1.Which of the following is the least important consideration while forming a value maximization scrum?
- associate’s years of experience
- value log entries selected for the sprint
- potential impact on BAU
- associate’s skills
2.Survey Q, Non-Scoring: What benefits are you experiencing with agile for CBO select all that Apply all answer with check box
I feel more happy and empowered
I feel more productive
I feel better team spirit
I am able to see the big picture of my work
I don’t see any benefits
- Which of the following is the most practical and Agile approach for achieving work coordination among a distributed team?
A)Relocating all team members into one location to promote face-to-face conversation
B)Having a digital Kanban board that is common for all members across the locations
C)designating a team member to coordinate across locations
D)Having Daily Coordination Meetings among Location Leads
- Which o f the following is not recommended for change implementation ?
A)Perform impact analysis and highlight any risks in Change Advisory
Board (CAB) meetin g
B)Perform multi-taking while executing Change implementation step s C)Follow Make -Checker practice while executing the Change implementation step s
D)Review the implementation steps with the Change Requestor and ensure that there is no ambigulty
- What is the best way to continuously capture and share a teams knowledge?
- Continuously updating knowledge into a c entral repository
- Conducting knowledge sharing sessions
- Sharing knowledge during team meetings
- Sharing knowledge through emails
- Which of the following is not true about Value Maximization Scrum ?
A)Composition of scrum can change for each sprint depending on the
Value Log opportunities selected for that sprint
B)BAU remains the top priority and the team works on the value log
opportunities without impacting BA U
C)scrum teams members full time every day on the value log opportunities
D)scrum teams members make a little time everyday to work on value log opportunities
- Which of the following is not a correct way for you to update the content of a knowledge portal? Select the correct option(s) and click Submit.
A)I create/update the content, get it reviewed and add to the knowledge portal
B)when I create/update the content, I tag it with the relevant key words
- I update the existing content on the topic with the latest knowledge
- I have full freedom to create/update content without any review
8. Which of the following is not a benefit of visualization of work?
A)Reduced inflow of work items B) Reduced status reporting overhead
- Quick identification of blocked items
- Reduced cycle time of work items
- Which of the following is not a characteristic of a good Value Log entry? Select the correct option(s) and click Submit.
A)An opportunity that can be quickly implemented
B)An opportunity which customer sees no value
C)An opportunity identified by those performing the BAU work
D)An opportunity with clear details on expected benefits
- Which of the following is an Agile approach for work allocation in a team?
- Team Lead assigns work to team members without consulting them
- One of the Senior SMEs assigns work to team members without consulting them
- Customer assigns work to team members without consulting them
- Team Lead consults team members and assigns work to them
11.Which of the following is an agile way of working?
A) Senior associates plans and take decisions. Junior associates execute tasks.
B)Lease creates plans and takes decisions. Team members execute tasks. C)Team members collectively create plans and take decisions. Team members execute tasks.
D)Customer creates plans and takes decisions. Team members execute tasks.
12. A BAU team is already struggling to complete their daily BAU work. So, they should defer Value Maximization Scrum. True or False?
- True- Instead of doing Value Maximization Scrum, they should rather use that time to complete a few more BAU tasks
- False- Value Maximization Scrum must be done to achieve Audit compliance
- True- BAU team should only do BAU work. They should not focus on anything else, including Value Maximization Scrum
- False- They should start Value Maximization Scrum to identify the pain points and improve their way of doing the BAU work
- What should you do discover an uncommunicated in your tool (e.g. Workflow
Management Tool,IT SM Tool,etc.)?
A)As a team, understand the change in detail, and update SOPs, scripts,etc, if required
B)As a team,investigate why the change communication was missed, and take corrective actions to avoid recurrence
C)As a team , analyze whether any past work items were impacted by this change ,and take necessary corrective action if required
D)All of above
- Which of the following are useful Visual Radiators?
- Wall of fa me to recognize the associates .
- Key failure points and important rules & regulations on digital display to
keep t he associates aware and alert
- Key events and happenings on digital display to keep the associ ates informed.
- All of the above
- Who should be a Product Owner (PO) in a Value Maximization scrum team?
A)only performance improvement (PI) champion because he/she has good understanding of six sigma and value stream mapping
B)
- What is the most effective way to identify improvement opportunities for Value log? ‘
A)Automation team analyzes work items and identifies improvement opportunities
B)Performance Improvement (PI) Champion performs Value Stream Mapping and identifies improvement opportunities
C)Every Team member constantly questions. “Is there a better way to do our work?”, and identifies improvement opportunities
D)Team members wait for the management to set up ideation events and then identify improvement opportunities
Additional Questions
The Agile approach to documentation is
-Do no documentation because it is a waste of lane
-Do just enough documentation to support the development and use of the product
Do just enough documentation to support the development and use of the product
Agile for Beginners course is intended towards motivating you to learn more about agile so that you can become-
-Project leader
-Agile practitioner
-Project manager
-Certified manager
-Agile Practitioner
Agile Manifesto has ... Values and...... Principles
-4,10
-6, 12
-4.12
- 4.4
-4.12
Agile teams need to comply by the Agile values and principles but have flexibility to choose appropriate value-adding practices?
True
The Agile way is-
-To produce working software or high business value and of the right quality easily and incrementally
-To product working software only after requirements documentation has been signed off by the Producer Owner
-To product simple early, and release all only at the end of the project.
-Each developer to sit with businesses everyday, code as the mutually discuss, and move to production when the business seems satisfied
-to produce working software or high business value and of the right quality easily and incrementally
Charles is very knowledgeable on Scrum. He joined a Scrum Team where the Scrum Master is Magneto. Contrary to his expectation of Scrum Master as a coach, he finds that Magneto acts like a traditional manager. Magneto controls the team heavily by individually assigning tasks and leading the Daily Scrum meetings to collect the percentage of task completion. What is recommended for Charles?
-Be prepared to face such anti patterns and work together with the team to continuously improve and eliminate anti-patterns
-Correct his understanding of Scrum and accept that Scrum master is the team's manager
-Protest about this at the earliest possible team meeting and let others know he is more knowledgeable about Scrum
-Be prepared to face such anti patterns and work together with the team to continuously improve and eliminate anti-patterns
Daily Scrum is NOT recommended for collocated teams (TRUE OR FALSE)
False
A good Agile team should exhibit the following qualities ...
-All in team must have the same level of technical
-The team is self-organizing
-The team should only take up tasks assigned by Product
-The team must be hierarchical with a strict chain of
-The team is cross-functional
-The team is self-organizing
-The team is cross-functional
How could Agile knowledge help Martin in his work?
-Martin is right. Agile principles are not useful outside software development
-XP and DevOps can help in Robotic Process Automation
-Agile principles can help in continuously improving BPS processes
-Agile principles can help in continuously improving BPS processes
How should work be allocated to the team in a scrum project?
-The scrum master must assign tasks to individuals
-Team members must volunteer for tasks appropriate to their skills
-The complex tasks must be allocated by the scrum master
-Tasks must be allocated to team members by the Product owner
-While senior team members volunteer for tasks, juniors must be assigned tacks by the scrum master
-Team members must volunteer for tasks appropriate to their skills
Identify two correct statement-
-Agile and Design Thinking are same
-Design thinking is about Product development, Agile manifesto is about software
-Design thinking is finding the right things. Agile is about building the right thing
-Design Thinking is building the right things and Agile is about finding the right things
-Design thinking is about Product development, Agile manifesto is about software
-Design thinking is finding the right things. Agile is about building the right thing
_ improves the flow of business idea through its development and release to users
Develops practices
Increasing number of TCS customers are moving to the Agile way of working. This handbook focuses on agile for software development, but many of the principles can be expanded to other fields. This resource checks your understanding of what Agile is and characteristics that make it a good software development tool. Why is this a true statement?
- there is a double digit increment in number of Agile projects (per PMS) year on
-In 90% of executive conversations, customers bring in Agile as a topic of conversation
-For all new engagements. TCS mandates Agile
-This is not a true statement
-Both 1 and 2
-There is a double digit increment in number of Agile projects (per IPMS) year on year for last few years
-In 90% of executive conversations, customers bring in "Agile" as a topic of conversation
OR
Both 1 and 2
In Daily scrum, team members share yesterday's progress nd the plan for the next 24 hours with-
-Scrum Master
-Product Owner
-Fellow team members
-Management representative
-Fellow team members
OR
-Scrum Master
Jerald is a leader of a TCS Customer Account. He learnt that the company's aspiration on Agile is to become 100% Agile by 2020. He gathered his Agile Experts within the account and asked them for a plan to transition from current way of working to 100% Agile way of working as defined in the text book. Jerald correctly understood TCS aspiration?
False
Kris is an experienced Project Manager with a customer project where he commands the teams and micro manages the team members at task level. How can he help the TCS Agile Vision?
-Proactively up-skill with skills needed to work in Agile Roles
-No need to do anything as he can continue to be the Project Manager
-Wait till his current customer adopts Agile
-Proactively up-skill with skills needed to work in Agile Roles
Lee joins a project team that attempts to build a consumer device with embedded software. The team is adopting 2-week sprint. Lee no successful. After every Sprint Review, the Product Owner keeps changing the Product vision and makes contradictory statements about user needs. What can be suggested for this environment?
-Apply design thinking first for initial phase and then bring in Agile later
-More practices from Extreme Programming
-Apply waterfall and have the Product Owner sign-off on the requirements
-Apply design thinking first for initial phase and then bring in Agile later
Match the framework to its author in the order of listing
-Scrum, CRYSTAL, XP Takuchiand Nonaka
Munnabhai knows the four values of Agile manifesto by heart-
Agile principles
Noors Scrum Team had a sprint review of a feature with their product owner.Ops engineer to manually Work on the ticket What is missing in this environment?
-Feedback
-Flow
-Continuous Improvement
-Flow
Only these people are allowed to attend Sprint Retrospective
-Scrum Master and Development team
-Product Owner and Development team
-Scrum Master and Product Owner
-Scrum Team
-Scrum Team
On the last day of the Sprint, a scrum team name Almost done is ready to show their work but requires just 2 more days to complete the testing. What should the Scrum Master recommend?
-Extend the Splint by two days so that the team can complete the work
-Close the sprint on time
-Close the sprint time
The Product Owner in a Scrum project ...
-Has no control over the prioritization of Product Backlog Items
-Has the final authority over the prioritization of Product Backlog items developers
-Product Owner has the final say
-Creates the Product Backlog Items but leaves prioritization to business Analyst
-Has the final authority over the prioritization of Product Backlog items developers
-Product Owner has the final say
Providing additional feature without clear understanding of the business need - What is the category of waste?
-Inventory
-We do it all the time It is not a waste.
-Over Production
-Defects
-Over Processing
-Over production
The reason for holding regular Sprint Retrospective is-
-It allows the team to take a necessary break from work
-It gives management information to use in team members' performance reviews
-Provides an opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next sprint
-Retrospectives are optional
-Provides an opportunity for stakeholders to look at what the team is building
-Provides an opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next sprint
Ron has just started as a Scrum Master an Agile team. He has acquired knowledge by reading multiple sources. After practicing Scrum for a while on the job, he is looking for a certification to benchmark. What can be recommended for?
-Scrum Master Accredited Certificate (SMAC)
-Safe Agilest (SA)
-Professional Scrum Master I (PS/VI I)
-Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)
Scrum; Crystal; Extreme programming
-Kent Beck Alistair Cockburn, Ken Schwaber and Jeff
-Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland; Kent Beck; Alistair Cockburn
-Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland; Alistair Cockburn Kent
-Alistair Cockburn Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland Kent
-Takeuchi and klonaka: Alistair Cockburn; Kent
-Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland; Alistair Cockburn Kent
Scrum defines roles events and artifacts
3-5-3
5-3-3
3-3-5
5-5-3
3-5-3
The Scrum team is using the Kanban board to make work visually available to all. What CANNOT be inferred from the board?
-Number of items to be worked by the team
-Percentage completion
-Tasks move from left to right
-Limit work in progress
-Percentage completion
A Scrum Team works on a 4 weeks Sprint. After new Sprints, the team finds that they spend more effort on unit testing, as the code base size has increased. What can be BEST recommended for this team?
-Unit testing is not fun anyway. As a self-organized team, choose to ignore the unit testing
-Adopt practices like test automation from other frameworks like XP
-Increase the duration of the sprint from 4 weeks to 6 weeks
-Add two more temporary testers
-Form a separate Testing team
-Adopt practices like test automation from other frameworks like XP
short iterations in Agile Manifesto. What did he miss to learn about?
-Agile Principles
-Agile Guidelines
-Agile Methods
-Agile Phases
-Agile Principles
should he contact for details?
-Account Leadership
-Customer Leadership
-HR Manager
-Account Leadership
Sprint itself is an event in Scrum (True or False)
True
TCS Agile vision '100% Agile by 2020' means
-TCS to be regarded by the market and our customers as 100% right partner/advisor for Agile Transfer
-Every project in TCS must follow all practices of Extreme Programming
-100% of TCS associates must be at least at Agile E3 competency
-TCS to be regarded as 100% Enterprise Agile company
-There should not be any Agile related non-compliance in the project audits
-TCS to be regarded by the market and our customers as 100% right partner/advisor for Agile Transfer
-TCS to be regarded as 100% Enterprise Agile company
team has the higher chance to provide early benefits to the customer?
-Team ToyZon
-Team Zen
-Team Zon
team must perform during the meeting?
-The team must discuss the problems encountered in the earlier project
-Team chooses the Product Backlog Items to work in the Sprint and crals a Sprint Goal.
-Team must draw up the Release Plan for the final product
-Each team member should come prepared with their version of the plan
-The team must look at the project plan prepared by the Product Owner and understand their tasks
-Team chooses the Product Backlog Items to work in the Sprint and crals a Sprint Goal.
The time box for a daily scrum is-
-Two minutes per person
-15 minutes
-2hrs
-No time box
-30 minutes
-15 minutes
went wrong?
-For large transformation projects, Design Thinking is required before
-Agile is based on trust and collaboration so that consensus can be arrived at quickly. This scenario did not have that
-Agile doesn't require any pre-requisites. It works very well in all context. In this scenario: the Product
-Agile is based on trust and collaboration so that consensus can be arrived at quickly. This scenario did not have that
What BEST describes a scrum team?
-Small but have enough members to create the Product Increment ---Collaborate with each other to self-organize their work
-Team members must be specialists
-Cross Functional
-Reports to Product Owner
small, collaborate, team members, cross, report to PO .... all options
OR
Small...,Collaborate.., Cross functional
What do all agile frameworks have in common?
-A prescribed, fixed iteration
-lightweight ..
-Iterative...
What do all Agile Frameworks have in common?
-A prescribed, fixed iteration length
-Lightweight approach that allows the self-organized teams to better respond to business requirements
-Iterative and Incremental development
-A clear step-by-step process for software development
-A prescribed format for backlog items
-A prescribed, fixed iteration length
-LIGHTWEIGHT APPROACH THAT ALLOWS THE SELF-ORGANIZED TEAMS TO BETTER RESPOND TO BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
-Iterative and Incremental development
What is a Kanban board?
-A list of activities banned by the team
-The set of Can Have requirements
-A visible chart depicting the work to be done, work in progress and work done
-Board that captures the details of the entire project for audit purpose
-A visible chart depicting the work to be done, work in progress and work done
What is MOST likely to happen if the Product Owner is not available during a Sprint?
-The team self-organizes itself to create value
-The Business Analyst helps the team until the Product Owner returns -The Sprint deliverables may not be of desired value
-The Scrum Master plays the role of Product Owner
-Scrum Master terminates the Sprint and waits for the Product Owner to return
-The team self-organizes itself to create value
What is NOT match with agile Manifesto?
-Process and tools over individuals and interactions
-Working software over comprehensive documentation
-Responding to change over the following a plan
-Contract negotiation over customer collaboration
-Process and tools over individuals and interactions
-Contract negotiation over customer collaboration
What is the purpose of Sprint burndown chart?
-It is used to measure utilization of the development team
-It is used to measure defects introduced during the Sprint
-It is used to measure how much work is yet to be done to reach Sprint goal
-It is used to measure how fast the Product Owner turns around on the queries
-It is used to measure how much work is yet to be done to reach Sprint goal
What is the purpose of Sprint review?
-Product Owner can show the progress to the stakeholders and get the approval to release the work
-To assess the team's productivity and possibly record the assessment score against the performance
- To inspect the working software with the key stakeholders and take the insights from the feedback to next
-So that the Scrum Team can reorganize for the next
-Stakeholders and team discuss the Sprint Backlog for next
- To inspect the working software with the key stakeholders and take the insights from the feedback to next
Which framework prescribes User Story as the format for backlog items?
-Scrum
-FDD
-Crystal 0 Extreme Programming
-DSDM
-Scrum
Which of the following BEST describes the approach for determining the Sprint length in Scrum?
-Sprints must be 30 days always
-Product Owner unilaterally decides the duration of SprintSprints must be two weeks always
-The team must collectively agree on the length of the Sprint based on business need and technical team´s ability; subject to a maximum of one month
-There is no rule on Sprint duration
-The team must collectively agree on the length of the Sprint based on business need and technical team´s ability; subject to a maximum of one month
Which of the following BEST describes the approach for determining the sprint length scrum?
-Sprints must be 30 days always
-Product Owner unilaterally decides the duration of Sprint
-Sprints must be two weeks always
-The team must collectively agree on the length of the Sprint based on business need and technical team's ability; subject to a maximum of one month
-There is no rule on Sprint duration
-The team must collectively agree on the length of the Sprint based on business need and technical team's ability; subject to a maximum of one month
Which of the following BEST represent the Scrum approach to planning?
-Planning is a continuous activity done faintly by Scrum Master and Product owner
-Detailed planning is done upfront nd not revisited
-Whole team together does just enough upfront planning following by continuous planning throughout the project
-Only planning in Scrum is one of the planning events
-Whole team together does just enough upfront planning following by continuous planning throughout the project
-Only planning in Scrum is one of the planning events
Which of the following statements about changing requirements in software development, are correct?
-In traditional way of software development, once the requirements are based lined, further changes should undergo heavy change control process
-Changes are acceptable till design but once development starts, any further changes should be rejected
-In traditional way of software development, once the requirements are base lines, further changes can be easily accepted with light process
-Organization must adapt to rapidly changing market conditions to stay relevant in business
-In traditional way of software development, once the requirements are based lined, further changes should undergo heavy change control process
-Organization must adapt to rapidly changing market conditions to stay relevant in business
Which of the following statements BEST describe why Agile is winning?
-Products produced by an Agile approach are cheaper than those produced by any other approach
-Agile increases the chances of delivering early business value to the market and quickly incorporate the feedback from the market usage
-Products have faster time to market but may not meet immediate customer needs
-Products are expensive when compared with products produced by other approached, but are top quality
-Agile increases the chances of delivering early business value to the market and quickly incorporate the feedback from the market usage
Which of these are Agile estimation techniques?
-Full Upfront Estimates
-Planning Poker
-Work Breakdown Structure
-T Shirt sizing
-Random Distribution
-Planning poker
-T Shirt sizing
Which of these are Scrum anti patterns?
-Programmers as one Scrum Team and Testers as another Scrum Team
-Scrum Master as a servant leader
-Scrum Team with 20 members
-Cross Functional team
-Sprint duration of 6 weeks
-Programmers as one Scrum Team and Testers as another Scrum Team
-Scrum Team with 20 members
-Sprint duration of 6 weeks
Which of these are Scrum anti patterns?
-Programmers as one Scrum Team and Testers as another Scrum Team
-Scrum Master as a servant leader
-Scrum Team with 20 members
-Cross Functional team
-Sprint duration of 6 weeks
Everything but Cross Functional team
OR
Everything but Cross Functional team and Scrum Master as a servant leader
Which of these are the needed actions to realize TCS vision of "0-4-2.?
-Agile Ready Partnership
-All get Agile Certified
-Agile Ready Workforce
-Top-to-tiolloni Enterprise
-Agile Company ourselves Agile Ready Workplace
-Agile Ready Partnership
-Agile Ready Workforce
-Top-to-tiolloni Enterprise
-Agile Company ourselves Agile Ready Workplace
Which of these is a benefit of Agile?
-Reduced Risk
-Faster time to market
-Ability to respond to changing requirements
-Improved collaboration between business and technical team
-All of these
- All of these
Which one is a popular tool used in Agile Software development?
-Rexx
-Jenkins
-MS PowerPoint
-Tally
-Jenkins
Which one of these is NOT an XP practice?
-Test Driven Development
-Extreme Reviews
-Pair Programming
-Continuous Integration
-Refactoring
-Extreme Reviews
Who manages the team´s work during a Sprint?
-The Scrum Master manages the people so they can complete the work
-The team manages the work by self-organization
-The Product Owner manages the work
-The Delivery Manager manages the work
-The team manages the work by self-organization
Who manages the team's work during a Sprint?
-The Scrum Master manages the people so they can complete the work
-The team manages the work by self-organization
-The Product Owner manages the work
-The Delivery Manager manages the work
The team manages the work by self-organization
Who owns product backlog?
-Scrum Team
-Product Owner
-Scrum Master
-Business Analyst
-Technical Lead
-Product Owner
Who owns quality in a Scrum team?
-scrum master
-Product owner
-Scrum team
-Testers
-External QA team
-Scrum team
Why are the practitioners of the alternate software development methods not satisfied with the additional waterfall method?
-Waterfall is not a lightweight process
-The practitioners did not like to work in a formal system and hence did not like any methodology at all
-Waterfall experience did not add value to their resume
-Waterfall model failed to meet the demand for speed and was not friendly towards changing needs and priorities
-Waterfall is not a lightweight process
-Waterfall model failed to meet the demand for speed and was not friendly towards changing needs and priorities
Why is the Daily scrum held at the same time and same place?
So that the place can be named as Daily Scrum Hub
-The consistency reduces complexity and overhead
-The Product Owner demands it
-Rooms are hard to book and this helps in advance booking
-There is no such rule
-The consistency reduces complexity and overhead
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