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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)
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
19 Ops engineer to manually Work on the ticket What is missing in this environment?
Flow
Continuous Improvement
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
8 Which framework prescribes User Story as the format for backlog items?
Scrum
FDD
Crystal 0 Extreme Programming
DSDM
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
18 Master recommend?
Extend the Splint by two days so that the team can complete the work
Close the sprint on time
21 team has the higher chance to provide early benefts to the customer?
Team ToyZon
Team Zen
23 aspiration.
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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
Agile doesn't require any pre-requisites. It works very well in all context. In this scenario: the Produ
2 ….. improves the flow of business idea through its development and release to users.
Waterfall method
DevOps practices
Beta release
Change Control Board (CCB)
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
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
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
nd eliminate anti-patterns
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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?
52 Why is the Daily Scrum held at the same time and same
place?
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Apply design thinking first for initial phase and then bring in Agile later
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
Feedback
Flow
Continuous Improvement
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
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
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lined, further
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
3-5-3
5-3-3
3-3-5
5-5-3
Extend the Splint by two days so that the team can complete the work
Team ToyZon
Team Zon
Account Leadership
Customer Leadership
HR Manager
Product Owner can show the progress to the stakeholders and get the approval to release
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So that the Scrum Team can reorganize for the next
Stakeholders and team discuss the Sprint Backlog for next
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
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
Products produced by an Agile approach are cheaper than those produced by any other
aApgpileroiancchreases 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.
Scrum Team
Product Owner
Scrum Master
Business Analyst
Technical Lead
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
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
To produce working software of high business value and of the right quality, early and
iTnocprermodeunctealwlyorking 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
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project leader
Agile practitioner
project manager
certified manager
None of the above
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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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
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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