Value-Driven Delivery

Question 1

What does Red-Green-Clean stand for?

Answer 1

In TDD:

• test fails (red)
• test passes (green)
• refactor (clean)

Question 2

What is the Gulf of evaluation?

Answer 2

The difference between what is said and what is understood

Question 3

In this test, the tester tries to discover issues and unexpected behaviour

Answer 3

Exploratory testing

Question 4

In this test it is evaluated how the user will respond to the system under realistic conditions

Answer 4

Usability testing

Question 5

Why use continuous integration?

Answer 5

For immediate feedback on bugs/defects

Question 6

What is ROI?

Answer 6

Return on Investment (ROI) is the profitability of a project

Question 7

In value calculation, what is the Present value (PV)?

Answer 7

The calculation of a future amount in today’s terms given an assumed interest rate and inflation rate

Question 8

In value calculation, what is the Future value (FV)?

Answer 8

The calculation of a present amount in today’s terms given an assumed interest rate and inflation rate

Question 9

In value calculation, what is the Net present value (NPV)?

Answer 9

Present value of a revenue stream over a series of time periods

Question 10

In value calculation, what does the Internal rate of return (IRR) represent?

Answer 10

Determines the point where the project is profitable (when positive)

Question 11

In value calculation, how can the Earned Value (EV) be calculated?

Answer 11

Percent Complete times Budget at Completion (BAC)

Question 12

In value calculation, how can the Cost Performance Index (CPI) be calculated?

Answer 12

Earned Value (EV) divided by the Actual Costs (AC)

Question 13

In this contract form, the vendor gets paid a higher hourly rate if it is able to deliver early

Answer 13

Graduated fixed-price contract

Question 14

How complete must a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) be?

Answer 14

Complete enough to be useful, but small enough that it does no represent the entire project

Question 15

How can Work in Progres (WIP) be a problem?

Answer 15

It requires investment, but delivers no return until the work is complete

Question 16

What is the use of a Cumulative Flow Diagram?

Answer 16

It helps tracking and forecasting the delivery of value

Question 17

What is the MoSCoW prioritization scheme?

Answer 17

• Must have
• Should have
• Could have
• Would like to have, but not at this time

Question 18

What does the Kano Analysis help to identify?

Answer 18

• Basic needs (dissatisfiers)
• Performance needs (satisfiers)
• Attractive needs (delighters)

Question 19

The longer a project lasts the more opportunity for what?

Answer 19

Risk

Question 20

What is value-driven delivery?

Answer 20

Having knowledge about delivering valuable results by producing high-value increments for reviews based on stakeholders’ priorities.

Question 21

What are the key elements of Value driven delivery?

Answer 21

• Incremental Development
• Risk control
• Prioritization
• Define Positive Value

Question 22

How can an organization using Agile utilize competitive advantage over others and realize value earlier?

Answer 22

Delivering work incrementally

Question 23

On what basis should a team’s process be improved?

Answer 23

On the basis of the team’s experiences and organization preferences.

Question 24

In terms of Agile project management, how can prioritization be defined?

Answer 24

The process where customers organize product backlog for implementation based on the perceived values.

Question 25

If the Agile management intends to determine how much a project has progressed in terms of realization of values by the team, which tool should be used?

Answer 25

Earned Value Management

Question 26

In Customer-valued Prioritization, what does the value prioritization scheme CARVER stand for?

Answer 26

- Criticality – how important to be done upfront - Accessibility – can work on it immediately? or depends on other work / skills? - Return – ROI / NPV / IRR - Vulnerability – how easy to achieve the desired results? - Effect – what are the effects on the project (help moving towards the goal of the project)? - Recognizability – have the goals been clearly identified?

Question 27

The conformity of a product to a rule such as in specification, policy, standard or law is known as ____.

Answer 27

Compliance

Question 28

In Value-Driven Delivery, how is Positive Value achieved?

Answer 28

- Define deliverables to be developed incrementally - Refine requirements by gaining consensus on the acceptance criteria - Select and tailor the team’s process

Question 29

In Value-Driven Delivery, how to Avoid Potential Downsides?

Answer 29

- Plan for small releasable increments by building MVPs - Limit increment size and increase review frequency with appropriate stakeholders - Solicit customer and user feedback

Question 30

In Value-Driven Delivery, how to do Prioritization?

Answer 30

- Prioritize units of work with stakeholders - Perform frequent review and maintenance of the work results - Continuously identify environmental, operational and infrastructure factors

Question 31

In Value-Driven Delivery, how to do Incremental Development?

Answer 31

- Conduct operational reviews with stakeholders - Balance development of deliverable units and risk reduction efforts - Re-prioritize requirements periodically - Elicit and prioritize relevant non-functional requirements (such as performance and security) - Run frequent inspections, tests and reviews of the product

Question 32

Basically, what are the Dot voting/monopoly money/100 point methods?

Answer 32

Games to be played with stakeholders where they put their limited number of dots/money/points on certain features from the product backlog

Question 33

What is Little’s law?

Answer 33

“the duration of a queue is proportional to its size” -> by limiting the WIP, teams can complete work faster

Question 34

What is DSDM contracting?

Answer 34

- joins Rapid Application Development (RAD) and waterfall - fixed schedule, cost and quality - follows agile framework

Question 35

In this contract form, the vendor gets paid the same for doing a certain job, independent of how much time it took

Answer 35

Fixed-price work packages