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.

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.

True or False: A critical responsibility of an Agile leader is to create an environment where agility is supported and to help remove impediments to delivering “done” products.
A. True
B. False

You are the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for your company. Several important customers have asked for a particular feature that is not part of the next release of a product. The Product Owner feels that this feature is not as important as other features for the product’s target market. You think the Product Owner may not have all the information that they need to make this decision. In response, what should you do?
(choose the best answer)
A. Lobby Developers who you think may support your position, in the hope of gaining more support for the idea.
B. Help connect the Product Owner with the customers, to understand first-hand the problems the customers are trying to solve, but ultimately leave the decision whether to engage or not with the Product Owner.
C. Lobby other stakeholders to express support for adding the feature, to put more pressure on the Product Owner.
D. Speak with the Product Owner’s manager and the division head to express your concerns, hoping to get the features back into the release.
E. Talk to the customers, encouraging them to escalate their concerns to the support organization to put pressure on the Product Owner to change direction.

Which of the following is NOT a good reason to keep a team together for an extended period of time?
(choose the best answer)
A. To improve team collaboration.
B. To make forecasting more consistent.
C. To improve utilization.
D. To improve a team’s focus.
E. To improve the exchange of expertise within the development team.

What is an important responsibility of an agile leader?
(choose the best answer)
A. Hire team members and organize teams.
B. Set Sprint Goals and make sure the team achieves those goals.
C. Ensure teams have what they need to succeed and help them to remove impediments.
D. Set priorities, plan work, monitor progress, and take corrective action.
E. Prioritize work; make sure that high value work gets done.