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On an agile project, some of the development team is struggling to understand how the tasks and user stories fit into the overall product.

How should this be addressed?

Which of the following is an example of an information radiator?

Which tool allows the Product Owner to focus on providing the greatest value and Return on Investment (ROI) to the organization?

The ___________ the technical debt means the ________ the intrinsic quality?

Stakeholders have conflicting requirements, and the product owner is struggling to decide which user stories to write.

What should the product owner do?

The project lead of a newly created agile project delivery team realizes that there are gaps in the knowledge of some team members. The lack of specific skills will add risk to the project delivery if the project becomes too dependent on specific resources for complete delivery.

What should the project lead do to address the gaps and develop a high-performing team?

The trend of work remaining across time in a Sprint, a release, or a product, with work remaining tracked on the vertical axis and the time periods tracked on the horizontal axis is called a ____________.

An infrastructure team had to revamp so downstream channels could consume data from the data lake, thereby improving operational efficiency for the end customers.

Which primary components should the product manager consider while plotting performance and dependencies on the product roadmap?

What Scrum event or artifact supports daily inspection and adaptation?

An agile team notices that the same problems continue to occur during multiple iterations. Several team members have suggestions to fix the problem.

What is the proper agile approach to handle this?

Pareto Analysis is the exercise of determining what 40% of functionality can be delivered with 60% of the effort.

A visual control used in Lean software development to represent the velocity of business solutions delivered over time is a:

The Agile artifact that describes the incremental nature of how a product will be built and delivered over time, along with the important factors that drive each individual release is called:

A project team has been working on five data source integrations. They have allocated one tester for each data source. One of the testers is on emergency leave for personal reasons, so the project deliverables could not be completed on time.

How should the project team improve during their retrospective for future implementations?

Extreme Programming (XP) includes which of the following practices? (Choose three.)

HOTSPOT

Organizations that implement agile project management focus on upgrading existing products and services through cost reductions, time savings, or quality enhancements for existing customers (i.e., operational agility).
Organizations need to realize that the major financial gains from agile project management will result from the practice of what?

Agile project management and product development use several types of documents specific to each
iteration; they are known as "artifacts". All of the following documents are Agile iteration artifacts except:

Based upon this Burndown chart, is this project ahead of schedule or behind schedule?

An agile team wants to collectively determine a project's size.

What will the team be doing if they use the planning poker technique to accomplish this?

An executive sponsor of a new scrum team actively attends scrum ceremonies.

How does this benefit the team?

An agile practitioner notices that team members are disengaged. As a result, the team's velocity has decreased.

What should the agile practitioner do to get the team back on track?

A team member starts discussing a project roadblock during a daily coordination meeting. The team discusses details of the impediment, which takes up most of the meeting time.

What should the agile facilitator do?

What should a scrum master do when an agile team member is behind on their tasks?

Testing that often occurs between "Done" and "Done, Done" is:

In Agile risk management, a risk burndown chart is best used to:

A high-performance Agile team:

The primary purpose of a Sprint retrospective is for the team to:

Prior to a retrospective, discussions among team members indicate conflict. An agile practitioner wants to ensure an open and safe environment during the retrospective.

What should the agile practitioner do?

Alistair Cockburn created the Crystal Family of Agile Methods, all of whose names contain colors of quartz crystals taken from geology.

What two characteristics of an Agile project are used to determine the color of the Crystal method?

A newly formed development team experienced difficulty with accurately estimating product backlog items.
As a result, the team failed to deliver all of the features in the sprint backlog for the past two iterations.

What should the team do to improve the accuracy of their estimates?

An executive notices a kanban board in a highly visible location and expresses concerns to the project manager that too many people will see it.

What should the project manager do?

Technical debt is the total amount of less-than perfect __________ in your project.

During a retrospective, team members suggest process improvement ideas. The agile team lead knows that, while many of these ideas are different from standard practices, a few of them are good.

What should the agile team lead do?

The team is derailed by a demand from a senior manager unrelated to the project.

How does the agile coach help the team?

Traditional project management uses requirement decomposition. This can be comparable to____________of Agile User Stories.

A project team's standups often run over the allotted time as members attempt to resolve issues. With a large team, this is leading to productivity impacts and bringing complaints from some members that the meetings are wasting their time when they are not directly involved in an issue's resolution.

How can the project leader help to manage the team's time?

What is a Japanese term used in Lean software development is an activity that is wasteful, unproductive, and doesn't add value?

When an Agile project team receives an "emergency request" during an iteration, which is the best first step that the Agile project manager should take?

Which of the following is an example of a visual aid used in Lean-Agile software development?

Which of the seven principles of software development is best intended to solve the problem of inventories causing hidden errors in the process?

A new agile team member notices that the team's current process involves excessive documentation.

What should the new team member do?

A project is to be started with a team of nine existing and nine new members. The scrum master feels that the team is too large and wants to break it into three teams. The scrum master sets a constraint that each team have an equal number of existing team members for knowledge sharing and experience.

What should the scrum master do to accomplish this?

While planning, what prioritization factors need to be considered for a minimally marketable feature (MMF)?

Which of the following is NOT a metric that measures the performance of DevOps in Agile?

At the end of first iteration, the team finishes User Stories A, Band 50% of C.

What is the team velocity?

In Pair Programming, one programmer is responsible for all the coding in an iteration then the programmer switch for the next iteration?

A senior team member feels underutilized.

What should the agile practitioner do?

A new agile team is forming to address a high-priority project. Team members are dispersed over a wide geographic area. The scrum master and the team are currently defining their working agreement.

What should be part of the working agreement for a dispersed team?

Business partners are attending a daily standup meeting for a project. The business partners are asking questions about the sprint backlog and delivery timing.

How should the project manager explain why this is not the forum to ask these questions?

An agile team is unable to complete all its planned sprint user stories, which results in a decrease of its planned sprint velocity.

What should the team do?

An organization is undergoing an agile transformation to improve its market position. Management wants minimal overhead in connection with the agile initiative and wants the agile teams to control the work in process (WIP) and ensure that iterations do not result in waste.

Which approach should be used in this scenario?

Daily coordination meeting attendance has been declining recently. Those who attend have little to contribute outside of what they are currently working on. The project manager met with the team to remind them of the importance of regular, face-to-face communication. The project team feels the daily coordination meetings are not adding value.

What should the project manager do?

Osmotic communication is when team members obtain information from overhead conversations.

An agile coach is guiding a team across multiple locations. They need a united communication approach that involves task-oriented communications and discussion boards with effectiveness.

Which method of communication would be most effective?

As user stories are developed, what should be done to record and update acceptance criteria?

Which of the following is NOT one of the 12 core practices of XP:

With multiple Scrum teams, you should have a separate product backlog.

A project team's manager is responsible for delivering a specific initiative for the organization. They are preparing for a monthly meeting where the manager will present on the current state of this initiative. The agile project lead sends the manager the following email with the current initiative status.

How many sprints will be needed to complete the entire backlog?

During the review session, the product owner discovers that the user interface has a response time of 10 seconds. The non-functional requirements state that it should respond in less than two seconds. The team complains that this requirement was not communicated to them.

What should have been done to avoid this?

Stakeholders are displeased with the latest release of a product's software. While most stakeholders attended every sprint review, they were otherwise largely uninvolved in the project.

What should the agile practitioner have done to ensure stakeholder satisfaction?

During initial planning, a project team investigates several approaches to building new application software, emphasizing the most valuable deliverables. The team needs to convince stakeholders and win their approval.

During iteration planning, it was determined that an epic should be decomposed.

What was the determining factor?

The following is a picture of which of the following Information Radiators?

Prioritize from high to low the sequence of User Story development.

During a retrospective, the team agrees that they have limited competence in using a newly introduced tool.

What should the team do?

Which one is NOT a reason to perform a Spike?

A project team member expresses frustration about the length of time it takes to make decisions for a complex project. Approvals needs to happen at many levels in the company.

What should the team lead do to improve decision quality and reduce the time required to make decisions?

At an iteration review, the product owner indicated that the work delivered did not meet expectations. The project team is surprised.

How should this situation have been prevented?

Who is responsible for change management in Scrum projects?

An agile team member from a cross-functional team has been unable to complete assignments due to

tasks assigned by the functional manager.

What should the Scrum Master do?

An agile project manager is planning the initial scope, schedule, and cost range estimates on a new project. The team will be using Kanban to control work.

What metrics should the team use to measure performance?

On an Agile team, the project leader works to remove impediments from blocking the team's progress.
This is known as what type of leadership?

A product owner has various items in a product backlog and does not know how to prioritize them.

How should the agile practitioner coach the product owner?

A senior executive contacted an agile lead about starting an agile project to solve a problem for the human resources (HR) department of a company. The project idea is not clear and no backlog has been developed.

How should the agile lead start the project?

Business stakeholders of an agile project frequently skip the review meetings.

What should the agile practitioner do?

An agile team lead noticed their team's velocity was slowing down. They did not deliver a working software during the last iteration and there have been miscommunications between team members.

What should the agile team lead do at the end of this iteration?

DRAG DROP

How do you read a burndown bar chart? Match the phrases below to create instructions.

Who is responsible for determining the business value of each feature?

An agile team is building a training safety video based on current government regulations. The agile coach knows the regulations are likely to change before the release date.

How should the agile coach address this change?

DRAG DROP

What is the order the hierarchy of product definition?

Project managers use velocity to determine:

One of the main stakeholders of a project is new to Scrum. The stakeholder asks what to expect in the sprint retrospective.

How should the product owner respond?

An agile practitioner wants to ensure that stakeholders have current information about a project's progress.

What should the agile practitioner do?

Which of the following would be most likely to assist when a customer has difficulty prioritizing stories?

On a risk map or a risk heat map, the vertical and horizontal axes represent:

Project stakeholders are finding it difficult to know the real-time status of who has been assigned to various stories and the status of each work item.

Which of the following should the agile project manager do?

During a Kanban team's daily stand up, an agile coach observes that the team seems disinterested in the work status. While it appears that there are no issues with flow, there is a marked lack of attention to team effort. When the agile coach queries the team for reasons, members explain that work continues to be scheduled with no end in sight.

What should the agile coach do?

During a review session, a customer representative is concerned that a story fails to satisfy the scope of work. However, the product owner declares that the scope of work is complete?

What should be done with this story?

Since the last iteration, the team has grown from six members to 14 members. As a result, in the current iteration, the team room is crowded and uncomfortable during the team's daily standup. It takes the team longer than the ideal amount of time to complete their standup, which creates problems for the team's current schedule. Based on this information, the project manager should:

An agile team is working on refining project requirements. Due to new dependencies uncovered in every working session, the team is unable to complete the detailed solution requirements.
Instead of trying to complete requirements, what should the team do to work collaboratively to identify and prioritize the most important requirements and adapt to changes as needed?

A client states that a product is not being built as requested.

How should the agile team address this?

An agile leader has been assigned to a project that involves significant technical complexity.

What should the agile leader do to set the project up for success?

Which is NOT a principle of Lean?

An executive requests information regarding a sprint status.

What action should the product owner take?

Which of the following is a list of valid Agile project planning practices?

An agile team is having a meeting with a customer to formulate the product requirements for the next iteration. The outcome of the meeting is a set of clear and detailed requirements.

What should the team do next?

What is the sequence of Tuckman's stages of team formation and development progress?

No one, not even the Scrum Master, tells the development team how to build the product.

An e-commerce company acquired a tool to customize subject line generation for marketing campaigns. In sprint planning, the team discussed integrating this tool with the customer relationship management system.

Which mitigation strategy is most appropriate to ensure the final product meets the business objectives?

The most appropriate model for a geographically distributed project team is one in which the team is distributed across: