Answering: “What traditionally “good” behavior can impede the adoption of an agile culture?”

What traditionally “good” behavior can impede the adoption of an agile culture?
(choose the best answer)
A. Encouraging specialization.
B. Rewarding outstanding individual performance.
C. Enforcing organization-level technology standards
D. Rewarding high utilization.
E. Managing to: fixed scope, schedule, and budget goals.
F. All the above.

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Answering: “Teams are most effective when:”

Teams are most effective when:
(choose the best answer)
A. They consist of team members who are shared across multiple initiatives at a time, because then they can take advantage of time otherwise spent waiting to do productive work.
B. They consist of team members who work only on one product and team at a time, so that they can focus.
C. They consist of team members who have broad enough skills to do many kinds of work, but who are not deeply specialized in any one area.
D. They consist of people who have mostly deeply specialized skills.

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Answering: “A Scrum Team is finding it difficult to get work done because team members are distracted by being pulled away to handle work requested by other teams. The team has been regularly failing to deliver on their Sprint Goals. As a Manager, if the Scrum Team asks you for help what should you do to solve this problem?”

A Scrum Team is finding it difficult to get work done because team members are distracted by being pulled away to handle work requested by other teams. The team has been regularly failing to deliver on their Sprint Goals. As a Manager, if the Scrum Team asks you for help what should you do to solve this problem?
(choose the best two answers)
A. Ask for more people on the team to compensate for the interruptions.
B. Work with the Scrum Team and other teams to find ways to re-assign the interrupting work to people outside of the Scrum Team.
C. Make their Sprints longer to account for the interruptions.
D. Coach the Scrum Team to be more conservative in defining their Sprint Goal, to account for the time team members will need to spend doing other work.
E. Extend the length of a Sprint if they need more time to complete the Sprint Goal.

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Answering: “The primary benefit of an Agile approach is:”

The primary benefit of an Agile approach is:
(choose the best answer)
A. Planning and executing in shorter increments makes projects more predictable.
B. It enables a team to inspect and adapt their results by delivering a working product.
C. Using it makes it easier to deliver on-time and within-budget.
D. Using it makes it easier to meet tight time-to-market goals.

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