PMI - ACP Quiz SG Domain VI Problem Detection

What is Little’s Law?

• The amount of work expands to fit the available time

• Projects deliver little in the last two days of an iteration.

• Inventory in a process is throughput multiplied with flow-time

• Project throughput diminishes with larger user stories

In a CFD diagram, how can a bottleneck be determined?

• A bulge appears in one of the process areas.

• The value points for the release start to increase.

• Project velocity starts to decrease

• The team starts experiencing negative velocity.

What does a WIP limit reflect?

• The number of resources available to work on a user story

• The number of story points that an iteration can deliver

• The point at which any more work items will cause a bottleneck

• None of the above

If a project team is experiencing a difficulty of very low velocity, at what level should the problem be first reviewed?

• Process level

• Quality and performance level

• Measurement level

• Management Level

If a data point on a control chart exceeds the upper or lower control limits, what does it indicate?

• The process is out of control and the data should be examined to understand what contributed to this exception.

• Only one data point is considered an outlier, but more than one would be a pattern.

• Nothing. There is always a chance that a data point will be outside one of the control limits.

• The control limits need to be adjusted to accommodate the exception.

Which of the following metrics captures the number of defects identified by the end user or customer found over a period of time?

• Live defects

• Escaped defects

• Cycle time

• Story defects

Which of the following are the steps involved in Risk Management Lifecycle, in the correct sequence?

• Identify, Assess, Respond

• Identify, Assess, Respond, Review

• Review, Identify, Assess, Respond

• Identify, Review, Respond, Assess

What does Spike signify?

• An activity intended to reduce uncertainty in a feature or technology

• A significant increase in velocity from one iteration to another

• Adding extra stories to an existing iteration

• A story that requires an increase in its story points due to uncertainty

The Problem Detection and Resolution aspect of agile project consists of all of these except________

• Encourage experimentation and communication in order to discover problems or impediments that prevent maximal value delivery

• Identify an resolve issues and threats on time by engaging the whole team

• Issues should be resolved by appropriate team member(s). In the case the issue can't be resolved; the team should communicate with appropriate stakeholders to adjust project expectation and priorities

• Finding the escalation factor of the problem

It is the uncertainty that could affect the success or failure of a project; it becomes a problem after occurrence. The characteristics stated above implies to which of the following?

• Mistake

• Error

• Risk

• None of the above