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Agile and Hybrid Approaches Flashcards

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  1. A project manager is transitioning a traditionally managed team to agile. Stakeholders are uncomfortable with the lack of a detailed upfront plan. What is the BEST approach?

    Answer: Provide a high-level roadmap and demonstrate value through early working increments

    Providing a roadmap and delivering early working increments builds stakeholder confidence while embracing agile's adaptive planning.

  2. In Lean thinking, which concept focuses on eliminating activities that consume resources without delivering customer value?

    Answer: Muda

    Muda is the Japanese term for waste — any activity that consumes resources but does not create value for the customer.

  3. A Scrum team discovers a critical defect in production during a sprint. The bug was not in the sprint backlog. How should the team handle it?

    Answer: The team and Product Owner assess severity and may add it to the current sprint if critical

    Critical production defects may warrant adding work to the current sprint after the team and Product Owner assess impact on the sprint goal.

  4. What does WIP (Work In Progress) limit enforcement primarily help a Kanban team achieve?

    Answer: Reduce context switching and improve flow efficiency

    WIP limits reduce multitasking and context switching, helping work flow more smoothly through the system.

  5. In agile, what is the purpose of a 'spike'?

    Answer: A time-boxed research activity to reduce uncertainty about a technical approach

    A spike is a time-boxed exploration or research task used to gain knowledge needed to reduce the risk or uncertainty of a story or technical decision.

  6. During a retrospective, a team member raises a recurring interpersonal conflict. The Scrum Master attempts to mediate but the conflict persists. What should the Scrum Master do NEXT?

    Answer: Escalate to the HR department or a professional coach

    When interpersonal conflicts persist beyond the Scrum Master's facilitation ability, escalating to HR or engaging a professional coach is appropriate.

  7. A project uses a hybrid approach where requirements are fixed (waterfall) but delivery is iterative. This is BEST described as:

    Answer: Iterative waterfall or a plan-driven hybrid model

    Fixing requirements upfront while delivering them in iterations is a classic iterative waterfall or plan-driven hybrid model.