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The Project Manager's Guide To Mastering Agile Principles And Practices For An Adaptive Approach 2nd Edition Charles G. Cobb - Solutions
2. What is the impact of making decisions in a project earlier than required?
1. What does it mean to defer planning decisions until “the last responsible moment”?
2. What are the most important factors to consider in choosing an appropriate planning approach for a project?
1. How is an adaptive planning approach different between an Agile and a classical plan-driven environment?
1. Why is the idea of a Minimum Viable Product and Minimum Marketable Feature important and what role does it play in doing value-driven delivery analysis?
2. What is the significance of the Pareto Rule in value-driven prioritization?
1. How would you go about doing value-driven prioritization in a typical project? What principles would you consider?
2. What is the MoSCoW model and how would it be used in customer value prioritization?
1. What are the different levels of value-driven prioritization and how would they interact with each other in a typical Agile environment? How would it be different in a typical plan-driven environment?
2. What advantages does value-driven delivery provide?
1. How is value-driven delivery in an Agile environment different than classical plan-driven delivery?
3. How does inception planning work in a hybrid Agile project if there is a high level of uncertainty in the project?
2. How would you go about implementing some form of change management in a hybrid Agile project?
1. You have been assigned to manage a project in which there is a contractual relationship with the client where the client has definite expectations of the cost and schedule of the project. Is it possible to use a hybrid Agile approach in this project? How would you go about doing it?
1. Analyze the following situations and identify the appropriate principles of product development that might be important to consider in defining an appropriate solution to each:◾◾ A project is taking much longer than originally anticipated: it was originally planned to take only 6 months, it
2. How do you think that an understanding of Lean principles might influence an Agile project management approach?
1. Discuss an example of a situation where Lean thinking could have been used to improve the overall efficiency of the process. What was some of the waste involved in the process? How could it have been reduced or eliminated? What principles of Lean did you use to make that assessment?
2. How do you think that an understanding of the principles behind Total Quality Management might influence an Agile Project Management approach?
1. Discuss an example of a problematic situation where the TQM principles might have been used to improve the overall quality of the work. What were some of the issues that impacted the quality of the overall product or service that the company produced? How could the impact of those issues have
3. How would you use the idea of Complex Adaptive Systems in a project management approach?
2. How does the idea of a Complex Adaptive System help to explain the difference between a classical plan-driven project management approach and an Agile approach?
1. Identify two or three systems that occur in nature that would be considered Complex Adaptive Systems.
1. Discuss an example of a problematic situation where you might have used systems thinking to analyze the situation and determine an appropriate solution.
2. What do you think is the most important factor in choosing an appropriate tool for an Agile project environment? Why?
1. What Agile tool capability do you think is most important in a typical Agile project? Why?
3. What are some of the challenges associated with distributed and/or offshore teams, and how would you go about resolving them?
2. What is an information radiator? What are the advantages of online tools for managing communications in an Agile project?
1. What are the major differences between communications practices in an Agile project and a conventional, non-Agile project? Why are communications so important in an Agile project?
1. Discuss how you might take a different approach to a project based on a broader understanding of the principles in PMBOK® version 7.
2. What is the current methodology in your organization? What role can you play in moving the needle towards agile project management?
1. What do you think is the most likely role for a Project Manager to play in an Agile project?
1. What do you think is the most important shift in thinking that a Project Manager needs to make to operate in an Agile environment?2. What would be the most difficult change? Why?
4. Complete the Agile estimation exercise in Table 7.2 and answer the following questions:◾◾ Select two to three of the items in the list and write a user story to describe each one.◾◾ If the work is divided into two-week sprints and I have a velocity of completing 20 story points of work
3. What is the advantage of story points over estimating in hours?
2. Discuss an example of a real-world project and how you might have done it differently with a more Agile estimation approach.
1. How would you go about determining the appropriate estimation strategy for a project?
1. Discuss an example of a problematic project situation and how you might have applied the theory of constraints to analyze the problem and find an appropriate solution.
3. Explain how WIP limits affect a Kanban process.
2. What is a Kanban board? How is it used in Scrum?
1. What are the most important differences between a Kanban process and Scrum? When would a Kanban process make more sense than a Scrum process?
2. When would time-boxing it not work so well?
1. What is time-boxing?What is the alternative? Why is time-boxing generally considered a better approach for Agile projects?
1. What are the factors that contribute to maximizing flow?
2. Explain what automated regression testing is and why it is important in an Agile project.
1. Why is it important that tests are repeatable in an Agile project?
3. What is the role of a QA tester in an Agile project? How is it different from a conventional, non-Agile project?
2. What does the definition of “done” mean, and what is its importance in an Agile project? Provide an example of a definition of “done.”
1. What is the biggest advantage of an Agile quality management approach over a conventional non-Agile testing approach? How is it different? What do you think it would take to make it work effectively?
3. What is test-driven development, and how is it different from acceptance test-driven development?
2. What is continuous integration, and why is it important in an Agile project?
1. Why is it important for a Project Manager to have some understanding of development practices in an agile project?
2. Who is primarily responsible for the Product Backlog in an Agile/Scrum project?
1. What purpose does the Product Backlog serve? What are the characteristics of a well-organized Product Backlog?
3. What are the characteristics of well-written User Stories? Provide an example of a User Story that is not well written and that violates these characteristics.
2. What are the advantages of using User Stories to define requirements in an Agile project? Write an example user story for a project that you have been engaged in.
1. What is a User Persona? Give an example of a User Persona in a project. How does it help to define the requirements?
4. What is the MoSCoW technique, and how is it used? Provide an example of how it might be used.
3. What is the “Five Whys” technique, and how would it be used? Provide an example of how it might be used from a real-world project.
2. Explain the concept of value-based functional decomposition and how it would be used. Provide an example of a real-world project and how that concept would be used in the project.
1. What is the role of a Business Analyst in an Agile project? When would a BA typically be needed and why?
5. What is a spike, and how is it used? Provide an example.
4. What is “capacity-based planning”? How is it different in an Agile project versus a classical plan-driven project?
3. What is progressive elaboration, and why does it make sense in an Agile project?
2. How would you develop a planning strategy for an Agile project? What factors would you consider in developing the strategy?
1. What is rolling-wave planning? How is it different from a classical plan-driven project to an Agile project? Why would it make sense to use rolling-wave planning?
3. If a team is having conflict, what might that indicate? What action would be appropriate to resolve the conflict?
2. Which Scrum value is likely to have the most impact on team performance? Why?
1. Why are values important? How does having a consistent set of values affect the performance of a Scrum team?
3. Which general Scrum/Agile principles might be the most difficult to implement, and why?
2. Discuss a project and how you might have used the general Scrum/Agile principles to do the project differently. Why?
1. Which general Scrum/Agile principle do you think might have had the greatest impact on projects you have been involved in, and why?
5. Who attends the Daily Standup meeting, and what is its purpose?
4. What is the objective of the Sprint Retrospective meeting, and how is it different from a Sprint Review meeting?
3. What is the purpose of the Sprint Review meeting, and when is it held? What is the desired output of the Sprint Review meeting?
2. When is the Sprint Planning meeting held? What are the major parts of a Sprint Planning meeting? What is the output of the Sprint Planning meeting?
1. What is the role of the Product Backlog in a Scrum project? How does it differ from the requirements definition practices in a classical plan-driven project?
2. What are some of the most important differences between Scrum roles and traditional project roles, and why is the shift in roles important in an Agile environment?
1. How do you think the overall need for project management changes in a Scrum project, and how would the functions of a traditional project manager be absorbed into the Scrum roles on a typical Scrum team?
1. Explain the difference between an empirical process control model and a defined and predictive process control model. When would each make sense?
3. Provide an example of a project and discuss how you might have applied the Agile Manifesto principles to that project.
2. Are there any Agile Manifesto principles that you think would not be applicable to every project(Agile or not)? Why not?
1. Which two or three of the Agile Manifesto principles do you think are likely to have the biggest impact on the success or failure of a typical project, and why?
2. Provide an example of a project and discuss how you might have applied the Agile Manifesto values to that project.
1. What are some of the trade-offs that you think might have to be made in applying the Agile Manifesto values to real-world projects? How would you go about resolving these trade-offs?
1. What do you think is most significant about the role of the Agile Manifesto in the overall history of the development of Agile principles and practice up to that point?
1. How do you think Agile affects the career direction of project managers? What impact do you think it might have on your own career? What do you think you might have to do differently as a result of Agile?
1. What do you think are the most important benefits of an Agile approach to some typical projects?Discuss a real-world example of how an organization might have benefited from adopting a more Agile approach.
1. How would you go about determining the appropriate balance of agility and control for a project?What factors would you consider, and why? Provide an example of a real-world project and discuss how you might do it differently based on these factors.
1. What do you think are the most important benefits of developing a more adaptive/Agile (value-driven)approach? How would it affect the way you manage projects?
1. How do you see the transformation that is going on in the project management profession? Do you think that there is a significant change, and if so, what impact will it have on the project management profession as a whole? What needs to be done to make this transformation happen?
1. Research the usage of the terms Agile and Waterfall. Identify and discuss how this comparison is often misleading. Explain the difference between an adaptive (value-driven)and a plan-driven(predictive) approach and how that helps to provide a more objective frame of reference.
1. Have you observed the “chasm” between the Agile and classical plan-driven project management communities? How does it manifest itself? What is the impact? What needs to be done to “close the chasm”?
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