CDA Team Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In a Disciplined Agile context, which technique is MOST effective for identifying all relevant stakeholders at the start of a project?
- Stakeholder register created by the project manager alone
- Collaborative stakeholder mapping workshop with the team (Correct answer)
- Email survey sent to department heads
- Review of the organizational chart only
Correct answer: Collaborative stakeholder mapping workshop with the team
DA encourages collaborative stakeholder mapping so the full team surfaces hidden stakeholders and understands their interests together.
Question 2: A stakeholder consistently misses sprint reviews. Which DA-aligned action should the team take FIRST?
- Proceed without their input and document decisions
- Escalate to senior management immediately
- Have a direct conversation to understand barriers and adjust the engagement format (Correct answer)
- Remove them from the stakeholder list
Correct answer: Have a direct conversation to understand barriers and adjust the engagement format
DA promotes direct, respectful communication to resolve engagement issues before escalating.
Question 3: Which DA principle best supports the practice of holding regular team retrospectives?
- Be awesome (Correct answer)
- Delight customers
- Pragmatism
- Be enterprising
Correct answer: Be awesome
'Be awesome' in DA means continuously improving yourself and your team, which retrospectives directly support.
Question 4: When a geographically distributed DA team struggles with collaboration, which approach is MOST consistent with DA guidance?
- Mandate all communication through written tickets only
- Experiment with multiple collaboration tools and practices to find what works best for the team (Correct answer)
- Require co-location before the project can proceed
- Assign a single timezone for all meetings regardless of location
Correct answer: Experiment with multiple collaboration tools and practices to find what works best for the team
DA's 'choose your WoW' philosophy encourages teams to experiment and tailor practices to their context.
Question 5: In DA, the term 'enterprise awareness' in team collaboration means:
- Teams focus exclusively on their own sprint goals
- Teams understand how their work impacts the broader organization and other teams (Correct answer)
- Only senior leaders need visibility into enterprise priorities
- Teams avoid dependencies with other teams to maximize autonomy
Correct answer: Teams understand how their work impacts the broader organization and other teams
Enterprise awareness in DA means teams consider the organizational ecosystem and coordinate with others to optimize overall outcomes.
Question 6: A product owner is receiving conflicting feature requests from two influential stakeholders. The BEST DA-aligned approach is to:
- Implement the request from the higher-ranking stakeholder
- Facilitate a joint meeting to align stakeholders on priorities and business value (Correct answer)
- Delay all decisions until both stakeholders agree independently
- Split the team to work on both requests simultaneously
Correct answer: Facilitate a joint meeting to align stakeholders on priorities and business value
DA promotes collaborative decision-making that surfaces trade-offs and aligns stakeholders around shared business value.
Question 7: Which of the following BEST describes the DA concept of 'whole team' in the context of stakeholder engagement?
- Only developers and testers are considered part of the team
- Stakeholders are included as active participants in the team's work, not passive recipients (Correct answer)
- The team operates entirely independently from external stakeholders
- Whole team refers to having 100% attendance at all ceremonies
Correct answer: Stakeholders are included as active participants in the team's work, not passive recipients
DA's whole team concept integrates stakeholders as active collaborators, blurring the line between 'team' and 'customer'.
CDA Team Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement 2
In a Disciplined Agile context, which technique is MOST effective for identifying all relevant stakeholders at the start of a project?