AAC Agile Planning & Estimation 3

Question 1

Which statement best describes the impact of technical debt on Agile planning?

Accepted Answer

Accumulated technical debt reduces team velocity over time by increasing the cost of future changes

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Technical debt only affects maintenance projects and is irrelevant during initial development

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Technical debt should always be addressed before delivering new features

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Technical debt is tracked but never formally included in sprint planning

Question 2

Timeboxing in Agile refers to:

Accepted Answer

Fixing the duration of an iteration so the team adjusts scope rather than extending time

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Setting a maximum number of story points per sprint regardless of team capacity

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Allocating a specific budget to each user story

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Limiting the number of stakeholders who can attend a sprint review

Question 3

When should a team consider re-estimating stories already in the product backlog?

Accepted Answer

When significant new information changes the complexity or scope of those stories

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After every sprint, regardless of whether new information has emerged

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Only when the product owner requests it formally

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Never — estimates must remain stable to maintain velocity accuracy

Question 4

A product roadmap in Agile primarily serves to:

Accepted Answer

Communicate a high-level, time-oriented vision of the product direction while remaining adaptable

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Lock all features and dates so stakeholders have contractual commitments

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Replace the product backlog for long-term planning purposes

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Define sprint goals for the next twelve sprints

Question 5

Capacity planning for a sprint differs from velocity-based planning in that capacity planning:

Accepted Answer

Accounts for individual team member availability, vacation, and non-project commitments within the sprint

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Uses the team's historical story point completion to predict future throughput

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Is only performed at the release level, not at the sprint level

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Relies solely on the product owner's feature priority to determine workload

Question 6

What does 'Yesterday's Weather' forecasting technique in Agile suggest?

Accepted Answer

Teams should plan next sprint using the story points completed in the previous sprint as a baseline

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Teams should review weather-related risks before committing to outdoor events or demos

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Story point estimates should be revised upward to account for past delays

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The team's velocity should be averaged over the entire project history, not recent sprints

Question 7

In Agile analysis, an estimation bias known as 'anchoring' occurs when:

Accepted Answer

Early estimates disproportionately influence subsequent estimates, skewing the final result

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The team refuses to change their estimates once initial velocity is established

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The product owner anchors the backlog priorities before the team can provide input

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Story points are anchored to hours of work for contractual billing purposes