Agile MGMT 310 Quiz
Agile MGMT 310 Quiz
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Identify the following project characteristics and examples as either "Definable Work" or "High-Uncertainty
Work".
Question 1 options:
2 high rates of change
2 high rates of complexity and risk
1 typically low levels of risk
1 Production of a car, electrical appliances
or a home after the design is complete
1 clear procedures that have proved
successful on similar projects in the past
2 new design, problem solving and not- 1. Definable Work
done-before work 2. High-Uncertainty Work
2 requires collaboration among subject
matter experts to solve problems and
create a solution
1 typically low levels of execution
uncertainty
1 production domain and processes
involved are usually well understood
2 exploratory work
Question 2 (8 points)
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Select all of the following that are values of the Agile Manifesto.
Select 4 correct answer(s)
Question 2 options:
Project teams value working software over comprehensive documentation
Project teams value comprehensive documentation over working software
Project teams value processes and tools over individuals and interactions
Project teams value contract negotiation over customer collaboration
Project teams value responding to change over following a plan
Project teams value individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Project teams value following a plan over responding to change
Project teams value customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Question 3 (24 points)
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Identify the correct order of the following twelve (12) Agile Manifesto Principles>
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10 Simplicity -- the art of maximizing the amount of work not done -- is essential.
8 Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be
able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
1 Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable
software.
3 Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a
preference to the shorter timescale.
9 Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
11 The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
5 Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support their need,
and trust them to get the job done.
2 Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for
the customer's competitive advantage.
4 Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
12 At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its
behaviour accordingly.
6 The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development
team is face-to-face communication.
7 Working software is the primary measure of progress.
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The Agile principles are only applicable to project is the software industry. They cannot be applied to
projects in other industries.
Question 4 options:
True
False
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Which of the following are elements of the Agile approach to project management.
Question 5 options:
Agile mindset
12 Agile principles
Various Agile approaches and methods such as Kanban, Scrum, XP, etc.
4 Agile values
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Which of the following is a strategy to fulfil Agile values and principles in projects.
Question 6 options:
b) Implement changes to project management practices to achieve progress on a core value or principle.
c) Neither of these
d) Both of these
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Project teams select a project life cycle that allows them to tackle projects with high amounts of uncertainty
via small increments of work as a means to mitigate the impact of project uncertainty and the risk of rework.
Question 7 options:
True
False
Question 8 (36 points)
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Annex A1 in the Agile Practice Guide maps PMBOK Guide Knowledge Areas with their application in an
Agile Work Process. For the following Agile work processes, identify the PMBOK Guide Knowledge Area
that they map to.
Question 8 options:
Match the following types of project life cycles with their characteristics as
described in the Agile Practice Guide.
Question 1 options:
3 customer receives finished deliverables
that may be used immediately
1 bulk of planning occurring upfront
1 executing project work in a single pass
1 waterfall or serial 1. Predictive
2. Interative
1 sequential process
3. Incremental
4 both iterative and incremental 4. Agile
2 unfinished work improved and modified
based on feedback
1 plan-driven
4 refine work items and deliver frequently
Match the following project life cycle characteristics with a project management
approach.
Question 2 options:
3 Predictive activities 1. Fixed
10 Iterative goal 2. Dynamic
6 Predictive delivery 3. Performed once for the entire project
4. Repeated until correct
2 Incremental requirements
5. Performed once for a given increment
1 Predictive Requirements
6. Single delivery
8 Agile delivery 7. Frequent smaller deliveries
4 Iterative activities 8. Frequent small deliveries
9 Predictive goal 9. Manage cost
10. Correctness of solution
5 Incremental activities
11. Speed
6 Iterative delivery 12. Customer value via frequent deliveries and
2 Agile requirements feedback
2 Iterative requirements
11 Incremental goal
4 Agile activities
12 Agile goal
7 Incremental delivery
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A project's inherent characteristics determine which life cycle is the best fit for
that project.
Question 3 options:
True
False
Question 4 (12 points)
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Match each of the following project management benefits with a life cycle
approach.
Question 4 options:
4 The project may provide an earlier return
on investment.
1. Predictive life cycles
4 Team gains early feedback and provides
customer visibility, confident, and 2. Iterative life cycles
control of the product. 3. Incremental life cycles
2 Allow feedback on partially completed 4. Agile life cycles
or unfinished work to improve and
modify that work.
1 Take advantage of things that are known
and proven.
3 Provide finished deliverables that the
customer may be able to use
immediately.
1 Allows teams to segment work into a
sequence of predictable groupings.
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What differentiates a life cycle is how much planning is done and when.
Question 6 options:
True
False
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In agile projects, the project team plans and replans as more information
becomes available from review of frequent deliverables.
Question 7 options:
True
False
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a) Iterative
b) Incremental
c) Predictive
d) Agile
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Question 9 options:
a) Iterative
b) Predictive
c) Incremental
d) Agile
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a) Predictive
b) Agile
c) Iterative
d) Incremental
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Question 11 options:
a) Agile
b) Incremental
c) Predictive
d) Iterative
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Question 12 options:
a) Iterative
b) Agile
c) Predictive
d) Incremental
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Producing business value in the best possible way given the project
environment is the goal of project management. The point is to select a life
cycle or a combination of life cycles that work for the project, the risks, and the
culture.
Question 14 options:
True
False
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It is not a good practice for project teams to tailor agile frameworks such as
Scrum, Kanban and XP,to fit the circumstances of their project. They should pick
on and use it without modifications.
Question 15 options:
True
False
Which of the following statements are true about agile project teams? Select all
that are correct.
Select 5 correct answer(s)
Question 3 options:
Agile optimizes the flow of value, emphasizing rapid feature delivery to the customer, rather than on how
people are utlizied.
Agile teams thrive with servant leadership.
The more work in progress that an agile team has the more likely its members can expedite work across
the board.
Cross-functional agile teams produce functional product increments infrequently.
A mixed team of generalists and specialists is not an attribute of a successful agile team.
An unstable work environment is an attribute of a successful agile team.
Agile teams obtain feedback by focusing on rapid product development.
Ideally, agile teams are colocated in a team space.
Ideally, team members are 100% dedicated to the team.
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Match each of the following purposes, actions or outcomes with its common
agile practice.
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1 Allows the team to learn about, improve,
and adapt its process.
5 Objective is to not commit to more
stories than there is team capacity to
complete within one iteration.
3 Not a status meeting, and not a time for 1. Retrospectives
solving problems. 2. Backlog
1 Based on the Agile Manifesto 3. Daily Standups
principle: "At regular intervals, the team 4. Demonstrations/Reviews
reflects on how to become more
effective, then tunes and adjusts its 5. Planning for Iteration-Based Agile
behaviour accordingly."
1 Uncovers problems with the project
work.
3 Takes no more than 15 minutes.
5 Teams estimate what they can complete.
3 Team members microcommit to each
other.
4 Key to meeting the fundamental
objective of "frequent delivery" in agile
projects.
2 Ordered list of all the work, presented in
user story form, for a team.
3 Ensures project work flows smoothly
through the team.
1 It is about looking at the qualitative
(people's feelings) and quantitative
(measurements) data, then using that
data to find root causes, designing
countermeasures, and developing action
plans.
5 Agile teams plan a little, deliver, learn,
and then replan a little more in an
ongoing cycle.
2 Comprises a product roadmap that a
product owner might produce to show
the anticipated sequence of deliverables
over time.
4 Completed work is shown to the product
owner and the product owner accepts or
declines stories.
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Every project does not need a team charter, but it does need a project charter.
Question 3 options:
True
False
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It will soon become impossible for an agile project team to release anything
rapidly if it does not pay attention to quality.
Question 8 options:
True
False
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Question 10 (1 point)
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Complexity, uncertainty, and high rates of change are project issues that led to
the development of agile approaches.
Question 10 options:
True
False
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What type of agile project measurement chart is shown in the image below.
Burndown chart
Question 2 (1 point)
What type of agile project measurement chart is show in the image below.
Burnup Chart
Question 3 (1 point)
What type of agile project measurement chart is show in the image below.
Feature Chart
Question 5 (9 points)
From the the following statements about measuring results on agile projects,
select those that are true.
Select 9 correct answer(s)
Question 5 options:
Agile projects do not manage to a baseline.
Agile favours predictive measurements over value-based measurements.
Project baselines and estimates of earned value and ROI are all useful for measuring progress in agile
projects.
Agile teams do not replan after an iteration is completed.
Working products of demonstrable value to customers is what agile is based on.
Agile favours empirical measurements instead of predictive measurements.
The smaller the chunk of work undertaken by an agile team, the more likely they are to deliver it.
Agile teams do estimate how much work they will complete during a period, but limits it to the next few
weeks.
Traditional EVM metrics cannot be easily translated into agile terms.
The agile approach to projects creates the ability for teams to do more work.
Agile does not measure what the team predicts it will deliver. It measures what the team delivers.
Low variability in an agile team's work combined with minimal or no multitasking by team members
contributes to stabilization of a team's capacity.
Overall feature delivery is delayed when agile teams have a lot of work in progress.
Pressure to produce more features in a given time period will increase the longer it takes for a team to
deliver.
What type of agile project measurement chart is shown in the image below.
Question 7
What type of agile project measurement chart is shown in the image below.
Kanban Board
Question 8 (1 point)
What type of agile project measurement chart is shown in the image below.
Cumulative Flow Diagram of Completed Features
Which of the following can influence the direction and outcome of any project?
© a) All of these
• b) Organizational policies
• c) Organizational culture
• d) None of these
e) Organizational structure
Support within an organization for an agile approach to projects is not a factor in how effective the organization is in
undertaking agile projects.——>> False
Which of the following are changes organizations may face when beginning to use agile project approaches? — all of
the above
Identify each of the following characteristics of organizations as either "support for agile principles" or "roadblocks
to implementing agile approaches".
Focus on multi-tasking — 2
Willingness of an organization to shift the way it views, reviews and assesses employees — 1
Willingness of executive management to change — 1
Legends
Which of the following are approaches project leaders can try to overcome organizational impediments to agility?
Select more than one.
Which of the following are options for change that project leaders can explore to enhance the success of agile
approaches within an organization? Select more than one
Scaling
Organizational structure
Business practices
Match each of the following descriptions of options for changing organization culture, structures or policies that
project leaders can use to increase the success of agile projects to their categorey.
4 The approaches, tools and techniques that an organization uses to conduct its business.
6 Within an organization, the formal department for shepherding business value from projects throughout the
organization
7 The way in which human resources and relationships within an organization are formalized.
1 The skills and techniques for influencing changes in organizations to support agility.
2 An organization's core identify or DNA -- in project management context a continuum from highly predictive to
experimental.
Legends-
2.Organizational Culture
4. Business Practices
7. Organizational Structure
Initiatives that require collaboration of multiple agile teams in a program or portfolio generally do not require
sufficient guidance from the most widespread agile methods such as Scrum and eXtreme Programming. True
Internal management policies such as performance appraisals may be challenged by agile teams who start to work in
a cohesive and cooperative manner. True
14 Success implementing new strategies or plans in organizations will be depend on the people implementing the
plan being passionate about the change. • True
Match each of the following descriptions of collaborative approaches between project customers (project team) and
suppliers (third party vendors) with the correct type of agreement.
1. Use of a variety of agreement documents to describe different aspects of a contracting relationship - not
formalizing an entire contracting relationship in a single document.
5. Supplier is rewarded with Supplier is rewarded with a higher hourly rate when delivery is early, but suffers a rate
reduction for late delivery.
4. Limit the overall budget for a supplier to a fixed amount. but allow flexibility within the overall amount.
7. A supplier may offer the customer the option to vary the project scope a specified points in the project.
Legends:
1 Multi-tiered structure
3. Fixed-price increments
8. Team augmentation
From the following lists of services that PMOs (Project Management Office) can provide, those that would support
implementation of agile project management approaches.
Providing templates for user stories, test cases, and cumulative flow diagrams
Coordinate agile training courses, coaches, and mentors to help people transition
Providing agile tools and educating support groups on iterative development concepts.
Question 11
From the following list of organizational structural characteristics that may influence an organization's ability to
implement agile project management approaches, select all those that represent barriers or impediments.
Geographically distributed and dispersed project organizations.
Project team members routinely assigned to many projects at the same time.
Agile Values:
12 Agile Principles