Agile Principles & Mindset
"The team, not the leader, gets the real work done." belongs to...
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Management
Leadership
Servant leadership
What is Servant leadership
The acronym WIP stands for?
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What is Work in progress
Any improvements made anywhere besides the bottleneck are an illusion and useless.
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True or False?
Explain?
True
What is the acronym MVP stands for
What is Minimal viable product.
The Kanban pull system means that:
What is
Each time a work item is completed, the next work item is "pulled" into that stage of the process.
The Primary role of servant leader includes
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Resolve conflicts
Assigning tasks to the team members
Shielding team member from interruption
What is Shielding team member from interruption
WIP is one of the root causes for chronic due-date problems, quality issues, and expediters having to rejuggle priorities every day WIP is the silent killer and you got to control WIP
True or False
Explain
True
Your team is developing an online game that will have 2 beta release before launch. Which feature would not be included in the first beta release?
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Options for giving feedback to developers
Refer-a-friend marketing campaign.
What is Refer-a-friend marketing campaign.
Which of the following is an Agile Manifesto value?
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Individuals and interactions over following a plan.
Customer collaborations over contract negotiation.
Working software over processes and tools.
What is Customer collaborations over contract negotiation.
In lean, which of the following wonldn't be considered an example of waste?
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Handoff between coding and testing
A developer working on 2 initiatives at the same time.
Testing the code.
What is Testing the code.
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The seven wastesof lean are partialy done work, extra procecesses, extra features, task switching, waiting, motion and defect.
Ability to visualize all the work or changes help expose What?
What is WIP
Which of the following is not a form of frequent verification and validation.
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Pair programming
unit testing
Iteration demo
Iteration planning
Iteration planning
Which of the following is NOT a core aspect of the agile mindset?
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Deliver value continuously
Learn through discovery
Respect the process
What is Respect the process
Which of the following is one of the planned opportunities for inspection and adaption in the Scrum method?
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Retrospective planning meeting
Daily scrum
Velocity review meeting
What is Daily scrum
According apparently to the Pheonix Project there are 4 types of work. Name 3 of the 4
Business projects (Projects around delivering direct customer value.)
Internal IT projects (Infrastructure and operations projects, internal improvements.)
Changes (Fixed, changes, improvements generated by the two above.)
Unplanned work (Incidents, fixing problems in the three previous types of work.) Unplanned work can significantly reduce the amount of time available for planned work.
Why is it beneficial to have business representatives invloved in the prioritization of work?
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To answer business-related questions about the requirement.
To engage the business between acceptance testing cycles
To better understand the business needs for the project.
To better understand the business needs for the project.
What are three of the seven lean core concepts
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Optimize the whole, defer decisions, amplify learning
Build quality in, exterminate waste, optimize learning.
Eliminate waste, empower the team, deter decisions.
What is.. Optimize the whole, defer decisions, amplify learning
The agile triangle of constraints is said to be inverted from the traditional triangle because it allows:
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Scope and time to vary instead of cost
Cost and time to vary instead of scope
Scope to vary while time and cost are fixed
What is Scope to vary while time and cost are fixed.
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Traditional constraint Scope is fixed while time and cost may need to bend to achive the planned scope. In agile Scope are typically allowed to varywithin the fix parameter of cost and time. We aim to deliver the most value by Xdate within X budget.
The Phoenix Project describe the underlying principles of DevOps in the three ways.
Describe 2 of the 3 Ways
What is the difference between the incremental and iterative approach to software development?
Incremental Delivery is a method of software development where a little more is added each time until the product is finished. The product is finished when all requirements are satisfied.
The Iterative Delivery is a approach based on a cyclic process of testing, analyzing, and refining a product based on iteraction to improve the quality and functionality of the product.