PAL I Exam

Who is responsible for managing the progress of work during a Sprint?
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What is an important responsibility of an agile leader?
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You are a development organization manager. You need to hire a Product Owner for a new product.In the job description is is written: As a Product Owner, you will manage a Scrum Team, and will be you will be accountable for:

- Clearly expressing Product Backlog Items.
- Ordering the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve goals and missions.
- Optimizing the value of the work the Development Team performs.
- Ensuring the Development Team understands items in the Product Backlog to the level needed.
- Creating status reports for the management team.
- Keeping stakeholders apprised of progress toward business goals.
What is wrong with this description?
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Lead Time is a measure of the time it takes to go from having an idea to the point where a customer experiences the benefit of that idea, and customer acceptance feedback has been gathered. Can we say that
Lead Time is a way to measure business agility.

You manage a product development organization. A Development Team request to add two more people to the Development Team in order to increase their velocity. You have budget and headcount. The Development Team is mature and has a good track record for delivery and making good decisions. In response to the Development Team's request, you decide to:
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You are development organization manager and in your organization rewards are individual performance bonuses. As a result, only one member of a team might get a bonus. Some of your teams feel that this is unfair, since everyone on a team contributes to the success or failure to achieve goals. They would like to move toward team bonuses. What do you think needs to be done?
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You manage a product development organization. Some of your teams determine that they need access to a “production-like” test environment so that they can assess the scalability of their application as they build it but i sis not possible because currently expensive “production-like” test environments are only available as part of final application acceptance testing, just prior to releasing the application to production. The pre-production test environments are shared with other teams so they can’t use it earlier. Which two of the following strategies would you pursue?
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The stakeholders for a new commercial product cannot reach a consensus about what the product should do, or the customers it should satisfy. As a Product Owner, what can you do to help in this situation?
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You are the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for your company. Several important customers have asked for a particular feature and it is not the next release of a product because the Product Owner feels that this feature is not as important as other features for the product's target market. You think she may not have all the information usefull to make this decision. What should you do?
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True or False: The main think for an Agile manager is that people have goals and keep accountable for their commitments.
 

You are a Scrum team manager. A sales representative wants a feature in the product because she believes that it will help close a deal. The Product Owner understands the need but believes that there are more valuable things on the Product  Backlog that will lead to more longterm business. The sales representative ask you to help her. How do you respond?
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Which behaviours associated with traditional approches can impede the adoption of an agile culture?
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An organization has many agile teams working on different products. How can managers understand the status of each team?
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You manage a product developement organization. A Scrum Team comes to you with a request to add two or more Developers to Scrum Team in order to increase their capacity to get work done. You have a budget and headcount. The Scrum Teams case is compelling, and they have a good track record for delivery and making good decisions. In response to the Scrum Teams request, you decide to:
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You manage a development organization. One of your Scrum Teams is continually interrupted by unplanned work related to production incidents for a legacy application unrelated to their product. A few team members have a historical knowledge of the legacy application. How should the Scrum Team manage the interruption and unplanned work?
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The stakeholders for a new commercial product cannot reach a consensus about what the product should do, or the customers it should satisfy. If you are the product Owner, what can you do to help the stakeholders reach consensus?(choose the best answer)
 

Which of the following is NOT true of cross-functional teams?
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What measure does NOT provide relevant or useful information about a teams ability to deliver value to user/customer in the future?
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Your organization wants to improve its Time-to-Market. Which of the following improvements might help?
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You manage a product development organization. One of your employees, a subject matter expert and stakeholder for a product being developed, expresses that he feels that a newly formed and relatively inexperienced Scrum Team lacks critical skills they will need to be successful.

To fill this gap, he recommends replacing some members of the Scrum Team with new members who have better skills in the areas of concern. Based on these conversations, what do you do?
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As product development organization manager, you need to get information to understand how a team is doing . In the past you used periodic status report meetings and one-on-one meetings with team members. How can Scrum provide you with this same insight, without creating extra meetings?
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As product development organization manager, you attend a Sprint Review for one of the Scrum Teams in your organization. The Product Owner explains that the Development Team only delivered 5 of the 7 Product Backlog Items they committed to during Sprint Planning. The product owner promises higher productivity in the next Sprint. What do you think about this?
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Which one is the best description of Product Owner's responsibilities?
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You are development organization’s manager. One of your development teams is ask to do unplanned work related to production incidents for a legacy application unrelated to their product, because some team members have historical knowledge of the legacy application. How should the development team deal with the interruption?
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You are product development organization manager, and several agile teams working on the same product. How can you see which team is performing the best?
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Which of the following statements about technical is true?
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As product development organization manager, you are using progress reports with a number of Scrum Teams in your organization. You notice that most teams have a velocity of 35-40 story points per Sprint and one team consistently delivers only 15-20 per Sprint. Is this an issue?
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What measure is NOT a good one to measure a team's ability to deliver value to the user/customer in the future?
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You are the manager who have to staff a new agile initiative. How do you decide to which team each member should belong?
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You are development organization manager. A member of one of your development teams keeps being interrupted by the "Operations Group", because he has expertise on one legacy application. The development team ask you some help them to fix this issue. What can you do to?
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Development teams are most effective when:
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A new team in your organisation has 7 members: 3 are in London (UK), 1 is in Paris (FR), and 3 are in Mumbai (IN).What outcome would you expect?
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You manage a product delivery organization. You are asked to create a plan for the next fiscal year describing what will be delivered. How will you handle this request?
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A team need to increase its frequency of delivery, which activity will NOT help?
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A Scrum Team has difficulty to get work done because team members are ask to do work requested by other teams. The team has been regularly failing to deliver on their Sprint Goals. As a Manager how can you help to solve this problem?
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You manage a product group in an organization. A Scrum Master is concerned with the very low availability of the Product Owner for her team. The Development Team is still struggling to deliver value without additional guidance from the Product Owner. What is the best way for you to help the Scrum Master?
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What is the primary benefit of an agile approach as compared to a waterfall approach?
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Value stream mapping is a useful technique to:
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What the Scrum Master is responsible ?
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