Team Dynamics & Continuous Improvement Flashcards
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In Disciplined Agile, which team anti-pattern occurs when specialists only work on tasks within their narrow skill set, causing bottlenecks?
Answer: Silo mentality
Silo mentality occurs when team members restrict work to their specialty, creating bottlenecks and reducing overall flow.
A DA Coach notices that a team's retrospectives always produce the same action items with no follow-through. What is the BEST corrective approach?
Answer: Limit retrospectives to one action item and assign a clear owner with a due date
Limiting to one action item with a named owner and deadline increases accountability and prevents the common pattern of generating too many unactioned improvements.
Which Disciplined Agile principle best describes why teams should tailor their process rather than follow a prescribed framework rigidly?
Answer: Context counts
The DA principle 'context counts' recognizes that every team's situation is unique and a one-size-fits-all process rarely works.
When forming a new agile team, a DA Coach should primarily focus on which stage of Tuckman's model to establish healthy team dynamics?
Answer: Forming — set clear purpose and agreements
During Forming, establishing clear purpose, roles, and working agreements lays the foundation for all subsequent stages.
A DA Coach wants to help a team improve its Definition of Done. Which action is MOST aligned with DA continuous improvement principles?
Answer: Let the team evolve the DoD incrementally based on quality feedback each iteration
Evolving the DoD incrementally based on real quality feedback is a continuous improvement practice that keeps quality standards relevant and team-owned.
In DA, what is the primary purpose of a team's 'working agreements'?
Answer: To define the team's internal norms and expected behaviors so collaboration is smoother
Working agreements capture the team's shared norms and behaviors, reducing friction and making collaboration more predictable.
Which metric is MOST useful for a DA Coach tracking continuous improvement in team throughput over multiple iterations?
Answer: Cycle time trend across iterations
Cycle time trend reveals whether the team is consistently getting faster at delivering work items from start to completion.