GCU MGT641 Agile Project Management All Weeks Quizzes
MGT641 Agile Project Management
Week 4 Quiz
Which of the following could be considered benefits of an iteration zero?
The team can help create the charter
The team can work on elevator statements
The team gains an understanding of technical processes that will be used
It gives the team time to perform a risk based spike.
2You are an Agile project manager working with a team who is very new to Agile and the concept of velocity. The team expresses concern that they may not get as much done as they want to in the first iteration because of a learning curve. How do you explain velocity and address their concerns?
“I understand your concerns but even on seasoned Agile teams the velocity varies in the first iterations, increases, and eventually plateaus.”
“Ideal time shouldn’t be a consideration for Agile and the learning curve is considered. So, you shouldn’t worry too much about it”
“Your velocity is dependent on the amount of work that needs to get done in each iteration and that can fluctuate.”
“Everyone will understand the learning curve and the product owner won’t overwhelm you with work on your first couple iterations.”
3Your team has determined that there are 300 points of functionality left in the backlog to complete. The first 4 iteration’s velocity has been tracked at:
20 Points
25 Points
21 Points
35 Points
12
25
10
14
4Your team is working with course-grained requirements and when it is time to break them down to fine grained results they will. Until then they will wait until they have more information. This is an example of what best practice?
Decision delay
Risk mitigation
Backlog refinement
Agile schedule management
5Which of the following best describes the concept of ideal time?
How long something will take with distractions
Sustainable pace
How long something will take without any distractions
The total velocity to complete the project
6Whose job is it to keep the backlog in order and everyone in the organization respects their decisions?
Agile project manager
Product owner
Development team
Development team
7Story maps are an effective tool for the team, so they can see the potential results of the project in a visual way. Which of the following is another reason why the team would use story map?
It is the best tool to help with prioritization
It is the best tool to help with wireframes
It is the best tool to help with epics
It is the best tool to help with user stories
8Which of the following is used for by the team to understand the customer or end users in a way that makes them more relatable.
User story
An epic
A persona
A placeholder
9You team’s velocity has stabilized at a comfortable 20 story points per iteration. In the fifth iteration one of the team members was hospitalized for a week causing the team
to only complete 18 story points. How will the last couple story points be managed?
The team will work overtime to complete the work to which they have they committed.
The team will adjust their next sprint plan from 20 to 18.
The team will do 22 story points in the next iteration.
The team will put the remaining two points back into the back to be selected for the next or another iteration
10Your team is estimating work using planning poker. All team members agree that the work size is a 10, except for Karen. Karen is amendment that the work should be a 6 in size and explains her concerns to the rest of the time and they vote again. This time the entire team votes that 6 should be the size of the work. What could the reason have been for the original discrepancy?
It could be due to product uncertainty or technical uncertainty of the other team members.
Karen is being difficult and trying to get her way while building in buffer time for the work.
The team should have used tee-shirt sizing to get a better result.
The team should talk to the product owner for leadership in the matter.
MGT641 Agile Project Management
Week 8 Quiz
What is the last value of the Agile Manifesto?
Responding to change over following a plan
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Customer collaboration over contract negotiations
Working software over comprehensive documentation
2Is Scrum an Agile methodology?
Yes. One of many
No. Scrum is a waterfall method
Yes. Scrum applies to best practices or methods of Agile.
No. Scrum is a framework.
3What does MoSCoW stand for?
Must Scrum Consistently Not Waterfall.
More Scrum Coding Willingly.
Must, Should, Could, and Won’t.
MoSCoW is a made-up acronym.
4What is the difference between Waterfall/predictive project management and Agile frameworks?
Waterfall is preplanned and so are Agile projects.
Scope is fixed on Agile projects but not on Waterfall projects.
Agile plans are just in time, and Waterfall projects are preplanned.
They both are project management frameworks.
5Bill and Juan are discussing their Scrum project and are trying to understand empirical process control. As their Scrum Master, how would you explain it?
Decisions are made based on observation and experimentation rather than on detailed up-front planning.
Decisions are made based on a business case rather than at the last minute.
Decisions are made based on expert judgment.
Decisions are made by senior management.
6Scrum can best be described as which of the following?
A methodology
A philosophy
A framework
A method of project management
7XP is an acronym that stands for which of the following?
Extra Projects
Extreme Projects
Extreme Programs
Extreme Programming
8Which of the following describes the seven forms of waste on an Agile project?
Kanban
Lean
Kaizen
Crystal
9During a sprint, which of the following describes the development team meeting to discuss what they worked on the day before, what they worked on today, and what impediments are in their way?
Daily stand-up meetings
Sprint planning
Sprint review
Daily Scrum
10What is the difference between a Waterfall project charter and an Agile project charter?
Agile projects don’t use charters.
•Waterfall charters are comprehensive, and Agile charters are more flexible.
•Waterfall charters are needed for formal authorization to begin, and Agile charters are just a kickoff document.
•There isn’t a difference.
11In order for all stakeholders to have an idea as to what the finished product increment will be, what must be discussed and agreed upon?
The final product
The schedule
The definition of done
The scope definition
12You are the Agile project manager for a brand-new team who is just learning about Agile frameworks. How do you explain your role on the project?
You are a servant leader.
You manage the product backlog
You create schedules and budgets for senior management.
You have the final say on the definition of done.
13Your newly formed team is experiencing some conflict in work styles and can’t seem to agree on a direction. According to Tuckman’s Ladder, what stage is your team currently in?
Forming
Storming
Norming
Mourning
14As an Agile project manager, it is important for you to have a variety of interpersonal skills. This will enable you to better lead your team. Which of the following describes your leadership capabilities?
Effective leadership
Adaptive leadership
Agile leadership
Team leadership
15A team that is very new to Agile decides that they will have a bit of an initiation phase to determine how to move forward. The phase will not produce an increment, but it is helpful to determine direction. What is this phase referred to?
Iteration Zero
Initiation phase
Iteration one
Kickoff phase
16A distinct iteration length or meeting duration can best be described as which of the following?
Schedule
Timebox
Duration estimation
Epics
17Why is planning poker an effective way to plan how much work the team will accomplish in a sprint or iteration?
The team decides what to discuss.
Size is easier to estimate than duration.
The Agile project manager can team build.
It allows for bonding on the team level.
18Which of the following best describes how the scope of work is represented?
Tasks
Activities
Maps
User Stories
19Your customer has explained to the team that they want a software program that will help them with their sales data. After you collect requirements and build out the first increment, the customer states that it isn’t anything like what they were picturing and it is going in the wrong direction. What could have happened to cause this?
The gulf of misunderstanding
The project manager didn’t collect the right information.
The customer doesn’t know what they need.
The customer is just being difficult because they don’t understand software design.
20In a group discussion with your stakeholders, the team suggests that they give the customer the equivalent of the total budget in fake money to see how they would spend it and on what features. This is referred to as which of the following?
100-point method
Kano analysis
Monopoly money
Dot voting
21You are the product owner working on the backlog, and your team identifies a risk event that could potentially be more expensive than three of the four features being built. How could the product owner address this?
With a risk-adjusted backlog
With a risk register
With a discussion meeting
With a risk response
22Carl is working on a string of code he created several weeks ago in order to make it more efficient without changing its behavior. What is Carl doing?
Tech debt
Refactoring
Bug fix
Fixing defects
23Right in the middle of a very important project, the entire team’s computers crash due to a virus. This is an example of which of the following?
A special cause
A common cause
A defect
A risk
24Bill is explaining to Ling that the best practice is not to take on too much work in an iteration, which creates partially done work. Which of the following is Bill talking about?
Cycle time
Lead time
Limiting work in progress (WIP)
Risk mitigation
25Your team has a chart in its team space that depicts risk mitigation efforts. Currently, the chart shows a downward trend. What does this tell the team?
Risk isn’t being managed effectively.
Mitigation efforts are working.
What is in the risk-adjusted backlog.
The team’s velocity
26Dennis and Abdul are working with their team members to reduce the time it takes to produce value. The team is examining the current state and working toward a future state in a visual manner. Which of the following will help with that?
Value stream mapping
Continuous improvement
Shu Ha Ri
Retrospective
27You are facilitating your team through an exercise called “remember the future.” Which of the following facilitated meetings are you holding?
1. Lessons learned
2. Intraspective
Retrospective
Daily Scrum
28Your team has just wrapped up a review with the customer, and it is now meeting to discuss how the iteration went. Which of the following timeboxed meetings is your team in?
Intraspective
Lessons learned
Retrospective
Kick down
29Your organization runs mostly Waterfall projects, but it sees the value in several Agile best practices. So, the organization adopts those practices and adds them to the project as a hybrid approach. This is referred to as which of the following?
ScrumBan
Enterprise Scrum
Tailoring
Process improvement
30The best type of team space tooling includes having the team be set up in what way?
Colocated
Virtual
A combination of colocated and virtual
How the organization decides it should be set up