PMI PMI-200 : PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®

During team meetings, the team often struggles with making decisions about their technical approach. What should be done to improve the quality and timeliness of decisions?

• A. Identify team members that demonstrate servant leadership qualities to facilitate discussion and make decisions.
• B. Work with the team to improve collaboration by fostering group decision making and conflict resolution techniques.
• C. Assign individual team members as decision owners for each key decision to avoid conflict.
• D. Promote team discussion but give the product owner the ultimate decision making authority.

If an individual is working on a project team in a phase delivering an increment, according to the definition of done (DoD), who was that defined by?

• A. Project sponsor and project team
• B. Stakeholders and project team
• C. Product owner
• D. Scrum master

A stakeholder complains about the amount of changes that are being introduced to a project. What should the product owner do?

• A. Coach the stakeholder on agile principles
• B. Suggest implementing a more rigorous change governance
• C. Escalate the complaint to the scrum master
• D. Agree to limit scope changes going forward to control costs

A Scrum team decided to switch to Kanban for the maintenance phase of the product. The kanban board consists of the following columns "To do," "In progress," "Ready to be tested," "Test in progress," and
"Done." Since the team changed their way of working, they have noticed the work is flowing slower in the system. A large queue of "Ready to be tested" work items has been building up.
What should the team do to improve its speed of delivery?
A Scrum team decided to switch to Kanban for the maintenance phase of the product. The kanban board consists of the following columns "To do," "In progress," "Ready to be tested," "Test in progress," and
"Done." Since the team changed their way of working, they have noticed the work is flowing slower in the system. A large queue of "Ready to be tested" work items has been building up.
What should the team do to improve its speed of delivery?

• A. Add limits to all columns and only pull work in when the queue is not full.
• B. Estimate in story points and pull in new work per the team's capacity
• C. Analyze the process efficiency, cycle time, and lead time of the entire process.
• D. Create a cumulative flow diagram and start looking for bottlenecks.

A client is pressed for time and wants to launch a product with three components as soon as possible to gain market share. An agile lead proposes the following agile strategy to gain time: Three teams will work on the design and development of each component. Once all three components are finished, they will be tested and integrated.
Is this agile strategy appropriate?

• A. No the feedback loops are being altered, which can result in big failures and delays
• B. Yes, this is a case of sequential development where working in parallel is an accepted strategy in agile to gain time.
• C. No, dividing the development team into three separate teams will diminish communication and result in delays.
• D. Yes, this is a case of hybrid development where a product is divided into components and agile is used for component development and integration.