Agile Lectures

Question 1

What is the difference between Disciplined Agile and Scaled Agile Framework?

Answer 1

Flexibility and Approach to Scaling

Question 2

What is a story map?

Answer 2

A Story Map is a visual representation of a product backlog

Question 3

Name 4 techniques for decision making in Agile?

Answer 3

1. Simple Poll
2. Dot Voting
3. Fist of Five
4. Roman Voting

Question 4

What is the Minimum Business Increment MBI?

Answer 4

A Minimum Business Increment (MBI) is the smallest unit of work that can be delivered to provide value to customers from a business perspective.

Question 5

What is the Minimum Viable Product MVP?

Answer 5

the simplest version of a product that can be built and released to gather feedback from early users.

Question 6

What is a release vs user story vs feature?

Answer 6

a release is a set of features and a feature is a set of user stories

Question 7

What is a Story map?

Answer 7

A Story Map is a visual representation of a product backlog that helps teams understand

Question 8

What is an information radiator and what info it shows?

Answer 8

An information radiator is a visual tool used in Agile project management to display key project data in a clear and easily accessible way. These “radiators” are typically placed in highly visible areas (e.g., team rooms or digital dashboards) so that the entire team can see the project’s progress, issues, or other important information at a glance.
It shows:

• The features delivered to date
  versus the features remaining.
• Who is working on what.
• The features selected for current
  iteration.
• Velocity and defect metrics.
• Retrospective findings.
• List of threat and issues.
• Story map.
• Burn charts.

Question 9

What is a burn chart?

Answer 9

A burn chart is a visual tool used in Agile project management to track the progress of work over time(per sprint) . There are two main types of burn charts: Burn-down charts and Burn-up charts.

Question 10

What is Minimum Business Increment MBI?

Answer 10

A Minimum Business Increment (MBI) is the smallest unit of work that can be delivered to provide value to customers from a business perspective.

Question 11

What is Minimum Viable Product (MVP)?

Answer 11

the simplest version of a product that can be built and released to gather feedback from early users.

Question 12

What is the difference between MVP and MBI?

Answer 12

MVP is typically used for new products to test market viability, whereas an MBI is used for enhancements to existing products with known business value

Question 13

What is the main techniques for prioritisation?

Answer 13

MoSCoW and Kano model

Question 14

What are the 4 main meeting in Scrum sprint?

Answer 14

1. Sprint planning
2. Daily scrum
3. Sprint review
4. Sprint retrospective

Question 15

Name the three main Agile scaling methodologies

Answer 15

1. Disciplined Agile DA
2. Scrum of Scrums
3. Scaled Agile Framework SAFe

Question 16

Name some of the Agile methodologies or tools (4)

Answer 16

1. XP Extreme Programming
2. Kanban
3. Lean
4. Feature Driven Development

Question 17

What is the difference between self-organising and self-managing team?

Answer 17

Self-organizing teams focus on how to accomplish work, with limited managerial oversight.

Self-managing teams: handle both how and what work is done, taking on broader managerial functions such as task assignment, prioritization, and sometimes even hiring or budgeting.

Question 18

What is the difference between training vs coaching vs mentoring?

Answer 18

Training is a structured, formal process designed to teach specific skills or knowledge.

Coaching is a short- to medium-term process where a coach works with an individual (or team) to improve specific skills, behaviors, or performance.

Mentoring is a long-term relationship in which a more experienced person (the mentor) provides guidance, advice, and support to a less experienced person (the mentee). Mentoring focuses on holistic personal and professional development.

Question 19

What is tacit knowledge

Answer 19

Tacit knowledge refers to the kind of knowledge that is difficult to express, formalize, or transfer to others through written or verbal communication. It is personal, experience-based knowledge that is often gained through practice, interaction, and context

Question 20

Name 2 mean tools to measure team performance

Answer 20

Velocity charts and burn charts

Question 21

What is a velocity chart?

Answer 21

It’s a measure of team’s capacity for work per iteration

Question 22

What is time boxing?

Answer 22

Is to set a fixed time for an activity

Question 23

What is product road map?

Answer 23

A visual depiction of project releases developed by the product Owner

Question 24

What a User Story ?

Answer 24

A user story is a simple, concise description of a feature or functionality from the perspective of the end user in Agile development.

Question 25

What is the difference between Product Roadmap, User Story Mapping and Iteration Planning?

Answer 25

- **Product Roadmap** focuses on long-term strategy and product vision. - **User Story Mapping** helps visualize user flows and prioritize work for releases. - **Iteration Planning** breaks down work into short-term goals and plans for each sprint.

Question 26

What is the difference between, Theme, Epic, User Story and Task?

Answer 26

**Theme:** A broad, high-level collection of related work or goals that contribute to a common business objective. Themes group multiple epics and stories that are all connected to a larger purpose. **Epic**: A large body of work that can be broken down into smaller user stories. An epic represents a substantial feature or functionality that cannot be completed in a single iteration. (cannot be completed in a single sprint) **User Story:** A small, concise description of a piece of functionality from the user’s perspective. It defines the user’s need and the value the feature will provide, without delving into technical details. **Task:** A granular piece of work that helps complete a user story.

Question 27

What are work sizing and Estimate techniques (mention 5)?

Answer 27

**Relative sizing:** a method of estimating tasks or user stories by comparing them to other tasks or stories. Instead of trying to estimate in exact units of time (hours or days), the team compares the size or complexity of the work relative to other work items. **Fibonacci Sequence:** A sequence of numbers used in Agile to assign story points for work estimation, typically 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc. Each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers **T-shirt Sizing:** A technique that assigns sizes like T-shirt sizes—**XS, S, M, L, XL**—to represent the relative size of stories or tasks. **Planning Poker:** A consensus-based technique where team members estimate the size of a story by playing numbered cards (often based on Fibonacci numbers) face-down to avoid biasing each other’s estimates.