Agile Project Management Flashcards
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A product owner wants to prioritize the backlog so that the highest business value items are addressed first. Which Azure Boards feature supports this?
Answer: Backlog ordering via drag-and-drop
Azure Boards allows product owners to drag and reorder backlog items to reflect priority, with items at the top representing highest priority.
Which metric on a Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD) indicates the average cycle time for work items?
Answer: The horizontal distance between bands
The horizontal distance between two points on the same item across different bands represents the cycle time for work passing through the system.
In SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) integrated with Azure DevOps, what corresponds to a Program Increment (PI)?
Answer: A time-boxed period of 8–12 weeks containing multiple sprints
A Program Increment in SAFe is an 8–12 week time box in which Agile Release Trains deliver incremental value through a series of iterations.
A team wants to automatically move a work item to 'In Review' state when a pull request referencing it is created. How is this achieved in Azure DevOps?
Answer: PR state transition rules in project settings
Azure DevOps project settings allow configuring automatic work item state transitions based on pull request events.
What is the recommended approach when a high-priority bug is discovered mid-sprint in a Scrum team using Azure Boards?
Answer: Add the bug to the current sprint only after negotiating scope with the Product Owner
In Scrum, unplanned work mid-sprint should be negotiated with the Product Owner, who may remove equivalent work to maintain sprint scope.
Which Azure Boards report shows the rate at which the team is burning through sprint work and predicts whether they will finish on time?
Answer: Sprint burndown chart
The Sprint Burndown chart plots remaining work against time within a sprint, showing the ideal burn rate versus actual progress.
A DevOps team practicing Continuous Delivery wants to ensure every completed user story is deployable. Which Agile practice enforces this?
Answer: Definition of Done including deployment verification
Including deployment verification in the Definition of Done ensures that 'done' means the feature is actually deployable, not just coded.