An event management team is following an agile approach to prepare for an upcoming conference. The regional sales manager, from where the conference is to be held, contacts the team with a number of questions about the company's booth.
What should the team do?
At the end of a product development phase, an agile project team confirms that all tests have passed. The product is released, but the customer complains that it is deficient. What should the project team have done prior to product release?
A team member has spent 5 days on a spike and the first set of experiments has not been successful. The issue is the development team member has determined a short-term rather than a long-term solution.
What should the project leader do?
A member of a project's development team approaches the team lead and requests database administrator training. The team member believes that their inability to handle this work, and to rely on outside specialists, is impacting team velocity.
What should the agile team lead do?
After a successful product deployment, a key stakeholder informs an agile team member that an implemented feature is failing to deliver its expected business value. The team member replies that the requirement was provided by the customer, and that the scope was clearly met.
If the problem were an issue of requirement elicitation rather than delivery, what should have been done to avoid this situation?
An agile team provides feedback that user stories include insufficient details to understand the requirements. What should the agile practitioner do?
A development team, new to scrum, questions the need to collect metrics on team performance. While learn members understand velocity and burn down, they feel that once velocity becomes settled it is needless to keep track.
What should the agile coach tell the team?
A company is considering developing a new, complex application that will require a large initial investment However if successful the profit potential is high.
When preparing an analysis, what should be used to encourage stakeholders who are concerned about project failure to authorize the initial investment?
A seven-member agile team's composition varies considerably in age. gender, culture, personality type, and professional background. When planning a team-building event, what type of interpersonal skills should the project leader use?
A company president is concerned about the impact of a natural disaster on the company. How should management identify areas to apply its resources and mitigate potential impacts?
During a backlog refinement meeting, a senior team member raises a concern about an epic sizing that requires the use of a new interface for a vendor product. The product owner acknowledges this as a risk. What should the product owner do now?
Trend analysis shows that velocity is significantly higher than predicted and the release can be completed one month ahead of schedule. The team recommends changing the end date to reflect this.
What should the agile practitioner do?
There is a database feature requiring three members of a seven person team. A meeting is scheduled at the beginning of the sprint to go over technical needs to complete the story. Who should the Scrum Master invite to the meeting?
An agile project has three more iterations before the release. There is a lot of report functionality to be created and defects to be cleared. During a daily scrum, a team member suggests a timebox spike to find a more efficient way to deliver reports.
What should the project leader do?
During a sprint review the product owner identifies a required improvement for a feature's user interface (UI) delivered during the sprint What should the product owner do next?
Midway through a sprint, a team member discovers that the product design fails to adhere to the organization's enterprise architecture standards. Since this required escalation to the architecture team for further analysis and resolution, the team was unable to deliver its sprint goal and the sprint was cancelled.
What should the team have done to avoid this?
The team underestimated the complexity of a story, resulting in new decomposition of the work to be delivered in the current sprint and items to be returned to the backlog. What should the Scrum Master do next?
After seeing the planned features (or an upcoming release, a customer notes that a vitally important and complex one is missing. The team estimates that this feature significantly exceeds its average velocity. How can this issue be resolved?
What estimation technique is an agile team using when collectively estimating the relative size of its stories using story points?
During an iteration planning meeting, the team suggests changes to add product value that will require extra work and impact the schedule. What should the agile project leader do?
A company is moving into a new space and is determining the best configuration for offices. The management team is also considering moving to an agile process. What advice should an agilist give?
The project team is ahead of schedule and beginning lo gold-plate the feature included in the current sprint. What should the agile project manager do?
A new agile team member notices that the team's current process involves excessive documentation. What should the new team member do?
During a project meeting, a team is faced with a difficult decision. After discussion and deliberation, the project leader makes the final decision and ends the discussion. This causes a team member to withdraw from future collaboration.
How could the project leader have avoided this?
The amount of information captured in the project's defects is varying within the development team. Team members are becoming frustrated with the defect quality inconsistencies and the frequent clarification required.
What should be done to address the issue?
During the iteration planning of a newly onboarded agile team, the product owner adds a set of high priority user stories into the iteration backlog. What should the team do first to define the tasks needed to implement the user stories?
During a Kanban team's daily stand up, an agile coach observes that the team seems disinterested in the work status. While it appears that there are no issues with flow, there is a marked lack of attention to team effort. When the agile coach queries the team for reasons, members explain that work continues to be scheduled with no end in sight.
What should the agile coach do?
A product that recently went to market is receiving a great deal of attention from upper management who expresses interest by directly emailing and calling the developer team. The team expresses frustration during a standup.
What should the Scrum Master do?
A product owner asks a newly formed scrum team how many story points will be completed in a sprint. What should the scrum master do?