1. Fill in the blank: You can make
sure your team delivers value to customers by building the right thing, the thing right, and _____.
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running
it cheaply
·
selling
it right
·
scaling
as fast as possible
·
running it right
Explanation: You may ensure that your
team provides value to clients by ensuring that they create the appropriate
item, creating it correctly, and doing it as rapidly as possible.
2. Which of the following are
components of a typical value roadmap? Select all that apply.
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A product vision
·
A
product playbook
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A release plan
·
A product roadmap
·
A
mission statement
3. Fill in the blank: In a release
plan, product releases happen when _____.
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the
project is complete and the team has delivered the final product
·
the
customer has asked for the release of a given feature or requirement
·
the
feature or requirement is in development and is being iterated upon
·
the team has developed a working version of a
given feature or requirement
Explanation: Product releases are something that occurs according to a
release strategy when certain features or functions have been finished and are
judged suitable for distribution.
4. Which of the following are
product roadmap best practices? Select all that apply.
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Fine-tune
delivery dates for accuracy well in advance.
·
Make the roadmap highly noticeable to the team
and refer to it frequently.
·
Indicate highest priority and highest value
items.
·
Conduct regular reviews with sponsors,
stakeholders, and the team.
·
Inform
the team you finalized the roadmap.
·
Make the roadmap highly visible to stakeholders.
5. Imagine you’re a project manager
creating a project roadmap. You meet with the Product Owner to estimate the
team’s capacity and velocity—their ability to complete work at a certain pace.
Which Agile principle does this scenario represent?
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Agile processes promote sustainable
development—the team developers should be able to maintain a constant workload.
·
Deliver
working software frequently, with a preference to the shorter timescale.
·
Stakeholders
and the team developers must work together daily throughout the project
·
At
regular intervals, the development team meets to reflect on how to become more
effective
Explanation: The example exemplifies the "Sustainable Pace"
notion that underpins the Agile methodology. The concept places an emphasis on
the significance of ensuring that the development team works at a rate that is
both constant and able to be sustained over time. The project manager will
ensure that the workload of the team is reasonable by scheduling a meeting with
the Product Owner to estimate the team's capacity and velocity. This will allow
the team to continuously produce value throughout the course of the project
without experiencing burnout or undue stress. When it comes to fostering a
healthy working environment and attaining long-term productivity with agile
development, maintaining a sustainable pace is essential.
6. As a project manager, your
organization makes a shift to Agile. To create a sense of urgency, which
questions should you ask your team about what’s working, and what’s not working
right now?
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How
can we change the company’s stated mission or values to better align with our
work?
·
What
can we do to cut costs in our product creation and Sprint process?
·
What allows our competitors to outperform us
and get their products and features to market more quickly?
·
How can we help you become more productive and
supported in your work?
7.
Imagine you are a project manager overseeing the adoption of Agile at your
organization. To smooth the transition, you define specific outcomes. You also
make sure the measures are visible to the entire team throughout the change.
Which of the three keys to influence does this scenario demonstrate?
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·
Leverage
the six sources of influence
·
Clarify measurable results
·
Find
vital behaviors
Explanation: Visibility is the key to influence, and this example
illustrates why it's so important. One strategy that improves both transparency
and communication is one that makes the particular outcomes and metrics that
are being measured public to the whole team. You may use visibility to
influence and direct the move to Agile techniques by making sure that the team
can see and understand the objectives and progress. Visibility contributes to
the development of a shared understanding, the synchronization of everyone's
efforts toward common goals, and the cultivation of a feeling of joint
responsibility for the results.
8. Imagine you are a project manager
overseeing a new set design for a local news network. You notice your team is
becoming overwhelmed with critical feedback from producers. Then, your team
informs you that they no longer want to receive feedback from the producers.
Which Agile principle do these issues impact the most?
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Business collaboration
·
Team
dynamics and culture
·
Retrospectives
·
Value
delivery
Explanation:The problems with receiving too much negative feedback and
the unwillingness of the team to accept input are consistent with the Agile
philosophy of "Individuals and Interactions over Processes and
Tools." This concept places a greater emphasis on the significance of
appreciating individuals and the relationships they have with one another than
it does on strictly adhering to predetermined procedures or depending entirely
on technologies.
9. What can you do to avoid making
too many or unfounded product assumptions? Select all that apply.
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Ask
the Product Owner to double-check and approve assumptions.
·
Discuss assumptions as a team.
·
Conduct surveys or focus groups to
double-check assumptions, where necessary.
·
Reuse
assumptions from similar, past projects.
·
Document assumptions and make them transparent
to all.
10.
Which of the following scaled Agile frameworks involve Scrum Masters meeting
frequently to better coordinate work on a single product across teams?
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Disciplined
Agile Delivery (DAD)
·
Scaled
Agile Framework (SAFe)
·
Large-Scale
Scrum (LeSS)
·
Scrum of Scrums
Explanation: The version of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) known as
"Large Solution SAFe" requires Scrum Masters to have regular meetings
in order to improve the coordination of work being done by several teams on a
single product. Within the SAFe architecture, the big Solution SAFe
configuration is a configuration created for businesses working on big, complex
solutions that need several Agile Release Trains (ARTs) to cooperate on a
shared purpose. Large Solution SAFe was developed for these types of organizations.
The regular coordination meetings, which include Scrum Masters, assist
guarantee that many teams working on the same product are aligned,
collaborating, and synchronized with one another.
Shuffle Q/A 1
11. As a project manager or Scrum Master, what can you do to
ensure your team is focused on value-driven delivery? Select all that apply.
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Build
the thing right
·
Build
the right thing
·
Run
it right
·
Run
it fast
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It defines a high-level view of product requirements.
·
It
defines who will use the product.
·
It
defines what the product is.
13. Which of the following provides
an overview of the expected product, its high-level requirements, and an
estimated schedule for reaching milestones?
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A product roadmap
·
A
product vision
·
A
value playbook
·
A
Product Backlog
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Teams and stakeholders understand of the
sequence of deliverables
·
Teams understand how their efforts relate to
the project vision
·
Stakeholders
meet with the Product Owner less frequently throughout the project
·
Stakeholders notice incremental value over the
course of the project
Answers
·
Team capacity and velocity
·
Project
roadmap
·
Product
vision
·
Story
and epic
Establishing
velocity requires understanding the team's previous performance and capability.
Monitoring velocity during the project enables the team to keep a steady and
sustainable pace, which is beneficial to the overall success of the endeavor.
It enables realistic planning, assists in the identification of possible
problems or bottlenecks, and lends support to the notion of providing a
constant flow of value over the course of time.
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It helps to create a sense of ownership for
the change you are creating.
·
It increases your chances of successfully
shifting organizational culture.
·
It
guarantees an increase in the project’s budget.
·
It
helps to answer your team’s questions about what’s working and what’s not
working right now.
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Personal
ability
·
Personal
motivation
·
Social
motivation
·
Structural ability
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Yes.
A team that rarely has disagreements is not committed enough to the work.
·
No.
A team that rarely has disagreements is more productive than a team that
disagrees frequently.
·
Sometimes. If a team rarely has disagreements, it could mean team
members don’t feel safe stating their opinions.
However,
it is vital to take into consideration the setting and character of the task
that the team is doing. In some circumstances, the absence of conflict may be
an indication that members of the team are avoiding essential talks or are not
expressing varied points of view. When handled in a positive manner,
constructive conflict may be a catalyst for creativity, enhanced
decision-making, and enhanced group dynamics.
In order
to get a complete comprehension of the dynamics of the team, it is necessary to
evaluate the lack of conflict in combination with other aspects, such as the
availability of open communication, the level of participation from team
members, and the capacity to successfully face obstacles.
Answers
·
Check
assumptions against unbiased user research
·
Keep
assumptions within the development team
·
Document the assumptions and make them
transparent
·
Never
make an assumption without proper knowledge
Answers
·
release
roadmap
·
capacity
roadmap
·
requirement
roadmap
·
value roadmap
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A backlog of items required for the release
goal
·
Milestones
for the development of future releases
·
Feedback
from stakeholders on the project timeline
·
Use
cases for the features in the release
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·
product roadmap
·
release
date
·
project
vision
·
high-value
feature
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The
team’s size and the customer’s budget
·
The
team’s experience and the customer’s timeline
·
The
team’s willingness and work ethic
·
The
team’s capacity and velocity
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Organizational
culture
·
Project
management
·
Change
management
·
Agile
practices
25. As a project manager,
you need to rebuild trust and collaboration between the development team and
the business team. What actions can you take to accomplish this? Select all
that apply.
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Address
critical feedback with more demos
·
Add
changes to backlog only in between sprints
·
Focus
on fewer user stories per sprint
·
Conduct a Solution Design sprint
26.
What can you do to address instability when people leave and join your team
frequently? Select all that apply.
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Use
financial incentives to keep team members from leaving.
·
Schedule shorter sprints so departing team
members can wrap up work.
·
Create a quick onboarding process for new team
members.
·
Use pair programming so new team members can
learn on the job.
27.
Which of the following scaled Agile frameworks is organized into four layers:
Foundation, Disciplined DevOps, Value Streams, and Disciplined Agile
Enterprise?
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Scaled
Agile Framework (SAFe)
·
Large-Scale
Scrum (LeSS)
·
The
Spotify Model (SoM)
·
Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)
28. As a project manager, what
questions can you ask your Agile team to ensure they “run it right”? Select all
that apply.
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How will users get updates and new features?
·
What long-term value will this product give
users?
·
How will a user get support?
·
How
can the product reach more users?
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·
The
school district increases the project budget and provides additional resources.
·
A
member of your development team leaves to take a new job.
·
The
Product Owner expands the project to include two additional school districts.
·
Your
team realizes an epic will take more time to complete than anticipated.
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obligation
·
ownership
·
success
·
innovation
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·
Social
ability
·
Personal ability
·
Personal
motivation
·
Social
motivation
Answers
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Run a team brainstorm session to identify
areas for improvement
·
Push
back the next release date to give the team more time
·
Take a training class on team dynamics and how
to better work together
·
Change up the workflows by pairing people to
work together on hard tasks
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Product
ambition
·
Over-promising
·
Product
assumptions
·
Product
vision
In the
field of project management, one of the most prevalent pitfalls is called
overcommitment, and it has the potential to destabilize a roadmap by bringing
about ambiguity and producing a mismatch between expectations and reality. In
order to have a stable and trustworthy roadmap, it is vital for Product Owners
and project managers to establish objectives that are reasonable and
attainable, communicate openly about timescales, and manage the expectations of
stakeholders.
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acceptance
·
frugality
·
transparency
·
quality
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Satisfy the customer through value-driven
delivery
·
Satisfy
the customer through mission-driven delivery
·
Save
the customer time through speed-driven delivery
·
Save
the customer money through cost-driven delivery
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·
A
product vision, a product roadmap, and release plans
·
A
product roadmap, a vision statement, and development plans
·
A
product roadmap, a mission statement, and release plans
·
A product vision, a mission statement, and
development plans
37. You create a new project roadmap
that is visually appealing and contains all the information for the
stakeholders to reference. However, this document took a lot of time to create
and has caused some delays in the timeline. Which of the following roadmap
pitfalls does this scenario represent?
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Putting
more work into it than the deliverables
·
Pressuring
teams to improve deadlines
·
Pressuring
teams to achieve deadlines no matter what
·
Putting
less work into it than the deliverables
In this
particular instance, the emphasis placed on making the roadmap seem visually
attractive may have led to an increase in the amount of time spent above what
was required, which may have caused a delay in the overall execution of the
project. It is essential to strike a balance between the requirements for
effective communication and visual attractiveness, as well as the necessity to
make optimal use of project resources and stick to established deadlines. The
delivery of the project on time might be impacted negatively if an excessive
focus is placed on aesthetics or other things that are not required.
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·
Story
and epic
·
A
product roadmap
·
A
release plan
·
Capacity and velocity
The
velocity metric offers insights into the capacity of the team and assists in
the planning of future iterations by forecasting the amount of work that can be
completed by the group. It does not indicate individual productivity but rather
the overall production of the team as a whole. The ability to set a meaningful
baseline for planning and ongoing development gives teams the ability to
monitor velocity over the course of numerous sprints.
Answers
·
Leverage
the six sources of influence
·
Clarify
measurable results
·
Find vital behaviors
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·
A loss of clear roles and responsibilities
·
A
decrease in customer satisfaction
·
A
temptation to skip events or blend them to save time
·
An
increase in interpersonal conflict
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·
Scrum
operations
·
Business
operations
·
Change
management operations
·
Information Technology (IT) operations
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Multiple
times throughout all stages of the project
·
Multiple
times during the execution phase
·
Once
at the beginning of the planning phase
·
Once
at the end when the product is delivered
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·
Social
motivation
·
Personal
ability
·
Structural
motivation
·
Personal
motivation
It is
vital to examine the long-term sustainability of such rewards and to ensure
that they match with the concepts of Agile, which stress intrinsic motivation,
cooperation, and a focus on providing value. While incentives may be successful
in increasing motivation, it is necessary to consider the long-term
sustainability of such awards and to ensure that they align with the principles
of Agile. Instead than depending entirely on external incentives, the ultimate
aim is for teams, over the course of time, to embrace the Agile principles for
the intrinsic advantages they offer to the process of product creation.
Answers
· Product
assumptions
·
Product
vision
·
Product
ambition
·
Product
plan
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·
It
provides a high-level view of requirements.
·
It
identifies the end users of the product.
·
It
outlines a tentative schedule for reaching milestones.
·
It
defines how the product will support customers’ business strategies.
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·
All
of them
·
None
of them
·
Only
the last
·
Only the first
Shuffle Q/A 4
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·
A product roadmap
·
A
mission statement
·
A product vision
·
A release plan
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·
quality
·
transparency
·
acceptance
·
frugality
49. Fill in
the blank: In a release plan, product releases happen when _____.
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·
the project is complete and the team
has delivered the final product
·
the customer has asked for the release
of a given feature or requirement
·
the feature or requirement is in
development and is being iterated upon
·
the team has developed a
working version of a given feature or requirement
Explanation: Within the context of a release plan, product releases take place at the point in time at which the intended features or scope for a particular release have been finished and are prepared for deployment. Planning a release requires coordinating the delivery of features and functionality within a certain timeline. This helps to ensure that the product will be launched in a well-defined and gradual way. When an agreed-upon set of features has been built, tested, and shown to fulfill the requisite quality requirements for deployment, the release is considered ready to go.
50. In Agile, to “Build
the right thing” ensures your team focuses on what?
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·
Solution-oriented delivery
·
Value-driven delivery
·
Process-value delivery
·
High-value delivery