Agile

Select the correct Agile values.

Come up front and explain it briefly.

• Empathy, Respect, Impact, Courage and Trust

• Innovation, Trust, Energy, Empathy, Respect

• Respect, Courage, Trust, Empathy and Openness

• Agility, Appreciation, Assertiveness, Competence and Endurance

Two types of metric areas towards measuring an Agile Workforce are:

• Agile Innovation Metrics and Agile Mood Metrics

• Agile Continuous Improvement Metrics and Agile Governance Metrics

• Agile Education Metrics and Agile Team Morale Metrics

• Agile Client Satisfaction Metrics and Agile Utilization Metrics

What is a servant leader?

• A leader that plans tasks, drives decisions, follows up on it and controls the operation

• A leader that drives others, gives approvals, knows how it is done.

• A leader that cultivates a culture of trust, values diverse opinions, develops other leaders, focus on people

• Leader with focus on the organization and getting the followers commitment towards organizational objectives

Scenario: You are part of a squad and there is no efficient flow towards the clear outcome, there have been no live stand ups for 3 weeks, each member works on their own and there is no visibility of progress. What do you do? (Select all that apply)

• Send an invite to the squad to talk about it, even if you are not the iteration manager.

• Schedule a retrospective session and propose to also review the social contract.

• Bring it up on your 1:1 with your team manager

• Wait for the iteration manager to take action on it and show your interest to help solving it

• Propose to start using mood marbles on the squad

Scenario: you sense that in your squad your opinion doesn't count, why would you mind sharing ideas? 1 or 2 in the squad are taking all the decisions. What is the problem and what could be done better here? (Select all that apply)

• Consensus from the squad is not been considered. Social contract needs to be reviewed.

• Nothing, statistically always 1 or 2 persons end up giving the ideas and taking decisions

• Communication channels in the squad need to be improved as soon as possible. Also planning poker, Design Thinking, Mural voting and other strategies must be used to accomplish consensus.

• You sense that, but it is not your job to bring it up.

• The problem is the iteration manager, needs to be changed.

Is Agile a mindset? Why? (Select all that apply)

• It is a framework that outline the steps and procedures to manage an objective.

• Because the Values and Principles are the foundation of the mindset

• Pillars like self awareness, servant leadership and global listening hold the mindset as a roof.

• It is a mindset of growth with foundations and pillars.

Scenario: A tribe of squads is not working aligned and communication channels are not effective. Which Agile principle is this scenario mainly lacking of?

• Self Directed Teams: Work should be collaborative and multidisciplinary.

• Iteration and Learning: Work should be iterative and fast.

• Clarity of Outcome: Work is focused on user value

Select those roles that are rightly described. (Select all that apply)

• Delivery Manager: Servant Leader who oversees the operation, prioritizes the operation, prioritizes the funnel, puts the team together, defines objectives, and helps remove obstacles and waste.

• Transformation Lead: Guides the team into adopting agile practices, also a servant leader, is well versed in agile and leads the transformation.

• Improvement Champion: analytical, agile knowledge, strong drive to improve and collaborates with Delivery Manager.

• Iteration Manager: facilitates iterations, use of agile practices, fosters empowerment and improves productivity in any way. Pushes work.

• Product Owner: voice of the customer, holds product vision. This role is not available to squad members.

To keep the squad aligned and informed of stories status: Who should update and what agile practice is recommended?

• Improvement Champion: VSM

• Everyone: Kanban

• The Iteration Manager: Wall of Work

• The Operations Manager: Burn-up Charts

Select the responsibilities of an iteration manager: (Select all that apply).

Explain why not those options not selected.

• Promotes empowerment and creativity. Does not push work.

• Helps the squad improve productivity by all means

• Helps remove impediments, roadblocks

• Assigns work and owners

• Holds the product vision