DA Agile Frameworks and Methodologies 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which DA life cycle is most appropriate for a team maintaining a stable, long-running product with continuous customer requests?
- Agile (Scrum-based)
- Lean (Kanban-based) (Correct answer)
- Exploratory
- Program
Correct answer: Lean (Kanban-based)
The Lean (Kanban-based) life cycle suits continuous delivery of work items without fixed iterations, ideal for maintenance and support work.
Question 2: XP (Extreme Programming) contributes which engineering practice most prominently to DA's toolkit?
- Sprint Planning
- Test-Driven Development (TDD) (Correct answer)
- Program Increment
- Retrospectives
Correct answer: Test-Driven Development (TDD)
XP's Test-Driven Development is one of its most influential engineering practices adopted into DA's toolkit for technical excellence.
Question 3: In DA, the term 'Disciplined DevOps' refers to:
- A separate certification track only
- Applying Agile and Lean thinking to the full IT value stream including operations (Correct answer)
- Replacing Agile with operational procedures
- A governance framework for infrastructure teams only
Correct answer: Applying Agile and Lean thinking to the full IT value stream including operations
Disciplined DevOps extends Agile/Lean thinking across the entire IT value stream, bridging development and operations for faster, safer delivery.
Question 4: Which scaling framework organizes teams into 'Tribes,' 'Chapters,' and 'Guilds'?
- SAFe
- LeSS
- Spotify Model (Correct answer)
- Nexus
Correct answer: Spotify Model
The Spotify Model organizes autonomous 'Squads' into 'Tribes,' with horizontal 'Chapters' for discipline alignment and 'Guilds' for communities of interest.
Question 5: In DA's process goal 'Develop on Cadence; Release on Demand,' what does 'Release on Demand' mean?
- Releases happen only at end of PI
- Teams can release to production independently of the development cadence when value is ready (Correct answer)
- Customers request specific release dates months in advance
- Releases follow a fixed monthly schedule
Correct answer: Teams can release to production independently of the development cadence when value is ready
'Release on Demand' means teams decouple deployment from development cadence, releasing software to production whenever business value justifies it.
Question 6: What does DSDM (Dynamic Systems Development Method) emphasize most strongly?
- Strict waterfall phases
- Fixed quality and scope with flexible time and resources
- Fixed time and resources with flexible quality and scope (Correct answer)
- Unlimited team size scaling
Correct 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.
Question 7: In Nexus (a Scrum scaling framework), what is the primary purpose of the Nexus Integration Team?
- To replace the Scrum Masters of individual teams
- To coordinate and coach teams to ensure integrated software is produced each Sprint (Correct answer)
- To own the product roadmap
- To conduct performance reviews of team members
Correct answer: To coordinate and coach teams to ensure integrated software is produced each Sprint
The Nexus Integration Team coordinates multiple Scrum teams, resolves integration issues, and ensures a usable integrated increment is produced each Sprint.
DA Agile Frameworks and Methodologies 3
Which DA life cycle is most appropriate for a team maintaining a stable, long-running product with continuous customer requests?