Initiate Stage
Solution Blueprint
Blueprint Stage
Team Formation
100

True or False: The benefit of sprinting early is that it allows the team to get effective at executing the scrum framework before the build stage.        

What is True

100

Which is NOT a component of the Solution Blueprint:

1) Project Overview/Objectives/Challenges

2) Solution Architecture

3) ALM

4) Budget

What is Budget

100

Primarily serve as a means to learn about a client's business and capture requirements for an engagement. However, they also generate excitement and buy-in, surface gaps in business processes, and help set expectations for stakeholders.

What are Collaborative Workshops

100

Forming, Storming, Norming & Performing

What are the stages of Team or Group Development/ Tuckman's model for Group Development

Note: Its important to know that stages can be revisited as new team members join

200

Internal Kick-off

Admin Tasks/ Project Forecasting

Initial Environment Planning/ ADO Setup

Workshop Planning

What are activities on the Initiate Backlog Template

200

True or False: The Solution Blueprint should not be updated once it is reviewed at the conclusion of the Blueprint stage.

What is False

The Solution Blueprint is a living document that should be updated through the build stage

200

This document contains the Workshop Topics, Topic Descriptions, Topic Duration, Success Criteria and the name of the facilitators

What is the Workshop Agenda

200

In this Tuckman's group development stage the characteristics of a team are: 

  • The team looks to the group leader for guidance
  • The leader establishes roles and responsibilities or begins assessing the team for skills to later assign tasks
  • The focus of any meetings is on establishing rapport within the group

What is Forming stage

300

This Initiate stage activity ensures that the project is staffed with the proper team members and skill set

What is Project Forecasting or Resource Planning

300

Which organization/organizations does the Solution Blueprint provide value to:

The Client, Hitachi, Microsoft, All or None

What is All 

300

True or False:

All projects have one release delivered as part of the project 

False

300

During this stage, true personalities become clear and conflicts might arise. Signs you're in this stage of group development include:

  • It's hard to come to a group consensus.
  • While the goals of the team become clearer, the specifics of how to achieve those goals are still unclear.
  • Conflicts over power and hierarchy are occurring.

What is the storming stage

Note: Some teams never make it past this stage

400

This activity in the Initiate stage helps to ensure that our delivery team understand the project scope, business objectives and value, timelines, assumptions, and risks that are known

What is the Sales to Delivery Hand-off

Note: This is typically done as part of the Internal Kick-Off

400

Which of the following can not be determined from reviewing the Solution Blueprint:

1) Clarity and alignment of Hitachi and Client responsibilities

2) Understanding of the scope and high-level project timelines

3) Understanding the key areas of implementation needed for overall success

4) Understanding the specific team member tasks in the build stage 

What is: Understanding the specific team member tasks in the build stage 

400
In Blueprint, this is performed after all workshops are completed.  This activity includes prioritizing the backlog, breaking priority items down into PBI's/User stories, Re-estimating at the Feature Level and building out a release plan.

What is Backlog Refinement

400

Hard work goes hand in hand with satisfaction about the team’s progress. Team confidence makes team roles more fluid and more tasks can be delegated by the facilitator. Problems are prevented or solved as they pop up.

What is the Performing stage

500

This Initiate activity reduces organizational resistance, allows for the client to understand the UF roles and responsibilities, the UF terms and definitions and the Azure Devops Toolset 

What is Client Readiness

500

True or False:

The Hitachi Microsoft Fast Track team member is responsible for creating the Solution Blueprint

What is False

Note: Based on the number of licenses, a project may be considered a FastTrack project; however, the FastTrack team member should be a reviewer not the creator.

500

The person responsible for developing the Solution Blueprint

Who is the Solution Architect

500

Team members start to resolve their differences, appreciate colleagues' strengths, and respect the leader’s authority.

What is the Norming stage

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