Scaled Agile Framework
It is a time-boxed session in which a representative from each Team shares high-level updates on their respective team's work and articulates their progress and impediments. Ideally, it should follow the various teams' Daily Stand-ups.
Scrum of Scrums
When should a Product Manager/Product Owner take first pass at estimating product backlog?
Never!
Development team that does work gets to estimate. Anchoring team estimates biases team members to cut corners in order to fit expected estimate.
Product Owner Maximizes...... ROI
Who is responsible for facilitation in team events in SCRUM team?
Scrum Master
Please name the most popular performance metric in SCRUM.
Velocity
What is a Product Roadmap?
A forecast for Product delivery over 3 Program Increments (PIs).
What is the Agile Manifesto (Principle #1)?
Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
What metric Tracks remaining work?
Burndown Chart
_____ competency describes a set of values and practices that encourage individuals—and the enterprise as a whole—to continually increase knowledge, competence, performance, and innovation
Continuous Learning Culture
What is a Product Owner responsible for?
Who is responsible for requirements prioritization?
Who is responsible for closing the user stories?
Who is responsible for the Definition of Done for the User story?
The Agile Team
What are the Cs of a User Story?
C-Card
C-Conversation
C-Confirmation
What Backlog does the Product Manger pull work from to create the Features?
Portfolio Backlog
What single term unites all statements below: Working software is the primary measure of progress. Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount of work not done–is essential.
Agile principles
What is a name of a convention that “every” team member is not only allowed, but has to make changes to any code file as necessary: to work on a development task, to fix a bug, or to refactor?
Collective ownership
What are the 3 backlogs types and what information do each of them consist of?
Portfolio Backlog: Epic, Enabler Epics
Program Backlog: Features, Enabler Features
Team Backlog: User stories & Tasks
True/False: The PO does NOT have the authority to pivot from the committed stories for the iteration
Yes/No: And does this authority change if the Iteration Goals are impacted?
False
No
What type of leadership is considered the most Agile?
Servant leadership
What type of estimation do story points represent?
Relative Sizing/Estimation
What is a Feature?
A description, a benefit hypothesis, acceptance criteria.
Is a high performing team cross-functional or siloed in their skillset?
Cross-Functional
What are 3 dimensions of lean-agile leadership?
- lead by example
- mindset and principles (growth mindset)
- leading change
Name 4 levels of SAFe Full Configuration?
Essential
Large Solution
Portfolio
Full
Who is the PM/PO Best friend in the Agile model?
The Scrum Master.
PM/PO/SM triad is important as the SM is the internal Coach helping the team to evolve.
It is a person who is responsible for creating and improving Agile processes within a team or a company, spreading Agile best practices between different teams, integrating Agile teams within non-Agile processes and measuring results of an Agile transition.
Agile Coach
What Kanban metric is a keystone of Kanban and allows to utilize value from this framework?
WIP limit
What is Cost of Delay / Job Size?
What is the Weighted Shortest Job First or WSJF?
What is Commitment to Relentless Improvement (Pillar of the House of Lean)?
We learn from our failures and we take the time to reflect and improve.
What dual operating system do we use for business agility and why do we use each system?
Value Stream Network-> speed of innovation
Functional Hierarchy (HR)-> efficiency and stability
What is a Lean Business Case?
Provides "Just the right amount" of analysis to support the definition of the Epic and request approval for investment
Is the Product Owner a go-between the Business and IT?
No, the PO's key responsibility lies in bridging the business and IT divides, so that the development members can directly reach out to the requirements donor (Product Managers') for the clarifications.
Who acts as a servant leader and coach for the Agile Release Train (ART) facilitating the ART events and processes and assisting teams in delivering value?
Agile Release Train Engineer
Which technical approach that first emerged in XP allows to have quick feedback and fewer conflicts in code during development?
Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery
Who is a Product Manager?
Responsible for aligning strategic vision with the Product Roadmap and prioritizing Features in the Program Backlog
Autonomy, Mastery of Skill, and Purpose are ways to do this.
Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers (SAFe Principle #8)
What is MoSCoW for requirement prioritization?
It is the must have, should have, could have, won’t have method.