Roles and Responsibilities Flashcards
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In DA, the concept of 'Active Stakeholder Participation' means that stakeholders should:
Answer: Be available and engaged throughout the project, not just at milestone reviews
DA emphasizes that stakeholders must be actively engaged throughout the process, not just passively informed at major checkpoints.
A DA Team Lead notices two team members consistently performing tasks outside their primary expertise. This BEST represents:
Answer: T-shaped skill development that DA actively encourages
DA actively promotes T-shaped professionals who develop breadth beyond their core specialization to improve team agility.
Which of the following BEST describes how DA handles the 'Release Manager' role?
Answer: It is a context-dependent role that may be needed in some situations but not others
DA takes a context-sensitive approach; a Release Manager is only defined and staffed when the team's delivery context requires it.
In Disciplined Agile, the primary distinction between a 'Team Lead' and a traditional 'Project Manager' is that the Team Lead:
Answer: Acts as a servant leader enabling team self-organization rather than commanding and controlling
The Team Lead empowers the team through servant leadership rather than exercising traditional command-and-control project management authority.
In a DA context, who bears primary responsibility for ensuring that technical debt is visible and managed?
Answer: Architecture Owner, because they guide technical integrity and long-term health
The Architecture Owner is primarily responsible for making technical debt visible and for guiding strategies to manage it appropriately.
When applying DA at an enterprise level, which role is responsible for ensuring consistency of agile adoption across multiple value streams?
Answer: Enterprise Agile Coach
Enterprise Agile Coaches guide organization-wide agile adoption and ensure consistent improvement across multiple value streams and teams.
In DA, the responsibility for choosing the team's 'Way of Working' (WoW) ultimately rests with:
Answer: The team itself, guided by the Team Lead and Architecture Owner
DA empowers the team to choose and own their WoW, with the Team Lead and Architecture Owner providing guidance in that selection.