Quiz 14: Agile Planning, Problem Resolution, Continuous Improve

Multiple Choice

Which of the following drives the need to re-plan agile projects?

• Uncertainty

• Lack of team understanding

• Lack of team commitment

• Lack of stakeholder commitment

Due to the uncertainty of the scope on an agile project and constant changes agile projects will be in a constant state of re-planning.

Multiple Choice

What agile method would allow stakeholders to write the most valuable features of a particular product?

• Estimated

• Prioritizing features

• Prune the product treat

• Design the product box

Design the product box is an agile method that would have stakeholders write the most valuable features on the front and the back of a product box.

Multiple Choice

Retrospectives is a time box activity that shoul take no more than?

• Three hours

• Two hours

• Five hours

• One day

A retrospective is a time box event that should take about two hours.

Multiple Choice

What is it called when the time it takes to complete a given task is estimated as if there were no interruptions or unplanned events?

• Free time

• Clear estimation

• Ideal time

• Lead time

Ideal time refers to the time it takes to complete a given task assuming zero interruptions or unplanned problems.

Multiple Choice

When decomposing requirements epics are decomposed to?

• Tasks

• Stories

• Work

• Features

When decomposing requirements epics are decomposed to features, features are decomposed to stories, and stories are decomposed to tasks.

Multiple Choice

When writing a user story it should contain the user type need and?

• Objective

• Value

• Requirements

• Costs

The user story should contain the user type, want/need, and the value.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not one of the three C's about usr stories?

• Card

• Confirmation

• Conversation

• Conformance

The three C’s of user stories the card, conversation, and confirmation.

Multiple Choice

In the Fibonacci sequence what comes after the number 5?

• 13

• 21

• 8

• 7

The Fibonacci sequence is used to assign points to stories as a relative scale. Financial sequencer numbers of 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21.

Multiple Choice

What is it call when during a brainstorming session everyone agrees with the consultant that is the highest-paid person in the room?

• Bandwagon effect

• HIPPO

• Groupthink

• Normal methods

HIPPO (HIghest-Paid Person's Opinion) decision making is when people agree with the highest paid person.

Multiple Choice

The project team would like to investigate whether this new software can help reduce bugs in a new coded language. What should the project team do?

• Conduct an iteration

• Conduct an architectual spike

• Conduct a risk-based spike

• Inform the stakeholders

A risk-based spike is when the team investigates whether a new method, process, or tool will reduce or eliminate risks.

Multiple Choice

As an agile project progresses the cost of incorporating changes into the product will?

• Decrease over time

• Increase over time

• Will not change over time

• Will be dependen on the project team over time

In agile cost of changes increse with the time

Multiple Choice

After six iteration there is a big backlog of cold and work that needs cleanup. What is this often referred to as?

• Bad coding poractice

• Technical debt

• Coding debt

• Refactoring

Technical debt is backlog of work caused by not doing regular cleanup of codes.

Multiple Choice

________ time is how long something takes to go through the entire process.

• Lead

• Cycle

• State

• Ideal

Lead time is the amount of time that passes from the start of a process until its conclusion.

Multiple Choice

While working on a complex product development, they are quite a few issues that has needed to production and was sold to customers. These are called?

• Errors

• Issues

• Risks

• Escaped defects

Escaped defects are defects that make it to the customers.

Multiple Choice

The project team has met with the customers to discuss all of the different responses that has been made about the potential risk on the project. What should the customers do next?

• Fund the responses

• Congratulate the team members

• Request proof of responses in their effectiveness

• Adjust the product backlog for risks

Once the risk assessment and response process has been completed, the product backlog should be adjusted to reflect the potential risk on the project.

Multiple Choice

Over the course of one iteration, the agile project manager has noticed an issue that may affect the product. What should the agile project manager do?

• Research methods to resolve the issue immediately

• Ask the project team for help

• Analyze the product to understand the potential impact

• Ask the stakeholders to remove the feature

On an agile project, problems should be solved by engaging the project team as their solutions are more practical.

Multiple Choice

What tool can the agile team used to show the risks severity over time on a project?

• Risks Burnup Chart

• Risks Burndown Chart

• Risks Severity Chart

• Risk Management Chart

A risk burndown chart will show the risks severity over time.

Multiple Choice

The project team has alerted the agile project manager that the impact of the risks who cost the project approximately $10,000 and the probability of it occurring is 10%. What should the agile project manager calculate the expected value of this risks?

• $10,000

• $100,000

• $1,000

• $100

To calculate the expected monetary value, you must multiply impact X probability. In this scenario it would be $100,000 multiply 10% = $1,000

Multiple Choice

What would be the cycle time a feature be if it requires 50 points of work and the team can complete 10 points per day?

• 500 days

• 5 days

• 50 days

• 0.5 days

Cycle time is equal to work in progress divided by throughput. In this scenario it would be 50÷10= 5 days.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following would not be a success strategy on an agile project?

• Watch and listen

• Retain the best talent

• Invent rather than research

• Get feedback

Invent rather than research is known to be a failure mode, not a success strategy.

Multiple Choice

Kaizen is a Japanese word that means?

• Continuous improvement

• Quality improvement

• Product improvement

• People improvement

Kaizen is a Japanese word that means process for continuous improvement.

Multiple Choice

In the agile improvement process what comes after develop?

• Learn

• Plan

• Evaluate

• Do

The agile improvement process is plan, develop, evaluate, and learn.

Multiple Choice

What should the project team do after creating the first value stream map?

• Develop a plan to implement fixes

• Create a new map with the desired improvement

• Display the stakeholders

• Review to find waste

After the project team has created the first value stream map they should then analyze it fine waste in the current process. Then they can create a new map with the desired improvements.

Multiple Choice

What is the agile meeting call when the team looks at possible things that can cause the failure of a project in the future?

• Standup meeting

• Sprint planning meeting

• Pre-mortems

• Sprint review meeting

A project Pre-Mortems is a team meeting that looks at possible things that can cause failure during the project before they take place.

Multiple Choice

A retrospective should be done?

• After eac hiteration

• After each release

• Before each iteration

• Before each releas

A retrospective is meeting that lasts about two hours that should take place after each iteration.