Agile Delivery Essentials

1. What is velocity?

The speed or rate the product team progresses through a sprint

How quickly product team members can execute work

How quickly stakeholders can expect demand to be delivered

The quality of development over time

2. Which of the following is not a benefit of good requirements?

Helps drive conversation with the product team

Allows the Product Team to understand how users will interact with the product

Provides the Product Team with a step-by-step solution

Helps reduce the likelihood of guessing

3. Which of the following is not a benefit of Agile?

Gives the ability to change quicker

Reduces risk

Provides greater visibility

Development takes less time

4. What is the scrum requirement hierarchy?

Epic, Feature, User Story, Task

Feature, User Story, Epic, Task

Theme, Feature, Epic, User Story

Feature, Theme, Task, User Story

5. Why is backlog refinement important?

Allows the product team to pull out and add in to shift priority during sprints

Ensures the product team is working on the highest priority items during sprints

Gives the product owner the ability to rearrange work items based on priority in real time

Non of the above

6. How frequently should product teams host a demo for stakeholder groups?

Monthly

Quarterly

The end of every sprint

The completion of an Epic

7. What three areas must change in order for an agile transformation to successfully take place?

Mindset, Funding, Org Structure

Mindset, System, Practices

System, Resourcing, Funding

Resourcing, Funding, Tooling

8. What is the rule of 21/90?

Number of days for a team to execute a sprint / number of days to release

9. Which of the following is not part of the Agile Manifesto?

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Following a plan over responding to change

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

10. What are common anti-patterns of sprint goals?

Planning is based on tasks rather than stories

Commitment is unrealistic or no commitment is reached

No time is reserved for support activities

All of the above are common anti-patterns

11. Which of the following should not be discussed during a daily stand-up?

What I worked on yesterday

What I completed yesterday

What I will complete today

What is stopping me from completing my work

12. What occurs during a demo in agile?

Showcasing working software

Showcasing a slide deck of what the new functionality will look like

Showcasing product financials and budget

Showcasing product roadmap, release plan, and burn up chart

13. What is not a benefit of vertical slicing in agile?

Each story is delivered as a piece of working software

Working in small, valuable pieces allows for constant feedback

Encourages collaborative effort from the entire team, not just individual work

Allows to financially plan in small time frames, lowering cost

14. What is the definition of Arrival Criteria?

Additional criteria that was not addressed in the previous sprint

What high level criteria will be needed in the sprint

Criteria that must be true before work can start

A list of requirements that depicts the entire customer experience of the product

15. What is a user story?

A list of requirements needed

A requirement that depicts the specific capability needed

A list of proposed technical solutions

A lists of requirements that depicts the entire customer experience

16. What is a burndown rate?

The rise or drop in bugs within the product

Financial consumption over time

Percentage of the project complete

User stories completed from the backlog over time

17. Which of the following is not a benefit of establishing capacity?

Allows for better planning

Accounts for team members availability

Drives quicker velocity

Allows to gradually increase the sprint backlog each sprint

18. What is throughput?

The amount of work items the team commits to in a sprint

The average amount of work the team is able to do in a sprint

The number of work items completed in a given time period

The estimate of how many hours it will take to complete an Epic

19. Which of the following is not a scrum ceremony?

Sprint Financial Planning

Backlog Refinement

Sprint Planning

Daily Stand-ups

20. Why are WIP limits important?

WIP limits help drive predictable teams

WIP limits help understand the speed of the product team

WIP limits gives teams the ability to put work on hold

All of the above

21. What is a benefit of a Scrum Master?

They provide agile coaching to the product team

They manage sprint work for the product team

They determine what will be in each sprint

They are able to serve as an interim resource manager for the product team

22. How are managers able to track work hours in agile teams?

Coordination with the Scrum Master

Time tracking through work items

Rely on sprint planning and what is committed

Teams are fully dedicated to the Product

23. Which of the following roles is not a member of the product scrum team?

Developer

Scrum Master

Product Owner

Product Delivery Manager

24. Who decides what work items go into each sprint?

Product Owner

Scrum Master

Product Delivery Manager

Product Team

25. What role is not responsible for user story refining?

Product Owner

Product Team

Product Delivery Manager

Scrum Master

26. True or false, in a product backlog refinement meeting, the focus is on future sprints

True

False

27. Who is responsible for setting acceptance criteria for stories?

Product Team

Product Delivery Manager

Product Owner

Product Stakeholders

28. Which of the following is not a common anti-pattern of a Retrospective?

Focusing on things the team has no power to change

Not having a retrospective because the team is too healthy or busy

Product Delivery Manager leading the Retrospective

Not leaving the Retrospective with action items

29. What is a product?

Something a customer is able to purchase

A good or service that offers value to a customer

An application or software

All of the above are products

30. Which of the following is not a benefit of having daily standups?

Creates a daily plan for the team

Holds people accountable for their work

Gives others insight on what I worked on yesterday

Allows for time to bring up roadblocks that need to be addressed

31. Which of the following is false about tasks?

Tasking is done by the team and for the benefit of the team

Tasking helps provide clarity around the implementation strategy for each story

Tasks are mandatory for all stories

Tasks can be used to develop new skills

32. Which of the following is not a type of team in a product org?

Traditional Project Team

Enabling Product Team

Platform Product Team

Project Team

33. How long should a sprint last in product development?

2 weeks or less

3 weeks or less

A month or less

However long is needed/committed to

34. Which of the following is not a phase of team development?

Forming

Norming

Maturing

Storming