GCU MGT641 Week 1 Overview of Agile Project Management Quiz Latest 2020 August

1 What is the third value of the Agile Manifesto?

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation

Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools

Comprehensive Documentation over Customer Interaction

2 Which of the following best describes the Agile Alliance?

A group of project managers who were looking for better ways to manage their projects with a sharper focus on software development.

A group of hardware engineers who were looking for better ways to manage their projects with a sharper focus on software development.

A group of software developers who were looking for better ways to manage their projects with a sharper focus on software development.

a group of project team members who were looking for better ways to manage their projects with a sharper focus on software development.

3 In the Agile Manifesto, it is more important to focus on individuals and interactions over which of the following?            

Comprehensively document 

Processes and tools 

Negotiate contracts 

Follow a plan

4 Of the 12 major principles which of the following provides the most value and is considered the highest priority to Agile teams?

Customer satisfaction     

Motivated team of people

High velocity 

Stakeholder involvement

5 What is the best way to explain Agile to someone who is new to the best practices and may be confused about the differences between Agile and Waterfall project management? 

Agile is a way to work a hybrid project with elements of both Waterfall and Agile.              

Practicing agility is necessary for software development.               

Agile is a mindset that allows an organization to focus on better ways to produce value for the customer and practice continuous improvement. 

Agile is the opposite of Waterfall.

6 Which of the following is the best way to explain planning on an Agile project to someone unfamiliar with Agile project management?

  “We do plan our projects, but we keep our focus on the immediate items and we value working software over comprehensive documentation during planning.”

 “We plan continuously and use as many different documents and charts as possible.”

 “We don’t plan at all since things change every day, it would be a waste of time.” 

“We build plans that we know won’t work to meet stakeholder requirements.”

7 Which of the following best describes why Waterfall project management isn’t the most effective way to manage software development projects?

Waterfall is for long term projects.

Agile uses heavy documentation and is equal to Waterfall project management so either/or is fine.

Agile is only for software and Waterfall projects are designed for software development.

The rapid pace and constant changes make it difficult to preplan and create baselines

8 Which of the following states that return on investment increases by making continuous flow of value the focus? 

Reliable results

Creativity and innovation

Declaration of Interdependence 

A boost in performance

9 Organizations often determine that a new method of project management isn’t working because they have not reached the integration stage and have only seen the chaos. Which of the following describes this phenomenon? 

Agile Manifesto 

The Satir model

Scrum theory

The Declaration of Interdependence

10 Your organization is sold on Agile frameworks but still needs to utilize some best practices that have worked for years in the organization so they determine a hybrid approach is the way to go. What might be good advice to give to the organization before they create a hybrid model??

 “We should practice implementing Agile effectively on an organizational level, so we become proficient before trying to combine multiple best practices.”

 “Hybrids are the next big thing in project management, so we should move forward with the combination.”

 “Hybrids are not recommended for large software organizations but since we have some best practices that have worked for years we should be just fine.”

 “It may be better not to implement Agile at all since our practices seems to be working.”

11 You are working with the product owner and your team to refine the backlog and determine what the most important features are that will be in the increment no matter what. Your product owner suggests a prioritization practice to determine what will and won’t be in the final product. Which of the following could be used for this purpose?

MoSCow

The Pareto principle 

Lean

Definition of done

12 Complete this sentence based on a Lean environment: Waste is the opposite of_______________. 

Paperwork 

Handoffs              

Value 

Requirements

13 Kanban is the Japanese word for which of the following? 

Scrum board  

Card 

Lean process       

Continuous improvement

14 Which of the following could best be described as an information radiator? 

Status reports    

Kanban board     

Communications management plan 

Work radiators

15 You are a servant leader for your Agile team and lately key stakeholders have been walking up to your team members and requesting new work as well as sending multiple emails a day asking for updates. What is the best thing you can do for your team? 

Let them handle it, they are self-directed and managed. 

Take on administrative work for them and coach the stakeholders in Agile so they don’t continue the current behaviors. 

Take on administrative work for them and coach the team in Agile so they don’t continue accepting requests.   

Hold a meeting and express the rules of Agile to everyone so the behaviorsdon’t happen again.

16 Which of the following best describes the act of active listening as an Agile project manager?Active listening is making sure that you are there for the team member, understanding their message and not thinking about yourself or what you need to do or say next. 

Active listening is making sure that you are there for the team member, thinking about yourself and what you need to do or say next. 

Active listening is making sure that you understand the message and are there for the team member, while creating solutions for implementation. 

Active listening is making sure that you are there for the team member, whether you understand their message or not and thinking about yourself or what you need to do or say next

17 Your team is new to Agile and you are working to get their team space set up, so everyone is in a circle and can see and hear each other. Bill is a team member who doesn’t understand why the team needs to move their seats around. You explain to Bill that one of the major benefits of being colocated is the ability to allow everyone to hear everything being communicated, and the individual can choose to listen if it relates to them or choose to ignore it if it serves no purpose. What are you describing to Bill?

Effective communication

Team space tooling

Osmotic communication 

Trust and relationship building

18 You are having a fairly bad day and are headed into work to work with your Agile team. You remind yourself that you are servant leader and part of that role is to think less about yourself and more about your team and what they need from you. You also remind yourself that a good servant leader’s job is to perform which of the following?  

Daily stand-up meetings

Colocate the team and practice osmotic communication 

Update the Kanban board 

Motivate, compensate, and encourage

19 Your team is very new to Agile best practices and they are struggling in an iteration planning meeting to understand how to plan and how they will execute the work. You suggest that the team make a plan for execution but not actually execute at this time. What have you proposed your team consider? 

Project initiation 

A spike 

Iteration zero      

Sprint planning meeting