CDA Team Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In DA, which team role is primarily responsible for coordinating with stakeholders and ensuring the team understands their needs?
- Architecture owner
- Team lead
- Product owner (Correct answer)
- Integrator
Correct answer: Product owner
The product owner in DA is the primary liaison between the team and stakeholders, prioritizing the backlog based on stakeholder needs.
Question 2: A DA team discovers mid-iteration that a key stakeholder's requirement was misunderstood. What should they do?
- Complete the iteration as planned and address the issue in the next sprint
- Immediately engage the stakeholder to clarify, and adapt the plan if necessary (Correct answer)
- Raise a formal change request and wait for approval
- Proceed and document the misunderstanding in the retrospective
Correct answer: Immediately engage the stakeholder to clarify, and adapt the plan if necessary
DA values responsiveness to change and encourages teams to engage stakeholders immediately when misalignments are discovered.
Question 3: Which DA practice helps teams build trust with stakeholders through transparency?
- Sharing only positive metrics in status reports
- Providing visible, honest information radiators and frequent demonstrations of working software (Correct answer)
- Limiting access to team performance data to protect morale
- Reporting only completed items to avoid confusion
Correct answer: Providing visible, honest information radiators and frequent demonstrations of working software
Transparency through information radiators and working software demos builds credibility and trust with stakeholders in DA.
Question 4: In Disciplined Agile, 'informed consent' from stakeholders refers to:
- Legal sign-off on all project documents
- Stakeholders understanding trade-offs and agreeing to the chosen approach with full awareness of implications (Correct answer)
- Stakeholders approving every individual task before work begins
- A formal contract signed at project initiation
Correct answer: Stakeholders understanding trade-offs and agreeing to the chosen approach with full awareness of implications
Informed consent in DA means stakeholders are educated about trade-offs and make decisions with a clear understanding of consequences.
Question 5: When forming a new DA team, which approach to team agreements BEST supports collaboration?
- The team lead dictates norms to ensure consistency
- The team co-creates a working agreement that defines norms, communication, and decision-making (Correct answer)
- Team agreements are unnecessary if everyone follows Scrum rules
- Agreements are formed by HR and handed to the team
Correct answer: The team co-creates a working agreement that defines norms, communication, and decision-making
Co-created working agreements in DA give team members ownership of norms and improve adherence and collaboration.
Question 6: A stakeholder demands daily status reports that are consuming significant team time. The MOST DA-aligned response is to:
- Comply fully to maintain stakeholder satisfaction
- Negotiate an information radiator or automated dashboard that meets their need with less team overhead (Correct answer)
- Refuse the request as it violates agile principles
- Have the project manager handle all reporting independently
Correct answer: Negotiate an information radiator or automated dashboard that meets their need with less team overhead
DA encourages finding efficient ways to meet stakeholder information needs without creating waste for the team.
Question 7: In a DA context, which scenario BEST illustrates effective cross-team collaboration?
- Two teams work independently and share only final deliverables
- Teams hold integration synchronization points and share dependency risks proactively (Correct answer)
- One team acts as a vendor to another with formal SLAs
- Teams merge into one large team to eliminate coordination overhead
Correct answer: Teams hold integration synchronization points and share dependency risks proactively
DA promotes regular synchronization between teams to surface and manage dependencies and risks early.
CDA Team Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement 3
In DA, which team role is primarily responsible for coordinating with stakeholders and ensuring the team understands their needs?