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The primary disadvantage to payback period

is that _____________?
Definition
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It fails to take into account the time value

of money
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In Agile projects, since the customer drives the priority of the requirements, such priorities
may change at any time except:
During the iteration
When using eXtreme Programming (XP) practices, a list of your project's unique risks is
referred to as a
Risk census
A description of a product feature as seen from the perspective of the end user and written
and prioritized primarily by the customer (or proxy) is best described as a
User story
__________ refers to a steering committee of evaluators who meet periodically to monitor a
program of projects.
Program governance
You have just been assigned to take over an Agile software development project that should
be over halfway complete. After meeting with the team and seeing the completed code you
realize that the project is far behind where it should be. Customer participation in iteration
and release demos has been minimal and sporadic and the team's velocity has been
consistently lower than anticipated. It is obvious that the project will take at least twice as
long to complete as originally believed yet the customer believes the project to be on
schedule. What is your best course of action?
Inform the customer of the situation and the likely timeline to complete the remaining work
Whereas Agile leaders lead teams, traditional leaders manage
Tasks
The purpose of __________ is to provide a simple medium for gathering basic information
about stories, recording high-level requirements, developing work estimates, and defining
acceptance tests.
Story cards
Not studied (404)
Select these 404
The primary disadvantage to payback period is that _____________?
It fails to take into account the time value of money
In the middle of a four-week sprint, the Product Owner comes to the ScrumMaster and the
development team and tells them that he has become aware of a critical story that must be
added to the sprint? If the proposed change cannot be kept out of the sprint
The current sprint should be abnormally terminated and restarted with the new story added
One of your project team members reports that he has taken and sold copies of a
commercial software application that your company produces because he needed to pay for
his daughter's school tuition. He says he has paid back the money by working overtime
without reporting the hours worked so that his theft remains private. What should you do?
Report the team member to his manager
All of the following except _______________ should be considered when determining the
iteration length.
Customer preference
eXtreme Programming (XP) release planning requires the participation of both customers
and programmers. Because customers have the most information about value, they are
most qualified to say what is important — they prioritize. Because programmers have the
most information about costs, they are most qualified to say how long it will take to
implement a story — they
Estimate
To complete a product planning structure, which of the following accurately describes the
layers that need to be completed?
Product roadmap, release plan, wave (or milestone) plan, and iteration plan
Agile teams typically perform planning at what three levels?
Release, iteration, daily
For the Agile project manager, servant leadership includes soft skills involved in the
development and management of the project team, such as
Mentoring, guiding and facilitating
Traditional Waterfall development is considered a(n) __________ approach whereas Agile is
often referred to as a(n) __________ approach
Plan-driven, value-driven
Once a development team commits to completing a specific set of features in an iteration, it
is important that they not be redirected from that goal. The Product Owner should not
change priorities during the iteration and thus should help protect the team from others who
may attempt to change priorities. Because of this, ______________?
The length of time that priorities can go unchanged is a factor in selecting the iteration
length.
What is the purpose of the temperature reading activity during an Agile retrospective?
It allows team members to focus on aspects of group life that are usually ignored
When an Agile team has generated too many proposed working agreements, which of the
following is the best way to prioritize them for use in the retrospective?
The team should vote with dots to prioritize the working agreements
The __________ is a total number of sprint points completed (potentially shippable
increments) divided by the total number of story points planned.
Actual percent complete (APC)
On your Extreme Programming (XP) team, the best approach to fixing bugs is to
Address and fix bugs as soon as they are discovered
The phrase describing the Agile practice of delivering increments of the solution early and
often is referred to as
Iterative development
During the gather data phase of the Agile retrospective, the data should include both hard
facts and the __________ of team members.
Feelings
Agile project management is a(n) __________ model.
Execution-biased
______________ are used to estimate the complexity and difficulty of a story in relation to
other stories
Story points
What rewards might retain a team member's intrinsic motivation on Agile projects?
Pride in work, pride in accomplishment, and pride in contribution
If a project-level retrospective report is required, who owns this document?
The Agile team
You are a member of an Agile XP team and you discover that one of the programmer pairs
has been altering tests so that their code passes. They've done this because they were
having trouble with their section of the code and they didn't want to negatively impact the
team's velocity. What should you do?
Bring the situation to the attention of the Product Owner
One of the most widely recognized Agile certifications is the Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
certification? This certification is issued by
Scrum Alliance
The amount of time in a work day that a team member would spend working on a story
without interruptions of any kind is referred to as a(n)
Ideal day
When the project team creates something that can quickly explain the product vision in
about one minute or less they have created a(n)
Elevator statement
Sometimes an adversarial or us-versus-them attitude develops between testers and
programmers on an Extreme Programming (XP) team, which can lead to a decrease in
productivity. One method used to help break down this adversarial relationship is
Colocation
The most effective mode of communication is
Face-to-face
How does the Agile retrospective meeting differ from the lessons learned meeting in the
traditional project?
It occurs at the end of each project iteration, while a traditional lessons learned meeting
occurs only at the end of the project
While observing an eXtreme Programming (XP) team, you see two programmers sitting at a
single keyboard. One person is the driver, who codes, and the other is the navigator, whose
job is to think. The practice you are observing is referred to as
Pair programming
Exciters and delighters are those features that provide great satisfaction, often adding a
price premium to a product. The lack of an exciter or delighter in a product will have what
impact on customer satisfaction?
Will not decrease customer satisfaction below neutral
Effective teams cover four key subject areas in their retrospectives
Product, process, team, and project
You have just been assigned two testers to support your eXtreme Programming (XP) Agile
project team. You should assign the testers to
Work as integral members of the project team to help the team maintain high-quality code,
avoid or detect and correct bugs, avoid gaps in the software and improve the overall
software development process
When high flux and tight deadlines impact being able to deliver a reliable product to a
customer, the best solution is application of which methodology?
Reliable Agile processes
Reliable Agile processes
The functional and dysfunctional forms
Which of the following correctly identifies elements of the temperature reading activity during
an Agile retrospective?
Appreciations, new information, puzzles, and hopes/wishes
When the project is one that may be subject to a formal external audit such as Sarbanes-
Oxley or the FDA, what is the best strategy that the Agile team might use to comply with this
regulated environment?
Add the audit-specific items to the release backlog and devote time in one or more iterations
to complete them
On an Extreme Programming (XP) team, when a programmer updates her sandbox with files
from the tip (or head) of the repository she is
Updating her sandbox with files containing the latest changes checked in to the repository
Improving the performance or amount of a threshold (or must-have) feature will
___________?
Have little impact on customer satisfaction
The goal of the vision meeting is to define the boundaries and intent of the Agile project by
sharing the vision and needs of the business. What are two exercises that may be used by
the team to hone the vision?
Design the box, elevator statement
One effective way to improve team velocity is to
Off-load programmer duties
One effective way to improve team velocity is to
Support energized work
All of the following statements are true about the Daily Standup meeting except
Anyone who attends the Daily Standup meeting may provide updates and express an
opinion.
What characterizes a method such as Adaptive Software Development as being high-
tolerance?
High-tolerance methods suggest the use of standards but call for team members to form a
consensus on the minimal compliance needed
Contracts use the __________ to distribute cost risks between parties by stressing that once
the target cost of the contract has been met, both vendor and customer share any extra cost
of change.
Target cost principle
The process of creating a domain-centric design is referred to as
True object-oriented design
The __________, a collaborative team effort, is a picture of how the Agile team will achieve
the product vision within the objectives and constraints specified in the project data sheet.
Release plan
During retrospectives, a team may employ a __________ activity to help it look at factors
affecting a proposed change. In conducting the activity, the team first defines a state they
want to achieve and then breaks into groups to identify factors that may either restrain or
drive the desired change.
Reminder
You are assigned to lead a large software development project implementing an Agile XP
approach. The work is to take place at one of your company's facilities located in a foreign
country. You are informed that you will have to pay local police a fee before the construction
workers are permitted to begin work on the team's co-located work areas. The police say
that they will have to coordinate traffic on the narrow street in front of your building to
accommodate the large trucks required by the construction company. What should you do?
Pay the fee
The __________ is the total number of story points planned for a release.
Performance measure baseline (PMB)
In Scrum, the notion of a reciprocal commitment refers to
The development team commits to delivering the sprint goal, and the business commits to
not changing priorities during the sprint
In velocity-driven iteration planning, the team estimates its velocity based on its performance
during recent iterations and to determine how many story points should be planned into the
current iteration. In commitment-driven iteration planning
The team is asked to add stories to the iteration one by one until they can commit to
completing no more
When launching a complex project, building up a product backlog or implementing Agile
methodologies for the first time, a _________ iteration can be very useful.
Planning
Prior to a retrospective, an Agile team may wish to review its __________ and adjust them
as needed to apply in the retrospective.
Values and working agreements
For product development in an Agile environment, what is the purpose of planning?
To find an optimal answer to the overall product development question of what to build
The functional software manager is concerned that your team may be introducing
undetected software bugs into the software prior to release and has suggested that you
begin manual regression testing at once. Your best response would be
To not implement manual regression testing and explain that test-driven development (TDD)
and customer testing leads to a sophisticated suite of automated regression tests and when
bugs are found, programmers create automated tests to show that the bugs have been
resolved
When Agile project team members are assigned to multiple projects or have both project and
operational support responsibilities they are said to be
Fractionally assigned
An item that consists of graphic images and narrative content that convey the product vision
to the customer in end user language is referred to as a(n)
Product vision box
The Project Management Institute (PMI) Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct applies to
all of the following except
Individuals who hold the title of project or program manager but are not certified or affiliated
with PMI
The ______________ is an artifact which shows how the product is intended to evolve over
time.
Product data sheet (PDS)
The effort of developing a timeboxed plan is characterized by which of the following?
The product release date is well defined, but the features to be developed are undefined
In the context of eXtreme Programming (XP) risk management, __________ reduce the
impact of the risk but are only necessary if the risk occurs and often depend on mitigation
activities that are performed in advance.
Contingency activities
You are a project manager within an organization that completes software development
projects for other entities. You have plans to leave your company within the next month to
launch your own consulting business which will compete with your current employer. Your
company is currently working on a large proposal for a government contract that your new
company could also benefit from. What should you do?
Inform your employer that you will be leaving the company within a month and it would be
inappropriate for you to work on the current proposal
Your eXtreme Programming (XP) team is planning its project and you have the option of
doing two large releases or a number of smaller more frequent releases. Your best approach
would be to
Do frequent smaller releases as it tends to add value and reduce risk
Three ways to estimate velocity are ____________?
Use historical values, run an iteration, forecast velocity
A period, usually two to four weeks, in which the project team develops one or more small
features resulting in potentially releasable software is referred to as _________?
An iteration
New functionality and capabilities that were added during the iteration are demonstrated to
stakeholders during ______________?
The iteration review meeting
Agile teams size user stories by comparing effort, complexity, and risk of a story compared
to others and then assigning that story a value. All of the following are units of value used in
this process except
Timeboxes
Typically generated by most Agile teams when they update their release plan, a __________
is an excellent way to get a bird's-eye view of the project, as it shows progress and predicts
a completion date.
Burn-up chart
Agile development methodologies focus on creating success in which three of the following
areas?
Personal, technical, and organizational
Some organizations like to assign people to multiple projects simultaneously. This fractional
assignment, which is particularly common in matrix organizations
Is very counterproductive
A __________ or a story is defined as a piece of a product that delivers some useful and
valuable functionality to a customer.
Feature
A __________ is a list of capabilities, features, and stories that the product team has
identified.
Backlog
__________ is software that is intended to be used across a wide range of industries.
Horizontal-market software
When discussing schedule buffering, the term local safety is defined as ____________?
The additional time between the 50% estimate and the 90% estimate
In an Agile project, story cards are used to
Provide basic information about stories
Your extreme programming (XP) team has just completed the mute mapping phase of its
iteration retrospective and has identified a category and an idea for improvement that the
team will work toward during the next iteration? That idea is referred to as the
Retrospective objective
In an Agile environment, what are two ways of developing a project charter?
Using the traditional method as modified with barely sufficient guidelines and using a vision
meeting to create informal documentation
__________ occurs when an organization asks a software development team to build
something for the organization's own use.
In-house custom development
When a team examines factors in an organization that will drive and hinder a proposed
change they are performing a
Force field analysis
Which of the following statements is true about an abnormally terminated sprint?
The Agile team may terminate the sprint if they feel they cannot meet the sprint goal
A(n) __________ is a single page summary of key project management information, product
capabilities, and business and quality objectives.
Project data sheet
A daily meeting where all participants specifically describe what they did yesterday, what
they plan to do today, and what problems are preventing them from making progress can be
described as a
Daily Scrum
A __________ is a list of capabilities, features, and stories that the product team has
identified.
Backlog
Self-assessment questions such as "What just happened?" "What are three options that I
have for next steps?" and "How much of this is within the group and how much is my own
emotional response?" are critical for the retrospective leader, as they assist in managing
Internal emotions and responses
Your extreme programming (XP) team has been averaging about 15% overtime for the last
three iterations and seems to be putting in about that much overtime so far on the current
iteration. This rate of overtime is
Not normal for an XP team and probably indicates a systemic problem that needs to be
addressed and resolved as soon as possible
A __________ provides a central repository that helps coordinate changes to files and also
provides a history of changes.
Version control system
During a retrospective, one activity that might be helpful is constructing a fishbone diagram.
The fishbone diagram facilitates the team's ________ analysis.
Root cause
The amount of slack that you build into your iteration plan depends on the __________ of
the problems that your project team experience
Randomness
Agile software development has its roots in
Lean principles
The top down Agile enterprise framework consists of:
Project governance, project management, iteration management, and technical practices
Developing in increments, integrating with other people's code, and refactoring code, are
made easier by having
Automated test suites
During retrospectives, a team may employ a __________ activity to help it look at factors
affecting a proposed change. In conducting the activity, the team first defines a state they
want to achieve and then breaks into groups to identify factors that may either restrain or
drive the desired change.
Force field analysis
An Agile project team may conduct a ____________ as a way to initiate corrective action to
its processes prior to the end of an iteration.
Team reflective workshop
Work to prepare the formal documentation and other deliverables that production requires,
including attendance at final approval meetings is typically accomplished during the
____________ iteration.
Handoff
Which Agile framework is considered to be not ideally embodying the agility required by
Agile frameworks?
SAFe
A sprint is typically how long?
1-4 weeks
The three pillars of Scrum are __________, ____________ and ___________.
Transparency, inspection, and adaptation
Who is on the development team?
The members doing the work
What authority should a ScrumMaster have?
-Authority over the process
-Authority to clear roadblocks, no matter who they have to interact with to get it done
____________________ is the process that prioritizes and clarifies backlog items as they
move from the long-term to a more near-term time horizon.
Backlog grooming
A process-centric meeting where the team applies continuous improvement to their
development process is called the
Retrospective meeting
Definition of Done
Written by the delivery team and committed to by the delivery team
What is not a sign of a project in trouble?
The Product Owner is not involved
Who is on the Scrum team?
The Scrum Master, The Product Owner, The Development Team
It is mandatory that the delivered product increment be released to production at the end of
each sprint.
False
Stakeholder's are demanding that teams increase their velocity. They want to meet certain
dates but the Product Owner has determined, based on the current velocity, that the work
will not be done. Due to pressure on the team to increase velocity, what are the possible
outcomes?
The team inflates the story point estimates to achieve the desired velocity. The work
completed is the same work that was originally planned
Which of the following is not a problem area to avoid?
Product Owner that doesn't add enough acceptance criteria to a user story
Where should a Product Owner ideally come from?
The business
You should compare team's velocity to each other to establish a baseline.
False
The fishbone diagram is a method for finding solutions to problems. Which of the following is
not a moniker for the fishbone diagram?
Fish and chips diagrams
Kanban was first used by Subaru
False
Only motivated teams stay focused throughout the development process, so Dan Pink's
AMP Model is very useful. AMP stands for autonomy, mastery, and
Purpose
A philosophy that emphasizes awareness, listening, and relationship building as the path to
creating value is called
Servant leadership
In Agile estimating, a variety of progressive elaboration techniques are used to assess the
size project elements that need to be developed. The technique that uses "t-shirt sizes" is
called
Affinity estimating
Scrum uses empirical process control, which includes three basic elements: transparency,
inspection, and adaptation. ________________ means making important aspects of the
process visible.
Transparency
The feedback loop in traditional projects under a project manager are
Slower than Agile
_______________________ are high-level, long-range activities taking place on a regularly
scheduled basis.
Release planning meetings
The Hersey and Blanchard leadership styles stem from which basic behaviors?
Participating and delegating
How many categories are used in the Kano Model?
5
Where colocation is not an option, it only means we must rely on the Agile Manifesto even
more
True
contract negotiation is like a
Marriage
The customer relationship's quality and the quality of the workmanship are a
Mutually sustaining bond
What is the best form of communication that you should strive for?
Face-to-face
What is the most important thing to consider when working with offshore teams?
Trust
Which statement is inaccurate?
A coach is expected to jump in and manage projects in case of emergencies
Which of these areas are one of the four main areas that leadership must actively work on to
create a culture for an organization?
-Rewarding and punishment
-Behaviors and actions of leadership
-Allocation of attention and resources
-Focus of the leaders
Which area does a coach focus most on?
People
Kanban and Scrum teams prioritized their work based on
Business value as stated by the customer
Which of these are part of the continuous discovery of value?
-Building for discovery vs. building for delivery
-Managing artifacts
-Discovery beyond an initiative
-Enabling valuable delivery
Which of these titles could include value management in the role?
-Project manager
-Business analyst
-Developer
What is the most common way of sizing?
Fibonacci story points
Is the product backlog ever done?
No
Which of these areas are part of the discovery process?
-Understanding stakeholders
-The bigger picture
-Analyzing to determine value
-Exploring the solution
Value management occurs at this level and stage of the process.
-Initiation
-Definition
-Prioritization
Is a ready checklist a formal part of the Scrum Framework?
No
The condition when teams work in an open and safe environment is called
___________________.
Personal safety
A process-centric meeting where the development team applies continuous improvement to
its process, thereby reducing risk, is called the _____________.
Sprint Retrospective
Successful Agile teams periodically review team practices to identify changes that will better
Integrate cultural change
The four values that PMI considers most important to the project management community
and upon which the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct is based are__________.
Responsibility, respect, fairness, and honesty
A professional Agile practitioner is focused on creating an Agile culture that embeds
_______________________________
Continuous Improvements
The ScrumMaster ensures the process is understood, shields the development team from
outside interference and _________________________ for the development team.
Removes obstacles
A four-step process that begins with creating a well-defined test, then invoking an operation
to take the test is referred to as
Test-driven development (TDD)
An Agile report that uses a visual signal card as a tool for managing the production process
is called a (n)
Visual Control
For many years, two successful companies have used visualization calling the process
MAPP Day (Make a Project Plan) and PACT Day (Project Acceleration Control Technique).
Those companies are
Intel and Siemens
Which one of the following is not a Scrum value?
Strength
During which era of revolution was collaboration a focus?
Information
The 12 Principles behind the Agile Manifesto state that simplicity is essential. They define
simplicity as
The art of maximizing the amount of work not done
During the______________, the team is doing an operational review to see whether a work
item is blocked or has become invisible.
Daily stand-up meeting
What is the purpose of the Sprint Retrospective?
To learn from experience
To inspect and adapt
To make the team and process better
What is not a sign of a project in trouble?
Impact of holiday schedules
Definition of Done
Written by the delivery team and committed to by the delivery team
The purpose of the release burndown chart is
To measure performance, identify gaps, and provide visibility
To identify if the team is behind schedule
To identify if the team is ahead of schedule
What is affinity sizing?
Estimating by comparing backlog items to other backlog items with story points
Every project comes into existence because of the action of key stakeholders. Many projects
get into trouble because they don't work to identify
All of the other stakeholders
An Agile report that uses a visual signal card as a tool for managing the production process
is called a (n)
Visual control
Which of the following is not true about expert opinion?
It's slow
A product backlog should not
Contain every request asked for
Product visioning should be the ____________ thing you do on a product.
First
Which one of these characteristics is not a part of a healthy team?
No conflict within the team
Which of the following are characteristics of an empowered team?
They make decisions together
They are self-directed and cross-functional
They self-organize to solve problems
Value stream mapping was created at
Toyota
Kanban boards are a "future state" of value stream mapping
False
Kaizen was created by the Japanese during World War II
False
In Agile work environments, the high levels of complexity and uncertainty require that the
team be self-organizing and use a(n) _________________ leadership model.
Emergent
In regards to styles, Scrum is a _________________________ while traditional project
management is a
Servant leadership; command and control
The core purpose of both traditional rolling wave plans and Agile iterative and incremental
development is to provide adequate, accurate, and timely information so
Stakeholders can properly understand the context of their decisions
Scrum uses empirical process control, which includes three basic elements: transparency,
inspection, and adaptation. ________________ means making important aspects of the
process visible.
Transparency
In the Agile lexicon, the initial scope, schedule, and cost estimates are done with the
understanding that they reflect a high-level, low-granularity assessment of the effort
necessary to complete the deliverables. This level of planning is called a
Roadmap
An Agile team is
Mutually accountable to each other
Responsible for delivering all of the sprint backlog
Formed of complementary skillsets, including all technical and functional expertise needed
for delivery
One of these is not listed as the five dysfunctions of a team
Being unfriendly
Development operations (DevOps) involves what people in an organization?
Everyone
Can you have working project days without customer interaction?
No, you should engage with at least one stakeholder on all project days
The Sprint/Scrum Review
Is scheduled within a sprint in a timely manner
The Scrum of Scrums includes
The ScrumMaster
The Product Owner
Possibly subject matter experts
Kanban is a methodology best learned or exploded during
Ri
Which one trait is an indication of being Agile?
Accepting that plans change
Which is not a benefit of Agile contracts?
Cost, scope, and time are fixed
Kanban and Scrum teams prioritized their work based on
Business value as stated by the customer
Which activities are not necessary for an Agile transformation journey?
Avoiding any failure when piloting Scrum in order to increase change of Agile adoption
Value management occurs at this level and stage of the process.
Initiation
Definition
Prioritization
The two levels of value focus are
Business value analysis and business value stewardship/management
What is the most common way of sizing?
Fibonacci story points
A ______________________ presents a project's objectives in a one-page summary of the
key objectives and capabilities.
Project Data Sheet
Successful Agile teams periodically review team practices to identify changes that will better
Integrate cultural change
The ScrumMaster ensures the process is understood, shields the development team from
outside interference and _________________________ for the development team.
Removes obstacles
The goal of __________________ is to minimize waste caused by misunderstanding.
Incremental design
A standard that an Agile team applies to its method of work is described as a
Working agreement
The practice of waiting to create detailed estimates of stories planned far in the future until
more information about the stories is known is referred to as
Deferred commitment
The smallest set of functionality that provides value to your market, whether that market is
internal users or external customers are referred to as a
Minimally marketable feature (MMF)
You've just noticed a problem that threatens to impact the success of your eXtreme
Programming (XP) team's iteration. The best approach is to
Apprise the team as soon as possible so that the entire team has a chance to help solve the
problem
Your on-site customer should create and update a __________ that describes what you are
doing, why you are doing it, and how you will know if you are successful. It should be posted
prominently and used as a guide in conversations.
Vision statement
__________ is the total amount of imperfect design and implementation decisions in your
project.
Technical debt
Where would be the best place for a project team to place an information radiator?
Hallway
The length of a project's iterations determines ______________?
How often the software can be shown (in potentially shippable form) to users and customers
The biggest problem with asynchronous integration is that
It tends to result in broken builds
The effort of developing a scopeboxed plan is characterized by which of the following?
The team defines the key product features to be built into the release before committing to a
release date
Some Extreme Programming (XP) teams exhibit behaviors that include glossing over known
defects in an iteration demo, taking credit for stories that are not 100 percent complete, and
extending the iteration for a few days in order to finish everything in the plan. These
behaviors are
Never acceptable, as they destroy stakeholder trust and will cause a buildup of backlog work
that looks done but isn't eventually leading to schedule slip and other negative results
One way to mitigate productivity variation for an Agile team is to
Track team velocity
Whereas a release plan is a high-level __________ for a collection of iterations, an iteration
plan is more of a __________ to help the Agile team accomplish the specific iteration goals.
Strategic plan, tactical plan
You are new to Agile and have been invited to watch an experienced eXtreme Programming
(XP) team conduct an iteration retrospective. You observe the team gathered at a
whiteboard silently arranging and rearranging index cards that appear to have notes written
on them. The activity you are observing is referred to as
Mute mapping
When applying XP methods, the phrase last responsible moment refers to
The moment at which failing to make a decision eliminates an important alternative
The purpose of the product backlog is to expand the product
Vision
Senior management has given you the option of co-locating your eXtreme Programming
(XP) team. You should
Co-locate your team as this greatly improves communication and the efficiency of the team
A tool that is a collection of values, principles, and practices used to create models for
software development projects is referred to as
Agile modeling
A plan that defines the release date in advance, but where the features to be included in the
release remain uncertain is referred to as a __________ plan.
Timeboxed
Which of the following is true regarding the use of story points during Agile estimating?
Story points promote more participatory decision-making and cross-functional behavior
A good rule of thumb for Extreme Programming (XP) teams using continuous integration is
to keep build times under __________ minutes?
10
Which of the following best describes the primary participants in a release planning session?
The customer, project manager, and project team
Agile teams should ascertain a __________ strategy for early product deployment.
First feasible deployment (FFD)
The ___________ is the total number of planned iterations multiplied by sprint length.
Schedule baseline
The practice of starting your next task immediately after starting the build, without waiting for
the build and tests to succeed is referred to as
Asynchronous integration
When using a fixed-everything contract, all of the following are true except
Payment is based on fixed-price, fixed-scope, and fixed-materials.
In an Agile estimating environment, project teams strive to minimize cost when the probable
accuracy is low, and invest more when the probable accuracy is higher. Given that, an Agile
project team would be expected to
Estimate stories on the near term horizon in great detail while doing high-level estimates on
stories that are farther out
On an Agile project, adaptability has three components
Product, process, and people
The processes of analysis, design, coding, testing, and deployment are common to both
waterfall and Agile models of development. However, in waterfall these processes are done
at the __________ level whereas in Agile they are done at the __________ level.
Project, iteration
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a proven technique for reducing the number of defects
generated by the team. It does this by
Leading to a comprehensive suite of unit and integration tests and by structuring the work
into small, easily verifiable steps
Which of the following is a true statement about Agile retrospectives?
Iteration retrospectives focus on the Agile team whereas release and project-level
retrospectives are more inclusive, often seeking a cross-departmental perspective
A full cycle of design-code-verify-release practiced by eXtreme Programming (XP) teams
that are contained within a one-to- three-week timebox is a(n)
Iteration
When applying eXtreme Programming (XP) methods, the term last possible moment refers
to
The moment at which failing to make a decision eliminates an important alternative
How is project scope controlled in an Agile environment?
Through rolling wave planning
On an Agile project, when schedule problems occur, cutting __________ reduces scope. On
waterfall projects, when schedule problems occur, __________ are cut, affecting quality.
Stories; tasks
On an Extreme Programming (XP) team, sometimes a programmer will_____________ his
sandbox to throw away his changes and return to the point of his last update. This is handy
when the programmer has broken his local build and can't figure out how to get it working
again.
Revert
__________ is when a team is spread across many locations with relatively few and often
only one or two people per location.
Distributed development
A spike is best defined as
A task included in an iteration plan that is undertaken specifically to gain knowledge or
answer a question
When we say that between iterations the product backlog is groomed, the action taking
place can best be described as
Features may be added, deleted, and/or reprioritized based on the current needs of the
organization
Forecasting velocity is normally done because ____________?
It is either impossible or impractical for the team to run an iteration, and they do not yet have
any historical observations.
Agile practitioners use a ________________ to account for project work rather than the work
breakdown structure (WBS) approach used in traditional project management.
Feature breakdown structure (FBS)
The difference between changing and adapting is that
Changing is not goal-oriented whereas adapting is goal-oriented
The question "is it feasible for this project to deliver a quality releasable product within the
identified constraints of scope and schedule and cost?" can be answered by referring to the
__________ plan.
Release
Agile stories may be estimated either in __________ terms or __________ terms
Relative, absolute
An iteration plan is created in an iteration planning meeting. This meeting should be
attended by ______________?
The Product Owner and development team
Sometimes programmers will not be able to estimate a story because they do not know
enough about the technology required to implement the story. In this case, a story to
research that technology must be created. This type of story is typically referred to as a
__________ story
Spike
A(n) __________ sprint in the last release of a project may be a way for the Scrum team to
address some final finishing features.
Buffer
An activity where team members individually estimate user stories through use of numbered
cards, followed by discussion, until consensus is achieved is best described as
Planning poker
__________ are self-contained, individual elements of a project that typically correspond to
individual features and represent one to two days of work.
Stories
A self-organized product-centric meeting where the attendees define the topic and the
agenda is referred to as a(n)
Open space meeting
An Agile team has the goal of fixing all bugs ______________?
In the iteration in which they are discovered
Osmotic communication is something that Agile XP teams encourage and of which they take
advantage. Which of the following is necessary in order for osmotic communication to occur?
All team members must be colocated
You are completing a project for a customer in a foreign country. It is customary in this host
country to honor the project manager of a successful project with a gift. Your company policy
does not allow project managers to accept gifts having a value greater than $50 from any
entity. At the completion of the project, the customer presents to you, in a public ceremony, a
new car. Which of the following should you do?
Refuse to accept the car as it would violate your company's policies regarding how business
is to be conducted
You have just taken over a large software development project for your company. As you are
reviewing material from the previous project manager you discover that he made a $200,000
payment to a consultant and that the payment was not approved in accordance with
company policies. What should you do?
Inform your manager of the situation
When the Agile team commits to delivering a specified functionality and management agrees
to not change the team's priorities during the iteration a condition of _____________ is said
to exist.
Reciprocal commitment
How can a project leader improve on facilitation skills needed for Agile retrospectives?
Observe others who excel at facilitating meetings
eXtreme Programming (XP) relies on fast, high-bandwidth communication for many of its
practices. In order to achieve that communication, XP team members should
Sit together in the same room
On Agile projects, organic risk management refers to
Using the Agile framework to foster naturally emerging risk management through constant
communication and review of the product functionality, the project plans, and the process
itself
A(n) __________ shows the relative importance of project constraints, where only one of
these constraints may be fixed.
Flexibility matrix
For the traditional project manager, what is an appropriate servant leadership role on an
Agile team?
Providing visibility for the project to sponsors
If a face-to-face conversation gives an Agile team a complete, shared understanding of a
user story, why write it down?
To give the user story some stickiness, or permanence, that the conversation does not have
Three key activities need to be completed prior to beginning story development: __________
a product vision, __________ the project's objectives and constraints, and __________ an
iterative, story-based release plan.
Articulating, defining, creating
Of the following terms, which is not considered part of the feedback cycle?
Monthly project review
It may be necessary to split a user story into multiple, smaller parts when _________
The user story is too large to fit within a single iteration
Three key elements that guide the project team in Agile product development are ________,
__________, and ________.
Product vision, product roadmap, product backlog
When using the Agile project management model (APM) delivery approach, the product of
the Speculate phase is a __________ based on capabilities or stories to be delivered.
Release plan
The bulk of the eXtreme Programming (XP) team consists of software developers in a
variety of specialties. Each of these developers contributes directly to creating working code.
To emphasize this, XP typically refers to all developers as
Programmers
In a __________ intervention, the project leader gets team members to make acceptably
small changes that they don't mind and which causes the team to become more aligned in
the same direction.
Microtouch
Agile project estimates are based on __________ rather than on _________?
Stories, tasks
The ____________ signals that the iteration has been initiated.
Hard commitment
__________ is a critical component of a successful retrospective.
Mute mapping
In lean environments, ___________ are used to make it easier to control an activity or
process through a variety of visual signals or cues.
Visual controls
__________ is the process of changing the structure of code-rephrasing it, without changing
its meaning or behavior.
Refactoring
Who has the responsibility to help Agile teams balance the elements of structure,
documentation, and architecture?
Agile leaders
Release planning is ______________?
The process of creating a very high-level plan that covers a period longer than an iteration
A(n) __________, or story, is a product component that provides some valuable functionality
for the customer.
Feature
__________ is when designers in one location send specifications and tests to programmers
in another location, usually in another country.
Offshore development
The goal of sizing is to
Give the team and the customer a quick, relative measure of the effort involved with
delivering a particular user story
Where does Scrum naturally live?
Complex
We value process and tools over customer collaboration
False
Incremental means adding to the whole.
True
Value-driven delivery, as used in Agile approaches, clarify the project goal so that resource
management decisions drive measurable progress using
Minimum marketable features
____________________ is the process that prioritizes and clarifies backlog items as they
move from the long-term to a more near-term time horizon
Backlog grooming
The Agile approach to human resource planning is to establish __________ teams with
mutual accountability, and allow them to __________ within a framework that requires
regular team retrospection.
Cross-functional; self-organize
The purpose of the sprint burndown chart is
To understand sprint progress, the likelihood of successful delivery and highlight any
blockers
When does the next sprint begin?
Immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint.
What does it mean to say that the daily stand-up meeting has a timebox?
The daily stand-up can take no more than a maximum amount of time of the timebox
What does the team not do during the first sprint?
Develop a plan for the rest of the project
Trust is the foundation for building community in teams.
True
What is velocity?
An average of the hours on tasks in a given sprint
An average of what the team completes in a given sprint
A(n)_______________is an uncomplicated way to define the product vision in a short
statement, using language everyone can understand.
Elevator statement
Only motivated teams stay focused throughout the development process, so Dan Pink's
AMP Model is very useful. AMP stands for autonomy, mastery, and
Purpose
Agile teams must have interpersonal and technical skills to deliver outcomes with high
business value, otherwise
Communication breakdowns cause the project to fail
Summing up the quantity of work remaining for each uncompleted backlog item is called
A burn-down chart
Which of the following is not a benefit of using the Scrum framework?
Needing at least one sprint cycle of work ready to go
During iteration planning, the ___________________ creates the reciprocal commitment.
Hard commitment
Which is the correct definition for continuous delivery?
New software development process that aims to build software that is always ready to be
deployed into production
What is the first step of the Kotter change model?
Create urgency
If a team member makes a mistake
Discuss how to make things better
Independent verification
Is necessary for reliable improvement
Each Scrum team should have
No more than nine members
No fewer than five members
A coach is expected to jump in and manage projects in case of emergencies
True
Leadership's role is to
Coach team members
Which of these levels in an organization are responsible for seeking value?
Program level
Project level
Stakeholder level
External certification bodies in value management are valuable. Which one of these
certification bodies is not real?
Value Management for All Ages
A process that analyzes and potentially redesigns the flow of materials and information used
to deliver a product or service is called _____________________.
Value stream mapping
A ______________________ presents a project's objectives in a one-page summary of the
key objectives and capabilities.
Project data sheet
A professional Agile practitioner is focused on creating an Agile culture that embeds
Continuous Improvements
Blocking the team from interruptions is a characteristic of
Servant leadership
Shu Ha Ri is a simple, powerful model of learning where_______ means attempting to
understand the purpose of the techniques.
Ha
Agile development approaches continuously reprioritize requirements in response to
changing stakeholder needs or environmental variables. Doing so helps
Maximize the value
Who owns the process and is the process mentor?
The ScrumMaster
Highly technical problem solving inherently means engaging uncertainty with a process of
experimentation and discovery where a key constraint is
The idea transfer rate
The product backlog is ordered by the Product Owner in what manner?
Whatever is deemed most appropriate by the Product Owner
Which of these factors contribute to a sprint backlog?
Ideally the product and sprint backlogs should be in an Agile tool to ease project
management
The delivery team is responsible for breaking stories down into tasks
The delivery team is responsible for estimating tasks in hours
A product backlog is a collection of
Features
Defects
Change requests
Why do you want to have working agreements for your Scrum ceremonies?
To help avoid conflict
As a Product Owner, you are doing "deck checks" and checking some of the new
functionality halfway through the sprint. You notice an adjustment needed to a product
backlog item. The PBI will still bring value without the change. What should you do?
Let the team decide if they can make the adjustment without jeopardizing this sprint. If not,
add it to the backlog for a future sprint
Only motivated teams stay focused throughout the development process, so Dan Pink's
AMP Model is very useful. AMP stands for autonomy, mastery, and
Purpose
Which one of these is not true?
Kaizen was created by the Japanese during World War II
The core purpose of both traditional rolling wave plans and Agile iterative and incremental
development is to provide adequate, accurate, and timely information so
Stakeholders can properly understand the context of their decisions
Which of the follow are responsibilities of a project manager?
Risk
Cost
Schedule
Stakeholder management
Your organization is switching to an Agile mindset and a Scrum framework. Your traditional
project managers could become ______________ if they can assume a ___________
leadership style, or they might move into a _______________ role taking on higher-level
responsibilities such as marketing, sales channels, etc.
ScrumMasters; servant; product manager
In regards to styles, Scrum is a _________________________ while traditional project
management is a _________________________.
Servant leadership; command and control
Which one of these is not a behavior of a self-managed team?
Defining the project requirements
In Scrum, closed door meetings
Undermine the visibility necessary to be productive
Ideally, all team members should be
Working in the same room
Which of these traits are not practiced by both Scrum and Kanban teams?
Attending Daily Standup meetings
What are the commonly-accepted levels of coaching?
Team, senior, and enterprise
Which of the following is the biggest danger sign of a Scrum team in trouble?
The Product owner not involved
External certification bodies in value management are valuable. Which one of these
certification bodies is not real?
Value Management for All Ages
.The condition when teams work in an open and safe environment is called
___________________.
Personal safety
The 12 principles behind the Agile Manifesto state that "Agile processes promote
sustainable development." They define sustainable as
Developing so as to be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely
Teams sometimes use a short experiment or task, referred to as a spike, to gain knowledge
so that estimating and planning can be based on data instead of purely hypothetical
assumptions. The goal of a spike is tor
Learn enough to posit how to solve a challenge
A philosophy that emphasizes awareness, listening, and relationship building as the path to
creating value is called ___________________.
Servant leadership
What are some examples that might be added to the definition of done?
Code reviewed by the security team
Deployed to staging server
Documentation written for support on work done
Reviewed by the user experience specialist
Value-driven delivery, as used in Agile approaches, clarify the project goal so that resource
management decisions drive measurable progress using
Minimum marketable features
One Agile practice that optimizes team performance is described as
Team working agreements
What is not a sign of a project in trouble?
Impact of holiday schedules
The product backlog contains
All work that needs to be completed by the delivery team to ensure success and delivery of
value
It's okay if your Product Owner is absent most of the time, as long as they have the backlog
items ready.
False
What is a spike story?
A research story
You should compare team's velocity to each other to establish a baseline.
False
Continuous integration does not offer
A status of progress
The Agile approach to human resource planning is to establish __________ teams with
mutual accountability, and allow them to __________ within a framework that requires
regular team retrospection.
Cross-functional; self-organize
The core purpose of both traditional rolling wave plans and Agile iterative and incremental
development is to provide adequate, accurate, and timely information so
Stakeholders can properly understand the context of their decisions
Which of the following is not a benefit of using the Scrum framework?
Needing at least one sprint cycle of work ready to go
____________________ is the process that prioritizes and clarifies backlog items as they
move from the long-term to a more near-term time horizon.
Grooming or refinement
_______________________ are high-level, long-range activities taking place on a regularly
scheduled basis.
Release planning meetings
Which of these are not a part of Scrum of Scrums?
Scrum of Scrums is responsible for the delivery of work from creation to testing
What is the correct sequence for the Tuckman Model
Forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning
Mistakes
Should be made visible for meaningful process gains
Within this lecture, contract negotiation is like a
Marriage
Which is a potential agreed upon communication tool?
VoIP
CRM
Email Server
Which one of these stages is not one of the psychology of change stages?
Want
Which of these titles could include value management in the role?
Project manager
Business analyst
Developer
An information radiator that shows the work remaining, like the number of story points in the
iteration is called a(n)
Burndown chart
Companies hire experts because of their_______________ knowledge.
Tacit
A _________________ is a product-centric meeting where any interested or impacted
stakeholder can come and see what was just finished.
Review meeting
Value-driven delivery, as used in Agile approaches, clarify the project goal so that resource
management decisions drive measurable progress using
Minimum marketable features
What authority should a ScrumMaster have?
Authority over the process
Authority to clear roadblocks, no matter who they have to interact with to get it done
The product backlog contains
All work that needs to be completed by the delivery team to ensure success and delivery of
value
Who is on the Scrum team?
The Scrum Master, The Product Owner, The Development Team
What is not a sign of a project in trouble?
Impact of holiday schedules
What does the team not do during the first sprint?
Develop a plan for the rest of the project
In terms of stakeholder engagement, which of the following can be said to foster trust
building between the project team and the stakeholders?
Product review meeting
Agile recognizes and puts into practice the idea that a shared vision is vital. This activity is
referred to as
Defining the product vision
What are some methods for splitting stories?
Functionality
Conjunction words such as "and, or, but"
Complexity
Business rules
Field inputs
An Agile report that uses a visual signal card as a tool for managing the production process
is called a (n)
Visual control
What is the purpose of a team charter?
It establishes the norms and how a team will work together
Which of the following will contribute to losing or limiting velocity?
Team member changes
Switching focus from product to product
Same team members handling both new development and production support
A backlog refinement activity allows the Product Owner and the team to
_____________________, _________________, and __________________. (Choose the
three phrases that fit this sentence.)
Break down user stories into smaller user stories
Size and resize user stories
Add acceptance criteria on user stories
Which one of these characteristics is not a part of a healthy team?
No conflict within the team
Summing up the quantity of work remaining for each uncompleted backlog item is called
A burn-down chart
One Agile practice that optimizes team performance is described as
Team working agreements
Continuous integration does not offer
A status of progress
The Agile approach to human resource planning is to establish __________ teams with
mutual accountability, and allow them to __________ within a framework that requires
regular team retrospection.
Cross-functional; self-organize
Which of the following is not a benefit of using the Scrum framework?
Needing at least one sprint cycle of work ready to go
Your organization is switching to an Agile mindset and a Scrum framework. Your traditional
project managers could become ______________ if they can assume a ___________
leadership style, or they might move into a _______________ role taking on higher-level
responsibilities such as marketing, sales channels, etc.
ScrumMasters; servant; product manager
Which of the following statements is not true in regards to Agile and traditional project
management?
Waterfall typically provides a faster feedback loops than Agile
During iteration planning, the ___________________ creates the reciprocal commitment.
Hard commitment
Which one of these is not a behavior of a self-managed team?
Defining the project requirements
Which is the correct definition for continuous delivery?
New software development process that aims to build software that is always ready to be
deployed into production
What eventually happens to satisfiers?
They become dissatisfiers if not present
The Sprint/Scrum Review
Is scheduled within a sprint in a timely manner
Within Ri the ScrumMaster
Becomes a servant leader
If you groom properly, Sprint Planning is a great deal easier.
true
Customer collaboration
Is engaged in daily, but most importantly in Sprint/Scrum Reviews
Which of these areas are one of the four main areas that leadership must actively work on to
create a culture for an organization?
Rewarding and punishment
Behaviors and actions of leadership
Allocation of attention and resources
Focus of the leaders
What are the commonly-accepted levels of coaching?
Team, senior, and enterprise
Kanban teams do not have ScrumMaster roles, but an Agile coach is recommended
False
In Scrum, Sprint Retrospectives are used to point out improvement areas
False
Kanban teams make needed policies explicit
false
Both Scrum and other Agile frameworks commit to a set of ceremonies that they adhere to
True
Which activities are not necessary for an Agile transformation journey?
Avoiding any failure when piloting Scrum in order to increase change of Agile adoption
Which of these are part of the continuous discovery of value?
Building for discovery vs. building for delivery
Managing artifacts
Discovery beyond an initiative
Enabling valuable delivery
Which is not one of the Three C's
Commitment
the 3 "C's"
Confirmation
Card
Conversation
In an Agile organization that embraces Scrum of Scrums scaling, who coordinates the top-
level backlogs
The Chief Product Owner
A process that analyzes and potentially redesigns the flow of materials and information used
to deliver a product or service is called _____________________.
Value Map Streaming
A professional Agile practitioner is focused on creating an Agile culture that embeds
__________________________
Continuous Improvements
The 12 principles behind the Agile Manifesto state that "Agile processes promote
sustainable development." They define sustainable as
Developing so as to be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely
A process-centric meeting where the development team applies continuous improvement to
its process, thereby reducing risk, is called the _____________.
Sprint Retrospective
The team creates a graphical expression of the solution that includes whatever images and
narrative content is necessary to convey what the customer expects. This is called the
Product vision box
Who owns the Product Backlog?
The Product Owner
What is the purpose of the Sprint Retrospective?
To learn from experience
To inspect and adapt
To make the team and process better
An issue with estimates is that they are often taken as factual and not as an approximation.
True
A release plan is/are
A sprint-by-sprint plan for the next release
In regards to the Kano Model, what are "exciters"?
Must haves; expected
Not expected; increases excitement when they are there
The Product Owner's primary responsibility is to _________________ of the product by
optimizing the work of the development team.
Maximize the value
The concept of work-in-progress (WIP) limits comes from
Lean manufacturing
Ideally, continuous delivery should utilize
Continuous integration
Automated testing
Automated builds
There is an important intersection between traditional and Agile approaches that can be
explained as
Applying rolling wave progressive elaboration in a robust and meaningful way
The three elements that can lead to an Agile Culture are
Leadership, security, and rewarding success and failure
In a Daily Standup meeting, every Scrum team member answers
Three questions
All Agile contracts require customer participation.
True
Fixes should be made
As a Team
Agile is found in these industries
Information technology
Financial services
Marketing
During the Sprint Planning meeting, who is responsible for creating the plan?
The entire team

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