What are some effective strategies to improve team performance?
- Set high performance and technical expectation benchmarks
- Recognize individual efforts and contributions
- Focus on one task at a time
- Quickly identify problems
- Ensure team members are energized
Identify some of the characteristics of a cohesive and effective Agile team.
- There's a strong leadership presence
- Individuals take ownership of their work
- Roles are clearly defined
- Consulting among team is supported
Identify the characteristics of effective decision-making techniques for Agile projects.
- Ensure all opinions are heard and discussed
- Use a decision gradient to gain consensus
- Involve all relevant stakeholders in process
- Support all ideas, even if not in full agreement
What are some effective communication tools for information flow in an Agile environment?
- Storyboards
- Planning boards
- Written documentation
- Social media/online collaboration tools
Stakeholders play an essential role in activities throughout the phases of the APM model.
Match each stakeholder responsibility to its associated phase.
Targets can be used more than once.
- Close phase - Participate in retrospectives or post-mortem meetings
- Release planning phase - The team plans the project work for product development
- Review and adapt phase - Stakeholders demonstrate products , Conduct team performance evaluations
- Initiation phase - The product owner establishes the product vision
- Development phase(s) - Stakeholders participate in sprints
What are some essential strategies for achieving stakeholder commitment in an Agile project?
- Accept customer representatives
- Be flexible
- Train key stakeholders on technologies and processes
- Get senior management support
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What are some of the considerations to keep in mind when scaling an Agile team?
- Organizational distribution
- Team size
- Geographic distribution
- Compliance requirements
- Electronic documentation requirements
There are several effective developmental mastery models for Agile projects.
Match each characteristic to its developmental mastery mod
- Shu-Ha-Ri developmental mastery model - Three stages of learning include imitate, understand, and self-directed innovation
- Tuckman’s model of group development - Four stages include forming, storming, norming, and performing
- Dreyfus model of skill acquisition - Four binary qualities include recollection, recognition, decision, and awareness
What are some of the benefits of Agile games?
- They can drive good behaviors
- They can facilitate issue examination and improvement identification
- They can help overcome destructive behaviors
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