Governance, Compliance, and Continuous Improvement Flashcards
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A DA enterprise is moving from project-based to product-based funding. How does this change governance?
Answer: It shifts funding decisions from project milestones to continuous product value delivery metrics
Product-based funding in DA governance ties investment decisions to ongoing value delivery and outcomes rather than discrete project phases or milestones.
What role does 'enterprise awareness' play in DA continuous improvement?
Answer: It helps teams understand how their improvements affect and align with the broader organization
Enterprise awareness in DA means teams understand how their WoW choices and improvements fit into and affect the larger organizational context.
Which DA practice involves regularly reviewing and pruning the team's chosen practices to eliminate those that no longer add value?
Answer: WoW retrospective and optimization
DA teams regularly inspect and evolve their WoW in retrospectives, discarding practices that don't add value and adopting better alternatives.
In DA, which layer of governance is MOST concerned with ensuring team-level practices comply with enterprise architecture standards?
Answer: Enterprise or program governance layer
Enterprise and program governance layers set and enforce architecture standards as guardrails that team-level WoW choices must respect.
A DA team is asked to produce compliance evidence for a GDPR audit. Which approach BEST fits DA principles?
Answer: Build GDPR compliance artifacts and controls into the team's regular definition of done
DA recommends embedding compliance requirements like GDPR controls into the definition of done so compliance evidence is generated as part of normal work.
What is the DA stance on using fixed process audits (e.g., CMMI appraisals) alongside agile ways of working?
Answer: DA is pragmatic and can coexist with CMMI, adapting practices to satisfy both agility and process maturity needs
DA's pragmatic philosophy allows teams to satisfy CMMI or other process maturity requirements while still operating in an agile manner.
In DA, what is the BEST indicator that a team's continuous improvement efforts are succeeding?
Answer: Stakeholder satisfaction and delivery outcomes measurably improve over time
DA measures improvement success by actual outcomes — increased stakeholder satisfaction, faster delivery, and better quality — not by process activity volume.