Agile Olympiad 2014 Finals

Tathagat Varma, h+p://managewell.net

Welcome to the Finals!!!

Round #1: 4 quesBons to each team

Audience Round: No marks, only chocolates J

Round #2: 4 quesBons to each team

Fun and Final Round J

Tie-‐breaker Round (if needed)

Rules Time to answer: 15sec

Right answer to direct quesBon: +10

Right answer to passed quesBon: +5

Pass: +0

Wrong answer: -‐5

Every team gets one Bumper QuesBon in each round • Right answer: +50 • Wrong answer: -‐25

Fun & Final Round: 80, 60, 40, 20

The Golden Rule…

Free PracBce QuesBon!

Round #1

QuesBon #1q

A: Loss of Rhythm

B: Persistent Signatures

C: Missing Sprint Commitment

D: Gorilla in the Room

Scrum Smells are signs that something might be wrong. What is this smell known as – “The wild fluctuaBons shown on a team’s iniBal sprint burndown charts conBnue to be seen in much later sprints.”

QuesBon #2q

A: Nothing Ever Changes Around Here

B: ExecuBve Pressure


D: Not AcBng Like a Team

The team is exhibiBng these symptoms: AcBons aren't taken. Non-‐team members a+end the meeBng. No one wants to talk, etc.” What is this smell known as?

QuesBon #3q

A: Talking Chickens

B: ExecuBve Pressure

C: Gorilla in the Room

D: Not AcBng Like a Team

You are seeing the following behavior in the team: one person dominates all the conversaBons, and other team members won’t speak unBl he has spoken. What is this smell known as?

QuesBon #4q

A: Loss of Rhythm

B: Technical Debt


D: No Engineering PracBces

You are frequently seeing this behavior: lack of test coverage, duplicate code, more bugs start to appear, velocity slows down, etc. What appears to be the smell?

QuesBon #5q

A: CumulaBve Feature Diagram

B: Story Burndown Chart

C: CumulaBve Flow Diagram

D: Release Burndown Chart

What is this diagram known as?

QuesBon #6q

A: Sidky Agile Levels

B: Cynefin Framework

C: Dryefus Model

D: Stacey Matrix

What is this model known as?

QuesBon #7q

A: Crossing the Chasm

B: Product AdopBon Curve

C: Diffusion of InnovaBon

D: Market PenetraBon Curve

What does this curve depict?

QuesBon #8q

A: New Product Development (NPD)

B: Rapid Prototyping

C: Design Thinking

D: User-‐Centered Design

Which process is depicted here?

QuesBon #9q

A: Plan for 40hrs/week per developer

B: OverBme is ok if the team agrees

C: Plan for overBme during release Bme only

D: OverBme has a detrimental impact on producBvity.

What does this agile principle mean: Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.

QuesBon #10q

A: Start Small

B: Go All In

C: Technical PracBces First

D: Stealth Mode

Which pa+ern of agile adopBon did Salesforce.com choose in 2006 before turning to Mike Cohn for help?

QuesBon #11q

A: The AnB Agile Manifesto

B: Cult of Done Manifesto

C: Slacker Manifesto

D: Done Manifesto

What is this manifesto known as: On occasions we do nothing. Or something different. Or

something else. Because this means that our teams are more effec6ve.

It also means that we are freaking awesome.

QuesBon #12q

A: Agile is a subset of Lean

B: Agile addresses quality, while Lean addresses cost

C: Agile addresses change, while Lean addresses value

D: Agile addresses speed, while Lean addresses waste

At its most fundamental level, what is the major difference between Agile and Lean?

QuesBon #13q

A: Alignment, Scalability, Transparency, Program ExecuBon

B: Alignment, Code Quality, Transparency, Program ExecuBon

C: Alignment, Code Quality, Teamwork, Program ExecuBon

D: Alignment, CollaboraBon, Transparency, Program ExecuBon

What the core values of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)?

QuesBon #14q

A: Cover Story

B: Product Box

C: Speed Boat

D: Me and My Shadow

You have been asked to idenBfy what is wrong with your exisBng products and services. Which of the following innovaBon games could help you most?

QuesBon #15q

A: Program Manager

B: Release Train Engineer

C: Scrum/Agile Master

D: Epic Owner

In SAFe, this role is the ‘Chief Scrum Master’ who facilitates program-‐level processes and program

execuBon, escalates impediments, manages risks, and helps drive program-‐level conBnuous improvement. What

is it called?

QuesBon #16q

A: Lack of funds

B: Premature scaling

C: AmbiBous idea

D: Lack of talent

What is the most common reasons startups fail?

Audience Round

QuesBon #1q

A: expand to include more stringent criteria for higher quality

B: shrink to exclude more explicit criteria for higher quality

C: expand to include more liberal criteria for higher quality

D: shrink to include more implicit criteria for higher quality

As Scrum Teams mature, it is expected that their definiBons of “Done” will -‐

QuesBon #2q

A: 5, 21, 60

B: 5, 20, 100

C: 5, 20, 60

D: 5, 21, 100

IdenBfy the missing denominaBons in the planning poker set:

? ? ?

QuesBon #3q

A: Waste, Rework, Inventory

B: Waste, Unevenness, Overburden

C: Waste, Overburden, Unevenness

D: Waste, Inventory, Rework

What do the words “Muda, Mura, Muri” mean?

QuesBon #4q

A: Lean Canvas

B: Kano Model

C: Fisher Chart

D: Feature Chart

What is this diagram known as?

QuesBon #5q

A: When the release planning is complete

B: When the product is released

C: Till the product is in use

D: When customer accepts the product

When is a product backlog complete?

QuesBon #6q

A: Release Planning

B: Naked Planning

C: Backlog Grooming

D: Feature PrioriBzaBon

What does this diagram depict?

QuesBon #7q

A: Between Product Owner and Scrum Team

B: Between Developers and Testers

C: Between Development and OperaBons

D: Between Product Owner and UX Designer

Where are you most likely to encounter “Wall of Confusion”?

QuesBon #8

_________ is the best Business Plan.

Round #2

QuesBon #1q

A: Transparency

B: InspecBon

C: Feedback

D: AdaptaBon

Scrum is founded on empirical process control theory, or empiricism. Empiricism asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making decisions based on what is known.

Three pillars uphold every implementaBon of empirical process control. Which is not among those three?

QuesBon #2q

A: If there is a CI system, it is not used effecBvely

B: Scrum of scrums is not being effecBve

C: There is no mutual definiBon of done

D: Geo-‐distributed teams struggle with agile

There are mulBple distributed Scrum Teams working on a single product release. However, there are frequent problems during system integraBon. What is the most likely cause?

QuesBon #3q

A: Circles and Soup

B: Pros/Cons Game

C: My Worst Nightmare

D: Remember the Future

You have been asked to review the past projects and improve upon them. Which of the following innovaBon games could help you

most?

QuesBon #4q

A: Reward everyone equally in dollar amount

B: Do stack ranking and reward accordingly

C: Everyone gets same percentage salary hike

D: They didn’t hit the target, so no reward

A scrum team had target to increase revenues by 50%. They worked hard and could only get a 10% increase. What will be the worst way to

reward them?

QuesBon #5q

A: Release Planning

B: Backlog Grooming

C: Value-‐stream Mapping

D: User Story Mapping

What is this an example of?

QuesBon #6q

A: Kanban

B: XP

C: Lean Startup

D: Cargo-‐cult Programming

What is the most suitable method for “anarchy” zone?

QuesBon #7q

A: Stories not completed in each sprint

B: Work ‘discovered’ in the project

C: New work added to each sprint

D: New work added to the project

While reviewing a project, you encounter the following Release Burndown Chart. What does the red bar

indicate?

QuesBon #8q

A: Team is likely to complete A, C, D and E features

B: Sprint progress looks healthy

C: Feature B might only be done parBally

D: Sprint appears to be at major risk

This is scrum task board on Day 14 of a 4 week sprint. What is your interpretaBon?

QuesBon #9q

A: Safety, Straighten, Shine, Standardize, Sustain

B: Sort, Straighten, Security, Standardize, Sustain

C: Sort, SaBsfacBon, Shine, Standardize, Sustain

D: Sort, Straighten, Shine, Standardize, Sustain

5S is the name of a workplace organizaBon method that uses a list of five Japanese words: seiri, seiton, seiso, seiketsu, and shitsuke. Name them in English:

QuesBon #10q

A: They are a result of brainstorming

B: They provide a start-‐point to evaluate products

C: They are much cheaper compared to personas

D: They are based on market research

What is not true about proto-‐personas?

QuesBon #11q

A: 2 sprints

B: 4 sprints

C: 3 sprints

D: 1 sprint

In Miller-‐Sy method of integraBng User-‐Centered Design with Agile Development, how many cycles are needed for implemenBng all

UCD tasks?

QuesBon #12q

A: Pivot Before Problem-‐SoluBon Fit, OpBmize Azer

B: Pivot Before Scaling, OpBmize Azer

C: Pivot Before Product/ Market Fit, OpBmize Azer

D: OpBmize Before Product/ Market Fit, Pivot Azer

As per Ash Maurya, what is the right strategy concerning pivoBng and opBmizaBon in a

startup?

QuesBon #13q

A: Customer Segment Pivot

B: Zoom-‐out Pivot

C: Pla|orm Pivot

D: Zoom-‐in Pivot

In this case, what previously was considered a single feature in a product becomes the whole product. E.g. Burbn to Instagram. What type of pivot are we talking about?

QuesBon #14q

A: Low-‐fi Design

B: Design Charre+e

C: Paper Prototyping

D: Design Thinking

A ____________ is a short, collaboraBve meeBng during which members of a team quickly collaborate and sketch to explore and share a broad diversity of design ideas.

QuesBon #15q

A: Full-‐funcBonal product

B: Paper Prototype

C: Video demo of a product that doesn’t exist yet

D: Mockup web page

Which of the following is not a great idea for an MVP?

QuesBon #16q

A: MulB-‐modal CommunicaBon

B: AdapBve Web Delivery

C: Tableless Web Design

D: Responsive Web Design

_____________is a web design approach aimed at crazing sites to provide an opBmal viewing experience—easy reading and navigaBon with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices from mobile phones to desktop computer monitors

Fun & Final Round

Fun and Final Round

•  Let’s Build a Mind Map of Agile Sozware Development •  Team can enlist any number of volunteers from the audience •  Paper, Tape, Coloring Pens will be provided •  Time: 15 minutes

Create a Central Idea

Add Branches to Your Map

Add Keywords

Color Code Your Branches

Include Images

Fun and Final Round

Create a Central Idea

Add Branches to Your Map

Add Keywords

Color Code Your

Branches

Include Images

Fun and Final Round

Tie-‐Breaker Round

Challenge…

• You are an agile coach for a team that refuses to ‘be agile’. How will you convince them? • Time: 5 minutes

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