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1 Which of the following statements are correct

Agile
Designand DesignisThinking
Thinking are same
about Product Devopment Agile Manifesto is about Software
Devopment
Design Thinking is tinding the right things and Agile is about building the right things
Design Thinking is building the right things and Agile is about finding the right things
Which of the following BEST describes the approach for determining the Sprint length
2 in Scrum?
Sprints must be 30 days always
Product Owner unilaterally decides the duration of Sprint
Sprints
The teammust becollectively
must two weeks agree
alwayson the length of the Sprint based on business need
and technical team's ability; subject to a maximum of one month
There is no rule on Sprint duration

by reading multiple sources. After practicing Scrum for a while on the job, he is
3 looking for a certification to benchmark. What can be recommended for him?
Scrum Master Accredited Certificate (SMAC)
SAFe Agilist (SA)
Professional Scrum Master I (PS/VI I)

4 Which one of these is NOT an XP practice?


Test Driven Development
Extreme Reviews
Pair Programming
Continuous Integration
Refactoring

7 The Product Owner in a Scrum project …


Has no control over the prioritization of Product Backlog Items
Has the final with
Collaborates authority over the prioritization
the developers of Product
over prioritization BacklogBacklog
of Product Items Items, but the
developers
Collaborateshave
withthe
thefinal say
developers over prioritization of Product Backlog Items, but
Product Owner has the final say
Creates the Product Backlog Items but leaves prioritization to Business Analyst
Kris is an experienced Project Manager with a customer project where he commands
the teams and micro manages the team members at task level. How can he help the
8 TCS Agile vision?
Proactively up-skill with skills needed to work in Agile Roles
No need to do anything as he can continue to be the Project Manager
Wart till his current customer adopts Agile

10 Daily Scrum is NOT recommended for collocated teams


Lee joins a project team that attempts to build a consumer device with embedded
1
software_ The team is adopting 2-week sprint Lee notices that the project must
produce
0 an outcome that will be highly adoptable by the users to become successful.
After every Sprint Review, the Product Owner keeps changing the Product vision and
makes contradictory statements about user needs. What can be suggested for this
11 environment?
Apply design thinking first for initial phase and then bring in Agile later
More practices from Extreme Programming
Apply waterfall and have the Product Owner sign-off on the requirements

12 Who manages the team's work during a Sprint?


The Scrum Master manages the people so they can complete the work
The team manages the work by self-organization
The Product Owner manages the work
The Delivery Manager manages the work

13 Agile Manifesto has ... Values and ..... Principles


• 4,10
• 6, 12
• 4.12
• 4.4
Agile Teams need to comply by the Agile Values and Principles but have lexibility to
14 choose appropriate value-adding practices
1
0

18 The reason for holding regular Sprint Retrospective is


It allows the team to take a necessary break from work
It gives management information to use in team members' performance reviews
Provides an opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and create a plan for improvements to be enacted d
Sprint.
Noor's Scrum Team had a great Sprint Review of a new feature with their Product
Retrospectives
Owner. Productare optional
Owner was happy with new feature, and wanted to release the
feature
Providestoanuser_ But, thefor
opportunity Scrum Team cannot
stakeholders doat
to look it what
themselves because
the team production
is building
environment is owned the company's IT operations team_ Scrum Team was directed
to create a ticket with IT operations for production release_ and wait a week for an
19 Ops engineer to manually Work on the ticket What is missing in this environment?
Flow
Continuous Improvement

20 What BEST describes a Scrum Team?


Small but have enough members to create the Product Increment
Collaborate with each other to self-organize their work
Team members must be specialists
Cross Functional
Reports to Product Owner
Martin is from the TCS BPS team. As part of TCS Agile vision. he was recommended to
attain EID competency in Agile. Martin Was thinking that Agile was only for software.
21 How could Agile knowledge help Martin in his work?
Martin is right. Agile principles are not useful outside software development
XP and DevOps can help in Robotic Process Automation
Agile principles can help in continuously improving BPS processes
A team is having the first Sprint Planning meeting_ What are the activities that the
22 team must perform during the meeting?
The team must discuss the problems encountered in the earlier project
Team chooses the Product Backlog Items to work in the Sprint and crals a Sprint Goal.
Team must draw up the Release Plan for the final product
Each team member should come prepared with their version of the plan
The team must look at the project plan prepared by the Product Owner and understand their tasks
Increasing number of TCS customers are moving to the Agile way of working. Why is
23 this a true statement?
For last few years, there is a double digit increment in number of Agile projects (per PMS) year on year
In 90% of executive conversations, customers bring in Agile as a topic of conversation
For all new engagements. TCS mandates Agile
This is not a true statement
Both 1 and 2

24 Sprint itself is an event in Scrum


1
Charles is very knowledgeable on Scrum_ He joined a Scrum Team where the Scrum
Master
0 is Magneto. Contrary to his expectation of Scrum Master as a coach, he finds
that Magneto acts like a traditional manager_ Magneto controls the team heavily by
individually assigning tasks and leading the Daily Scrum meetings to collect the
25 percentage of task completion. What is recommended for Charles?
Be prepared to face such anti patterns and work together with the team to continuously improve and eliminate
Correct his understanding of Scrum and accept that Scrum Master is the Team's manager
Protest about this at the earliest possible team meeting and let others know he is more knowledgeable about Sc

27 Who owns quality in a Scrum Team?


Scrum Master
Product Owner
Scrum Team
Testers
External QA team

29 Which of the following BEST represent the Scrum approach to planning?


Planning is a continuous activity done jointly by Scrum Master and Product Owner
Detailed planning is done upfront and not revisited
Whole team together does just enough upfront planning followed by continuous planning throughout the projec
Only planning in Scrum is the Sprint Planning
Scrum is one of the planning events

3 Which of these are the needed actions to realize TCS vision of "0-4-2.?
Agile Ready Partnership
All get Agile Certified
Agile Ready Workforce
Top-to-tiolloni Enterprise Agile Company ourselves
Agile Ready Workplace
5 What BEST describes a Scrum Team?
Small but have enough members to create the Product Increment
Collaborate with each other to self-organize their work
Team members must be specialists
Cross Functional
Reports to Product Owner
Providing additional feature without clear understanding of the business need - What
6 is this category of waste?
Inventory
We do it all the time It is not a waste.
Over Production
Defects
Over Processing
Which of the following statements about changing requirements in software
7 development, are correct?
In traditional way of software development, once the requirements are base lined, further changes should unde
Changes are acceptable till design but once development starts, any further change should be
In traditional way of software development, once the requirements are base lined, further changes can be easily
Organizations must adapt to rapidly changing market conditions to stay relevant in

8 Which framework prescribes User Story as the format for backlog items?
Scrum
FDD
Lee joins a project team that attempts to build a consumer device with embedded
Crystal 0 Extreme
software. Programming
The team is adopting 2-week sprint. Lee notices that the project must
produce
DSDM an outcome that will be highly adoptable by the users to become successful.
After every Sprint Review, the Product Owner keeps changing the Product vision and
makes contradictory statements about user needs. What can be suggested for this
9 environment?
Apply design thinking first for initial phase and then bring in Agile later
More practices from Extreme Programming
Apply waterfall and have the Product Owner sign-off on the requirements

A Scrum Team works on a 4 weeks Sprint. After new Sprints, the team finds that they
spend more effort on unit testing, as the code base size has increased. What can be
11 BEST recommended for this team?
Unit testing is not tun anyway. As a self-organized team, choose to ignore the unit testing
Adopt practices like test automation from other frameworks like XP
Increase the duration of the sprint from 4 weeks to 6 weeks
Add two more temporary testers
Form a separate Testing team

15 Scrum defines roles events and artifacts


3-5-3
5-3-3
3-3-5
5-5-3

17 The time box for a Daily Scrum is …


Two minutes per person
15 minutes
2 ms
No time box 0 30 minutes
On the last day of the Sprint, a Scrum Team named Almostflone is ready to show their
work but requires just 2 more days to complete the testing. What should the Scrum
18 Master recommend?
Extend the Splint by two days so that the team can complete the work
Close the sprint on time

There are two Product Development Teams, Team ToyZon and Team Zan. Team
ToyZon follows traditional way and Team Zon follows Agile way of working. Which
21 team has the higher chance to provide early benefts to the customer?
Team ToyZon
Team Zen
Match the framework to its author(s) in the order of listing:
22 Scrum; Crystal; Extreme programming
Kent Beck Alistair Cockburn, Ken Schwaber and Jeff
Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland; Kent Beck; Alistair Cockburn
Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland; Alistair Cockburn Kent
Alistair
Jerald isCockburn Kena Schwaber
a leader of TCS Customer and Account.
Jeff Sutherland Kentthat the company's aspiration
He learnt
on Agile isand
Takeuchi to klonaka:
become 100%
AlistairAgile by 2020.
Cockburn; He gathered his Agile Experts within the
Kent
account and asked them for a plan to transition from current way of working to 100%
Agile way of working as defined in the text book. Jerald correctly understood TCS
23 aspiration.
1
0

John, a team member, has completed EO -Agile for Beginners. He wants to contribute
to TCS Agile Vision. He wants to find out what is planned for his account. Whom
26 should he contact for details?
Account Leadership
Customer Leadership
HR Manager

27 What is the purpose of Sprint Review'?


Product Owner can show the progress to the stakeholders and get the approval to release the work to the produ
To assess the team's productivity and possibly record the assessment score against the performance
To inspect the working software with the key stakeholders and take the insights from the feedback to next
So that the Scrum Team can reorganize for the next
Stakeholders and team discuss the Sprint Backlog for next

29 A good Agile team should exhibit the following qualities ...


All in team must have the same level of technical
The team is self-organizing
Mannar
The team&should
Company
onlykick
takestarted a major
up tasks cross
assigned by company
Product project that involved working
with multiple business unit leaders to build enterprise wide platform. Impressed by
The team must
the success be hierarchical
of small projects inwith a strict
Agile: chainleadership
company of enforced Agile in this
transformation project. Shortly
The team is cross-functional after few Sprints, teams witnessed that The Product
Owner was not able to build consensus among the business unit leaders on
requirements. There were several political aspects behind the collaboration. What
30 went wrong?
For large transformation projects, Design Thinking is required before
Agile is based on trust and collaboration so that consensus can be arrived at quickly. This scenario did not have t
Agile doesn't require any pre-requisites. It works very well in all context. In this scenario: the Product Owner doe

1 The time box for a Daily Scrum is


Two minutes per person
15 minutes
2 hrs
No time box
30 minutes

2 ….. improves the flow of business idea through its development and release to users.
Waterfall method
DevOps practices
Beta release
Change Control Board (CCB)
A team is having the first Sprint Planning meeting. What are the activities that the
3 team must perform during the meeting?
The team must discuss the problems encountered in the earlier project
Team chooses the Product Backlog Items to work in the Sprint and crafts a Sprint Goal.
Team must draw up the Release Plan for the final product
Each team member should come prepared with their version of the plan
The team must look at the project plan prepared by the Product Owner and understand their tasks

4 Which of these are Agile estimation techniques?


Full Upfront Estimates
Planning Poker
Work Breakdown Structure
T Shirt sizing
Random Distribution

5 Which of the following statements BEST describe why Agile is winning?


Products produced by an Agile approach are cheaper than those produced by any other approach
Agile increases the chances of delivering early business value to the market and quickly incorporate the feedbac
Products have faster time to market but may not meet immediate customer needs
Products are expensive when compared with products produced by other approaches, but are of top quality.
Which of the following statements about changing requirements in software
6 development, are correct?
In traditional way of software development, once the requirements are base lined, further changes should unde
Changes are acceptable till design but once development starts, any further change should be rejected
In traditional way of software development, once the requirements are base lined, further changes can be easily
Organizations must adapt to rapidly changing market conditions to stay relevant in business

7 What is MOST likely to happen if the Product Owner is not available during a Sprint?
The team self-organizes itself to create value
The Business Analyst helps the team until the Product Owner returns
The Sprint deliverables may not be of desired value
The Scrum Master plays the role of Product Owner
Scrum Master terminates the Sprint and waits for the Product Owner to return

8 Who owns the Product backlog?


Scrum Team
Product Owner
Scrum Master
Business Analyst
Technical Lead

10 What does NOT match with Agile Manifesto?


Processes and tools over individuals and interactions
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Responding to change over following a plan
Contract negotiation over customer collaboration

11 How should work be allocated to the team in a Scrum project?


The Scrum Master must assign tasks to individuals
Team members must volunteer for tasks appropriate to their skills
The complex tasks must be allocated by the Scrum Master
Lee joins a project team that attempts to build a consumer device with embedded
Tasks mustThe
software. be allocated to team 2-week
team is adopting members by the
sprint. LeeProduct
noticesOwner
that the project must
produce an outcome
While senior that willvolunteer
team members be highlyfor
adoptable by the
tasks, juniors users
must be to becometasks
assigned successful.
by the Scrum Master
After every Sprint Review, the Product Owner keeps changing the Product vision and
makes contradictory statements about user needs. What can be suggested for this
12 environment?
Apply design thinking first for initial phase and then bring in Agile later
More practices from Extreme Programming
Apply waterfall and have the Product Owner sign-off on the requirements

13 Only these people are allowed to attend Sprint Retrospective


Scrum Master and Development team
Product Owner and Development team
Scrum Master and Product Owner
Scrum Team

15 What BEST describes a Scrum Team?


Small but have enough members to create the Product Increment
Collaborate with each other to self-organize their work
Team members must be specialists
Cross Functional
Munnabhai knows Owner
Reports to Product the four values of Agile Manifesto by heart. However, he was
confused when a customer spoke with him highlighting Agile characteristics of short
software development cycles or iterations. He could not recollect anything about
16 short iterations in Agile Manifesto. What did he miss to learn about?
Agile Principles
Agile Guidelines
Agile Methods
Agile Phases

17 Which of these is a benefit of Agile?


Reduced Risk
Faster time to market
Ability to respond to changing requirements
Improved collaboration between business and technical team
All of these

19 TCS Agile vision ‘100% Agile by 2020’ means


TCS to be regarded by the market and our customers as 100% right partner/advisor for Agile Transformations
Every project in TCS must follow all practices of Extreme Programming
100% of TCS associates must be at least at Agile E3 competency
TCS to be regarded as 100% Enterprise Agile company
There should not be any Agile related non-compliance in the project audits

20 Why is the Daily Scrum held at the same time and same place?
So that the place can be named as Daily Scrum Hub
The consistency reduces complexity and overhead
The Product Owner demands it
Rooms are hard to book and this helps in advance booking
There is no such rule

21 The Agile way is:


To produce working software of high business value and of the right quality, early and incrementally
To produce working software only after requirements documentation has been signed off by the Product Owner
To produce simple prototypes early, and release all only at the end of the project
Each developer to sit with business every day, code as they mutually discuss, and move to production when the

25 What is the purpose of Sprint burndown chart?


It is used to measure utilization of the development team
It is used to measure defects introduced during the Sprint
It is used to measure how much work is yet to be done to reach Sprint goal
It is used to measure how fast the Product Owner turns around on the queries

26 Which of these are Scrum anti patterns?


Programmers as one Scrum Team and Testers as another Scrum Team
Scrum Master as a servant leader
Scrum Team with 20 members
Cross Functional team
Sprint duration of 6 weeks

28 Which one is a popular tool used in Agile software development


Rexx
Jenkins
MS PowerPoint
Tally

30 What is a Kanban board?


A list of activities banned by the team
The set of Can Have requirements
A visible chart depicting the work to be done, work in progress and work done
Board that captures the details of the entire project for audit purpose
ovements to be enacted during the next
d their tasks

MS) year on year

y improve and eliminate anti-patterns

knowledgeable about Scrum

ing throughout the project


her changes should undergo heavy change control process

her changes can be easily accepted with light process.


ase the work to the production
performance
he feedback to next
is scenario did not have that
o: the Product Owner doesn't seem to be competent

d their tasks

incorporate the feedback from the market usage

but are of top quality.


her changes should undergo heavy change control process
ould be rejected
her changes can be easily accepted with light process.

Scrum Master
Agile Transformations

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off by the Product Owner

to production when the business seems


S.No Questions
1 Which of the following statements are correct

Which of the following BEST describes the approach for


2 determining the Sprint length in Scrum?

Ron has just started as a Scrum Master for an Agile team. He


has acquired knowledge by reading multiple sources. After
3 practicing Scrum for a while on the job, he is looking for a
certification to benchmark. What can be recommended for
him?

4 Which one of these is NOT an XP practice?

5 The Product Owner in a Scrum project …

Kris is an experienced Project Manager with a customer


project where he commands the teams and micro manages
the team members at task level. How can he help the TCS
6 Agile vision?

7 Daily Scrum is NOT recommended for collocated teams

Lee joins a project team that attempts to build a consumer


device with embedded software_ The team is adopting 2-
week sprint Lee notices that the project must produce an
outcome that will be highly adoptable by the users to become
successful. After every Sprint Review, the Product Owner
keeps changing the Product vision and makes contradictory
statements about user needs. What can be suggested for this
8 environment?

9 Who manages the team's work during a Sprint?


9 Who manages the team's work during a Sprint?

10 Agile Manifesto has ... Values and ..... Principles

Agile Teams need to comply by the Agile Values and Principles


11 but have flexibility to choose appropriate value-adding
practices

12 The reason for holding regular Sprint Retrospective is

Noor's Scrum Team had a great Sprint Review of a new feature


with their Product Owner. Product Owner was happy with
new feature, and wanted to release the feature to user_ But,
the Scrum Team cannot do it themselves because production
13 environment is owned the company's IT operations team_
Scrum Team was directed to create a ticket with IT operations
for production release_ and wait a week for an Ops engineer
to manually Work on the ticket What is missing in this
environment?

14 What BEST describes a Scrum Team?

Martin is from the TCS BPS team. As part of TCS Agile vision.
he was recommended to attain EID competency in Agile.
15 Martin Was thinking that Agile was only for software. How
could Agile knowledge help Martin in his work?

A team is having the first Sprint Planning meeting_ What are


16 the activities that the team must perform during the meeting?
A team is having the first Sprint Planning meeting_ What are
16 the activities that the team must perform during the meeting?

Increasing number of TCS customers are moving to the Agile


17 way of working. Why is this a true statement?

18 Sprint itself is an event in Scrum

Charles is very knowledgeable on Scrum_ He joined a Scrum


Team where the Scrum Master is Magneto. Contrary to his
expectation of Scrum Master as a coach, he finds that
19 Magneto acts like a traditional manager_ Magneto controls
the team heavily by individually assigning tasks and leading
the Daily Scrum meetings to collect the percentage of task
completion. What is recommended for Charles?

20 Who owns quality in a Scrum Team?

Which of the following BEST represent the Scrum approach to


21 planning?

Which of these are the needed actions to realize TCS vision of


22 "0-4-2.?

Providing additional feature without clear understanding of


23 the business need - What is this category of waste?

Which of the following statements about changing


24 requirements in software development, are correct?
Which of the following statements about changing
24 requirements in software development, are correct?

Which framework prescribes User Story as the format for


25 backlog items?

Lee joins a project team that attempts to build a consumer


device with embedded software. The team is adopting 2-week
sprint. Lee notices that the project must produce an outcome
that will be highly adoptable by the users to become
26 successful. After every Sprint Review, the Product Owner
keeps changing the Product vision and makes contradictory
statements about user needs. What can be suggested for this
environment?

A Scrum Team works on a 4 weeks Sprint. After new Sprints,


the team finds that they spend more effort on unit testing, as
27 the code base size has increased. What can be BEST
recommended for this team?

28 Scrum defines roles events and artifacts

29 The time box for a Daily Scrum is …

On the last day of the Sprint, a Scrum Team named


Almostflone is ready to show their work but requires just 2
30 more days to complete the testing. What should the Scrum
Master recommend?

There are two Product Development Teams, Team ToyZon and


Team Zan. Team ToyZon follows traditional way and Team Zon
31 follows Agile way of working. Which team has the higher
chance to provide early benefts to the customer?

Match the framework to its author(s) in the order of listing:


32 Scrum; Crystal; Extreme programming
Match the framework to its author(s) in the order of listing:
32 Scrum; Crystal; Extreme programming

Jerald is a leader of a TCS Customer Account. He learnt that


the company's aspiration on Agile is to become 100% Agile by
2020. He gathered his Agile Experts within the account and
33 asked them for a plan to transition from current way of
working to 100% Agile way of working as defined in the text
book. Jerald correctly understood TCS aspiration.

John, a team member, has completed EO -Agile for Beginners.


He wants to contribute to TCS Agile Vision. He wants to find
34 out what is planned for his account. Whom should he contact
for details?

35 What is the purpose of Sprint Review'?

36 A good Agile team should exhibit the following qualities ...

Mannar & Company kick started a major cross company


project that involved working with multiple business unit
leaders to build enterprise wide platform. Impressed by the
success of small projects in Agile: company leadership
37 enforced Agile in this transformation project. Shortly after few
Sprints, teams witnessed that The Product Owner was not
able to build consensus among the business unit leaders on
requirements. There were several political aspects behind the
collaboration. What went wrong?

38 The time box for a Daily Scrum is

….. improves the flow of business idea through its


39 development and release to users.
….. improves the flow of business idea through its
39 development and release to users.

A team is having the first Sprint Planning meeting. What are


40 the activities that the team must perform during the meeting?

41 Which of these are Agile estimation techniques?

Which of the following statements BEST describe why Agile is


42 winning?

What is MOST likely to happen if the Product Owner is not


43 available during a Sprint?

44 Who owns the Product backlog?

45 What does NOT match with Agile Manifesto?

46 How should work be allocated to the team in a Scrum project?

Lee joins a project team that attempts to build a consumer


device with embedded software. The team is adopting 2-week
sprint. Lee notices that the project must produce an outcome
that will be highly adoptable by the users to become
47 successful. After every Sprint Review, the Product Owner
keeps changing the Product vision and makes contradictory
statements about user needs. What can be suggested for this
environment?
Lee joins a project team that attempts to build a consumer
device with embedded software. The team is adopting 2-week
sprint. Lee notices that the project must produce an outcome
that will be highly adoptable by the users to become
47 successful. After every Sprint Review, the Product Owner
keeps changing the Product vision and makes contradictory
statements about user needs. What can be suggested for this
environment?

48 Only these people are allowed to attend Sprint Retrospective

Munnabhai knows the four values of Agile Manifesto by heart.


However, he was confused when a customer spoke with him
highlighting Agile characteristics of short software
49 development cycles or iterations. He could not recollect
anything about short iterations in Agile Manifesto. What did
he miss to learn about?

50 Which of these is a benefit of Agile?

51 TCS Agile vision ‘100% Agile by 2020’ means

52 Why is the Daily Scrum held at the same time and same place?

53 The Agile way is:

54 What is the purpose of Sprint burndown chart?


55 Which of these are Scrum anti patterns?

56 Which one is a popular tool used in Agile software development

57 What is a Kanban board?

The Scrum team Is using the Kanban board to make worK


visually available to all What CANNOT be Interred from the
58 board?

The Agile approach to documentation is

59

Why were the practitioners of alternative


software development methods not satisfied with
the traditional waterfall method?
60
Eric has been working for a customer who has been following
Agile for quite some time now He is quite hands-on with Scrum
and acquired PSM I certification already The customer may
soon move to a large scale Agile Which other certification may
be beneficial for Eric so he can be prepared to help the
61 customer?

62 Agile principles can be only used for software development

Agile for Beginners course is intended towards motivating you


63 to learn more about agile so that you can become
Agile for Beginners course is intended towards motivating you
63 to learn more about agile so that you can become

Juaraz is a TCS Delivery Partner for the account ABC running in


Agile. Operating out of Mexico He has to ramp up the team
based on customer need, and he is not getting right skilled
people in Mexico He is acing at setting up another ODC at Pune.
india where his skill requirements are met for an effective
64 Distributed Agile set up, what is recommended?

65 Design Thinking is other name for Agile Manifesto

How is the Agile value responding to change over blowing a


plan addressed In Scrum

66

Industry survey show that in traditional approach. users do not


use near1 60% of the features delivered What do you think ere
the probable causes

67

68 Product Owner and Scrum Master can be same person


PLEASE USE THE ANSWERS MARKED IN GREEN
Agile and Design Thinking are same
Design Thinking is about Product Devopment Agile Manifesto is about Software Devopment
Design Thinking is finding the right things and Agile is about building the right things
Design Thinking is building the right things and Agile is about finding the right things

Sprints must be 30 days always


Product Owner unilaterally decides the duration of Sprint
Sprints
The teammust becollectively
must two weeks agree
alwayson the length of the Sprint based on business need and
technical team's ability; subject to a maximum of one month
There is no rule on Sprint duration

Scrum Master Accredited Certificate (SMAC)


SAFe Agilist (SA)
Professional Scrum Master I (PS/VI I)

Test Driven Development


Extreme Reviews
Pair Programming
Continuous Integration
Refactoring

Has no control over the prioritization of Product Backlog Items


Has the final with
Collaborates authority over the prioritization
the developers of Product
over prioritization BacklogBacklog
of Product Items Items, but the
developers have the final say
Collaborates with the developers over prioritization of Product Backlog Items, but Product
Owner has the final say
Creates the Product Backlog Items but leaves prioritization to Business Analyst

Proactively up-skill with skills needed to work in Agile Roles


No need to do anything as he can continue to be the Project Manager

Wait till his current customer adopts Agile

1
0

Apply design thinking first for initial phase and then bring in Agile later

More practices from Extreme Programming

Apply waterfall and have the Product Owner sign-off on the requirements

The Scrum Master manages the people so they can complete the work
The team manages the work by self-organization
The Product Owner manages the work
The Delivery Manager manages the work

• 4,10
• 6, 12
• 4.12
• 4.4

It allows the team to take a necessary break from work


It gives management
Provides information
an opportunity to useTeam
for the Scrum in team members'
to inspect itselfperformance
and create areviews
plan for
improvements to be enacted during the next
Sprint.
Retrospectives are optional
Provides an opportunity for stakeholders to look at what the team is building

Feedback

Flow

Continuous Improvement

Small but have enough members to create the Product Increment


Collaborate with each other to self-organize their work
Team members must be specialists
Cross Functional
Reports to Product Owner

Martin is right. Agile principles are not useful outside software development
XP and DevOps can help in Robotic Process Automation
Agile principles can help in continuously improving BPS processes

The team must discuss the problems encountered in the earlier project

Team chooses the Product Backlog Items to work in the Sprint and crals a Sprint Goal.
Team must draw up the Release Plan for the final product
Each team member should come prepared with their version of the plan
The team must look at the project plan prepared by the Product Owner and understand
their tasks

For last few years, there is a double digit increment in number of Agile projects (per PMS)
year on year
In 90% of executive conversations, customers bring in Agile as a topic of conversation
For all new engagements. TCS mandates Agile
This is not a true statement
Both 1 and 2

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Be prepared to face such anti patterns and work together with the team to continuously
improve and eliminate anti-patterns
Correct his understanding of Scrum and accept that Scrum Master is the Team's manager
Protest about this at the earliest possible team meeting and let others know he is more
knowledgeable about Scrum

Scrum Master
Product Owner
Scrum Team
Testers
External QA team

Planning is a continuous activity done jointly by Scrum Master and Product Owner
Detailed planning is done upfront and not revisited
Whole team together does just enough upfront planning followed by continuous planning
throughout the project
Only planning in Scrum is the Sprint Planning
Scrum is one of the planning events

Agile Ready Partnership Review


All get Agile Certified
Agile Ready Workforce
Top-to-bottom Enterprise Agile Company ourselves
Agile Ready Workplace

Inventory
We do it all the time It is not a waste.
Over Production
Defects
Over Processing

In traditional way of software development, once the requirements are base lined, further
changes should undergo heavy change control process Review
Changes are acceptable till design but once development starts, any further change should
be rejected way of software development, once the requirements are base lined, further
In traditional
changes can be easily accepted with light process.
Organizations must adapt to rapidly changing market conditions to stay relevant in

Scrum
FDD
Crystal 0 Extreme Programming
DSDM

Apply design thinking first for initial phase and then bring in Agile later
More practices from Extreme Programming

Apply waterfall and have the Product Owner sign-off on the requirements

Unit testing is not fun anyway. As a self-organized team, choose to ignore the unit testing

Adopt practices like test automation from other frameworks like XP


Increase the duration of the sprint from 4 weeks to 6 weeks
Add two more temporary testers
Form a separate Testing team

3-5-3
5-3-3
3-3-5
5-5-3

Two minutes per person


15 minutes
2 ms
No time box 0 30 minutes

Extend the Splint by two days so that the team can complete the work

Close the sprint on time

Team ToyZon

Team Zon

Kent Beck Alistair Cockburn, Ken Schwaber and Jeff


Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland; Kent Beck; Alistair Cockburn
Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland; Alistair Cockburn; Kent
Alistair Cockburn Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland Kent
Takeuchi and klonaka: Alistair Cockburn; Kent

Account Leadership

Customer Leadership
HR Manager

Product Owner can show the progress to the stakeholders and get the approval to release
the work to
To assess thethe production
team's productivity and possibly record the assessment score against the
performance
To inspect the working software with the key stakeholders and take the insights from the
feedback to next
So that the Scrum Team can reorganize for the next
Stakeholders and team discuss the Sprint Backlog for next

All in team must have the same level of technical


The team is self-organizing
The team should only take up tasks assigned by Product
The team must be hierarchical with a strict chain of
The team is cross-functional

For large transformation projects, Design Thinking is required before


Agile is based on trust and collaboration so that consensus can be arrived at quickly. This
scenario did not have that

Agile doesn't require any pre-requisites. It works very well in all context. In this scenario:
the Product Owner doesn't seem to be competent

Two minutes per person


15 minutes
2 hrs
No time box
30 minutes

Waterfall method
DevOps practices
Beta release
Change Control Board (CCB)

The team must discuss the problems encountered in the earlier project

Team chooses the Product Backlog Items to work in the Sprint and crafts a Sprint Goal.
Team must draw up the Release Plan for the final product
Each team member should come prepared with their version of the plan
The team must look at the project plan prepared by the Product Owner and understand
their tasks

Full Upfront Estimates


Planning Poker
Work Breakdown Structure
T Shirt sizing
Random Distribution

Products produced by an Agile approach are cheaper than those produced by any other
approach
Agile increases the chances of delivering early business value to the market and quickly
incorporate the feedback from the market usage
Products have faster time to market but may not meet immediate customer needs
Products are expensive when compared with products produced by other approaches, but
are of top quality.

The team self-organizes itself to create value

The Business Analyst helps the team until the Product Owner returns
The Sprint deliverables may not be of desired value
The Scrum Master plays the role of Product Owner
Scrum Master terminates the Sprint and waits for the Product Owner to return

Scrum Team
Product Owner
Scrum Master
Business Analyst
Technical Lead

Processes and tools over individuals and interactions


Working software over comprehensive documentation
Responding to change over following a plan
Contract negotiation over customer collaboration

The Scrum Master must assign tasks to individuals


Team members must volunteer for tasks appropriate to their skills
The complex tasks must be allocated by the Scrum Master
Tasks must be allocated to team members by the Product Owner
While senior team members volunteer for tasks, juniors must be assigned tasks by the
Scrum Master

Apply design thinking first for initial phase and then bring in Agile later
More practices from Extreme Programming
Apply waterfall and have the Product Owner sign-off on the requirements

Scrum Master and Development team


Product Owner and Development team
Scrum Master and Product Owner
Scrum Team

Agile Principles

Agile Guidelines
Agile Methods
Agile Phases

Reduced Risk
Faster time to market
Ability to respond to changing requirements
Improved collaboration between business and technical team
All of these

TCS to be regarded by the market and our customers as 100% right partner/advisor for
Agile Transformations Review
Every project in TCS must follow all practices of Extreme Programming
100% of TCS associates must be at least at Agile E3 competency
TCS to be regarded as 100% Enterprise Agile company
There should not be any Agile related non-compliance in the project audits

So that the place can be named as Daily Scrum Hub


The consistency reduces complexity and overhead
The Product Owner demands it
Rooms are hard to book and this helps in advance booking
There is no such rule

To produce working software of high business value and of the right quality, early and
incrementally
To produce working software only after requirements documentation has been signed off
by the Product Owner
To produce simple prototypes early, and release all only at the end of the project
Each developer to sit with business every day, code as they mutually discuss, and move to
production when the business seems

It is used to measure utilization of the development team


It is used to measure defects introduced during the Sprint
It is used to measure how much work is yet to be done to reach Sprint goal
It is used to measure how fast the Product Owner turns around on the queries
Programmers as one Scrum Team and Testers as another Scrum Team
Scrum Master as a servant leader
Scrum Team with 20 members
Cross Functional team
Sprint duration of 6 weeks

Rexx
Jenkins
MS PowerPoint
Tally

A list of activities banned by the team


The set of Can Have requirements
A visible chart depicting the work to be done, work in progress and work done
Board that captures the details of the entire project for audit purpose

Number of items to be worked on by the team


Percentage completion
Tasks move from left to right
LImit work in progress

Do no documentation because it is a waste of lane

Do just enough documentation to support the development and use of


the product
DO Sufficient documentation to prove you have done a good Job
Do more documentation than usual because Agile Is risky
Agile Manifesto mandates zero documentation

Waterfall is not a lightweight process


The practitioners did not like to work in a formal system and hence
did not like any methodology at all
Waterfall experience did not add value to their resume
Waterfall model failed to meet the demand for speed and was not
friendly toward changing business needs and priorities

SAFe Program Consultant (SPC


Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Professional Scrum Master ii (PSM ii)

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project leader
Agile practitioner
project manager
certified manager
None of the above

Move the entire ODC to Pune, India

Understand the TCS Point of View on Distributed Agile and see how to apply at work
Ask Agile coach to study other accounts and put together a model for Distributed Agile

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Product Owner can change me sprint Backlog any day

During the Sprint Planning. Development team has all the authority
to choose any Product Backlog item to work on
Product Owner writes lightweight Change Requests for quick approvals
Product Owner can change the plan for next Sprint based on latest
market conditions and feedback from last Sprint
Product Owner can change the Product Backlog any time

These features were developed based on initial assumptions about the


user requirements but assumption turned out to be wrong

By the time the features were delivered the market and user
requirements had changed
The marketing team did not advertise the product features

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