Sno Question

1 How should a team have quality standards built into its deliverables?
By procuring the best test automation suite applicable for the team.
By having an agreed and evolving set of Definition of Done items, wtiìch are automated wherever possible.
By having a robust Definition of Ready mechanism so that stories are granular enough.
Team must have strongest set of quality assurance professionals to create built in quality
4 How does an agile team obtain clarity on backlog items that may be picked up in subsequent iterations?
Team discussses and clarifies doubts on backlog items in the iteration planning meeting.
Product Owner creates detailed user stones (aligned to agreed upon Definition of Ready) in the backlog before the iteration starts
Team can interact with the Product Owner multiple times during an iteration without waiting for the next iteration planning.
Team can have backlog refinement session with the Product Owner during every ¡teration for gaining clarity on the subsequent
ones.
5 What is an effective way to ensure that the integrated code is working as per the acceptance criterialbusiness requirements?
Through automated functional tests.
Through manual functional tests.
Through automated unit tests.
Tti rough manual unit tests.
6 What happens if the offshore team members are not able to participate in the ¡teration demo due to timezone/infrastructure issues?
No issues. Onsite members can have the iteration demo with the Product Owner it is a single team anyway.
Offshore members will miss the opportunity to interact with the Product Owner and get the direct feedback about the increment they created
No major issue. Since offshore Lead and onsite members participate in the demo with the Product Owner, they can cascade
the feedback back to the offshore members.
It is a loss as the offshore members will not be able to contribute to ideas related to way of working.
8 What do you think is a good way for team members to remain updated on work status at any given time?
Having a updated physical/digital Kanban board.
Sharing status through email with all.
Sharing individual updates with the Lead and the Lead sharing a consolidated summary with all.
Sharing and referring status reports that are shared daily.
10 When you have more than one agile team working on a single product, which all among the following are crucial considerations?
All teams need to have similar agile maturity.
Product OwnerlProduct Specialists to devote similar time to all teams
Teams to have occassional sync-up meets to eliminate dependencies.
All teams to have an identified co-ordinator and they stay in continuous touch to eliminate differences/Issues.
11 Given a piece of work to be executed in agile, how would you form a team?
Team must have all the requirea skills Team size will depend on scope and ouogei.
Team must have all requìred skills, beadcount not exceeding 12.
Team must have experienced people. heacicount not exceeding 9.
Team must have mix of experienced and freshers with right skills Team size will depend on scope and budget.
14 How does the team know what to work upon duflng the iteration?
The team participates in the iteration planning duflng which the Lead/Onsite/Scrum Master decides who should work on what.
The team participates in iteration planning duflng which the team discusses with the Product Owner and finalizes who should
work on what.
The Scrum Master has regular interaction with the Product Owner. Helshe guides the team on the tasks to be taken up )
Iteration plans are shared by Product Owner beforehand; any spill over from last iteration is taken up by default.
15 what would be a suggested way to share and sustain knowledge with members in a team?
Sharing of best practices and lessons learnt through emails.
Sharing knowledge through knowledge shaflng sessions.
Sharing knowledge through informal conversabons e.g. during lunch breaks,
Updating best practices, lessons learnt and other topics In a central place accessible to all.
17 When multiple team members are worling on a related feature, how often should they integrate their wort?
Depends on the whether the integration will break the build.
After they reach a logical end of coding the functionality.
In a scheduled daily (or mufliple times in a day) frequency.
In a scheduled weekly (or multiple times in a week) frequency.
18 When a Product Owner brings up an intereshng feature/idea, how should a team respond?
If the featurefidea sounds out of the box, team must accept it in the backlog
Team should analyse the feature/idea based on the domain knowledge, validate the same or suggest improvements.
Team to analyse the technical feasibility and capacity before accepting the Idea.
Even if the featurelidea is not so new, as the Product Owner understands the market demands better, team should accept it.
19 In a team mat follows agile, how would a team member know about the details of what others are working on?
The Product Owner and the Sc rum Master are responsible for maintaining work transparency.
The team should have a daily sync-up.
The onsite coordinator should share dailY status for each member.
They may Know from the backlog maintained In a tool (Jira, Prime, etc.) which will show me items as assigned to members.
20 Alter a team member creates a working code at her level, what is the fundamental way to ensure quaIty of each line?
Through peer reviews
Through functional testing done by testers )
 Through formal unit testing using tools/soTtwares/plugins
21 in a team, if ail the members do regular check-in of the code, then how does one ensure that the code ¡s not broken anywhere?
Through SCM (Source Code Management tool) triggered build.
Through scheduled build.
BY triggering automated build after check-in.
Through SCM (Source Code Management tool) based code branching.
22 For any meeting that development team members, worKing in agile, have among them, what are the points to consider?
Dev team must keep such meetings to minimal or zero occurances.
Dev team must not allow such meetings to go beyond an hour.
Dev team must restnct such meetings to maximum 30 minutes, with few exceptions.
Dev team to decide on numbers and duration of such meetings based on situations.
26 In a team that follows agile, how would a team member know about the details of what others are worling on?
The Product Owner and the Sc rum Master are responsible for maintaining work transparency.
The team should have a daily sync-Up.
onsite coordinator should share daily status for each member,
They may know from the backlog maintained in a tool (Jira. Pflme. etc.) which will show the items as assigned to members.
29 How does an agile team obtain clarity on backlog items that may be picked up in subsequent iterations?
Team disc ussses and clarifies doubts on backlog items in the iteration planning meeting.
Product Owner creates detailed user stories (aligned to agreed upon Definition of Ready) in the backlog before the iteration
starts.
Team can interact wìth the Product Owner multiple times during an Iteration wIthout waiting for the next iteration planning.
Team can have backlog refinement session with the Product Owner during every iteration for gaining clarity on the subsequent
ones.
32 If you are in an agile team, do you have distributed team members? Which of the TCS Location Independent Agile models do you follow? (Ml -
distributed agile team members with 3 hrs common time. M2 - 2 such Ml teams. M3 - 3 such Ml teams with more than one
ProductOwner/specialist. M4 - 4 such Ml teams with more than one ProductOwner/specialist)
Ml
M2
M3orM4.
The model we follow is not in the answer options.
33 How does an agile team manage requirements in a productrve manner?
Business analyst should manage the business requirements and technical team should manage the technical requirements.
Every team member should maintain a personal backlog of items they are working on.
Scrum Master/onsite coordinator to manage the requirements and communicate the tasks to the team members
All the requirements should be maintained In a common place such as a WIki I Jira I Whiteboard and managed by the entire
team
34 In a team, if someone gets stuck with the technical tasks during the iteration, what ¡s the immediate next step?
Without wasting time, the team member has to inform the LeadÍonsite coordinator and take up another task.
The team member can reach out to other team members for help.
The team member can raise the issue during Team Retrospective
Team member must search In google, technical forums without wasting time.
37 For an agile team, what is an easy way to track the tasks?
The Scrum Master knows the status as helshe only assigns tasks to members He/she can use any tool to manage the same.
The onsite members are in a better position to track tasks at their end as they co-ordinate between the Product Owner and the
rest of the team.
All the tasks can be maintained in a common place such as a Wiki I Jira I excel! physical board I wall I any other system with
an indication of ‘To be done/Doing/Done’.
The customer/Product Owner should manage and track the tasks through any available tool.
38 When you have more than one agile team working on a single product, which all among the following are crucial considerations?
All teams need to have similar agiie maturity.
Product OwnerlProduct Specialists to devote similar time to all teams.
Teams to have occassional sync-up meets to eliminate dependencies
All teams to have an Identified co-ordinator and they stay in continuous touch to eliminate differences/Issues.
39 In the middle of the iteration, how does a team handle requirement changes from the customer?
Its not recommended to incorporate any changes during an ongoing iteration.
Team can always take up the changes and extend iteration duration ð needed.
team has to exchange stories if the Scrum MasterlLead convey the criticahty of the changes.
Team may take up the changes In flight after discussing the overall impact with the Product Owner.
40 In a team that follows agile, how would a team member know about the details of what others are working on?
The Product Owner and the Sc rum Master are responsible foc maintaining work transparenc,
The team should have a daily sync-up.
The onste coordinator should share daity status for each member.
They may know from the backlog maintained in a tool (Jira. Prime, etc.) which will show the items as assigned to members.
41 For any meeting that development team members, working in agile, have among them, what are the points to consider?
Dev team must Keep sucfl meetings to minimal or zero occurances
Dev team must not allow such meetings to go beyond an hour.
 Dev team must restrict such meetings to maximum 30 minutes. with few exceptions.
Dev team to decide on numbers and duration of such meetings based on situations.
43 After a team member creates a working code at her level, what is the fundamental way to ensure quality of each line?
Through peer reviews
Through tunctbonal testing done by testers
Through formal unit testing using tools/softwares/plugins
44 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?
Meetings must be scheduled with a lead time so that the participants can plan their work better.
Meetings must have a set agenda to facihtate a focussed discussion and reduce digressions.
Meetings must be facilitated and time-boxed.
Team Lead/ScrumMaster must facilitate discussions but he/she may close meetings as per preference.
45 What would be a standard way for anyone outside an agile team (e.g Delivery Partner of the account) to get the status of the worl at any point in
time?
He/she can refer the physicaL/digital Kanban board which is maintained by the team.
All team members need to send email updates to the him/her daily
Have a status review meeting whenever required.
By talking to each team member aail to unersLand the status.
47 Which among the following is a recommended way to run Retrospectives?
Team discusses the feedback received dunng the Iteration demo; creates a roadmap in the Retrospective.
Team discusses how they can improve their way ot worling; picks up one or two improvement areas for next iteration.
Team takes a stock of current velocðy and forecasts the velocity for the next iteration.
Team Is encouraged to identify and take up Process Improvement (Pl) Initiatives.
48 If you are working in a customer facing agile team, who is more mature/ready for Agile?
Our TCS team
Customer team.
Our TCS team and Customer team are equal
Not sure.
49 When in a team. foIlowing Location Independent Agile model. there are people distributed across geographies what can be a basic recommendation?
members must nave at least 3 nours overlap time between
The members must have at least the daily sync-up together
All team members must have a common 3 hours in a week to sort out dependencies.
All team members must come together at least once everyday. Amount of time overlap can be flexible.