Team Dynamics & Continuous Improvement Flashcards
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A DA Coach observes that team members fear raising concerns because a manager attends all retrospectives. What should the coach recommend?
Answer: Facilitate manager-free retrospectives to restore psychological safety for honest feedback
Retrospectives are most effective when the team can speak candidly, which requires removing the authority figure whose presence inhibits honest discussion.
Which DA concept describes the collective team practice of regularly reflecting on how to become more effective and then tuning behavior accordingly?
Answer: Inspect and adapt
Inspect and adapt is the DA term for the recurring team practice of reflecting on work and process to drive incremental improvement.
A team's impediment board has 12 open items that have not moved in three iterations. As a DA Coach, what does this signal?
Answer: Impediments are not being actively resolved, indicating a failure in the escalation or ownership process
Stale impediment boards reveal that ownership or escalation paths are broken — items are logged but nobody is accountable for resolving them.
In Disciplined Agile, team improvement experiments should be:
Answer: Small, safe-to-fail experiments with clear hypotheses and measurable outcomes
Small safe-to-fail experiments allow teams to learn quickly without high risk, embodying empirical process control at the team level.
A DA Coach working with multiple teams notices they are solving the same problems independently. Which practice should the coach introduce to accelerate cross-team learning?
Answer: Establish a community of practice (CoP) where teams share solutions and learnings
Communities of Practice enable cross-team knowledge sharing in DA, preventing redundant problem-solving and accelerating organizational learning.
Which behavior demonstrates a team member actively contributing to continuous improvement in a DA context?
Answer: Raising a small process experiment proposal at the next retrospective based on a recurring friction point
Proactively bringing improvement proposals to retrospectives is the expected continuous improvement behavior in DA — it is team-owned and iterative.
When a DA team reaches the 'Performing' stage, what is the coach's PRIMARY role shift?
Answer: Step back to a strategic advisor role, intervening only when the team requests support
At the Performing stage, the coach shifts to a light-touch advisor, as the team has the self-organization and improvement skills to operate autonomously.