Agile Project Management Kanban Principles and Practices 2

Question 1

A team's board shows the 'Testing' column constantly full while 'Development' overflows behind it. What does this most directly signal?

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A bottleneck at the Testing stage

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Too few features in the backlog

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A need for more daily standups

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An overly large product vision

Question 2

What is the primary purpose of setting a Work In Progress (WIP) limit on a column?

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To reduce multitasking and expose bottlenecks

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To guarantee a fixed delivery date

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To assign more people to each task

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To eliminate the need for prioritization

Question 3

In Kanban, lead time is best defined as the time from when a work item is:

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Committed/requested to when it is delivered

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Started in development to when it is tested

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Estimated to when it is assigned

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Designed to when it is coded

Question 4

A pull system in Kanban means that new work is started when:

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Downstream capacity becomes available

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A manager pushes it onto the team

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The sprint planning meeting begins

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The backlog reaches a certain size

Question 5

Which Kanban practice most directly helps a team make its process policies clear to everyone?

Accepted Answer

Making policies explicit

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Limiting WIP

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Visualizing the workflow

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Measuring cycle time

Question 6

A cumulative flow diagram shows the 'In Progress' band widening steadily over time. This indicates:

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WIP is growing and flow is degrading

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Throughput is increasing

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Lead time is shrinking

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The team finished early

Question 7

Why does Kanban favor evolutionary change over a sweeping reorganization?

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It reduces resistance by starting with current roles and process

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It avoids any improvement to the process

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It requires firing underperformers first

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It mandates new job titles immediately