1. Your agile team leader posts the team’s defect rates found by month and found by release. The team keeps a very close eye on these charts and does their best to keep these rates as low as possible. Occasionally, a defect will make it all the way through testing and quality assurance. What are these types of defects called?

2. Consider the importance of project communications among the project team stakeholders. With what method does your agile leader encourage feedback from stakeholders?

3. An agile team begins with a list of business features, broken out into logical groups of work. This list is then prioritized by business value by attributing a dollar value to each iteration. Once the agile development team analyzes the list and adds the risks and threats, along with the risk impact in dollars, the list is then reprioritized. What is the result of this activity called?

4. Your agile team leader has been tracking the iteration velocity and has compared that to the time left on the project. The leader has determined that the fewest number of iterations that can be done per month is seven and the most possible is ten iterations. What is this measurement called?

5. As the agile team leader, you have visibility to the project’s budget and you realize that as the team progresses through iterations, the cost of the project continues to increase. What might be the cause?

6. The new agile team leader learned early in the project what types of problems should be vetted through the entire team for consensus. What types of problems require team involvement?

7. When the agile team leader notices that the throughput of the team has gone up, the team leader can attribute the increase to which of the following?

8. When analyzing variances and it is determined that the difference is a common cause variance, what is the next step the agile leader should take?

9. Your agile team leader has decided to track defect cycle time. Which of the following best describes what is being tracked?

10. Your agile team leader has asked the entire team to submit the cycle time for the next three iterations. What does the leader mean by cycle time?

11. In addition to providing caves for agile team members to retreat to for some quiet time, what else can the team leader suggest to allow team members time to concentrate?

12. Your agile team leader has scheduled a problem-solving session because development has stopped due to a roadblock. The agile method is to involve not only the business partner and project lead but also the entire team. Why is this method beneficial?

13. Your project’s business partner is pushing to add more features to each iteration. Your agile team has already projected what the next few iterations will include based on the business partner’s priorities and the team’s risk analysis. What do you think the business partner is missing by pushing for additional features?

14. An agile team analyzes the risks of the requirements to assign a risk probability and an impact score to each risk. Those scores are used to calculate risk severity. How are the high-risk items handled by the agile team?

15. Your team leader uses several agile tools to uncover potential problems before they occur. Which of the following is one of those tools?

16. When your agile team leader involves the entire team in problem solving, what message does that send to the team?

17. There are lots of opportunities for problem solving and transparency throughout the project. What agile tasks are used to minimize the need for ad hoc problem solving?

18. Beth is the project manager of a new agile project in her organization. Her team has identified a significant problem, though the problem may not happen until late in the project timeline. What is the best way to minimize the impact of a problem during a project even if may not occur to late in the project?

19. Your agile team’s defect rates seem to vary quite a bit from iteration to iteration. Your team leader understands that not every iteration will be the same, but feels the variation is significant enough to investigate. What type of variation can your leader label this?

20. Why is it important for the agile team leader to ensure there is a safe and open environment for the team?