Agile and Hybrid Approaches Flashcards
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In Scrum, what is the primary purpose of the Sprint Retrospective?
Answer: Inspect and adapt the team's processes and practices
The Sprint Retrospective focuses on continuous improvement by having the team inspect how they worked and identify process improvements.
Which agile metric measures the amount of work a team completes in a single iteration?
Answer: Velocity
Velocity measures the amount of work (story points or items) a team completes per sprint and is used for release planning.
In a hybrid project, a project manager uses a waterfall phase for regulatory approvals and an agile phase for development. What is the BEST reason for this structure?
Answer: Different parts of the project have different levels of uncertainty and constraints
Hybrid approaches allow teams to apply the methodology best suited to each project phase based on uncertainty, risk, and stakeholder needs.
What does 'Definition of Done' (DoD) represent in agile frameworks?
Answer: A checklist of quality standards that must be met for work to be considered complete
The Definition of Done is a shared understanding of the quality criteria and conditions that must be satisfied before any increment is considered complete.
A product owner is struggling to balance stakeholder requests with team capacity. Which agile technique BEST helps manage this challenge?
Answer: Maintain a prioritized product backlog and say no to lower-value items
The product owner's core responsibility includes maintaining a prioritized backlog and making tough trade-off decisions about what gets built.
In the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), what is a Program Increment (PI)?
Answer: A fixed timebox (usually 8-12 weeks) in which multiple agile teams deliver value
A Program Increment is a SAFe timebox of 8-12 weeks during which Agile Release Trains deliver incremental value in the form of working, tested software.
Which statement BEST describes the agile principle of 'sustainable pace'?
Answer: Teams should work at a pace they can maintain indefinitely without burnout
Agile promotes sustainable development where sponsors, developers, and users maintain a constant pace indefinitely, avoiding burnout and quality degradation.