Agile MCQs Flashcards
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You are leading massive knowledge work project. Some team members have complained they have to work overtime in order to complete some of the assigned work. What should you do to resolve this issue?
A) Establish working agreeements
B) Call a team for a retrospective meeting
C) Establish a kanban board and set WIP limits
D) launch a root cause analysis
C
A project is currently building a warehouse management system, Due to the complexity of the project and ambigious requirements, the team decided to adopt an Agile management approach. If a higher rate of management process improvement is required by the project team, which of the following can help achieve this objective?
A) Using a kanban board to enable visual management
B) Adopting XP for the development phase
C) Deferring the development until all requirements have collected
D) Frequent retrospective and selecting improvements
D
During a demonstration, the customer provides feedback and requestd a new, urgent enhancement due to a regulatio change. What should the agile project manager do?
A) Discuss the new requirement during the retrospective
B) talk aout the new requirement during the iteration planning meeting.
C)Add the new requirement to the iteration backlog
D)review the new requirement with the team and ask them to start work on it
A
Agile approaches promise better user experience of project deliverabes in comparison to the traditional waterfall-based approaches, this is due to:
A) Early development of an exhaustive product backlog
B) Relying less on process and more on documentation
C) Early and continual involvement of users
D) Relying less on documentation and more on processes
C
The sprint began two days ago. The team did not reaxch a consensus on how to address a feature of a product under construction. As project manager, what should you do?
A) Propose ideas to the group, ask everyone to vote, and then choose the most popular idea.
B) Schedule a session to give everyone the chance to express their opinions about each idea, then vote and decide.
C)Offer an opnion about the pros and cons of each idea and try to reach a consensus in a facilitated meeting
D) Ask the product owner, who is the key stakeholder, to choose among the different ideas
D
During the execution of a hybrid project, one developer had to be replaced. The new resource is extremely competent in quality assurance taks but does not have much experience in development. What should the project manager do?
A) Maintain the same task allocation structure to avoid any disruption in the project team
B) Move the developer to another team and look for a replacement developer
C)Request that all quality assurance tasks be allocated to the new resource.
D) Allow the team to reevaluare the tasks and determine how they should be allocated
D
You are managing an e-commernce-enabled website. You have recommended the Agile project management approach to the client and they are happy with any management approach as long as they receive a working product. A sprint duration of two weeks would add a lot of pressure on the team as complex requirements will be tough to build in a single sprint. A sprint of six weeks would make the project less Agile but the project might get finished early as the customer won’t get to see many prototypes. What sprint should be selected.
A)Four weeks should be selected, as that is the average of two numbers
B) A sprint size needs to be determined that maximizes customer value and satisfaction
C)Two weeks should be selected; since Agile Manifesto mandates frequent delivery of working software
D) Six weeks should be selected; since the project would get finished early and satisy the customer.
B
A software vendor has recently hired you to manage some of its key projects. During your orientation at the organization, you were told that organization has recently adopted Agile practices for project management. A chart wa shown to you where Agile and Kanban were shown as subset of Lean. What is your view on this?
A) The chart is wrong because Agile is a subset of Lean while kanban isnot.
B)The chart is wrong because Kanban is a subset of Lean while Agile isnot
C)The chart is wrong because Agile, kanban and Lean are three different approaches to project management.
D)Agile and kanban are subsets of Lean because they are named instances of Lean thinking.
D
Traditional project mangement approaches included multiple KPIs that predicted the success of a project. How do we demonstrate success of an Agile project?
A) By reusing the traditional KPIs and measures
B) By demonstrating that a working product has delivered to the customer
C) By releasing on time
D) By maintaining a productive team velocity
B
A project manager has been working with the same group of stakeholders for 4 years using a predictive approach. The stakeholders have invested in many projects and are familiar with the approach. Recently, the organization has strongly encouraged all project managers to adopt an agile approach. This was announced 2 weeks before the project manager planned to kick off a large, complex project with the same group of stakeholders. What should the project manager do?
A) Share and discuss the pros and cons of adopting agile with the stakeholders and choose the approach they prefer for the new project.
B) Continue to use the predictive approach in the new project since it is the approach the stakeholders are familiar with using.
C) Share the pros and cons of adopting an agile approach for the new project only with the team and ask them to decide which approach to use.
D) Use the agile approach in the new project and schedule agile training for those stakeholders who are new to this approach.
D
You have been asked to develop a new website for one of your clients. The website is required to be browser independent and delivered within a month. Although the website has a simple design, the requirement of browser independence has added some complexity to the project. Which of the following approaches would you recommend for this project?
A) Predictive
B) Incremental
C) Iterative
D) Agile
C
A product owner has returned from a meeting with a few key stakeholders, who expressed interest in learning more about the project progress. The product owner is seeking the project manager’s recommendation on how to approach this request. What should the project manager do to help the product owner?
A) Provide an overview of the completed functionalities and release plan, and capture expectations for future stakeholder involvement.
B) Remind the product owner of stakeholder accountability, and ask the product owner to determine the appropriate next steps.
C) Provide access to the latest user acceptance test (UAT) environment so they can see the solution.
D) Encourage the product owner to invite key stakeholders to future demonstrations where they can provide feedback.
D
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As a scrum master, you are facilitating a retrospective for a sprint that failed to meet all of its objectives. Members of the development team and the product owner are arguing over who is responsible for the failure. After performing a root cause analysis, you uncover the source of the conflict. Of the following, what did you most likely discover?
A) The product owner determined how many user stories were to be completed during the sprint.
B) The Gantt chart did not include enough story points.
C) The development team decided how many user stories were to be completed during the sprint.
D) You, as the scrum master, failed to assign user stories to the development team.
A
The product owner only priortise user stories and it determine how many should be completed
What is the Scrum Master responsible for?
A) Imposing metrics and managing the performance of the Development Team.
B) The Development Team’s meetings and for the objectives the Development Team outlines for itself.
C) Teaching Scrum and seeing that it is adopted and used correctly.
D) Defining the Development Team’s tasks during the Sprint.
C
Agile project stakeholders are requiring ongoing illustration of project business value. How should the project manager proceed?
A) Confirm the minimum viable product (MVP) and demonstrate it to the business when it is ready.
B) Prepare performance value reports for the business on an ongoing basis.
C) Prepare a project report for the stakeholders and distribute it weekly.
D) Include demonstrations of the built portion of the product at the end of every sprint.
D
During the retrospective of the 5th sprint, the project team complains that many obstacles exist with the organization that are creating project delays and rework. What should the project manager do in this situation?
A) Perform a root cause analysis during the standup meetings.
B) Include impediment resolutions during daily stand-up meetings.
C) Create a dedicated sprint to solve the obstacles with the team.
D) Promote collaboration to help remove the obstacles for the team.
D
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A new team member joins an agile team. In a previous role, this team member was a subject matter expert (SME). This team member often directs the team on how to solve problems based on previous experience. What should the project manager do FIRST?
A) Let the new team member know that even if they know the answer, it is better to give the team a chance to solve their own problems.
B) Ask the new team member to size all the stories in the backlog so that the rest of the team can focus on delivery.
C) Ask the new team member to create a wiki that the rest of the team can reference in the future for all questions.
D) Update the definition of done (DoD) to include a review by the new team member to ensure the best outcome of each deliverable.
A
The project sponsor recently requested that a vendor begins working toward adopting a hybrid approach. In response, the vendor hired a project manager experienced in agile for the project. What does that project manager need to do to make the team work in a collaborative way?
A) Request the project management office (PMO) for a team of mentors.
B) Identify any training gaps.
C) Allocate time to mentor the team.
D) Update the issue log.
C
Which of the following are the core values of XP?
A) Unity, faith, agility, and discipline.
B) Collaboration, complexity, communication, faith, and discipline.
C) Communication, simplicity, feedback, courage, and respect.
D) Planning, executing, monitoring, and controlling.
C
You have been assigned a new project. The project involves disruptive technologies. The project scope is not clear, which has introduced a lot of risk into the project. You have requested to use Agile to manage this project. Why?
A) Agile techniques and approaches effectively manage disruptive technologies, scope changes, and project risk.
B) Agile techniques and approaches effectively manage project risk.
C) Agile techniques and approaches effectively manage disruptive technologies.
D) Agile techniques and approaches effectively manage scope changes.
A
What is the purpose of the Daily Scrum (daily meeting)?
A) Reporting work progress to the Scrum Master.
B) Enhancing visibility in communications between members of the Development Team.
C) Technical discussions and adjustments in the Development Team’s work.
D) Reporting work progress to the project client.
B
A project manager is leading an agile team. The daily standups and iteration meetings are currently facilitated by the product owner. A team member contacts the project manager and mentions that they are looking to improve their facilitation skills. How should the project manager respond to this request?
A) Ask the team member to review the lessons learned on facilitation from previous projects.
B) Suggest that the team member facilitate an upcoming iteration and review the outcomes in the iteration retrospective.
C) Engage their functional manager to determine if there is alignment to their development plan before agreeing.
D) Add new elements to the project backlog to account for the training needs of the team member.
B
An agile project is running its fifth iteration out of eight. A stakeholder is not happy with the progress the team made so far. The stakeholder approaches the team and requests that from now on the team informs him about the status of their work on an ongoing basis. How should a servant leader respond?
A) Suggest that the stakeholder periodically reviews the information radiators.
B) Provide the stakeholder with the performance measurement baseline.
C) Explain to the stakeholder that agile projects discourage progress monitoring.
D) Invite the stakeholder to the daily standups, iteration reviews, and retrospectives.
A
