CAE Retrospectives & Continuous Improvement 2

Question 1

Which retrospective technique asks team members to imagine the project has failed spectacularly and then identify what caused that failure?

Accepted Answer

Pre-mortem (Futurespective)

Answer

A pre-mortem (or futurespective) asks the team to project forward to a hypothetical failure and work backward to identify risks and causes.

Question 2

During a retrospective, the team identifies an improvement action but nobody volunteers to own it. What is the BEST response?

Accepted Answer

Work with the team to find a volunteer or split responsibility

Answer

Unowned action items rarely get done; the facilitator should help the team negotiate ownership or shared responsibility to ensure follow-through.

Question 3

The '4Ls' retrospective format stands for:

Accepted Answer

Liked, Learned, Lacked, Longed for

Answer

The 4Ls framework captures what team members Liked, Learned, Lacked, and Longed for during the iteration.

Question 4

A team's retrospective consistently produces the same action items sprint after sprint with little improvement. The MOST likely root cause is:

Accepted Answer

Action items are not tracked or followed up between retrospectives

Answer

When action items are not tracked or revisited, they are forgotten and the same issues resurface, creating a cycle of no improvement.

Question 5

Which Agile value most directly underpins the retrospective ceremony?

Accepted Answer

Responding to change over following a plan

Answer

Retrospectives embody 'responding to change' by continuously adapting the team's process based on what is or isn't working.

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