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WorksheetsDomain#5 Adaptive Planning Mike Griffith
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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Class
Date
1.
Your team has just discovered that your story point has drifted. What should you do next?
a)
Re-estimate the product backlog.
b)
Perform Fishbone Analysis to find the root cause.
c)
Use affinity estimating to compare all the estimates made so far.
d)
Postpone the next sprint and instead perform a spike to resolve the issue.
2.
The team is slicing their user stories. What are they doing?
a)
Sizing stories for the next iteration
b)
Gathering user requirements
c)
Estimatinghow much they can get done in the next iteration
d)
Dividing stories into pieces that can be completed in one iteration
3.
The PMO wants to have a copy of your project plan. What will you send them?
a)
A copy of your product roadmap
b)
The team's requirements hierarchy
c)
A photo of the team's Kanban board
d)
Your user story backlog
4.
The product owner has told the team how much work will need to be completed in the next iteration. In this scenario:
a)
The iteration planning process is proceeding smoothly.
b)
The product owner is overstepping their role.
c)
The product owner is taking over the Scrum Master's responsibilities for planning.
d)
The team should claim more responsibility for planning in their next retrospective.
5.
Your team has decided they need an Iteration 0 before starting the development work. Why?
a)
To set up the build server for the project
b)
To practice working together and get through the Storming stage before the real work starts
c)
To hold planning poker sessions to estimate the user stories
d)
To minimize as many of the project risks as possible before development begins
6.
The team believes that it will take 15 hours of effort to write the user guide for the new product they are building. What should their estimate be for that task?
a)
15 hours
b)
18 hours, to add a buffer for distractions and availability issues
c)
12 hours, since teams tend to over estimate how long a task will take
d)
12 to 18 hours
7.
Your team members are estimating their tasks. What process are they engaged in?
a)
Release planning
b)
Progressive elaboration
c)
Iteration planning
d)
High-level visioning
8.
In the daily stand-ups, the team coach should:
a)
Schedule and facilitatethe meeting.
b)
Let the team members resolvetheir own conflicts.
c)
Listen and note any problems for immediate follow-up.
d)
Ask questions to determine the root cause of any problems that are raised.
9.
We can say that an iteration demo is successful if ______
a)
The product got shipped and the team would work the same way again.
b)
The customer accepts the minimal viable product that has been built.
c)
A gulf of evaluation is cleared up.
d)
The product owner says the product increment is done.
10.
Your lead engineer just came down with the measles in the middle of a sprint. As team coach, what should you do?
a)
Call his functional manager and request a new lead engineer for your team
b)
Ask the team how much of the planned work can be done.
c)
Ask everyone else to work overtime.
d)
Postpone the release date.
11.
Your sponsor has asked for clarification on when releases of your product will ship and what those releases will contain. Which agile deliverable would best address this need?
a)
Product demo
b)
Product roadmap
c)
Product backlog
d)
Product owner
12.
Your team committed to delivering 10 story points this iteration, but it looks like you will only complete 8. You should:
a)
Extend the iteration.
b)
Add more resources to the team.
c)
Complete 8 points, and put 2 back in the backlog.
d)
Adjust the iteration plan from 10 points down to 8.
13.
When agile teams use the term "tirneboxed,"what do they mean?
a)
Work shall take a minimum amount of time.
b)
Work can take no more than a maximum amount of time.
c)
Work must be done by a given time, plus or minus 20 percent.
d)
Work must happen at a set time.
14.
The project management office is auditing your agile project and asks to see your iteration plans. They notice that only the next couple of iterations have plans. As a result, they give the project a "red flag" for having incomplete plans. The most responsible thing to do is:
a)
Explain the agile principles of progressive elaboration and rolling wave planning.
b)
Create detailed iteration plans for the remainder of the project.
c)
Ignore them, since they clearly have no right to be reviewing your project.
d)
Ask the team to create detailed plans for the remaining iterations in the release.
15.
Which of the following statements correctly describes agile planning?
a)
Plan at multiple levels, and have managers create iteration plans.
b)
Use appropriate estimate ranges, and exclude diversions/outside work.
c)
Plan at multiple levels, and have team members create iteration plans.
d)
Use fixed-point estimates, and base projections on completion rates.
16.
You are leading a team with an average velocity of 50 points per iteration. Another team of the same size in your organization is working on a project with similar complexity. The other team's velocity is averaging 75 points per month. Your team should:
a)
Perform affinity estimating to check their estimates, since something is off.
b)
Work longer hours.
c)
Ignore the difference.
d)
Request additional resources to get more work done.
17.
Estimates should be presented as ranges to:
a)
Allow for change requests.
b)
Keep the sponsors flexible.
c)
Allow for scope creep.
d)
Reflect the level of uncertainty in the estimates.
18.
Your team is averaging 40 story points per two-week iteration. They have 200 points' worth of functionality left in the user story backlog. How many weeks can we expect it will take until development is completed?
a)
2.5
b)
5
c)
10
d)
20
19.
Affinity estimating allows a team to:
a)
Average the over- and under-estimations in our estimate ranges.
b)
Confirm that stories that have been estimated as the same size are of equivalent magnitude.
c)
Check that stories within the same functional areas are of similar proportion.
d)
Estimate the most important stories first to deliver value early and reduce risk.
20.
You are a full-time Scrum Master on an agile team. A team member becomes ill partway through an iteration in which the team committed to deliver 25 story points. Which action is most appropriate?
a)
Work the remaining team longer hours.
b)
Send work home to the sick team member.
c)
Start development yourself to assist the team.
d)
Deliver what you can within the sprint.
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