Agile Mock test - Mock exam 4
Agile contracting best practices require structuring milestones and payment terms on:
A. Stage gates
B. Fixed milestones
C. Phase gates
D. Value-driven deliverables. - D. Value-driven deliverables.
Explanation
D - Traditional approaches to contracting struct...
Agile Mock test - Mock exam 4 Agile contracting best practices require structuring milestones and payment terms on: A. Stage gates B. Fixed milestones C. Phase gates D. Value -driven deliverables. - ✔✔D. Value -driven deliverables. Explanation D - Traditional approaches to contracting structure milestones and payment terms on fixed milestones, phase gates and stage gates. Agile contract ing best practices require structuring milestones and payment terms on value -driven deliverables. [Agile Practice Guide, 1st edition, Page 77] [Value -driven Delivery] On a burndown chart, the intersection of the work remaining trend line and the horizonta l axis indicates the: A. Cutover date B. Handover date C. Completion deadline D. Most probable completion of work - ✔✔D. Most probable completion of work Explanation D - On a burndown chart, the intersection of the work remaining trend line, a projection of the current velocity, and the horizontal axis indicates the most likely completion date. However, as this date is not fixed and the estimate changes with the change in velocity, this intersection does not point to any specific date or deadline. [Agile P ractice Guide, 1st edition, Page 62] [Team Performance] You are leading an Agile project. The team has proposed using a Kanban board to manage the team's work in progress and spot bottlenecks. The following work flow has been agreed on for the Kanban boar d: Ready -> Develop and Unit Test -> Dev -Done -> System Test -> Done. According to this Kanban board, the lead time of an item is the: A. The time an item enters the "Ready" bin till the time it exits the "Done" bin. B. The time an item enters the "Develop and Unit Test" bin till the time it exits the "Done" bin. C. The time an item enters the "Develop and Unit Test" bin till the time it enters the "Done" bin. D. The time an item enters the "Ready" bin till the time it enters the "Done" bin. - ✔✔A. The time an item enters the "Ready" bin till the time it exits the "Done" bin. Explanation A - Lead time is from the time you put an item on the board until you deli ver it. This will be represented by the time an item enters the "Ready" bin till the time it exits the "Done" bin. Exiting the "Done" bin implies delivery to the customer. [Agile Practice Guide, 1st edition, Page 65] [Value -driven Delivery] Which of the f ollowing statements regarding Agile release planning is incorrect? A. Agile release planning focuses on features that will be released by the end of each project iteration. B. Release planning is the process of creating a very high -level plan that covers a period longer than an iteration. C. The product owner and the whole team decide how much must be developed and how long that will take before they have a releasable product. D. A typical release plan will cover perhaps three to six months and maybe three to twelve or more iterations. - ✔✔A. Agile release planning focuses on features that will be released by the end of each project iteration. Explanation A - Agile release planning doesn't focus on releases at the end of each project iteration. Instead, the product owner and the whole team decide how much must be developed and how long that will take before they have a releasable product. [Cohn, M., 2006. Agile Estimating and Planning. 1st ed. Massachusetts: Pearson Education. Page 131] [Adaptive Planning] A servant -leader gives colored sticky dots to the team and asks them to put these on a poster containing team issues. The team then starts placing their dots next to the items under consideration. What is this team doing? A. Conducting a root cause analysi s. B. Developing a fishbone diagram. C. Identifying issues. D. Prioritizing issues. - ✔✔D. Prioritizing issues.
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