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Disciplined Agile Coach Exam 2024
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Disciplined Agile Coach Exam 2024A company has realigned the organization into value streams. They are working with
backlogs of minimum business increments (MBls) and the customers seem happier.
The initial backlog of improvements for the company has been cleared, and work has
settled into a routine.
What should the Disciplined Agile® Coach (DAC) focus on next?
A. Work with individuals and teams within the company to continue creating
opportunities to improve their way of working (WoW).
B. Coach the senior leaders on organizational transformation so they can take the
company to the next level.
C. Look for opportunities to create new value streams to continue growing the
company's business scope.
D. Allow the process to continue as long as the customers are happy and the company
is achieving its goals. - ANSWER-Work with individuals and teams within the company
to continue creating opportunities to improve their way of working (WoW)
A DAC analyzed the gaps in the organization. He then created and verified objectives.
What should be the next step?
A. Coach the teams on implementing the objectives
B. Identify and sequence the initial activities to support the objectives
C. Establish communities of practice to support and enable transformation
D. Explain the impact of the changes to stakeholders - ANSWER-Establish communities
of practice to support and enable transformation
A DAC has banking domain experience but is new to BB. The DAC will be coaching the
personal loans product line. In the first meeting with the loan processing team members,
the AC notices that the team has misunderstandings about agile and some potential
culture-related issues.
What should the DAC do?
A. Conduct Disciplined Agile fundamental training combined with a collaborative
question-and-answer session in order to provide a safe space to obtain insights into the
culture.
B. Facilitate a brainstorming session with the team's managers and stakeholders to
identify improvement areas, which will provide insight into their mindset and
organizational culture.
C. Set up a working session with the team and utilize a dynamic impediments board.
D. Organize one-on-one sessions with each team member to get to know them and ask
questions to get details about the current state. - ANSWER-Facilitate a brainstorming
,session with the team's managers and stakeholders to identify improvement areas,
which will provide insight into their mindset and organizational culture.
A DAC has been attending iteration reviews and retrospectives for a number of
development teams. The DAC has noticed that while team members are often meeting
sprint goals, they are quiet during retrospectives. Which stage of Timothy Clark's
Psychological Safety Model are the teams likely in?
A. Challenger safety
B. Inclusion safety
C. Learner safety
D. Contributor safety - ANSWER-Inclusion safety
A DAC has been working at BB for 2 months. BB's leadership wants to meet with the
DAC to discuss how the adoption of DA is progressing and what the impact has been to
the people.
What approach should the DAC use to present the progress made?
A. Prepare a list of the stakeholders who still don't seem to understand DA for
distribution at the next meeting and provide recommendations for the next steps to take.
B. Provide a visual that shows the phases people typically pass through and focus on
the attributes that are impeding progress, such as denial, skepticism, and confusion.
C. Prepare a status report using green, yellow, and red visuals because this has been a
time-proven approach at BB and the leadership team reacts best to this type of
information format.
D. Provide a "one-page profile" on each team member to the leadership team, review
the profiles with them, and answer any questions they have. - ANSWER-Provide a
visual that shows the phases people typically pass through and focus on the attributes
that are impeding progress, such as denial, skepticism, and confusion.
A DAC has been working with the BB loan origination team. The team chose the DA
Agile life cycle. The team is in the early part of the Construction phase and is making
good progress. However, one team member is unwilling to change how they perform
work and collaborate with the team. What should the DAC do?
A. Escalate this issue to operational management and human resources (HR) as this
issue has a high probability of impeding progress.
B. Facilitate a discussion about the team member with the entire team and ask them to
convince the team member that their behavior is harming the team.
C. Work with management to replace the uncooperative team member with someone
who wants to adopt DA, which removes the impediment for the team.
D. Mentor the team member, discuss the shortcomings of the previous agile approach,
and explain the benefits of achieving business agility through DA. - ANSWER-Facilitate
a discussion about the team member with the entire team and ask them to convince the
team member that their behavior is harming the team.
, A DAC has conducted some just-in-time training on the four views that describe DC and
how they will lead the teams to choose their way of working (WoW). Before the initial
session on choosing your Wow, the DAC discussed the value of doing an assessment
to identify challenges that can be an input to making choices in the new way of working.
Many of the team members are anxious about being assessed. A few shared concerns
with their managers and questioned why an assessment will be conducted.
What should the DAC do?
A. Bring the team together, work through the Assessment process goal diagram, explain
the value of decision points, and lead them through the benefits and trade-offs of
suitable options to choose from.
B. Meet with the managers and BigBank's leadership team to discuss the team's
reluctance to the assessment and ask them to support it and inquire if there is anything
that the team may not want to disclos - ANSWER-Discuss the value of the assessment
with the team, including how not attending to specific practices (competencies) causes
challenges that show up in the workflow and day-to-day activities
A DAC has had several one-on-one sessions with BB enterprise agile coach, who
appears to be transitioning from uncertainty and skepticism about DAT to curiosity and
exploration. The coach leans toward a more prescriptive approach but is showing an
interest in DA. What is one step the DAC should take?
A. Use a root-cause-analysis approach, proving that the previous scaling framework
was the root cause of the failed agile adoptions and explaining how DA is different.
B. Use the Continuous Improvement process goal to show improvement strategies,
decision points, review trade-offs etc.
C. Use DA's comparison to scaling frameworks from the DAE layer's Transformation
process blade since the enterprise agile coach has a background in the scaling
framework, which should open up further discussions.
D. Use the spider diagrams as a starting point to show the coach that the teams will
make choices based on their contexts. - ANSWER-Use the spider diagrams in DA as a
starting point to show the enterprise agile coach that the teams will make choices based
on their attributes and the contexts they face.
A DAC has helped a team develop a backlog of challenges to overcome. What tool
should the DAC use to visualize the impacts of those challenges so the team can make
good decisions on what challenge to resolve next?
A. Use a whiteboard to detail the challenges
B. Print out the list of challenges and use dot voting
C. Post the challenges on a kanban board
D. Place the challenges on a team assessment board - ANSWER-Place the challenges
on a team assessment board
A DAC is coaching a large program that has been following an agile scaling framework
for almost 1 year. It is working well for the most part but they are experiencing problems
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