Agile Foundation

What is the first value in the Agile Manifesto?

• A. Contract Negotiations over Working Plans

• B. Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation

• C. Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools

• D. Comprehensive Documentation over Customer Interaction

What is the difference between Waterfall/predictive project management and Agile frameworks?

• A. Waterfall is preplanned and so are Agile projects.

• B. Agile plans are just in time, and Waterfall projects are preplanned.

• C. Scope is fixed on Agile projects but not on Waterfall projects.

• D. They both are project management frameworks.

In waterfall, the project team often gets early feedback from customers or markets about the product they are building, so they can act on this feedback on time.

• A. True

• B. False

When was the agile manifesto written?

• A. 2010

• B.2015

• C.1991

• D.2001

Empirical process control has three main aspects to it. What would those three be?

• A. Transparency, inspection, and adaptation

• B. Iterative, incremental, and uncertainty

• C. Transparency, iterative, reliability

• D. Inspection, incremental, adaptable

You are working to implement Agile in your organization, and a key stakeholder asks you to explain Agile to them. What would be the best answer to explain Agile to someone who doesn’t know anything about it?

• A. Agile is a way to produce software without change control.

• B. Agile is a framework for better project management.

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

• D. Agile is the opposite of Waterfall.

Bill is a key stakeholder in your organization and has recently learned about your usage of an Agile framework on your current project. You’ve invited Bill to a planning meeting, and he says, “I thought you didn’t do formal planning in Agile.” How should you respond?

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

• B. “We plan as much as anyone working on projects and try to incorporate the opinions of many stakeholders to help us do it.”

• C. “We don’t plan normally, but since you are new to Agile we thought we would plan as much as possible until you get comfortable with Agile.”

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

In the past, your team has run software development using a more formal Waterfall method and now is incorporating Agile methodologies. What will be the biggest difference in how you develop your software?

• A. Agile is much more flexible in how the best practices work. As long as your team creates something usable, it doesn’t matter how you accomplish it

• B. The Waterfall method has many books of knowledge and best practices, but Agile only

  has the Manifesto.

• C. Waterfall preplans the entire software development projects before execution, and Agile only plans out just far enough to create a workable increment that is valuable to the customer.

• D. Agile plans less, and Waterfall plans more.

Seventeen developers met in Snowbird, Utah, in February 2001 to discuss better ways of managing software projects. What was the result of that meeting?

• A. The Declaration of Interdependence

• B. The Agile Manifesto

• C. The Scrum Theory

• D. The PMBOK® Guide

What does the Agile Manifesto mean by “individuals and interactions over processes and tools”?

• A. It means that processes and tools aren’t needed on Agile projects.

• B. It means that without processes and tools, the individuals and interactions will not be effective.

• C. It means that individuals and interactions are valued more than processes and tools.

• D. It means that both are necessary and work together to produce working software.