Agile

What is the 4th planet from the sun?

• Earth
• Mars
• Pluto
• Earth
• Venus

Kate knows that the most effective way to communicate important information about the project to her team is with a face-to-face conversation. Is this Agile Principle or Practice?

• Principle
• Practice

Mike and his team know that the users will probably change their minds later, and those changes can wreak havoc with their code, so they use incremental design to make sure the code that they build is easy to change later. Is this Agile Principle or Practice?

• Principle
• Practice

Ben uses a persona to model a typical user because knows that the more the team understands the users, the better job they’ll do of building software. Is this Agile Principle or Practice?

• Principle
• Practice

Mike always makes sure that his team is working on something that he can demonstrate to Kate and Ben, because he knows that working software is the best way to show the team’s progress. Is this Agile Principle or Practice?

• Principle
• Practice

Kate wants to improve the way that the team builds software, so she gets them all to improve collaboratively and evolve experimentally by coming up with changes that they can make to their process together, and using data to figure out if those changes made things better. Is this Agile Principle or Practice?

• Principle
• Practice

Mike and his team embrace change by building code that’s easy to change down the road. Is this Agile Principle or Practice?

• Principle
• Practice

Agile: You’re a project manager on a team building network firmware for embedded systems. You’ve called a meeting to give a demo of the latest version of code the team has been working on for a control panel interface to a very technical group of business users and customers. This is the fifth time that you’ve called a meeting to do a demo like this. And for the fifths time, the users and customers asked for specific changes. The team will now go back and work on a sixth version, and you’ll repeat the process again.<br />Which of the following BEST describes this situation?

• The team does not understand the requirements
• The users and customers don’t know what they want
• The project needs better change control and requirements management practices
• The team is delivering value early and continuously

Which of the following is NOT a Scrum role?

• Scrum Master
• Team Member
• Project Manager
• Product Owner

Agile: Joaquin is a developer, and his software team is in the process of adopting agile. One of the project’s users wrote a brief specification that describes exactly what she wants for a new feature, and Joaquin’s manager assigned him to work on that feature. <br />What should Joaquin do next?

• Demand a meeting with the user, because agile teams recognize that face-to-face conversation is the most efficient and effective method of conveying information
• Read the specification
• Ignore the specification, because agile teams value customer collaboration over comprehensive documentation
• Start writing code immediately, because the team’s highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early delivery of valuable software