CDA Agile Principles & Mindset 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What does the DA principle 'be awesome' primarily encourage practitioners to do?
- Achieve perfection in every deliverable before release
- Continuously learn, improve, and exceed expectations (Correct answer)
- Focus solely on technical excellence
- Prioritize individual recognition over team success
Correct answer: Continuously learn, improve, and exceed expectations
The DA principle 'be awesome' encourages practitioners to continuously grow, learn, and strive to exceed the expectations of those they serve.
Question 2: In the context of the Agile Manifesto, what does 'customer collaboration' mean in practice?
- Signing a detailed contract specifying all deliverables upfront
- Involving customers actively throughout development to refine requirements (Correct answer)
- Letting customers manage the development team directly
- Delivering the product to the customer only at project completion
Correct answer: Involving customers actively throughout development to refine requirements
Customer collaboration means actively engaging with customers throughout the development process to continuously refine and validate requirements.
Question 3: Which agile principle states that the best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams?
- Agile processes promote sustainable development
- Continuous attention to technical excellence enhances agility
- The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams (Correct answer)
- Build projects around motivated individuals
Correct answer: The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams
This Agile Manifesto principle recognizes that self-organizing teams produce better technical outcomes than those with architectures imposed from outside.
Question 4: How does a disciplined agile team typically handle competing stakeholder priorities?
- The team decides priorities independently without stakeholder input
- A single product owner prioritizes with continuous stakeholder collaboration (Correct answer)
- All stakeholders vote equally on every work item
- Priorities are fixed at project start and never revisited
Correct answer: A single product owner prioritizes with continuous stakeholder collaboration
DA advocates for a product owner role that actively collaborates with stakeholders to maintain a prioritized backlog that balances competing interests.
Question 5: What is 'sustainable pace' in agile development?
- Maximizing team output by working long hours during critical periods
- Working at a pace the team can maintain indefinitely without burnout (Correct answer)
- Delivering as slowly as needed to ensure zero defects
- Matching the pace of the slowest team member
Correct answer: Working at a pace the team can maintain indefinitely without burnout
Sustainable pace means working at a velocity the team can maintain indefinitely, preserving long-term productivity and team health.
Question 6: In DA, what is meant by the term 'context counts'?
- Every team must follow an identical agile process regardless of situation
- The appropriate approach depends on the unique context and constraints of each team (Correct answer)
- Only the organizational context matters, not team-level factors
- Context refers exclusively to the technology stack being used
Correct answer: The appropriate approach depends on the unique context and constraints of each team
DA's foundational principle 'context counts' recognizes that no single process fits all teams, and the best approach depends on each team's unique situation.
Question 7: Which of the following best represents the agile concept of 'inspect and adapt'?
- Conducting a final quality review before product launch
- Regularly reviewing work and processes to make incremental improvements (Correct answer)
- Inspecting team members' performance in annual reviews
- Adapting the project scope only when budget is exceeded
Correct answer: Regularly reviewing work and processes to make incremental improvements
Inspect and adapt is a continuous cycle of reviewing both the product and the process at regular intervals to identify and implement improvements.
CDA Agile Principles & Mindset 3
What does the DA principle 'be awesome' primarily encourage practitioners to do?