Answering: “True or False: 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. This means that Lead Time is a way to measure business agility.”

True or False: 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. This means that Lead Time is a way to measure business agility.
A. True
B. False

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Answering: “Which of the following statements is true:”

Which of the following statements is true:
(choose the best answer)
A. Projects succeed when they spend additional time defining and reviewing requirements.
B. Delivering a solution and gathering feedback provides important information to plan the next step.
C. Empirical approaches work fine for small teams and simple problems, but can’t scale to large, complex problems.
D. Projects succeed when they spend additional time identifying and mitigating risk.

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Answering: “You are the Director responsible for a significant new multi-team, multi-product initiative. How would you help the teams get started?”

You are the Director responsible for a significant new multi-team, multi-product initiative. How would you help the teams get started?
(choose the best answer)
A. Communicate the goal of the initiative, the target users and their goals, and how success will be measured. Offer to help them form agreements on how they will provide you with the transparency you need.
B. Create a resourcing plan which specifies which person is going to work in which team on what dates.
C. Meet with Program Managers who will oversee the initiative to define your reporting requirements. Get their commitment that they will set up an appropriate program that will make sure the initiative delivers what you need from it.
D. Meet with the teams and tell them what sort of reporting you need.
E. Just start – the details will emerge over time; the teams are self-organizing.

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Answering: “You are the manager of a team and a disagreement arises between Developers about the technical approach the team should use to solve a particular challenge. The debate gets quite heated, and there does not seem to be a compromise position. How should the team proceed?”

You are the manager of a team and a disagreement arises between Developers about the technical approach the team should use to solve a particular challenge. The debate gets quite heated, and there does not seem to be a compromise position. How should the team proceed?
(choose the best answer)
A. You, as a manager, should decide which approach to take.
B. The Developers should run an experiment to test the alternative approaches.
C. The Scrum Master should decide which approach to take.
D. The Product Owner should decide which approach to take.

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