Mixed Deck — All DA Topics Flashcards
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In LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum), how many Product Owners exist across all teams?
Answer: One overall Product Owner for all teams
LeSS maintains a single Product Owner who owns one Product Backlog shared across all teams to preserve product cohesion.
In DA, what role does 'psychological safety' play in enabling team performance and continuous improvement?
Answer: It creates an environment where people feel safe to experiment, speak up, and learn from failures without fear
DA recognizes psychological safety as foundational for learning cultures — without it, teams hide failures, avoid experiments, and suppress the honest feedback needed for improvement.
In the DA mindset, 'pragmatism over purism' means a team should:
Answer: Adopt practices that work in their context rather than rigidly adhering to one methodology
DA favors pragmatism, meaning teams should adopt whatever works best in their context rather than rigidly following one methodology.
In the DA framework, 'Delivery Risk' is BEST managed by which practice?
Answer: Applying risk-reduction milestones and iterative delivery to expose and address risks early
DA manages delivery risk through progressive milestones and incremental delivery, surfacing unknowns early when they are cheaper to address.
In DA, the concept of 'optimizing flow' is primarily concerned with:
Answer: Ensuring smooth and continuous delivery of value
Optimizing flow in DA means ensuring that value moves smoothly through the system with minimal interruptions, delays, or bottlenecks.
In Disciplined Agile, what is the key responsibility of a 'Domain Expert' sub-role that may appear on some teams?
Answer: Providing deep subject matter expertise to inform team decisions and solution design
Domain Experts provide subject matter knowledge to help the team understand the problem space and make informed design decisions.
In DA, which statement about role assignment is MOST accurate?
Answer: A single person can fulfill multiple DA roles simultaneously if the context allows
DA is pragmatic; in smaller teams or certain contexts, one person may wear multiple role hats simultaneously.
Which DA-supported approach reflects Lean's 'pull' system by having teams take work only when they have capacity?
Answer: Kanban flow
Kanban's pull-based system aligns with Lean's pull principle, where work is pulled through the system only when there is capacity.
What does DSDM (Dynamic Systems Development Method) emphasize most strongly?
Answer: Fixed time and resources with flexible quality and scope
DSDM inverts the traditional iron triangle by fixing time and resources while allowing scope to flex to deliver on time within budget.
A highly regulated financial firm adopts DA. How should the team handle mandatory external audit requirements?
Answer: Embed compliance activities as work items within the team's backlog and WoW
DA encourages embedding compliance requirements directly into the team's backlog and way of working so they become part of normal delivery.
In a Disciplined Agile team, who is responsible for making the final call on technical trade-offs when the team cannot reach consensus?
Answer: Architecture Owner
The Architecture Owner has decision-making authority on technical trade-offs and architectural direction.
Which DA principle emphasizes that governance approaches should be adapted based on the team's context, size, and risk profile?
Answer: Context counts
DA's 'Context Counts' principle means that governance—like all other practices—must be tailored to the team's unique situation rather than applied uniformly.
Which key role does the DA framework emphasize for project success?
Answer: Cross-functional team
Disciplined Agile strongly emphasizes the importance of a cross-functional team for project success. These teams possess all the necessary skills—from analysis and design to development and testing—to deliver working solutions independently. This holistic capability minimizes handoffs, improves communication, and fosters collective ownership, leading to more efficient and effective outcomes.
In Disciplined Agile, which lifecycle is best suited for a team working on a data warehouse project where requirements are well-understood and the solution can be built incrementally?
Answer: Lean lifecycle
The Lean lifecycle is ideal for well-understood, streamlined delivery where teams pull work from a backlog without fixed iterations.
The DA principle of 'organize around products/services' is most aligned with which Lean concept?
Answer: Value stream mapping
Value stream mapping helps organizations visualize and optimize the flow of value around products and services, aligning with this DA principle.
What is the role of governance in the DA framework?
Answer: Providing a decision-making framework for project activities
In the DA framework, governance provides a crucial decision-making framework for project activities. It ensures that all project decisions, actions, and outcomes are aligned with organizational strategy, policies, and regulations. This framework helps teams make informed choices while maintaining agility and transparency, rather than imposing rigid control.
Which DA principle guides teams to use metrics for learning and improvement rather than for performance evaluation of individuals?
Answer: Create psychological safety
DA emphasizes psychological safety so that metrics are used as learning tools for the team, not as surveillance or judgment tools against individuals.
In DA's team-of-teams scaling scenario, the role that coordinates across multiple agile delivery teams is typically the:
Answer: Program Manager
A Program Manager coordinates dependencies and alignment across multiple agile delivery teams in a scaled context.
Which Disciplined Agile metric best captures the total customer wait time from initial request to delivery?
Answer: Lead time
Lead time spans from the moment a customer makes a request to when the work is delivered, capturing the full wait experience from the customer's perspective.
In Disciplined Agile performance measurement, what is a 'fitness for purpose' metric?
Answer: A metric that evaluates whether the product meets actual customer needs and expectations
Fitness for purpose metrics assess whether the delivered product or service satisfies the real needs of customers, focusing on effectiveness over technical correctness.