Agile Architect Quiz 3

How can Architects serve as Lean-Agile leaders?

• By attending leadership training

• By respecting people

• By decentralizing all architectural decisions

• By establishing modern coding standards

What is one aspect of the Architect's role during System Demo?

• To provide feedback on Architectural Runway progress

• To improve the team's velocity·

• To review the team's code

• To sign off on completed Enabler Stories

How does the Architectural Runway enable emergent design and support new Feature development?

• Teams define the intentional architecture to support the runway

• Teams grow the system design as Features require in the context of an intentional architecture

• Teams adjust the intentional architecture as Features require

• Teams use Features to build the runway

What is one example of how Architects can support relentless improvement efforts?

• By establishing architectural review boards

• By continually adding new systems to the Solution ecosystem

• By participating in problem-solving workshops during Inspect & Adapt

• By approving architectural changes each PI

What is an Operational Value Stream?

• The marketing for products and services

• The sequence of activities required for delivering to a Customer

• The alignment of business strategy with execution

• The development steps for building a Solution

A group of Architects is discussing a major enhancement to an existing, operational system. What is the most critical characteristic of the new architecture?

• Governing architectural requirements

• Supporting continuous delivery

• Aligning strategy to execution

• Enabling automated builds

An Agile Architect has been asked to create a plan for modernizing a major legacy system. Assuming it will take more than a year and multiple Agile Teams to complete, what must the Architect include as part of the plan?

• A timeline for evolving Solution Intent from variable to fixed

• Comprehensive architectural documentation to ensure teams know what to build

• An outline showing how a balance between intentional architecture and emergent design will be managed

• A detailed Implementation Roadmap with iterative release dates

What Coordinate and Deliver event is most critical to maintain architectural alignment during the PI?

• The PI Solution Demo

• The Architect Sync

• The RTE Sync

• The Architectural Review Meeting

What is one architectural consideration that supports Release on Demand?

• Deployment automation

• Feature toggles

• Infrastructure as code

• Cloud computing

What is one action that enables early feedback when building an Epic?

• Using Design Thinking to understand Customer needs

• Defining the minimum viable product

• Ensuring Enablers address technology concerns

• Applying DevOps practices to Enabler Features