Domain#1 Agile Mindset & Principles Mike Griffith

1. What is most important for your agile team to continuously focus on?

• 1. Getting the right answers

• 1. Measuring their performance

• 1. Defining their tasks

• 1. Understanding their tasks

1. What wouldn’t be a key focus of your agile approach?

• 1. Increasing return on investment

• 1. Working incrementally

• 1. Measuring progress

• 1. Expecting change and uncertainty

1. You’ve been asked to recommend how a team should transition to using agile.

2. How would you reply?

• 1. Try out some agile practices first to see if they are helpful in your situation.

• 1. Learn agile values and principles and use them to guide which practices to adoptinyour

     situation.

• 1. Identify a successful agile team and copy what they are doing.

• 1. Hire the best Scrum Master you can afford and make that person accountable for the transition.

1. On a Scrum team, whose responsibility is it to keep the priorities in the product backlog up to date as changes occur?

• Product owner
  

• Development team

• Sponsor

• ScrumMaster

5. As an agile leader,what would be your highest priority?

• 1. Resolving conflicts and disagreements

• 1. Controlling the team’s performance

• 1. Making sure the team members understand what the project is trying to accomplish

• 1. Keeping the team members well fed

5. What isn’t something that your agile team should focus on?

• 5. Reflecting on their mistakes and how to improve
     

• 5. Learning through trial and error

• 5. Failing fast with learning

• 5. Using feedback loops to discover the weaker performers

7. Your team is tasked with developing a breakthrough medical device, and they don’t know what the final product will look like. How would you advise them to proceed?

• 1. Follow the project charter as closely as possible.

• 1. Try the most promising approaches in short iterations andlearn as you go.

• 1. Ask the customer formore detailed information about the product.

• 1. Perform a risk-based spike.

7. The sponsor wants to know if the product you’re building will be ready to demo at a tradeshow.

8. What do you tell her?

• 7. A. It will be ready when it’s ready.

• We’ll let you know as soon as our velocity has stabilized.

• That depends on your budget

• We’ll get your top-priority functionality done by then.

As ScrumMaster,you assess that the competitive market has shifted and the product the team is building is no longer viable.

What should you do?

• Request that the product owner immediately

  re-prioritize the backlog.

• Ask the product owner if the viability of the project has changed.

• Alert the team that they can expect to be assigned to a new project soon.

• Cancel the project.

Which of the following would NOT an advantage of limiting your team’s workin progress?

• It reduces the potential need to rework a large collection of flawed, partially completed items.
  

• It maximizes resource utilization to make processes work more efficiently.

• It brings bottle necks in the production process to the surfaceso they can be identified and resolved.

• It helps optimize through put to make processes work more efficiently.