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Advanced Agile Project Management

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Value­based Prioritization 2 of 8 Correct

Question 1

Value stream analysis can be best described as a ________.

a) product quality process

b) project estimating process

c) risk management process

d) continuous improvement process

Question 2

A member of an Agile team has activated an alarm to tell her colleagues that a problem has been detected. The team then gathers at the site of the problem to quickly correct them problem and allow work to continue. This problem­resolution activity is known as ________.

a) a pre­mortem

b) fishbone diagram analysis

c) kaizen

d) variance analysis

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Question 3

Ideal time can be defined as ________.

a) a prediction of work duration that does not compensate for interruptions that may occur

b) a prediction of work duration that takes into account interruptions that may occur

c) the amount of time that the team agrees it should take to complete an average story point given the team's velocity

d) the budgeted amount of time that the team adjusts to reflect updates made to the story board

Question 4

Diamond Software is conducting an Agile project and wants to use a metric to determine how many unfinished tasks it has at the end of its iterations. Which metric would be best to track?

a) cycle time

b) work in progress

c) defect rate

d) velocity

Question 5

When does an Agile project leader not need to hold a final project retrospective to close out the project?

a) when there has been a retrospective following each iteration

b) when team members have urgent priorities and all project issues have been previously addressed

c) if senior management prefers to have documented feedback instead

d) None of the above are reasons to skip the project retrospective.

Question 6

How does the Agile Declaration of Interdependence suggest that practitioners can boost performance?

a) through the acquisition of skills by individual team members

b) through an increased return on investment

c) through the accountability and shared responsibility of the entire group

d) through the mentoring of inexperienced team members by those with more experience

Question 7

Developing estimates based on effort hours can be very subjective–an experienced team member may be able to complete work much faster than an inexperienced worker performing the same task. How can an Agile team establish a common measure to estimate work?

a) The team could develop its own story point scale to measure the relative size of user stories.

b) The team could use a story point scale based on industry standards to estimate the relative difficulty of the user stories.

c) The team could apply the story point scale from another team to its work.

d) The team could assign only experienced workers to tasks.

Question 8

Customer­valued prioritization places greater emphasis on customer value and less emphasis on __________.

a) cost, compliance, or market conditions

b) expenses and product users

c) cost and end users

d) marketing, promotion, and end users

Question 9

Marvin has just sent an email to a teammate, to ask for clarification on a project issue. This is a form of ________.

a) asynchronous one­way communication

b) coincident one­way communication

c) asynchronous two­way communication

d) coincident two­way communication

Question 10

Which of the following statements is true?

a) Because Agile teams implement working products in much shorter increments, they can apply verification and validation techniques on a less­frequent basis.

b) Verification is a quality­testing process that relies on external stakeholders to test products.

c) Validation enlists end users and customers to test the product to see that it works as they envision it to.

d) Validation is a quality­testing process that relies on the project team to test products.

Question 11

Brenna is reviewing her team's burn charts and cumulative flow diagrams to uncover any differences in what they expected to achieve and what they actually achieved. What is Brenna doing?

a) creating a timebox

b) performing variance analysis

c) playing Planning Poker

d) completing a MoSCoW analysis

Question 12

Why is it that an Agile team leader can monitor project work with a "light touch" rather than with a "heavy hand"?

a) because the members of an Agile team understand their roles and how iterations will progress

b) because the role of an Agile team leader is not to direct team members

c) because short iterations don't allow an Agile team leader enough time to monitor a project

d) because project work should not be micro­monitored since the processes used differ from one iteration to the next

Question 13

Which of the following is one of the six Agile management principles?

a) Unleash creativity and innovation by recognizing that team members are the ultimate source of value, creating an environment where they can make a difference.

b) Improve effectiveness and reliability through documented strategies, processes, and practices.

c) Increase return on investment by making continuous flow of value the focus.

d) Deliver reliable results by engaging customers only when necessary.

Question 14

Which of the following statements regarding interpersonal skills is true?

a) Doing Agile requires understanding Agile practices; being Agile involves implementing Agile practices.

b) In adaptive leadership, the leader acts as a facilitator to the team, rather than as a manager or director of the team.

c) Empathy is the ability to work together to reach a common goal.

d) On highly collaborative Agile teams, the aim of negotiation should be ensure that team members voice their opinion but concede to the party with the most valid argument.

Question 15

Scrum is one of the most popular and widely used Agile methodologies. How does the Scrum approach differ from many other forms of Agile?

a) Scrum projects contain guidelines to help reduce confusion and distraction that could derail progress.

b) Scrum projects employ cycles of frequent testing and feedback.

c) Scrum projects establish customer requirement up front and then monitor and control the project until completion.

d) Scrum projects do not use sprints in the product development cycle, in favor of less rigorous framework.

Question 16

In which type of brainstorming do all members participate sequentially until everyone has exhausted their ideas?

a) popcorn

b) freewheeling

c) card deck

d) round robin

Question 17

A user story that was selected but not completed by the end of an iteration is ________.

a) a defect rate

b) a spike

c) an escaped defect

d) a corrective action

Question 18

What may happen if an Agile team is distributed, rather than being co­located?

a) The team must accept that product cost and time­to­market will be greater.

b) Success will require more effort and focus on better communication and information distribution techniques.

c) Agile will not be the best approach for accomplishing the project.

d) The product owner must develop additional management processes.

Question 19

An Agile team wants to estimate the amount of effort and complexity of its user stories but doesn't want a complicated process that assigns numerical values to the stories. What tool should they use?

a) Planning Poker

b) the Five Whys

c) t­shirt sizing

d) internal rate of return

Question 20

Kyra and her team are following the Agile development cycle and have just created a product vision and product backlog. What is their next step?

a) execute the work

b) create timeboxes

c) perform a daily standup

d) plan an iteration

Question 21

How does the process of progressive elaboration work in an Agile project?

a) Progressive elaboration provides detailed plans of story boards that lead to specific insight as to how iterations should be planned.

b) Progressive elaboration organizes a project at a high­level and lets the details of the project evolve over time.

c) Progressive elaboration communicates ideas, verifies design assumptions, and validates project concepts, which minimizes uncertainty by allowing users to "see" what the product will do.

d) Progressive elaboration adds requirements to the product backlog as the project nears the release date to prepare for subsequent releases.

Question 22

Agile uses incremental and iterative development cycles to create new products or to modify existing products. Which of the following is a benefit of this approach?

a) It creates complete, innovative, and reliable products that can be released to the market sooner.

b) It ensures that the product meets the team's needs.

c) It limits new ideas from stakeholders to ensure product consistency.

d) It helps establish project requirements up front.

Question 23

Which of the following statements is false?

a) Scrum teams should include no fewer than five members and no more than nine members.

b) Daily scrums provide status updates to team members.

c) The Scrum process begins with a product vision and detailed customers requirements.

d) Sprint planning meetings are open forums in which any interested party can participate.

Question 24

Which of the following would be least helpful in recognizing project trends and variation?

a) story maps

b) earned value management

c) burn charts

d) cumulative flow diagrams

Question 25

Requirements in a product backlog may be incorrect or misleading due to several common causes. Which of the following is not a common cause of an inaccurate product backlog?

a) The product owner may be overworked.

b) The organization may have too many ways of collecting requirements.

c) The requirements may be incorrectly prioritized.

d) The requirement descriptions may be too vague or too descriptive.

Question 26

Piotr wants to use rolling wave planning on an upcoming Scrum project but his superior has suggested that he use progressive elaboration. What should Piotr do?

a) Insist that rolling wave planning would be a better fit for a Scrum project.

b) Agree to use progressive elaboration but secretly use rolling wave planning instead.

c) Agree with his superior as rolling wave planning is a form of progressive elaboration.

d) Ask his superior to consider rolling wave planning but abide by whatever decision his superior insists on.

Question 27

An iteration can be of whatever length a team designs it to be but is generally ________.

a) one month in length

b) one to four weeks in length

c) four to eight weeks in length

d) five to ten days in length

Question 28

Agile methods primarily approach accomplishing work through ________.

a) processes

b) people

c) plans

d) technology

Question 29

When an Agile team continually combines completed work into the customer solution, it is practicing _________.

a) test­driven development

b) continuous integration

c) frequent verification

d) six sigma

Question 30

Large displays of critical team information that are continuously updated and located where teams can see them constantly are called _________.

a) information sinks

b) information radiators

c) information boards

d) common rooms

Question 31

The document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply project resources to project activities is the _________.

a) product roadmap

b) sponsorship document

c) project charter

d) product budget

Question 32

Why do teams hold daily stand­up meetings?

a) to specifically solve team member problems

b) to encourage each team member to provide an accurate in­depth progress report

c) to limit the need for visual displays or story boards

d) to make sure communication is among the team, not to the product owner

Question 33

_________ is a facilitation technique that Agile leaders may use to improve interaction among practitioners.

a) Emotional intelligence

b) The planning game

c) Refactoring

d) Brainwriting

Question 34

The bottom of a value stream map looks like this:

How much of the work in the process is value­added?

a) 22 days

b) 28 days

c) 6 days

d) 50 days

Question 35

If Lee wants to be a good active listener, which of the following should he avoid doing?

a) taking notes to ensure he has heard correctly

b) listening without thinking about a response

c) maintaining eye contact

d) asking clarifying questions

Question 36

What is an architectural spike?

a) a dramatic increase or decrease on a burndown chart

b) a graphic representation of the product backlog that shows interdependencies of risks

c) a section of the project charter that lists potential problems that could occur

d) an experiment that looks for potential risks or issues in the structural, foundational, or technical aspects of a project

Question 37

In addition to strong technical skills, Agile team members must possess robust interpersonal skills such as the ability to resolve conflicts. Which of the following statements about conflict resolution is false?

a) A collaborative environment and good negotiating skills can eliminate the potential for conflict between stakeholders.

b) Conflicts will inevitably arise whenever individuals work as closely together as Agile practitioners do.

c) Agile teams must create an environment where conflicts can be identified and resolved quickly.

d) Conflict resolution is an interpersonal skill.

Question 38

What is value­based prioritization?

a) the ordering of the stories in a product backlog based on the value that they bring to the project

b) the ordering of iterations that ensures project phases are executed in order of importance

c) the arrangement of Agile project requirements to satisfy the product owner

d) a method for developing useful user stories

Question 39

As her team is clarifying its definition of "done" in an initial meeting, Penelope realizes that the definition seems incomplete because it doesn't specify whether "done" means that the product is ready to ship–the definition ends by stating that the product is "ready to move on to the next phase of its cycle." Penelope realizes that this ambiguity could be used as an excuse at a later date if the team fails to meet an organizational deadline. When asked if she had anything to add to the definition, Penelope replies by saying that the definition "did a good job clarifying the terms it used." By hiding behind this half­truth, Penelope is failing to abide by elements of which of the following documents?

a) PMI 's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

b) the project charter

c) The Agile Manifesto

d) the project release plan

Question 40

Actions undertaken to ensure that all relevant specifications, regulations, policies, or laws are followed and satisfied are referred to as _________.

a) customer­valued prioritization

b) financial regulation

c) compliance

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d) legal prioritization

Question 41

For Agile teams to build trust, team members should do which of the following?

a) Team members should select tasks from the tasks list that will be most easy and enjoyable for them to complete.

b) Team members should try to resolve conflicts themselves before engaging an Agile team leader.

c) Team members with experience handling difficult tasks should assume responsibility for all of these tasks to help the team complete iterations on time.

d) Team members that are effective at handling long or difficult tasks should be assigned to handle these types of issues.