Download - Agile Olympiad 2014 Finals
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Welcome to the Finals!!!
Round #1: 4 quesBons to each team
Audience Round: No marks, only chocolates J
Round #2: 4 quesBons to each team
Fun and Final Round J
Tie-‐breaker Round (if needed)
Rules Time to answer: 15sec
Right answer to direct quesBon: +10
Right answer to passed quesBon: +5
Pass: +0
Wrong answer: -‐5
Every team gets one Bumper QuesBon in each round • Right answer: +50 • Wrong answer: -‐25
Fun & Final Round: 80, 60, 40, 20
The Golden Rule…
Free PracBce QuesBon!
Round #1
QuesBon #1q
A: Loss of Rhythm
B: Persistent Signatures
C: Missing Sprint Commitment
D: Gorilla in the Room
Scrum Smells are signs that something might be wrong. What is this smell known as – “The wild fluctuaBons shown on a team’s iniBal sprint burndown charts conBnue to be seen in much later sprints.”
QuesBon #2q
A: Nothing Ever Changes Around Here
B: ExecuBve Pressure
C: Missing Sprint Commitment
D: Not AcBng Like a Team
The team is exhibiBng these symptoms: AcBons aren't taken. Non-‐team members a+end the meeBng. No one wants to talk, etc.” What is this smell known as?
QuesBon #3q
A: Talking Chickens
B: ExecuBve Pressure
C: Gorilla in the Room
D: Not AcBng Like a Team
You are seeing the following behavior in the team: one person dominates all the conversaBons, and other team members won’t speak unBl he has spoken. What is this smell known as?
QuesBon #4q
A: Loss of Rhythm
B: Technical Debt
C: Missing Sprint Commitment
D: No Engineering PracBces
You are frequently seeing this behavior: lack of test coverage, duplicate code, more bugs start to appear, velocity slows down, etc. What appears to be the smell?
QuesBon #5q
A: CumulaBve Feature Diagram
B: Story Burndown Chart
C: CumulaBve Flow Diagram
D: Release Burndown Chart
What is this diagram known as?
QuesBon #6q
A: Sidky Agile Levels
B: Cynefin Framework
C: Dryefus Model
D: Stacey Matrix
What is this model known as?
QuesBon #7q
A: Crossing the Chasm
B: Product AdopBon Curve
C: Diffusion of InnovaBon
D: Market PenetraBon Curve
What does this curve depict?
QuesBon #8q
A: New Product Development (NPD)
B: Rapid Prototyping
C: Design Thinking
D: User-‐Centered Design
Which process is depicted here?
QuesBon #9q
A: Plan for 40hrs/week per developer
B: OverBme is ok if the team agrees
C: Plan for overBme during release Bme only
D: OverBme has a detrimental impact on producBvity.
What does this agile principle mean: Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
QuesBon #10q
A: Start Small
B: Go All In
C: Technical PracBces First
D: Stealth Mode
Which pa+ern of agile adopBon did Salesforce.com choose in 2006 before turning to Mike Cohn for help?
QuesBon #11q
A: The AnB Agile Manifesto
B: Cult of Done Manifesto
C: Slacker Manifesto
D: Done Manifesto
What is this manifesto known as: On occasions we do nothing. Or something different. Or
something else. Because this means that our teams are more effec6ve.
It also means that we are freaking awesome.
QuesBon #12q
A: Agile is a subset of Lean
B: Agile addresses quality, while Lean addresses cost
C: Agile addresses change, while Lean addresses value
D: Agile addresses speed, while Lean addresses waste
At its most fundamental level, what is the major difference between Agile and Lean?
QuesBon #13q
A: Alignment, Scalability, Transparency, Program ExecuBon
B: Alignment, Code Quality, Transparency, Program ExecuBon
C: Alignment, Code Quality, Teamwork, Program ExecuBon
D: Alignment, CollaboraBon, Transparency, Program ExecuBon
What the core values of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)?
QuesBon #14q
A: Cover Story
B: Product Box
C: Speed Boat
D: Me and My Shadow
You have been asked to idenBfy what is wrong with your exisBng products and services. Which of the following innovaBon games could help you most?
QuesBon #15q
A: Program Manager
B: Release Train Engineer
C: Scrum/Agile Master
D: Epic Owner
In SAFe, this role is the ‘Chief Scrum Master’ who facilitates program-‐level processes and program
execuBon, escalates impediments, manages risks, and helps drive program-‐level conBnuous improvement. What
is it called?
QuesBon #16q
A: Lack of funds
B: Premature scaling
C: AmbiBous idea
D: Lack of talent
What is the most common reasons startups fail?
Audience Round
QuesBon #1q
A: expand to include more stringent criteria for higher quality
B: shrink to exclude more explicit criteria for higher quality
C: expand to include more liberal criteria for higher quality
D: shrink to include more implicit criteria for higher quality
As Scrum Teams mature, it is expected that their definiBons of “Done” will -‐
QuesBon #2q
A: 5, 21, 60
B: 5, 20, 100
C: 5, 20, 60
D: 5, 21, 100
IdenBfy the missing denominaBons in the planning poker set:
? ? ?
QuesBon #3q
A: Waste, Rework, Inventory
B: Waste, Unevenness, Overburden
C: Waste, Overburden, Unevenness
D: Waste, Inventory, Rework
What do the words “Muda, Mura, Muri” mean?
QuesBon #4q
A: Lean Canvas
B: Kano Model
C: Fisher Chart
D: Feature Chart
What is this diagram known as?
QuesBon #5q
A: When the release planning is complete
B: When the product is released
C: Till the product is in use
D: When customer accepts the product
When is a product backlog complete?
QuesBon #6q
A: Release Planning
B: Naked Planning
C: Backlog Grooming
D: Feature PrioriBzaBon
What does this diagram depict?
QuesBon #7q
A: Between Product Owner and Scrum Team
B: Between Developers and Testers
C: Between Development and OperaBons
D: Between Product Owner and UX Designer
Where are you most likely to encounter “Wall of Confusion”?
QuesBon #8
_________ is the best Business Plan.
Round #2
QuesBon #1q
A: Transparency
B: InspecBon
C: Feedback
D: AdaptaBon
Scrum is founded on empirical process control theory, or empiricism. Empiricism asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making decisions based on what is known.
Three pillars uphold every implementaBon of empirical process control. Which is not among those three?
QuesBon #2q
A: If there is a CI system, it is not used effecBvely
B: Scrum of scrums is not being effecBve
C: There is no mutual definiBon of done
D: Geo-‐distributed teams struggle with agile
There are mulBple distributed Scrum Teams working on a single product release. However, there are frequent problems during system integraBon. What is the most likely cause?
QuesBon #3q
A: Circles and Soup
B: Pros/Cons Game
C: My Worst Nightmare
D: Remember the Future
You have been asked to review the past projects and improve upon them. Which of the following innovaBon games could help you
most?
QuesBon #4q
A: Reward everyone equally in dollar amount
B: Do stack ranking and reward accordingly
C: Everyone gets same percentage salary hike
D: They didn’t hit the target, so no reward
A scrum team had target to increase revenues by 50%. They worked hard and could only get a 10% increase. What will be the worst way to
reward them?
QuesBon #5q
A: Release Planning
B: Backlog Grooming
C: Value-‐stream Mapping
D: User Story Mapping
What is this an example of?
QuesBon #6q
A: Kanban
B: XP
C: Lean Startup
D: Cargo-‐cult Programming
What is the most suitable method for “anarchy” zone?
QuesBon #7q
A: Stories not completed in each sprint
B: Work ‘discovered’ in the project
C: New work added to each sprint
D: New work added to the project
While reviewing a project, you encounter the following Release Burndown Chart. What does the red bar
indicate?
QuesBon #8q
A: Team is likely to complete A, C, D and E features
B: Sprint progress looks healthy
C: Feature B might only be done parBally
D: Sprint appears to be at major risk
This is scrum task board on Day 14 of a 4 week sprint. What is your interpretaBon?
QuesBon #9q
A: Safety, Straighten, Shine, Standardize, Sustain
B: Sort, Straighten, Security, Standardize, Sustain
C: Sort, SaBsfacBon, Shine, Standardize, Sustain
D: Sort, Straighten, Shine, Standardize, Sustain
5S is the name of a workplace organizaBon method that uses a list of five Japanese words: seiri, seiton, seiso, seiketsu, and shitsuke. Name them in English:
QuesBon #10q
A: They are a result of brainstorming
B: They provide a start-‐point to evaluate products
C: They are much cheaper compared to personas
D: They are based on market research
What is not true about proto-‐personas?
QuesBon #11q
A: 2 sprints
B: 4 sprints
C: 3 sprints
D: 1 sprint
In Miller-‐Sy method of integraBng User-‐Centered Design with Agile Development, how many cycles are needed for implemenBng all
UCD tasks?
QuesBon #12q
A: Pivot Before Problem-‐SoluBon Fit, OpBmize Azer
B: Pivot Before Scaling, OpBmize Azer
C: Pivot Before Product/ Market Fit, OpBmize Azer
D: OpBmize Before Product/ Market Fit, Pivot Azer
As per Ash Maurya, what is the right strategy concerning pivoBng and opBmizaBon in a
startup?
QuesBon #13q
A: Customer Segment Pivot
B: Zoom-‐out Pivot
C: Pla|orm Pivot
D: Zoom-‐in Pivot
In this case, what previously was considered a single feature in a product becomes the whole product. E.g. Burbn to Instagram. What type of pivot are we talking about?
QuesBon #14q
A: Low-‐fi Design
B: Design Charre+e
C: Paper Prototyping
D: Design Thinking
A ____________ is a short, collaboraBve meeBng during which members of a team quickly collaborate and sketch to explore and share a broad diversity of design ideas.
QuesBon #15q
A: Full-‐funcBonal product
B: Paper Prototype
C: Video demo of a product that doesn’t exist yet
D: Mockup web page
Which of the following is not a great idea for an MVP?
QuesBon #16q
A: MulB-‐modal CommunicaBon
B: AdapBve Web Delivery
C: Tableless Web Design
D: Responsive Web Design
_____________is a web design approach aimed at crazing sites to provide an opBmal viewing experience—easy reading and navigaBon with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices from mobile phones to desktop computer monitors
Fun & Final Round
Fun and Final Round
• Let’s Build a Mind Map of Agile Sozware Development • Team can enlist any number of volunteers from the audience • Paper, Tape, Coloring Pens will be provided • Time: 15 minutes
Create a Central Idea
Add Branches to Your Map
Add Keywords
Color Code Your Branches
Include Images
Fun and Final Round
Create a Central Idea
Add Branches to Your Map
Add Keywords
Color Code Your
Branches
Include Images
Fun and Final Round
Tie-‐Breaker Round
Challenge…
• You are an agile coach for a team that refuses to ‘be agile’. How will you convince them? • Time: 5 minutes