Agile Certified Practitioner
You're just starting out as a product owner for an agile team. The first week a project manager
gives you a bulleted list of project requirements. She says, "why don't you copy this into a
spreadsheet, and then we'll use it for the product backlog?" This is a good example of:
Approaching agile as a set of practices instead of a new way of thinking about your product.
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You're a senior manager and you're in charge of updating your bank's software. The director for
this project has been with the company for decades. This director started out as a developer in a
programming language called Fortran. Now the team is using a newer language called Python.
When you meet with the director they say, "we could do that in Fortran, but I'm not sure it could
be done in Python." After a few failed meetings you want to meet directly with the development
team so that they can answer your questions. What's the key challenge you're trying to
overcome?
No director could specialize in all the technology that goes into a modern software product
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What's the best way to describe the cone of uncertainty?
You must make decisions early when you know the least about how things will turn out
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Principles 1, 8, 9 and 10 of the Agile Manifesto describe prioritizing high-value work. What's a
common way that agile teams prioritize their work?
They create a ranked list of what the customer finds valuable
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In a meeting, your managing director passes out a copy of the Agile Manifesto. They said that
agile teams are better at developing software. So you should read the printout and then work
together as an agile team. What's one of the challenges with this approach?
The Agile Manifesto describes a mindset and not a practical way of working
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What's the best definition of an agile team?
It's a team that embraces a mindset that's consistent with the Agile Manifesto
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What's the main challenge with this user story, "As a mobile user, I want to upload my location
and make changes to my profile so that I can share my location with my friends."
What's the main challenge with this user story, "As a mobile user, I want to upload my location
and make changes to my profile so that I can share my location with my friends."
It is not independent
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What's the point of the penny game?
It helps show that what's productive for an individual is usually less productive for the whole
team
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User stories encourage the team to have a conversation about the product. What's one of the main
benefits to this approach?
Sometimes these conversations lead to better strategies about the product
