Agile Project Management Kanban Method and Practices 3

Question 1

A team's board shows items piling up in the 'Testing' column. What does this most likely indicate?

Accepted Answer

A bottleneck where testing capacity is constrained

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That developers are working too slowly

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That the WIP limit on testing is too high

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That the board needs more columns

Question 2

What is the recommended first step when implementing Kanban according to its principles?

Accepted Answer

Visualize the current workflow as it actually exists

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Replace all existing roles with new ones

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Set aggressive deadlines for every task

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Adopt fixed two-week sprints

Question 3

How does Kanban handle prioritization of new work items?

Accepted Answer

Items are prioritized continuously and pulled as capacity frees up

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All items are locked at the start of a sprint

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Priority is fixed for a calendar quarter

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Items are worked strictly first-in-first-out with no reprioritization

Question 4

What is 'flow efficiency' in Kanban?

Accepted Answer

The ratio of active work time to total lead time

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The number of items completed per developer

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The percentage of the team present each day

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The total count of columns in use

Question 5

Which Kanban practice directly helps a team improve by learning from data and experiments?

Accepted Answer

Improve collaboratively using models and the scientific method

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Adding more people to every task

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Eliminating all meetings

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Removing WIP limits entirely

Question 6

What typically happens when a column's WIP limit is reached and a worker becomes free?

Accepted Answer

They help clear the bottlenecked work rather than starting new items

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They immediately pull a brand new item anyway

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They wait idle until the next day

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They increase the WIP limit on the spot

Question 7

What distinguishes a Kanban cadence from a Scrum cadence?

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Kanban uses continuous flow while Scrum uses time-boxed sprints

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Kanban requires a Scrum Master role

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Kanban forbids any meetings

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Kanban always uses two-week iterations