Project Estimation
Risks Management
Agile/SCRUM
People Excellence
Secret questions
100

What does the term Story Point mean?

How hard is it? (Complexity) & How big is it?(Efforts)

100

Which tool managers at SoftServe use for controlling risks?

Project Exellence Platform

100

Who is responsible for facilitation in team events in SCRUM team?

Scrum Master

100

How long the apprenticeship duration for trainees?

4 month

100

What is the minimun profitable project APM?

38%

200

Name all 3 components of Story Points in Scrum

Risk, Uncertainty and Complexity

200

How many Risks responce strategies exists? (based on the PMBOK 6th edition)

*4+1:
- avoid
- mitigate
- accept
- transfer
- escalate

200

Who is responsible for requirements priotitization?

Product Owner

200

What frequency of Performance Reviews in the PeEx concept?

Performance Review is a regular event that occurs
-every 6 months for Trainees, Juniors, Middles, and Seniors (L0-L3)
- every 12 months for Leads and Experts (L4-L5)

200

What are 2 main criteria for the Executive board for account distribution?

Location/Geo location, business domain

300

What could be estimated on the project?

Budget, Time, Resources

300

What is depicts cumulative project risk severity over time?

Risk Burndown Chart

300

What is the main Scrum ceremonies?

1. Sprint planning
2. Daily scrum
3. Sprint review
4. Sprint retrospective

300

What are the general promotion criteria in PeEx concept?

- One period of the Next-level Job covered (50%+)
- Key Jobs in Core Competencies of the Current-Level are covered (acceptable if covered during several previous performance reviews)
- (80%+) of Current-Level jobs are covered (acceptable if covered during several previous performance reviews)
- Soft skills
-Targeted English level

300

What are at least three SoftServe core business domains we work with?

Healthcare, Retail, Finance, Energy

400

How is the PERT formula calculated?

Pert Estimate = (Optimistic + (4 X Most Likely) + Pessimistic)/6

400

What ballpark metric that shows average financial loss of risk happens?

Expected Monetary Value (EMV)

400

Who usually plays a Servant leader role in Delivery at Softserve?

Project Manager/DL

400

What are the triggers for the Promotion Committee cases?

- skipping a level;
- ""readiness"" for promotion each PR event;
- hiring and perfornance deficiency;
- escalations from process stakeholders;

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