A team has been delivering a steady stream of small value increments towards a goal for 4 months, and has completed several solution components, with several still potentially doable. The solution owner examines the reactions to the delivered components from customers, and decides which one(s) the team will do next. The solution owner is demonstrating:
A. Adaptation to revised strategy
B. Change in response to feedback and learning
C. Action in response to activity
D. Maintenance of solution alignment
The delivery team is in a meeting identifying cycle time improvement opportunities for delivery of the final product. They decide to apply the following technique:
A. Backlog management
B. Value stream mapping
C. Story decomposition
D. Story mapping
The team is creating plans at the Strategy Horizon. Diverse opinions are delaying this effort because different people are focused on different timeframes. After some discussion the team realizes they need to focus their efforts on the following viewpoint:
A. Business view of the teams working on the initiatives
B. Micro-view of the potential changes to the organization
C. Broader view of the impact of the change to the organization
D. Local view of the effect on the community.
The delivery team is reviewing information that starts with a broad view of the solution components and drills down to a level of granularity, including acceptance criteria, that supports solution build activities. The team is using the following technique:
A. Story elaboration
B. Real options
C. Detailed story
D. Backlog management
At the strategy level, a major component of waste can be avoided by ensuring the enterprise:
A. Only begins an initiative when a budget is approved for all work
B. Has a shared understanding of organizational goals and priorities
C. Has changes to existing work approved by senior management
D. Has comprehensive business cases approved by senior management
The team stops regularly to:
inspect the quality of its outcomes
adapt its processes to more effectively produce outcomes.
This clearly demonstrates the team is working in an:
A. Retrospective context
B. Agile context
C. Waterfall context
D. Incremental context
The standard format for documenting Behavioural Driven Development scenarios helps to maintain focus on:
A. Verifiable conditions, events, and actions
B. The user need and expected value.
C. Alignment of iterations with known user concerns.
D. The layers of modernist analysis
When recommending solution options at the Initiative Horizon, the team decides that their goal is to provide decision makers with:
A. The exact cost and timeframe options will take to complete
B. Just enough information to make an informed and accurate decision
C. The list of stakeholders that are allowed to have input
D. Everything known about the resource team doing the delivery
Backlog items that are dependent on other backlog items compromise and limit rapid decision making, fast delivery and strategic alignment by not leveraging:
A. Feedback loops
B. Daily standups
C. Retrospectives
D. Thinking like a customer
The delivery team is discussing how to achieve the strategic goals for their work. They determine the following analysis technique is important to help the team maintain its focus:
A. Relative estimation
B. Spikes
C. Story elaboration
D. Visioning
