True or False
_FORM and ADM are mutually exclusive and cannot be used on a project at the same time.
FALSE
While _FORM_ is a common consulting methodology that ensures we focus on the delivery of value to the client throughout all of our engagements, ADM is a collection of Accenture best practice Delivery Methods to support the Co-Create and Scale phases of _FORM_ and is used to deliver our projects.
Getting work completed in a different country
Off-shore
A model provides a sequence of activities and a structure for executing the activities needed for developing software applications.
SDLC
A ______ describes an archetypical user of a system, an example of the kind of person who would interact with it.
Persona
Accenture publishes an annual Accenture Technology Vision
TRUE
Deals where the price includes the total actual resource costs and other expenses incurred.
Time and Material
Process for setting goals
SMART
Accenture Technology mission is to “differentiate Accenture through technology _________”
Innovation
User stories can be derived from a parent-level epic and are sized to fit within a Sprint
TRUE
A good rule of thumb is that no user story should take longer to complete than half the duration of the Sprint.
Development process that may be considered an extension of the waterfall model
V-Model
Set of criteria, or checklist, to assess the quality of a user story
INVEST
The fluidity of Agile can be handled fairly easily in Scrum with a small number of teams. However, as programs ______, they need to integrate efforts across a wide number of teams which substantially increases complexity.
SCALE
Scaled Agile Frameworks can be adopted at multiple levels: Team, Program, Large Solution, Portfolio.
Agile is a framework that promotes a project management and delivery approach rooted in Iterative and Incremental development, with Frequent Inspection and Adaptation
FALSE
Agile is much more than a framework or “new process.”
It’s a mindset, a culturally different way of building software.
Validate a software application against the business processes of end-users of the software, by allowing end-users to use the software to carry out typical or key business processes using the software.
Conference-room pilot
Development objects designed to fulfill the business requirements
RICEFW
A detailed _________ is a document that describes the approach, cases, scope, data, scenarios, resources, and appropriate time of testing
Test Plan
During Initiation the approach was defined. During Design the plan is extended by design of test scenarios, conditions and expected results.
Agile is Faster, Agile is Better!
FALSE
If a project has a clear, unchanging set of requirements it may actually take longer to complete it using an Agile approach, as opposed to a traditional approach.
Agile is NOT the ‘Silver Bullet’. Agile does NOT solve every project problem you have. On the contrary, implementing Agile generally shows all the ways your project (or your organization) is not agile.
New way of working and our common philosophy and language across the business for selling, framing, and delivering innovative solutions
_FORM_
Accenture standard delivery framework that helps work efficiently with predictable, reliable, and high-quality results and a set of integrated components that help industrialize systems integration, outsourcing, and related technology work.
Accenture Delivery Suite (ADS).
Accenture Delivery Methods (ADM) reside within the ADS and define what work needs to be done and how it can best be accomplished using proven processes, deliverables, estimators, and techniques.
In a _________ deal, Accenture and the client share in the economic benefits derived from the project, according to a pre-defined algorithm
Gainshare