Chapter 2 - Agile Framework

Question 1

What are the four agile values?

Answer 1

Individuals and interactions over Processes and tools
Working software over Comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over Contract negotiation
Responding to change over Following a plan

Question 2

Working software over?

Answer 2

Comprehensive documentation

Question 3

Responding to change over?

Answer 3

Following a plan

Question 4

Individuals and interactions over?

Answer 4

Processes and tools

Question 5

Customer collaboration over?

Answer 5

Contract negotiation

Question 6

Guiding principle: Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through doing what?

Answer 6

early and continuous delivery of valuable software

Question 7

Guiding principle: how do we consider changing requirements?

Answer 7

We welcome changing requirements, even late in development for the customer’s competitive advantage

Question 8

Guiding principle: How frequently do we deliver working software?

Answer 8

From couple of weeks to couple months, with a preference for the shorter timescale

Question 9

Guiding principle: How often must business people and developers work together?

Answer 9

Daily throughout the project

Question 10

Guiding principle: Build projects around motivated individuals. what do you need to give them?

Answer 10

the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.

Question 11

Guiding principle: what’s the most efficient and effective way of conveying information to and within a development team?

Answer 11

Face to face conversation

Question 12

Guiding principle: What’s the primary measure of progress?

Answer 12

Working software

Question 13

Guiding principle: What do Agile processes promote in terms of work-life balance?

Answer 13

Sustainable development. The sponsors, developers and users should be able to maintain constant pace indefinitely

Question 14

Guiding principle: What needs to be paid attention to in order to enhance agility?

Answer 14

Technical excellence and good design

Question 15

Guiding principle: what is essential regarding work to be done?

Answer 15

Simplicity - the art of maximizing the work not done

Question 16

Guiding principle: Where do the best architectures, requirements and designs emerge from?

Answer 16

Self-organizing teams

Question 17

Guiding principle: what reflection does the team have at regular intervals?

Answer 17

It reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly

Question 18

What are the 3 pillars of Scrum?

Answer 18

Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation

Question 19

What does “grooming” the product backlog mean?

Answer 19

it is the process of adding more detail and order to the backlog and refining the estimates of the backlog items

Question 20

What are the core values of XP?

Answer 20

Simplicity, Communication, Feedback, Courage, Respect

Question 21

How long is a typical iteration in XP

Answer 21

2 weeks

Question 22

What does generalizing specialists mean?

Answer 22

People can take up multiple roles

Question 23

Which roles does a XP team include?

Answer 23

A customer, developers, QA, BA. Sometimes a coach and a manager

Question 24

How many planning games does XP have and which ones?

Answer 24

2: release planning and iteration planning

Question 25

How is the XP practice of all contributors sitting together in the same location called?

Answer 25

Whole Team

Question 26

How is the XP practice of frequently releasing software to the Test environment called?

Answer 26

Small Releases

Question 27

How is the XP practice of the customer describing one or more tests to show that the software works called?

Answer 27

Customer Tests

Question 28

How is the XP practice of multiple people working on the code called?

Answer 28

Collective Code Ownership

Question 29

How is the XP practice of the team taking a consistent approach to coding called?

Answer 29

Code Standards

Question 30

How is the XP practice of avoiding repeated long hours of work called?

Answer 30

Sustainable Pace

Question 31

How is the XP practice of using descriptions that all the stakeholders can understand called?

Answer 31

Metaphor

Question 32

How is the XP practice of running integration tests each time a developer checks in code?

Answer 32

Continuous Integration

Question 33

How is the XP practice of writing tests prior to code called?

Answer 33

Test-Driven Development

Question 34

How is the XP practice of improving the design of existing code without altering the external behavior called?

Answer 34

Refactoring

Question 35

How is the XP practice of keeping the design simple but adequate called?

Answer 35

Simple Design

Question 36

How is the XP practice of two developers producing the same code called?

Answer 36

Pair Programming

Question 37

What is a "Feature Team"?

Answer 37

Dynamically formed team that vets designs and allow multiple design options to be evaluated before a design is chosen

Question 38

How are reviews that help ensure good quality design and code called in FDD?

Answer 38

Inspections

Question 39

How is the FDD practice of teams exploring and explaining the business domain called?

Answer 39

Domain object modelling

Question 40

How is the FDD practice of breaking functions down into 2-week or shorter chunks and calling them features called?

Answer 40

Developing by feature

Question 41

How is the FDD practice of code having a single owner called?

Answer 41

Individual class (code) ownership

Question 42

How is the FDD practice of labeling code, tracking changes and managing source code called?

Answer 42

Configuration management

Question 43

How is the FDD practice of making sure the new code integrates with existing code called'

Answer 43

Regular builds

Question 44

How is the FDD practice of tracking progress based on completed work called?

Answer 44

Visibility of progress and results

Question 45

What does DSDM stand for?

Answer 45

Dynamic Systems Development Method