disciplined agile layer should the organization focus on to meet these requirements? a) DevOps b) Value Stream c) Foundation d) Disciplined Agile Enterprise (DAE).
Which two approaches can a team use with relative estimation? (choose two) (a,e) a) Story Points b) Cyclomatic Complexity Points c) Function Points d) Normalized Points e) Hours.
A team is using disciplined agile. The team is having difficulties understanding emotional intelligence and how it can improve delivery. What are the two dimensions of emotional intelligence that intersect to generate the four areas the team needs to understand? (choose two)(b,c) A) Outlook vs Resilience B) Regulate vs Recognize C) Self vs Others D) Respect vs Courage E) Team vs Individual.
Which of the following are tactical scaling factors in scaling agile at the team level? (choose three) (b,c,e) a) Funding b) Domain complexity c) Team size d) Governance structure e) Geographic distribution.
What should a team’s approach to metrics be within disciplined agile? a) Adopt metrics based on Industry standard agile metrics. b) Use common metrics across all teams within an enterprise to govern teams effectively. c) Determine whether or not to gather metrics as they add an overhead that can slow teams down.
d) Select the team specific metrics that provide insight and visibility to leadership.
Why is the value stream layer of the disciplined agile tool kit important? a) It visualizes the full wOrkflow, allowing improvements while maintaining an enterprise perspective. b) It sets the context for teams to improve their own performance by eliminating waste. c) It shows the value delivered for each iteration. producing a consumable solution. d) It is the foundation layer used to provide the conceptual underpinning of the disciplined agile tool kit.
Multiple development teams working on the same product require artificial intelligence (Al) help during a specific evaluation component release. How should the teams be structured to improve value creation? a) Create another core team with all necessary skills to reduce outside dependencies throughout project development. b) Maintain the existing teams and fill the Al skill by request a resource with that skill when working on the evaluation component. c) Reassign a member with Al skills from another team to the core team for the iterations focused on the evaluation component. d) Assign the evaluation component to a subteam that focuses solely on Al while allowing the core teams to work on other features simultaneously.
What are the stages of team formation defined in the Tuckman model? a) Form, storm, norm, perform b) Form, norm, transform, perform c) Form, storm, transform, perform d) Form, transform, norm, perform.
What are four reasons why the coordinating activities process goal is important? (choose four) (a,b,c,d) a) Supports autonomy at the team level b) Reduces wait time and rework c) Supports autonomy at the individual level d) Supports effective collaboration e) Increases quality f) Supports technical excellence.
When using parallel independent testing as a testing strategy, which of the following criteria is used to determine DoD (definition of done)? a) ® The work meets acceptance criteria within a single functional story. b) The work item meets a set of minimum criteria determined by the stakeholders. c) Work is completely done regardless of how many iterations it took to complete. d) Work has been documented and shared with the stakeholders.
A scrum master is on a project team that is part of a larger program of work. This program involves teams that are widely distributed around the globe. What are three areas of focus to help ensure effective collaboration? (choose three) a) Release management to ensure the team's artifacts are done as planned to avoid downstream impact on other teams. b) Exchanging members with other teams to ensure that they follow team defined best practices. C) Inviting other teams to design sessions or informal demonstrations of work done. d) Monitoring the performance of other teams to ensure that the team is above the average. e) Regular conversations and a shared work visualization. f) Monitoring the performance of each team member and visualizing results on a central location to ensure that other teams can mitigate risk.
Which level of scope looks at a short. detailed view for planning? a) Release b) Daily c) Iteration d) Solution.
A new team has instituted test-driven development. One of the team members is very eager to show the benefits of test-driven development. What its the preferred way to capture these benefits? a) Business case b) Business canvas c) Vision statement d) Expected outcomes.
The team lead on a disciplined agile team facilitates iteration/sprint planning. One of the developers commits to deliver a couple of backlog items that were initially included in multiple iterations due to their complexity.
What emotional intelligence domain is the team member applying?
a) Self Awareness b) Self Management c) Social Awareness d) Social Skills.
A disciplined agile team is asking for guidance about adopting an estimation unit. What advice should the scrum master offer? a) Use level of effort in order to sequence based on complexity. b) Use standardized points that reflect industry norms for estimating sizes. c) Use relative points because it increases the team's confidence in their estimate. d) Use story points because they can provide a better cost estimation than T-shirt sizes.
In the last few iterations/sprints. the velocity has dropped due to poor communication between team members, resulting from team size and geographical distribution. Which two actions could the team take to improve performance? (choose two) (b,c) a) Ask management to provide a larger space to colocate the team. b) Introduce a new, more effective collaboration tool for remote workers. c) Split the team in smaller teams working on different product backlogs. d) Split the team into smaller teams working on the same product backlog. e) Ask management to offer bonuses to high performing developers.
During a team meeting, the following complaints are raised:
Tester: "The latest series of codes all failed the tests. This development team always starts with the same mediocre code structure and only improves after multiple fails. I don't have the time to keep pointing out the same base defects in the code every iteration!"
Developer: "Our base code is not defective, but it is only a starting point for further development. Using the base code allows us to move forward with feature specific code efficiently. If we were provided with the test passing requirements to begin with, we wouldn't need to go through so many iterations."
What should the project lead say to de-escalate the situation?
a) We know there are always bugs when the development team hands off their first code iteration, there is no reason to get upset about it now. b) Everyone here wants to get to a defect free code as efficiently as possible. Let's discuss how we can modify our Way of Working to reach that point. c) Let's start by acknowledging that conflict is an important part of team dynamics and we should not avoid it. Testers, what else could the development team improve upon? d) We should be focusing on the code. not complaining. The purpose of testing is to find defects in the code. Let's move on to the next meeting topic.
A team is considering using the self-organizing team technique to formulate a release plan. What positive outcome can the team expect from selecting this technique? a) Producing a plan that is acceptable to senior management and stakeholders. b) Selecting a technique with a reasonably low-cost option as fewer people are involved. c) Avoiding the need of a facilitator because the team runs itself. d) Producing a realistic plan that is acceptable to the people who have to execute on it.
A team wants to ensure that the metrics they select lead to better decisions and better results. Which three principles should the team focus un when determining what to measure? (choose three) (b,c,e) a) Manage to the metrics. b) Prefer pull over push. c) Automate whenever possible. d) Prefer trailing over leading metrics. e) Prefer leading over trailing metrics.
A team will be working on a project with requirements that evolve over time. The stakeholders accept flexibility over predictability. The team values transparency and provides honest timeline and budget to their stakeholders.
Which planning strategy should be applied to this scenario?
a) No release plan b) Rolling wave release plan c) Detailed release plan d) High level release plan.
In which of these situations will the storming stage of team formation take the shortest time? a) New team composed of highly skilled internal staff b) New team composed of internal staff and highly skilled consultants c) New team split from a previous product team d) New team composed exclusively of highly skilled contractors.
An organization is moving to goal question metric (GQM). What primary benefit should they expect from this move? a) Similar metrics across organization, team and personal levels. b) Consistently agile metric application. c) Team specific metrics and insights. d) Measurement consistency across the teams.
In the second week of a project, the team lead works with the product owner (PO) on look-ahead modeling/backlog refinement. One of the team members, with years of experience in the organization. continuously changes the scope of functional backlog items.
What should the team lead do to resolve the conflict?
a) Establish ground rules and empower the PO and experienced team member to work collaboratively to decide functionality.
b) Use authority as a leader to convince the team member to accept the functionality as defined by the users. c) Ask the experienced team member to explain their point of view and then assign the backlog items to them. d) Organize a workshop and ask all the team members to present their point of view and then decide on functionality by voting.
What strategy can help the team move out of 'storming' to the 'norming’ state? a) Encouragement b) Clear objectives c) Interesting work challenges d) Internal and external working agreements .
What does DevOps try to streamline? a) IT operations and business operations b) Solution development and IT operations c) Security and data management d) Governance and solution development.
What are two results of fostering healthy conflict? (choose two) (a,d) a) Increased innovation within the team. b) Practice negotiating conflicting stakeholder priorities. c) Decreased job satisfaction of some team members. d) Reduction of one-to-ones between the product owner, architecture owner, and team lead. e) Decreased chance that people will hold back ideas or information.
The team lead has recently been assigned to a disciplined agile project. Line managers provided the team lead with developers and business subject matter expert's (SMEs) from their business units. What should the team lead do in the first team meeting? (choose two) (a,c) a) Inform the team of the product development process and the release roadmap established by the product owner. b) Ask each team member to introduce themselves, providing information about hobbies and personal achievements. c) Ask each team member to introduce themselves. describing their technical knowledge and skills. d) Assign roles and responsibilities to each member of the team and tasks for the first couple of sprints. e) Review the ground rules and expectations for a high-functioning team.
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