ICP Agile Planning & Estimation

Question 1

What is the primary purpose of story points in Agile estimation?

Accepted Answer

To provide a relative measure of effort, complexity, and uncertainty for a user story

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To measure the number of hours required to complete a user story

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To track the number of lines of code to be written

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To assign a dollar cost to each feature

Question 2

During Planning Poker, what happens when team members reveal widely different estimates for the same user story?

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The team discusses the reasons for the difference to reach a shared understanding

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The highest estimate is automatically selected to be safe

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The Scrum Master decides the final estimate

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The story is immediately moved to the icebox

Question 3

What is velocity in Agile planning?

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The average number of story points a team completes per sprint

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The speed at which individual developers write code

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The number of user stories created in the product backlog

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The rate at which the product owner adds new features

Question 4

Which Fibonacci-like sequence is most commonly used in Agile story point estimation?

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1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21

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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

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2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12

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5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30

Question 5

What is the 'Definition of Ready' (DoR) in Agile planning?

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A set of criteria that a backlog item must meet before the team can pull it into a sprint

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A checklist confirming that a user story is complete and ready to ship

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The release approval process signed off by stakeholders

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A document describing the team's working agreement

Question 6

During sprint planning, who is ultimately responsible for selecting how much work the team commits to?

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The Development Team, based on their capacity and past velocity

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The Product Owner, who sets the sprint scope based on business priority

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The Scrum Master, who enforces capacity limits

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Stakeholders, based on the release deadline

Question 7

What is the main benefit of using relative estimation over absolute (hour-based) estimation in Agile?

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It reduces psychological anchoring and reflects the natural human ability to compare rather than measure precisely

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It gives management precise dates to communicate to clients

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It eliminates the need for sprint planning meetings

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It allows teams to skip backlog refinement sessions