DA Governance, Compliance, and Continuous Improvement 3

Question 1

A highly regulated financial firm adopts DA. How should the team handle mandatory external audit requirements?

Accepted Answer

Embed compliance activities as work items within the team's backlog and WoW

Answer

DA encourages embedding compliance requirements directly into the team's backlog and way of working so they become part of normal delivery.

Question 2

Which metric is MOST aligned with DA's lean governance approach to measuring team performance?

Accepted Answer

Outcomes delivered relative to stakeholder value

Answer

DA lean governance focuses on outcomes and value delivery rather than activity-based or output-based metrics.

Question 3

In DA, what is 'process tailoring' in the context of governance?

Accepted Answer

Selecting and adapting practices to fit the team's context while respecting guardrails

Answer

Process tailoring means teams choose and adapt practices from DA's toolbox to suit their unique situation within enterprise guardrails.

Question 4

Which DA principle supports continuous improvement by encouraging teams to evolve their WoW over time?

Accepted Answer

Optimize flow

Answer

Optimizing flow in DA includes continuously improving the team's way of working to reduce waste and increase the speed of value delivery.

Question 5

A DA program-level team discovers that three sub-teams use incompatible integration standards. Which governance action is MOST appropriate?

Accepted Answer

Escalate to enterprise governance to establish an integration guardrail

Answer

Program or enterprise governance in DA is responsible for setting guardrails such as integration standards when cross-team alignment is needed.

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