DA Roles and Responsibilities 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In Disciplined Agile, who is primarily responsible for prioritizing the team backlog and ensuring work items deliver business value?
- Architecture Owner
- Product Owner (Correct answer)
- Team Lead
- Stakeholder
Correct answer: Product Owner
The Product Owner owns the team backlog and is responsible for prioritizing work to maximize delivered business value.
Question 2: Which DA role acts as a servant leader, removing impediments and coaching the team on agile practices?
- Product Owner
- Architecture Owner
- Team Lead (Correct answer)
- Enterprise Architect
Correct answer: Team Lead
The Team Lead (analogous to a Scrum Master) serves as a servant leader, facilitating the team and removing blockers.
Question 3: In DA, the Architecture Owner is responsible for:
- Managing the project budget
- Guiding technical architecture and ensuring technical integrity (Correct answer)
- Approving all user stories before development
- Reporting status to senior management
Correct answer: Guiding technical architecture and ensuring technical integrity
The Architecture Owner guides the architectural direction of the solution and ensures technical integrity throughout the project.
Question 4: A stakeholder in Disciplined Agile is BEST described as:
- Only the paying customer of the product
- Anyone who is impacted by or can impact the outcome of the team (Correct answer)
- A team member who owns specific user stories
- A senior manager who funds the project
Correct answer: Anyone who is impacted by or can impact the outcome of the team
Stakeholders include anyone who can affect or be affected by the team's work, not just the customer paying for it.
Question 5: In DA's team-of-teams scaling scenario, the role that coordinates across multiple agile delivery teams is typically the:
- Product Owner
- Program Manager (Correct answer)
- Solution Architect
- Enterprise Coach
Correct answer: Program Manager
A Program Manager coordinates dependencies and alignment across multiple agile delivery teams in a scaled context.
Question 6: Which statement BEST describes the DA concept of 'team member' versus 'specialist'?
- Specialists never collaborate with other roles in DA
- Team members can be generalists or T-shaped professionals who contribute broadly (Correct answer)
- Only specialists are allowed to own backlog items
- Team members are junior resources while specialists are senior
Correct answer: Team members can be generalists or T-shaped professionals who contribute broadly
DA encourages T-shaped professionals who have deep expertise in one area but can contribute across multiple disciplines.
Question 7: In Disciplined Agile, what is the primary responsibility of an Enterprise Architect within a delivery team context?
- Writing code for complex architectural components
- Providing architectural guidance and ensuring the solution aligns with enterprise standards (Correct answer)
- Managing the product roadmap and business priorities
- Running retrospectives and agile ceremonies
Correct answer: Providing architectural guidance and ensuring the solution aligns with enterprise standards
Enterprise Architects provide architectural guidance to teams and ensure solutions align with broader enterprise technical strategies.
DA Roles and Responsibilities 2
In Disciplined Agile, who is primarily responsible for prioritizing the team backlog and ensuring work items deliver business value?