Agile Quiz Bee

What are some limitations of waterfall approach?

• Limited to modern environment where there is a constant change

• Limited to flexibility once the design phase has been completed

• Customers typically don't know what they want up front

• Highly expensive

It describes a work environment where people are allowed to speak up, clarity of thought, productive conflict, learning from failure and innovation.

• Environmental Safety

• Inclusive Leadership

• Psychological Safety

• Dynamic work environment

Answer explanation

This is one of the opportunities in Kanban pull system

• Reduces quality issues

• Reduces turn around time

• Reduces market inflation

Select all nonvalue-added activities below

• Creating internal reports

• Storing inventory

• Implementing Lean initiative

• Unnecessary motion

What are some of the drivers behind the implementation of Kanban?

• It is rigorous and comprehensive

• Relatively low cost

• There are some challenges on the traditional approach

• Some of the frameworks require complex and swift change

Team culture and overall success depends on their attitude towards -

• How team responds to rework

• How team responds to risk

• How team responds to pressure

• How team responds to new members

What are some of the Kanban metrics that can be charted for monitoring and control

• Backlog

• Approval

• Done/release

• Bottlenecks

This is a system approach that allows us to view an organization as a service-oriented that helps translate value into a service delivery and workflow system as a series of knowledge discovery activities.

• Leaning

• Cultivation Culture

• Control Culture

• Kanban Lens

A technique used to alleviate bottlenecks that involves the provision of skilled people in the right place at the right time for the required duration.

• Standardizing

• Flexible Resourcing

• Fool proofing

• Pull-based System

A lean concept that is created by customer demand and production relies on __________ rather than market forecasts. This results in no wait time and no stock on hand.

• Perfection

• Value Stream

• Pull

• Theory of Constraint