ACP Strategic Planning 5

Question 1

A product owner wants a quick, relative way to rank 40 backlog items with stakeholders. Which technique fits best?

Accepted Answer

Dot voting (multi-voting)

Answer

Dot voting lets stakeholders quickly express relative priority across many items.

Question 2

Payback period analysis tells a sponsor:

Accepted Answer

How long it will take to recover the initial investment

Answer

Payback period measures the time needed for returns to equal the initial investment.

Question 3

Why might an agile team release smaller increments more frequently instead of one large release?

Accepted Answer

To start earning value earlier and reduce risk through early feedback

Answer

Frequent incremental releases deliver value sooner and surface problems early.

Question 4

During iteration planning, what should guide which backlog items the team selects?

Accepted Answer

The iteration goal, backlog priority, and the team's capacity

Answer

Teams select the highest-priority items that support the iteration goal and fit their capacity.

Question 5

An executive asks for a three-year detailed plan with exact feature dates. What is the most appropriate agile response?

Accepted Answer

Provide a high-level roadmap with themes, and explain detail will be refined over time

Answer

Agile offers a coarse long-range roadmap and progressively elaborates detail as the work nears.

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