AAC Agile Frameworks & Methodologies 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In SAFe, what is the primary purpose of the Program Increment (PI) Planning event?
- To review completed features with stakeholders
- To align teams on objectives and identify dependencies for the next PI (Correct answer)
- To assign story points to backlog items
- To conduct retrospectives across all Agile Release Trains
Correct answer: To align teams on objectives and identify dependencies for the next PI
PI Planning aligns all teams on a shared mission, sets PI objectives, and surfaces cross-team dependencies for the upcoming increment.
Question 2: Which Kanban principle focuses on understanding how work currently flows before making changes?
- Limit Work in Progress
- Manage Flow
- Start with what you do now (Correct answer)
- Implement feedback loops
Correct answer: Start with what you do now
The 'Start with what you do now' principle means Kanban respects existing processes and roles before introducing changes incrementally.
Question 3: In Extreme Programming (XP), what practice ensures that no code is written without a failing test first?
- Continuous Integration
- Pair Programming
- Test-Driven Development (TDD) (Correct answer)
- Refactoring
Correct answer: Test-Driven Development (TDD)
TDD requires writing a failing unit test before writing the production code that makes it pass, ensuring all code is test-covered.
Question 4: A team using Crystal Clear must have which of the following as a defining characteristic?
- Co-located team of 8 or fewer people (Correct answer)
- Mandatory daily standups of exactly 15 minutes
- A dedicated full-time Scrum Master
- Fixed two-week iterations
Correct answer: Co-located team of 8 or fewer people
Crystal Clear is designed specifically for small, co-located teams of up to about 8 people working closely together.
Question 5: In the Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) framework, what does the 'Choose Your WoW' principle mean?
- Teams must follow the SAFe framework as their Way of Working
- Teams select and tailor their own Way of Working from available options (Correct answer)
- Managers choose the methodology for their teams
- WoW refers to the Definition of Done for each sprint
Correct answer: Teams select and tailor their own Way of Working from available options
DAD's 'Choose Your WoW' principle empowers teams to select and customize their process from a toolkit of practices that best fits their context.
Question 6: In Scrum, what is the maximum recommended duration of a Sprint Retrospective for a one-month Sprint?
- 1 hour
- 2 hours
- 3 hours (Correct answer)
- 4 hours
Correct answer: 3 hours
The Scrum Guide recommends the Sprint Retrospective is timeboxed to a maximum of three hours for a one-month Sprint.
Question 7: Which framework uses 'Communities of Practice' as a key mechanism for scaling agile across an organization?
- Scrum
- Kanban
- LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum) (Correct answer)
- Extreme Programming
Correct answer: LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum)
LeSS explicitly promotes Communities of Practice (CoPs) to share knowledge and coordinate across multiple teams working on the same product.
AAC Agile Frameworks & Methodologies 2
In SAFe, what is the primary purpose of the Program Increment (PI) Planning event?