Mini SG - PMI ACP - Pertemuan 2

Agile team members understand that if by the end of the sprint, the product increment that they are building does not meet the criteria specified at the beginning of the sprint, this work is not included in the velocity for the current sprint. What are these criteria?

• Estimate to complete

• Definition of done

• Testing and usability

• Retrospective

Answer explanation

The criteria that determine whether work is included in the sprint's velocity is known as the 'Definition of Done'. If the product increment does not meet this definition, it is not counted towards the team's velocity.

An experienced scrum master is starting a new project and is currently meeting with her development team to explain that servant leadership is one of her primary responsibilities. Which of the following is the best explanation of servant leadership?

• Servant leaders impede the team from developing software too quickly by ensuring roadblocks are in place.

• Servant leaders ensure that roadblocks are identified and removed during the sprint retrospective meeting.

• Servant leaders coordinate shared resources and critical dependencies during the daily scrum meeting to prevent burnout by allowing individuals some down time between tasks.

• Servant leaders shield the team from interruptions and help to ensure that team members have what they need to be productive constantly throughout the project.

Answer explanation

Servant leaders prioritize the team's productivity by shielding them from interruptions and ensuring they have the necessary resources. This support fosters a conducive environment for the team to work effectively throughout the project.

A new senior manager has been assigned to oversee several projects. The manager contacts an agile project leader and asks for a monthly report that summarizes the project status and the projected finish date. How should the project leader respond to this request?

• Provide the detailed status report requested by the senior manager

• Suggest the manager periodically attend the daily standups

• Create an intranet site that has a sophisticated dashboard for progress status reporting

• Post a project burndown chart in a visible location and recommend the manager use this to monitor the project progress

Answer explanation

The best response is to post a project burndown chart in a visible location. This allows the senior manager to easily monitor project progress in real-time, aligning with agile principles of transparency and continuous feedback.

An agile team is midway through the current sprint when a key stakeholder approaches the scrum master with a 'must' new requirement. Which of the following would be the scrum master’s best response?

• Add the new requirement to the current sprint backlog

• State that the sprint is currently underway and that new requirements cannot be added \ without written approval from management

• Add the new requirement to the product backlog so that the product owner can review it for possible inclusion in a future sprint

• Ask the stakeholder to discuss the new requirement with the product owner and let them decide whether to include it in the product backlog

Answer explanation

The best response is to ask the stakeholder to discuss the new requirement with the product owner. This ensures that the product owner can evaluate its priority and decide if it should be added to the product backlog for future sprints.

An important key performance indicator (KPI) used in Agile to measure the performance of the team's progress is velocity. Which of the following metrics is most often used to measure an agile team's performance in terms of velocity?

• The number of user story points completed by the team per day

• The number of user story points completed by the team per iteration

• The number of iterations completed by the team per release

• The number of story points planned to be completed in the next iteration

Answer explanation

Velocity in Agile is measured by the number of user story points completed by the team per iteration. This metric reflects the team's capacity and progress effectively, making it the correct choice.

An agile coach has made sure to create a collaborative environment for her team members by colocating them and providing the opportunity for osmotic communication. She also made some private workspaces available in case some team members wished to meet privately without disturbing other team members. What is the name of this colocated and collaborative environment where team members can perform osmotic communication?

• Common area

• Colocated area

• Cubicle area

• Collaborative area

Answer explanation

The correct answer is 'Common area' as it refers to a colocated space where team members can engage in osmotic communication, fostering collaboration while also allowing for private discussions in designated workspaces.

One of the reasons a company insists on the development team being located in the same physical work environment is that information is often shared by the team members without conscious thought. What is this type of information sharing called?

• Face-to-face communication

• Proximal communication

• Osmotic communication

• Virtual communication

Answer explanation

Osmotic communication refers to the informal and subconscious sharing of information among team members in close proximity, enhancing collaboration and understanding without the need for formal discussions.

An agile team meets to create the initial release plan for the project. Which of the following is the lowest level of detail considered when developing a release plan?

• Tasks

• Products

• Iterations

• User stories

Answer explanation

User stories represent the lowest level of detail in a release plan, focusing on specific user needs. Tasks and iterations are more detailed, while products encompass broader goals.

During a daily standup meeting, the project manager goes from one team member to another questioning each one on the work they have accomplished and reprimanding them for the slow progress the team made so far. The meeting lasts for almost an hour and turns into a status meeting. What would an agile practitioner recommend to avoid the next standup meeting turning into a status meeting?

• Use a timer configured to alarm 30 minutes after the start of the meeting

• Switch the development life cycle from adaptive to predictive

• Have a team member to facilitate the standup instead of the project manager

• Advise the project manager to only focus on impediments to progress

Answer explanation

Having a team member facilitate the standup encourages peer accountability and keeps the focus on collaboration rather than reprimanding, preventing the meeting from devolving into a status update.

During a sprint planning meeting, the scrum team is arguing over 115 story points' worth of user stories that the product owner is pushing to be completed in the upcoming sprint. However, the development team’s average velocity is only 100 story points. Who makes the final decision on how many story points will be targeted for completion during a sprint?

• The project manager

• The development team

• The scrum master

• The product owner

Answer explanation

The development team makes the final decision on how many story points to target in a sprint, as they are responsible for determining what they can realistically complete based on their average velocity.