1. You are on a colocated agile team and sometimes the team area gets so noisy that it is hard to concentrate. On these days, you are very glad to have access to which of the following?

2. You are leading an agile team whose members are located in several areas of the world. You’ve arranged conference calls and insisted that everyone have their computer cameras on so that team members can associate names and faces with participants. It is impossible to have the team members meet face to face because of the cost. What is an alternate method of enabling team members to get to know each other?

3. You are the project manager of an agile project for your organization and you’d like the team to be colocated. When is an agile team considered to be colocated?

4. You have been identified as a stakeholder on an agile software development team. As you join your first meeting, you are surprised that there are only ten people on the team; you thought it would be a much bigger team since it is a large implementation. Why do you think the team is so small?

5. The formation and development of teams normally follow the Tuckman Model of forming, storming, norming, and performing. Your team leader is obviously aware of this model, but he is new to the organization and is having trouble understanding why the forming stage has gone so quickly. Which of the following might be the reason?

6. Your agile team leader has described the iteration goals at a high level and is allowing the team to decide how to complete the iteration. What does this action prove to the team?

7. Beth is the project manager for an agile project in her organization. She’s explaining to the team how the team should communicate effectively in the project. What is the preferred method of communication for an agile team?

8. You are on an agile team and in a meeting one of your co-workers said she learned how to correct a piece of code by osmotic communication. What does this mean?

9. As a member of an agile team, at what level of mastering a skill do you think you can make the best decision rather than relying on the rules?

10. In the middle of an iteration, the team leader noticed that one member was having an issue with a decision the entire team made. The leader asked the team member for a one-on-one discussion. What type of session do you think this was?

11. Your team leader has built a safe environment for disagreement. How has this empowered the team to move forward without obstacles?

12. You are the project manager of a new agile project for your organization and you’re explaining to the business team how agile works. You explain that at which of the following stages of adaptive leadership the leader may ask many questions?

13. You are looking at a burndown chart located in the agile team area. What is this chart telling you?

14. You are on a new agile team and your leader keeps emphasizing that for the first iteration, everyone needs to follow the rules that have been described by previous agile teams in the organization. Why do you think this is so important to your leader?

15. You are on a self-directing agile team and would like to take the lead on a task that you are very familiar with and feel very strongly about. What is the process to take the lead?

16. Your agile team consists of generalizing specialists. What is a generalizing specialist?

17. You are looking at a burnup chart located in the agile team’s area. What is this chart telling you?

18. You are an agile team leader and you’ve come to realize that there is very little interest in the project coming from team members. What is a good method to motivate team members for the duration of the project?

19. You are the project manager for your organization and you’re sharing a velocity chart with the product owner. What is measured in a velocity chart?

20. You have been selected to lead a team with members located all over the world. You pushed to use the agile method of running a team and upper management thought that was an excellent suggestion. Why is running a distributed team with an agile methodology feasible?