AGILE-E1

SET-1

1. Give a piece of work to be executed in agile, how do you form a team?

Ans:Team must have all required skills, headcount being less than 12.
2. How does the team know what to work upon during the iteration?
Ans: The team participate in iteration planning during which the team discusses
with the Product Owner and finalizes who should work on that.
3. When multiple team members are working on a related feature, how often
should they integrate their work?
Ans: In a scheduled daily (or multiple times in a day) frequency.
4. How should a team have quality standards built into its deliverables?
Ans: By having an agreed and evolving set of Definition of Done items, which are
automated wherever possible.
5. In a team, if someone gets stuck with the technical tasks during the
iteration, what is the next step?
Ans: The team member can reach out to other team member for help.
6. When a Product Owner brings up an interesting feature/idea, how should a
team respond?
Ans: Team should analyze the feature/idea based on the domain knowledge,
validate the same or suggest improvement.
7. What happens if the Offshore team members are not able to participate in
the iteration demo due to timezone/infrastructure issues?
Ans: Offshore members will miss the opportunity to interact with the Product
Owner and get the direct feedback about the increment they created.
8. How does an agile team manage requirements in a productive manner?
Ans: All the requirements should be maintained in a common place such as a
Wiki/Jira/Whiteboard and manage by the entire team.
9. When in a team, following location independent Agile model, there are
people distributed across geographics what can be a base recommendation?
Ans: The members must have at least the daily sync-up together.
10. What would be a suggested way to share and sustain knowledge with
members in a team?
Ans: Updating best practices, lesson learnt and other topics in a central place
accessible to all.
11. In the middle of the iteration, how does a team handle requirement
changes from the customer?
Ans: Team has to exchange stories if the Scrum Master/Lead Convey the criticality
of the changes.
12. If you are working in a customer facing agile team, who is more
mature/ready for Agile?
Ans: Our TCS Team.
13. What is an effective way to ensure that the integrated code is working as
per the acceptance criteria/business requirements?
Ans: Through automated functional tests.
14. For an agile team, what is an easy way to track the tasks?
Ans: All the tasks can be maintained in a common place such as
Wiki/Jira/excel/physical board/wall/any other system with an indication of 'To be
done/Doing/Done'.
15. How can one ensure that the code adheres to good coding standards?
Ans: The code has to pass through the static code analysis without any violations.
16. For any meeting that development team members, working in agile, have
among them, what are points to consider?
Ans: Options 1, 3, 4 (1- Dev team must keep.., 2- Dev team must restrict.., 3- Dev
team to decide on numbers..).
17. Have you undergone any 'Living Agile' Session conducted by Agile Ninja
Coaches or Unit Agile leaders?
Ans: Yes.
18. If you are in an agile team, do you have distributed team members?
Which of the TCS location Independent Agile models you to follow? …..
(Continue Question)
Ans: M1.
19. When you have more than one agile team working on a single product,
which all among the following crucial considerations?
Ans: All the options are correct.
20. How does an agile team obtain clarity on backlog items that may be
picked up in subsequent iterations?
Ans: Team can have backlog refinement session with the Product Owner during
every iteration for gaining clarity on the subsequent ones.
21. If you are asked to bring in agile way of working into the way a meeting
runs, which one among the listed options will you implement?
Ans: Meetings must be facilitated and time-boxed.
22. In a team that follows agile, how would a team member know about the
details of what others are working on?
Ans: They may know from the backlog maintained in a tool (Jira, Prime, etc.)
which will show the items as assigned to members.
23.Which among the following is a recommended way to own
Retrospectives?
Ans: Team discusses how they can improve their way of working, picks up one or
two improvement areas for next iteration.

SET-2
1. In a team, if all the members do regular check-in of the code, then how
does one ensure that the code is not broken anywhere?
Ans: Through SCM (Source Code Management tools).
2. After a team member creates a working code at her level, what is the
fundamental way to ensure quality of each line?
Ans: Through formal unit testing using tools/softwares/plugins.
3. What do you think is a good way for team members to remain updated on
work status at any given time?
Ans: Having a updated physical/digital Kauban board.