GCU MGT641 Week 8 Quiz Latest 2020 August

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