Epics & Product Knowledge
PI Planning Kickoff
General Awareness
SAFe and Agile
Goals, Tools and Other Process Improvements
100

What are the two new components introduced as part of NCP work?

SymV8, MTS/NCP

100

What is the RBV for Visual Studio Conversion epic?

1200

100

When is Zero bug targeted for 22.17?


28-Feb

100

Which Agile methodology (model) helps to visualize the workflow and supports continuous flow of work

Kanban

100

What is the projected improvement for NGC with respect to Threat Model?

Improve Threat Model to 80%

200

What are the top two features used by end users from CSP Beta testing?

VPN & Device Security

200

What is the number of unique users and provisioning scripts downloaded using Devstack as of now?

121 / 1203

200

Name 3 folks who have newly joined NGC Chennai teams in the last 2 PIs

Ernest, Divakar, Sayak

200

Name the technique that uses Roles and Personas for developing a product

Story Map

200

What is the proposed improvement in build time that NAK team is working on?

Reduce build time by 30 minutes

300

Out of the total 60 Epics we have for 2019.4 PI, how many are tagged to Engineering work. Name any 4 of them.

No. of Epics: 8

1. Update to Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7.6

2. Asset Compliance with Snow Agent,
3. Support for Windows 10 Build 19H1 RTM build

4. ccSettings user to Kernel mode commn
5. FY'19 Automation goals

6. Engineering Excellence & Tech debt 

7. Telemetry analysis of WDAP

8. Persistence Monitoring Tool Integration

300

What is our average manual testing % over the last 4 releases that have gone out?


30%

300

What are the total number of Scrum Teams working for NGC now?

16 (includes Arrow)

300

Name the three elements of user voice which forms an User Story

User Role
Activity
Value

300

What are the current state of NGC FY'19 Automation Goals?

L1 Automation - 91.9% 

FR - 4.2 (EN) / 6.2% (MUI)

Coverage - 66.69% , 44.84%

400

What are the major changes expected out of Win 10 19H1 release that could impact our product?

Sandbox, Tamper Protection, Protection History and Reserved Storage Space

400

What does PETS Stand for?

Priority, Errors, Timeout, Size

400

What are the 5 parameters required as part of Risk Register?

Risk description, Impacted areas, Probability of Occurrence, Risk Impact, Risk Response Strategy

400

What are the 5 Levels of planning as per Scrum?

Product Vision
Product Roadmap
Release Plan
Sprint Plan
Daily Commitment

400

What are the three improvements we made during this PI planning based on last PI's retro?


1. Criteria  For Epic To be Listed for Epic Choice has to be modified

2. To Improve the team Participation during PI planning

3. Move PI event Retro to Day 2 to close the PI planning on Day 2

500

Name the three campaigns launched as part of ToD to find information about users systems

Display Resolution, Windows Subsystem for Linux,
Users with WiFi privacy installed

500

Which are the 5 components that are expected to plan capacity for NCP copy-up support activities?

OCL, CLT, NCP, Symqual and NAK

500

Name at least 4 epics that are going to be released with 22.16.4

1. Release CSP Retail layouts with Production SKUs
2. Umbrella  Co-branding
3. Disabling  reboot prompt  for SEPC
4. Overinstallfix for VPN
5. Fixing  a product  does not start after restart issue
6. Re-Enable  PIF targeting  for Wi-Fi MOT

500

If a team's velocity was 33 going into the last sprint and they just completed 35 points, then what would be the new velocity

.7*60 + .3*70 = 44.1

500

What is the proposed team appreciation criteria?

Factors during PI Planning: 

  • Completeness of the content (Grooming to Identify Asks, Dependencies, risks. Sprints loaded properly etc.)
  • Team Participation
  • Timeliness

Factors throughout PI:

1. Adhering to Jira Hygiene

2. Adhering to DoD

3. Defect removal Efficiency

4. ABAT fix turn around time

5. Defect Grooming Turn Around time