Push is when work is:
- A . Expedited to meet a deadline.
- B . Delayed until later.
- C . Given to people.
- D . Outsourced to a vendor.
C
Explanation:
Push and pull are techniques of working
How should iterations for an agile project be planned?
- A . Throughout the project by using iteration reviews to continuously improve quality.
- B . Iteratively by the product owner to ensure global optimization.
- C . At the beginning of each iteration by pulling from product backlog.
- D . At the retrospective meetings to ensure nothing is missed from one iteration to the next.
What are the eight principles of Disciplined Agile?
- A . Customer Satisfaction, Market Awareness, Be Awesome, Pragmatism, Quick Decisions, Fail Fast, Choice is Good, Customer Satisfaction.
- B . Delight Customers, Be Awesome, Pragmatism, Context Counts, Choice Good, Optimize Flow, Enterprise Awareness, Organize around products/services.
- C . Customer Satisfaction, Market Awareness, Be Awesome, Pragmatism, Context Counts, Minimize Cost, Choice is Good, Use Logic.
- D . Delight Customers, Be Awesome, Use Logic, Fail Fast, Enterprise Awareness, Optimize Process, Choice is Good, Organize around products/services.
B
Explanation:
In fact, the DA tool kit has always been a hybrid of great strategies from the very beginning, with the focus being on how all of these strategies fit together in practice. (Choose Your WoW, We Believe in These Principles, page 24).
Identify three principles of the Disciplined Agile mindset. (Choose three)
- A . Delight customers.
- B . Accelerate delivery.
- C . Enterprise awareness.
- D . Be a servant leader.
- E . Be pragmatic.
A,C,E
Explanation:
(Choose Your WoW, The Disciplined Agile Mindset, page 23).
Which is not a feature of a user story?
- A . Testable
- B . Estimable
- C . Negotiable
- D . Achievable
D
Explanation:
One or two sentences to describe something of value to a user [W, ObjectPrimer]. (Choose Your WoW, Explore Usage, page 139).
A team has completed the work in their iteration backlog earlier than expected. There still three days left of the iteration, what should the team do now?
- A . Report the differences in completion time so the next iteration can be planned more efficiently.
- B . Wait for the other groups to complete their work prior to doing anything else.
- C . Work with the product owner to pull more work from the product backlog into their iteration backlog.
- D . Work on noncritical tasks until the product owner can them more work.
A
Explanation:
Construction is organized into short iterations. (Choose Your WoW, DAD’s Agile Life Cycle, page 87).
What does a well-written user story describe?
- A . A fixed outcome.
- B . The expectations of the product owner.
- C . The needs of all users.
- D . The customers’ perspective.
What is the definition of Disciplined Agile (DA)?
- A . It is an approach that frequently assesses the change within an organization to ensure all associated projects, programs, and portfolios are aligned
- B . It is a methodology that explores the various approaches to conducting agile and waterfall-based practices to project management.
- C . It is an agile set of practices that promotes autonomy within a project management office.
- D . It is a process-decision tool kit that provides straightforward guidance to help people, teams, and
organizations to streamline their processes in a context-sensitive matter.
D
Explanation:
DA provides the tool kit to guide you through this in a streamlined and accessible manner.. (Choose Your WoW, We Can Benefit From the Learnings of Others, page 4).
Which approach is described as an agnostic hybrid technique that draws upon many different Ideas?
- A . Disciplined Agile
- B . Lean
- C . Iterative
- D . Agile
A
Explanation:
In fact, the DA tool kit has always been a hybrid of great strategies from the very beginning, with the focus being on how all of these strategies fit together in practice. (Choose Your WoW, We Believe in These Principles, page 24).
When should an iteration backlog be created?
- A . When planning the Kanban board or other pull method.
- B . When defining the MBI (Minimum Business Increment).
- C . At the beginning of each sprint.
- D . At the beginning of each project.
The concept of Lean was developed around eliminating the three types of deviations that shows inefficient allocation of?
- A . Resources
- B . Meetings
- C . Data
- D . Deadlines
Which artifact collects all the work flowing to the team?
- A . Iteration backlog
- B . Business backlog
- C . Product backlog
- D . Release roadmap
C
Explanation:
A unique, ranked stack of work that needs to be implemented for the solution. Traditionally comprised of a list of requirements in Scrum, although now some “requirement-like” work such as fixing defects is also included.. (Choose Your WoW, PROCESS GOALS, page 70).
Which method extends the Kaizen loop strategy to help teams identify techniques that are likely to work in their context?
- A . Guided continuous improvement
- B . Cross-team learning
- C . Explicit workflow policies
- D . Communities Of practice
What are the three phases of DAD’s delivery life cycle?
- A . Inception, Construction, Transition.
- B . Introduction, Substance. Alteration.
- C . Initiation, Foundation, Conversion.
- D . Commencement, Creation, Evolution.
A
Explanation:
DAD team grouped by the three phases of Inception, Construction, and Transition, as well as the goals that are ongoing throughout the life cycle.. (Choose Your WoW, The process goals of Disciplined Agile Delivery, page 72).
What is the main role of the team lead?
- A . Build the product
- B . Coordinate the building of the product.
- C . Ensure that the team builds the right product
- D . Ensure that the team builds the product right
B
Explanation:
Viewpoints of the three leadership roles. (Choose Your WoW, The Three Leadership Roles, page 66).
What is the role of the product owner?
- A . Organize the product team
- B . Inspect the product
- C . Coordinate the product
- D . Build the right product
D
Explanation:
The answer on the real PMI exam provided by Pearson Vue is the one selected on the practice exam unless it against what we can check in the book, Figure 4.4 page 67. I’ll place this note on the question explanation.
Architecture Owner: Is responsible to build the product right. (Choose Your WoW, The Three Leadership Roles, figure 4.4, page 78).
Select two tactical scaling factors tut must considered when analyzing the team’s context. (Choose two)
- A . Dynamics.
- B . Best Practices.
- C . Demographics.
- D . Team Size.
- E . Budget.
C,D
Explanation:
(Choose Your WoW, DAD Provides the Foundation for Scaling Agile Tactically, page 52).
Which role on the delivery team builds the product right
- A . Team Member
- B . Product Owner
- C . Team Lead
- D . Architecture Owner
D
Explanation:
The answer on the real PMI exam provided by Pearson Vue is the one selected on the practice exam unless it against what we can check in the book, Figure 4.4 page 67. I’ll place this note on the question explanation.
Architecture Owner: Is responsible to build the product right. (Choose Your WoW, The Three Leadership Roles, figure 4.4, page 78).
Which of the following roles would fall under that of a "specialist’ on a Disciplined Agile Delivery Team?
- A . Product Owner
- B . Project Manager
- C . Stakeholder
- D . Business Analyst
D
Explanation:
Although most team members will be generalizing specialists, or at least striving to be so, we sometimes have specialists on teams when called for. User experience (UX) and security experts are specialists who may be on a team when there is significant user interface (UI) development or security concerns respectively. (Choose Your WoW, People First: Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities, page 46).
Which characteristic describes a good user story according to the I.N.V.E.S.T. mnemonic?
- A . Tangible
- B . Valuable
- C . Satisfactory
- D . Incremental
B
Explanation:
The INVEST mnemonic for Agile software development projects was created by Bill Wake as a reminder of the characteristics of a good quality Product Backlog Item (commonly written in user story format, but not required to be) or PBI for short. (Source Wikipedia).
How does a value stream map help the team to minimize waste?
- A . By helping the team to apply the Five Whys root cause method to all parts of the stream.
- B . By helping the team to identify problem areas in the path for realizing value.
- C . By helping the team to reduce delays in the workflow process.
- D . By helping the team to focus on the construction phase.
B
Explanation:
Reveals potential waste in an existing process and the levels of quality delivered by that process. This can be very disconcerting for people who believe in the existing approach. (Choose Your WoW, Identify Potential Improvements, page 352).
Which of these tools or techniques should be used to sequence work to deliver value quickly?
- A . Minimum business increment (MBI)
- B . Minimum viable product (MVP)
- C . Work in process (WIP) limits
- D . Planning Poker
A
Explanation:
Job sequencing: Sequence MBIs in order of what can realize the most value more quickly, compared to the others.
What are the three phases common across project life cycles? (Choose three)
- A . Modulation
- B . Transition
- C . Construction
- D . Inspiration
- E . Inception
B,C,E
Explanation:
DAD team grouped by the three phases of Inception, Construction, and Transition, as well as the goals that are ongoing throughout the life cycle.. (Choose Your WoW, Disciplined Agile Teams Are Goal-Driven, page 72).
What is Epic?
- A . Great way to visually work through the analysis of a high-level requirement or strategy.
- B . A simple way to explore the entities and their relationships.
- C . Large stories that take a lot of effort, often multiple iterations, to complete.
- D . A collection of smaller user stories
C
Explanation:
Epics are large stories that take a lot of effort, often multiple iterations, to complete. Epics are typically organized into a collection of smaller user stories [W]. Sometimes epics are referred to as features or user activities. (Choose Your WoW, Explore Usage, page 139).
What is the role of management in Lean?
- A . Ensure documentation is completed
- B . Provide minimum viable products to the team.
- C . Create awesome team environments.
- D . Ensure decisions are not made regionally
Why is the coordination meeting important for a project team?
- A . It allows the stakeholders to see how well the team is working together.
- B . It allows the team to reassess the backlog to meet their needs.
- C . It provides a demo of the product to keep everyone up to date.
- D . It provides an opportunity for the team to help itself stay in sync.
D
Explanation:
The coordination meeting shouldn’t be avoided to happen. Maintaining a regular way to the team be synchronized.
Which of the following process goals require most of the effort when tailoring your agile strategy? (Choose two)
- A . Explore Scope
- B . Align with Enterprise Direction
- C . Improve Quality
- D . Address Changing Stakeholder Needs
What are Disciplined Agile milestones based on?
- A . Lean governance
- B . Continuous integration
- C . Documentation
- D . Lifecycle
D
Explanation:
An important aspect of these milestones is that they are applied consistently, where appropriate, across all of the DAD life cycles. This has the advantage of enabling teams to choose their way of working (WoW), including an appropriate life cycle, while enabling leadership to govern them in a consistent manner. (Choose Your WoW, Milestone Review Strategy, figure 27.4, page 401).
What goal diagrams should a team select first?
- A . Goals that are most relevant to the team’s context and life cycle.
- B . The goals that are selected by the customer and stakeholders.
- C . The goals in which the team has the least experience.
- D . The goals that are the easiest to complete.
A company is introducing new features to a large, existing product.
Which technique should the product team employ?
- A . Minimum business increment (MBI)
- B . Continuous integration
- C . Minimum viable product (MVP)
- D . Pull system
A
Explanation:
MBI is the best choice when adding features in an existing product on a regular basis.
Why is the retrospective an important agile ceremony?
- A . It prohibits stakeholders who attended the demo from giving additional requests to the team.
- B . It allows the team time to focus on how they can better work together moving forward.
- C . It provides the product owner with the opportunity to see how well the team works together.
- D . It allows the team to organize the product backlog into categories which are meaningful to them.
B
Explanation:
A retrospective is a technique that teams use to reflect on how effective they are and hopefully to identify potential process improvements to experiment with [W, Kerth]. (Choose Your WoW, Enhance Retrospectives Through Guided Improvement Options, page 17).
What is the purpose of an Iteration retrospective?
- A . To transfer knowledge and improvements to the next iteration.
- B . To prioritize stories and concrete tasks for the next iteration.
- C . To identify progress and to note encountered impediments.
- D . To showcase what the team accomplished in an iteration.
A
Explanation:
A retrospective is a technique that teams use to reflect on how effective they are and hopefully to identify potential process improvements to experiment with.
Who defines the amount of work to be completed during an iteration?
- A . The team members based on their understanding of the team’s current capacity.
- B . The quality tester based on their estimation of how much completed work can be tested.
- C . The team lead who is responsible for ensuring that the work gets done.
- D . The product owner based on their estimation of what should be done.
A
Explanation:
Product owner (PO). A product owner is responsible for working with stakeholders to identify the work to be done, prioritize that work, help the team to understand the stakeholders’ needs, and help the team interact effectively with stakeholders [ScrumGuide]. (Choose Your WoW, People First: Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities, page 46)
What are the benefits to having a long-live (stable) team?
- A . Trustworthy
- B . Projectized
- C . Ability to multi-task
- D . Specifically resourced
- E . Highly collaborative
A,E
Explanation:
When a longstanding team is allowed to evolve its WoW, we’ve seen some incredible things happen―they become teams capable of continuous delivery. The term “shift left” is popular among agilists, often being used to indicate that testing and quality practices are being performed throughout the entire life cycle.
What are the three categories of process blades, according to Disciplined Agile (DA)? (Choose three)
- A . Disciplined Project Management Office (PMO)
- B . Disciplined Kanban
- C . Disciplined DevOps
- D . Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)
- E . Disciplined Agile IT
C,D,E
Explanation:
Disciplined Agile scope has four layers: Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), Disciplined DevOps, Disciplined Agile IT and Disciplined Agile Enterprise, also known as Foundation, Disciplined DevOps, Value Streams and Disciplined Agile Enterprise.
What are two of the ways that Disciplined Agile provides a solid foundation for business agility? (Choose two)
- A . Defines a framework for agility at scale.
- B . Enforces adherence to organizational standards.
- C . Describes the trade-offs associated with a range of options.
- D . Creates awesome teams that foster joy.
- E . Provides guidance to streamline processes in a context-sensitive manner.
B,E
Explanation:
The Disciplined Agile mindset provides a solid foundation from which our organization can become agile, but it is only a foundation. (Choose Your WoW, Mindset Is Only the Beginning, page 43).
What is the architecture owner responsible for?
- A . Working cross-functionally to deliver the solution
- B . Removing impediments
- C . Mitigating key technical risks
- D . Determining the priorities for the solution
C
Explanation:
Table 4.1. (Choose Your WoW, Tailoring DAD Team Roles for Your Organization, page 67).
The Kaizen feedback loop can summarized as:
- A . Study, Act, React, Demo
- B . Plan, Do, Study, Act
- C . Plan, Implement, Demo, Study
- D . Plan, Do, Monitor, Study
B
Explanation:
The basic idea with the PDSA/PDCA/OODA continuous improvement loop strategy is that you improve your WoW as a series of small changes, a strategy the lean community calls kaizen, which is Japanese for improvement. (Choose Your WoW, The PDSA continuous improvement loop, page 11).
Which is a supporting role a Disciplined Agile (DA) team?
- A . Architecture Owner
- B . Stakeholder
- C . Specialist
- D . Team Lead
C
Explanation:
Job sequencing: Sequence MBIs in order of what can realize the most value more quickly, compared to the others.
What is the Disciplined Agile principle of being pragmatic characterized by?
- A . Identifying when to be agile.
- B . Being as effective as you can and continuously improving.
- C . Adapting lean methodologies when necessary.
- D . Tailoring the organizational structure to the context.
B
Explanation:
DA recognizes these realities, and rather than saying “we can’t be agile” in these situations, we instead say: “Let’s be pragmatic and aim to be as effective as we can be.” Instead of prescribing “best practices,” DA provides strategies for maximizing the benefits of agile despite certain necessary compromises being made. (Choose Your WoW, Be Pragmatic, page 27)
What are the attributes of a leader? (Choose three)
- A . Assigns tasks
- B . Goes with the flow
- C . Inspires trust
- D . Takes risks
- E . Focuses on goals
C,D,E
Explanation:
A servant leader shares power, putting the needs of the people that they lead first, helping them to develop and to perform [W].. (Choose Your WoW, Motivate Enterprise Awareness, page 392).
A scrum master needs to set up a team for a long-term project that has the potential for significant budgeting and tracking overhead.
What type of team should the scrum master set up?
- A . A project team
- B . A long-standing team
- C . A cross-functional team
- D . A shared services team
B
Explanation:
Long-standing teams are focused and have ability to deliver much and more quality work.
The team lead notices that a team member is falling behind on their work.
What would a good Disciplined Agile team lead do?
- A . Have a one-to-one meeting with the team member about their recent failures.
- B . Redistribute the team member’s work across the team to avoid embarrassing the team member.
- C . Have a conversation with the team member to better understand what is getting in their way and
look for solutions together. - D . Provide time management training to the team member.
C
Explanation:
As a servant leader, Team Leader, need to act as a mediator, intelligently solving team’s problem.
Which of the following statements accurately describes a complex adaptive system?
- A . A System in which a perfect understanding of the individual parts does not automatically convey a perfect understanding of the whole system’s behavior.
- B . The process used in agile teams to evolve their ways of working and motivate change in those they interact with outside or the team.
- C . A system algorithm used to predict how people are going to work together or what the results of that work will be.
- D . The process by which a collection of interacting teams and groups adapt their way of working to the organizational context and project requirements.
A
Explanation:
Our team is part of a larger organization, and we need to leverage that. (Choose Your WoW, GOVERN DELIVERY TEAM, page 386).
Which of the following is a primary role on a Disciplined Agile Delivery team?
- A . Domain Expert
- B . Architecture Owner
- C . Integrator
- D . Specialist
B
Explanation:
An architecture owner guides the team through architecture and design decisions, working closely with the team lead and product owner when doing so [AgileModeling]. (Choose Your WoW, Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities, page 46).
During which iterative ceremony should someone obtain feedback?
- A . Iteration planning.
- B . Retrospective.
- C . Daily stand-up/coordination meeting.
- D . Iteration demo.
D
Explanation:
Show the solution, usually at the end of an iteration for agile teams, to a targeted group of stakeholders.
(Choose Your WoW, Stakeholder Interaction With Team, page 242).
A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a product with just enough features to satisfy early customers and?
- A . Is not yet ready to be sold.
- B . Provide feedback for future product development.
- C . Is used for demonstration only.
- D . Will be the last iteration of development.
B
Explanation:
We come up with a hypothesis of what our customers want, we develop one or more minimal viable products (MVPs) which are deployed to a subset of potential customers, then we observe and measure how they work with the MVP(s). (Choose Your WoW, DAD’s Exploratory Life Cycle, page 95).
Which phase of the project life cycle develops a consumable solution in a collaborative and incremental manner?
- A . Inception
- B . Execution
- C . Construction
- D . Transition
C
Explanation:
Sufficient Functionality. While it is worthwhile pursuing a goal of a consumable solution (what Scrum calls a potentially shippable increment) at the end of each iteration, it is more common to require a number of iterations of Construction before the team has implemented enough functionality to deploy.. (Choose Your WoW, Different Life Cycles With Common Milestones, page 102).
A team is about to begin work on a project that will face rapidly changing with releases only every six months or so. The team does not have an agile mindset, and does not want to release often.
Which lifecycle should the scrum master select?
- A . Lean
- B . Traditional
- C . Program
- D . Agile
A
Explanation:
This project-oriented life cycle is often adopted by teams who are new to agile/lean who face rapidly changing stakeholder needs, a common issue for teams evolving (sustaining) an existing legacy solution, and by traditional teams that don’t want to take on the risk of the cultural and process disruption usually caused by agile adoption (at least not right away). (Choose Your WoW, DAD’s Lean Life Cycle, page 91).
In Team Estimation…
- A . Members of a group define what criteria will be used for determining the "Definition of Done”.
- B . You estimate what roles will be necessary in order to complete user stories.
- C . You first estimate the relative sizes of all stories, then assign numbers to them.
- D . Each team is ranked in order of importance for completing a task.
C
Explanation:
An important decision to make when estimating or sizing work items is the unit in which you are doing so. (Choose Your WoW, Choose Estimation Unit, page 174).
Who is responsible for determinng the WoW for a Disciplined Agile team?
- A . Customer
- B . Architecture owner
- C . Team lead
- D . Team members
- E . Product Owner
D
Explanation:
Team members ultimately determine the WoW. Others may guide them through the process
The primary purpose of creating a minimimally viable product (MVP) is to:
- A . Create a marketable product complete with useful features
- B . Finalize the product design through a series of experiments
- C . Commit to continuous improvement by adding value
- D . Establish the validity of a hypothesis by putting a prototype in front of customers
D
Explanation:
MVP is a prototype at best – and it is meant to get a bare minimum product out in front of customers to see how they react to it
Guided Continuous Improvement is essential when:
- A . The team finds itself in a method prison
- B . There are no more improvement opportunities left to explore
- C . The team is looking for help in identifying viable improvement options and avoid risky ones
- D . The team cannot figure out improvement opportunities on their own
C
Explanation:
Guided continuous improvement helps the team validate its choices in evolving their way of working to prevent avoidable failure
The lean life-cycle in Disciplined Agile need not follow timeboxed iterations
- A . FALSE
- B . TRUE
B
Explanation:
Lean life-cycle has a continuous flow of work – not timeboxed iterations
True or False: Enterprise awareness means trying to standardize the processes across all similar teams in the organization
- A . FALSE
- B . TRUE
A
Explanation:
The enterprise awareness principle is more about taking decisions in the context of the organization. It does not mean applying one size fits all
True or False: Any step in the value stream that is not necessary for creating the product is waste
- A . FALSE
- B . TRUE
B
Explanation:
Waste is any step in the value stream mapping which is not directly adding customer value
Which of the following is a process goal relevant to the construction phase of a project?
- A . Prove architecture early
- B . Develop test strategy
- C . Form team
- D . Explore scope
A
Explanation:
All others are from the inception stage
The primary function of the "Business Operations" process blade is:
- A . To monitor and guide teams to remove any barriers that they may experience
- B . To provide services to customers and support your products
- C . To ensure cash flow in the organization ensuring that the money is spent well
- D . To monitor the competitive landscape and come up with appropriate promotional strategies
B
Explanation:
The business operations process blade supports the operations that sustains the business
True or False: Process goals are meant to prescribe how to achieve a particular objective for a team
- A . FALSE
- B . TRUE
A
Explanation:
Process goals provide various options about how to achieve a particular objective
Limiting the work-in-progress is an important factor in optimizing flow.
How does reducing work-in-progress help?
- A . Respect the timebox
- B . Create focus
- C . Preventing priority changes
- D . Pursue multiple goals at a time
B
Explanation:
By limiting the work-in-progress, you can focus on a fewer things and complete them faster, leading to a smooth flow of work
A senior management team is monitoring the work in various areas of the organization, providing guidance and resolving any escalated issues.
This is an example of which process blade?
- A . Business Operations
- B . Governance
- C . Product management
- D . Portfolio management
- E . Finance
B
Explanation:
Control is the process blade responsible for monitoring the work and providing guidance
True or False: The FLOW view for Disciplined Agile means that there are no starts and stops in any DA project
- A . TRUE
- B . FALSE
B
Explanation:
Flow means the team should try and ensure smooth flow of work as far as possible. It is not that work will not start or stop
Which of the following life-cycle models is based on continuous flow of work?
- A . Continuous Delivery Agile
- B . Exploratory
- C . Lean
- D . Waterfall
- E . Agile
- F . Program
C
Explanation:
Lean life-cycle mode relies on a continuous flow of work. It is not restricted to the idea of timeboxing and iterations
Which of the following milestones represent a DA project moving from Construction to Transition stage?
- A . Sufficient functionality
- B . Stakeholder vision
- C . Continued viability
- D . Proven architecture
- E . Production ready
A
Explanation:
When sufficient functionality is built, the project moves into transition phase
A team decided to skip the daily standup meetings as they were co-located and meeting daily was not adding value. This is an example of:
- A . Context counts
- B . Choice is good
- C . Being awesome
- D . Enterprise awareness
A
Explanation:
Context counts – means that one size does not fit all. A team may tailor the process according to its needs and the unique circumstances in which it operates
True or False: In general, it is preferable to have long standing product teams rather than ad-hoc or project based teams
- A . FALSE
- B . TRUE
B
Explanation:
Long standing product teams are able to deliver sustainable value over a period of time
Which of the following is not one of the responsibilities of the architecture owner?
- A . Work to improve the supportability of the product
- B . Evaluate the team member’s performance and administer rewards
- C . Mentoring and coaching the team on technical practices
- D . Work with the product owner to define the technical roadmap
- E . Evolving the design and architecture for the product
B
Explanation:
Architecture is not a hierarchical position having authority over the team
Which process blade provides strategies to ensure successful interactions with the external world about your organization, products and offerings?
- A . Product Management
- B . Portfolio management
- C . Marketing
- D . Business Operations
- E . Sales
C
Explanation:
Marketing provides for streamlining communications from the organization to the external world
Which life-cycle model is most suitable for running large product development efforts requiring team-of-teams?
- A . Program
- B . Exploratory
- C . Kanban
- D . Scrum
- E . Agile
- F . Lean
A
Explanation:
Program life-cycle typically involves working with team-of-teams
Which of the following is not one of the reasons that Disciplined Agile teams practice transparency?
- A . Everybody knows what is happening
- B . It improves team morale
- C . It delays breaking bad news to customers
- D . Customers appreciate and expect transparency
C
Explanation:
Transparency means all the project information (good or bad) is shared honestly. It is not about hiding bad news from customers
A process blade is:
- A . An organizational capability useful in solving problems
- B . A cross-functional team that works on a process
- C . A goal or vision for a particular process
- D . A meeting to discuss and arrive at process choices in a context sensitive way
A
Explanation:
A process blade represents an organizational capability used to address issues and deliver solutions
Which of the following is NOT an important part of improving the WoW for a team?
- A . Do the best you can
- B . Stick to a method once you discover it
- C . Start where you are
- D . Always try to get better
B
Explanation:
Improving the WoW is a continuous process and one should not be stuck into a method prison
Which of the following is one of the 4 views of Disciplined Agile?
- A . Technology
- B . Enterprise
- C . Mindset
- D . Goals
C
Explanation:
The four views of DA are People, Practices, Flow and Mindset
True or False: All of the process choices presented in a goal diagram may not be viable in a given situation
- A . FALSE
- B . TRUE
B
Explanation:
Some of the process choices may not work well in certain circumstances
A team working on a product grew from 8 to 12 team members. The Scrum master felt that they need to split into two scrum teams. After discussion, they decided to stick to one team as it was better for team cohesiveness and delivery. This is an example of:
- A . Enterprise awareness
- B . Being Awesome
- C . Being pragmatic
- D . Optimize for flow
- E . Choice is good
C
Explanation:
Being pragmatic means making do with the best available choice under the circumstances – rather than being blinded by idealistic decisions
Which of the following is not a role for the team lead in a Disciplined Agile team?
- A . Helping the team evolve their WoW
- B . Providing timely decisions on priority and product roadmap
- C . Guiding the team through improvement actions
- D . Helping the team collaborate
B
Explanation:
Roadmap and prioritization are responsibilities for the product owner
One of the differences between a MVP and a MBI is that:
- A . MVP is a collection of MBI’s
- B . MBI is typically built incrementally on top of an existing product
- C . MVP represents a product that is released to the customer
- D . MBI is the initial release that is sent to the customer
B
Explanation:
Minimal Business Increment is built on top of an existing product
What kind of metrics are favoured in Disciplined Agile projects according to the Disciplined agile manifesto and principles?
- A . Subjective measures more than objective measures
- B . Scalar measures over trend indicators
- C . Individual measures over team measures
- D . Automated measures helping to make data driven decisions
D
Explanation:
Automated measures help in preventing manipulation and make data driven decisions
Lean governance practices involve all of the following except:
- A . Regularly create business value
- B . Empowering the team
- C . Provide appropriate RoI
- D . Directing the team with clear tasks
- E . Present accurate and timely information
D
Explanation:
Lean governance does not involve micro-managing the team by assigning them tasks
Which of the following is NOT a desirable practice in design thinking?
- A . Make design choices early in the project
- B . Be conscious about the constraints in the solution space
- C . Being empathetic to the customers
- D . Look for solutions appropriate for the situation
A
Explanation:
Making design choices too early in the life-cycle will limit the flexibility to adapt it in the future
Agile teams can deliver non-software projects as well
- A . TRUE
- B . FALSE
A
Explanation:
Agile methods can be used even outside software development projects
What is the primary advantage of working in an agile team?
- A . Customers will not need to bother much due to self-organized teams
- B . We can guarantee timely delivery of the product
- C . We can specialize in an area of our choice
- D . We can adjust quickly to changing customer needs
D
Explanation:
The primary benefit of an agile team is that it helps in adjusting quickly to changing customer needs
What may be NOT decided during the INCEPTION stage of a Disciplined Agile project?
- A . Initial architecture
- B . Deployment strategy
- C . High level scope
- D . Test strategy
B
Explanation:
Deployment strategy may be determined during Construction
DevOps refers to:
- A . Automating the testing effort in the team
- B . Using development team members to solve operational problems
- C . Creating a smooth flow of work from development to operations
- D . Involving operational teams in the development work
C
Explanation:
DevOps involves transitioning a development system to an operational system
A team lead works very hard to get the team to collaborate and gel together as a unit. The team lead believes that teamwork will ultimately result in the best results for the business.
Which principle was applied by the hotel?
- A . Optimize around products/services
- B . Context counts
- C . Choice is good
- D . Be awesome
- E . Delight customers
D
Explanation:
Being awesome is the principle that the team is collaborating and learning all the time. Such a team will most likely deliver awesome results
True or False: Disciplined agile projects try to maximise the work-in-progress so that it can get more work done
- A . TRUE
- B . FALSE
B
Explanation:
The key to achieving higher speed of work is to actually reduce work-in-progress
True or False: Delight customers as a principle means never to exceed expectations of the customers but to just about meet them
- A . FALSE
- B . TRUE
A
Explanation:
Customers are delighted when the product or services not just meet their needs but surpass them
In Disciplined Agile, the daily huddle for a team is referred to as:
- A . A Sprint review
- B . A coordination meeting
- C . A Scrum meeting
- D . A daily meeting
B
Explanation:
DA teams will have a daily coordination meeting
Lean governance mindset includes all of the following except:
- A . Leading by example
- B . Promoting transparency
- C . Being servant leaders
- D . Learn continuously
- E . Let the team manage the risks
E
Explanation:
The lean governance mindset involves mitigating risks for the team
Which of the following is a process goal in the Construction stage?
- A . Develop test strategy
- B . Ensure production readiness
- C . Explore scope
- D . Prove architecture early
- E . Form team
D
Explanation:
Prove architecture early belongs to the construction stage
A team is trying to explore the purpose, the domain and the usage of a product.
Which process goal is being worked on?
- A . Explore scope
- B . Identify architecture strategy
- C . Address changing stakeholder needs
- D . Align with enterprise direction
A
Explanation:
Explore scope as a process goal includes definition of the purpose, the usage and the domain
True or False: Governance is not a critical issue in DA projects because most of the teams are self-organizing
- A . FALSE
- B . TRUE
A
Explanation:
Governance is still required even if the teams are self-organized
A disciplined agile team will spend a considerable amount of time in the beginning to lock down the architecture and design of the product
- A . TRUE
- B . FALSE
B
Explanation:
A disciplined agile team believes in evolutionary architecture and design
The primary benefit of DevOps is that:
- A . Decision to release can be taken by anybody in the team
- B . Increased mean time between successive deployments
- C . Reduced cost of deployments
- D . Creating strong business justification for products
C
Explanation:
DevOps reduces the cost of deployment of a system
The following process goal usually requires a lot of tailoring:
- A . Prove architecture early
- B . Accelerate value delivery
- C . Form team
- D . Improve quality
B
Explanation:
Accelerate value delivery is one of the process goals that is often tailored
True or False: To understand a complex adaptive system, the best way is to develop a perfect understanding of the individual parts
- A . FALSE
- B . TRUE
A
Explanation:
In a complex adaptive system, the understanding of individual parts is not enough to understand the behaviour of the whole system
Governance in a DA project means all of the following except:
- A . Administer rewards and recognition
- B . Ensuring compliance with a regulatory standard
- C . Complete freedom to the team to make decisions
- D . Creating forums for sharing knowledge
- E . Making decisions about funding
- F . Having defined process for decision making
C
Explanation:
Although DA teams will enjoy a high degree of autonomy, they may not have freedom to make any decisions of their own free will
Who is ultimately accountable for the timely delivery of the product as committed?
- A . Product owner
- B . Gold user
- C . Team members
- D . Team lead
- E . Architecture owner
C
Explanation:
Team members (the entire team collectively) are accountable for the delivery of the product as committed
The architecture of a product is usually proven in which phase of a project?
- A . Inception
- B . Elaboration
- C . Transition
- D . Construction
D
Explanation:
It is usually early in the construction phase that the team will be able to have a proven architecture
True or False: "Choice is good" as a principle means that the team must present multiple products to its customers and let them make the choice
- A . FALSE
- B . TRUE
A
Explanation:
"Choice is good" is a fundamental principle of Disciplined Agile and it refers to process options which can help achieve a particular goal